Luxury: Founded in 1834, the Hôtel des Bergues, 33 quai des Bergues, 41-222) 908-7000, fax 41-222) 908-7090, www.hoteldesbergues.com, inaugurated no-smoking rooms in 1850 (gentlemen were invited to use the smoking room).
When the modern Olympics were inaugurated in 1896, the no-holds-barred brutality of Pankration didn't jibe with the event's new spirit of enlightened internationalism, so the sport was left on the trash heap of history, a relic from a more brutish time, I guess.
Put politics in the sky, and you have inaugurated a custom that knows no bounds.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the cancellation of Congress, in 1993, of a SETI program that had been inaugurated by NASA a year earlier, there is no government-funded SETI project left anywhere on earth.
Perhaps because Abraham Lincoln had not yet been inaugurated as President, Captain Totten received no instructions from his superiors and was forced to withdraw his troops.
No harm, no foul indeed, if Trump ends up being inaugurated on January 20, as is almost certain, his presidency will be dramatically strengthened by Americans being confident it wasn't the product of Russian interference.
There is no telling who will be inaugurated next January.
Welcome to 2017: the year when Donald Trump will be inaugurated president, the Star Wars franchise will no longer include the original Princess Leia, and the year of Nick Viall as The Bachelor.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, a serial entrepreneur, inaugurated the London-Athens route of his no-frills EasyJet airline in 1998 with an ad campaign that said: "Cut out travel agents, book direct".
The listlessness, the anomie, the feeling that life makes no sense are classic arthouse cliches inaugurated by Breathless.
