Sentence examples for offered a start from inspiring English sources

Windows 8 in 2012 offered a start screen with applications appearing as tiles on a grid and the ability to synchronize settings so users could log on to another Windows 8 machine and use their preferred settings.

Pick up almost any smartphone — Palm OS devices excluded — and you're offered a "start page" full of arcane symbols and strange readouts.

Injuries that hindered the former Nets guard Kerry Kittles led to Simmons's being offered a starting spot.

That is unlikely to be the Yankees, who have discussed a possible reunion with Damon but have not offered a starting role.

After a postdoc stint at Johns Hopkins University and 2 years at an INSERM unit in France, the 34-year-old neuroscientist was offered a start-up package 15 months ago by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has since raised enough funds to keep his six-member team's research on neuronal connections going for another 5 years.

At the 2003 All-Star Game, Jordan was offered a starting spot from Tracy McGrady and Allen Iverson, but refused both.

These recommendations offered a starting point for the standardization of PET methodology for the use of FDG-PET as a biomarker for treatment response in clinical trials [ 12].

At the general practice level, the home visitation programme had offered a starting point and useful tools for organising care for older people.

The presence of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae antibodies in CD patients offered a starting point for reflection on the role of fungi in IBD pathogenesis.

The present study offers a start point for systematic comparisons between vertebrate and invertebrate species in formally equivalent tasks that produce univocal demonstrations of the blocking effect.

These five areas offer a starting point.