Sentence examples for inaugurate conversations from inspiring English sources

It suggested ways to inaugurate conversations without launching into a lecture, reminded me of the importance of listening as well as speaking, and convinced me that manners, properly understood, existed to make other people feel comfortable, rather than (as I had suspected) to demonstrate the practitioner's social superiority.

Or perhaps we simply need to inaugurate a new conversation.

Jesse flew to Baltimore to meet Griffiths, inaugurating a series of conversations and meetings about meditation and spirituality that eventually drew Griffiths into psychedelic research and would culminate, a few years later, in the 2006 paper in Psychopharmacology.

In addition, the center is inaugurating a series devoted to lectures and conversations with prominent cultural figures.

Last week, in conversations with Bill, we decided to inaugurate The Bauer Fund in honor and memory of his son Grant Michael Bauer, with support of Bill's wife Mary Ella and daughter Madison.

Together they inaugurated a vogue among trendy Americans to punctuate their conversations with "Ciao" (often uttered in a petulant, pseudo-Italian accent) instead of "Goodbye".

And while Obama obviously won't have any official power until he's inaugurated, he should be part of all the relevant conversations, and he should be helping shape what Congress does when it returns for its lame-duck session (which one hopes will end up producing some real legislation).

There was another, and I think central, argument for war, which was often heard in private conversations in Washington, but which was only recently addressed publicly by President Bush: that the conquest of Iraq would inaugurate the vast and urgent project of forcefully countering the influence of violently anti-American Islamic fundamentalists in the Arab Middle East.

But conversations with several senators suggest that Democrats in the Senate support a renomination of Garland by a newly inaugurated President Clinton.

Even before Barack Obama was inaugurated as president on 20 January 2009 the talk boards of several websites frequented by conservative voters were already humming with angry conversations about the global economic meltdown.

Four extended exhibitions drawn from the collections inaugurate the expansion: "Designing Modern: 1920 to the Present"; "Alfred Stieglitz and the Philadelphia Museum of Art"; "A Passion for Perfection"; and "A Conversation in Three Dimensions".