Sentence examples for initial words from inspiring English sources
The Athanasian Creed, also called the Quicumque vult from its initial words, is the last of what in the West are regarded as the three catholic or ecumenical creeds.
Named from the initial words (beati sunt, "blessed are") of those sayings in the Latin Vulgate Bible, the Beatitudes describe the blessedness of those who have certain qualities or experiences peculiar to those belonging to the Kingdom of Heaven.
When Julia Glass's first novel, "Three Junes," was the surprise winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 2002, the stunned author's initial words, upon reaching the podium, were wonderfully telling: "I think I felt emotions this intense only two other times in my life, and that's when my newborn baby sons were put in my arms.
In a similar test, a person who is asked to recall the words on a list he has just viewed will recall the initial words in the list best ("primacy effects") and those at the end next best ("recency effects"), while items from the middle are least likely to be recalled.
Now it is the Nation who speaks (in the third person and in indirect speech), not the "us" of the initial words: the set of all of those who lost their dear ones and, in general, of a whole people shocked by a war they ended.
He walked back those comments in his first interview after the incident, telling ABC's Rebecca Jarvis that his "initial words fell short of truly expressing what we were feeling".
The firm conceded its initial wording had been misleading, but insisted it had responded appropriately.
Syria had opposed the initial wording about establishing normal ties with Israel.
The initial word was "soreness," which later became a lower-body injury.
The initial word was that radar had picked up a plane flying within five miles of restricted White House airspace.
Initial word came from Paul Lo Duca, the Los Angeles Dodgers' player representative, who heard of the development on a union conference call yesterday.
