Sentence examples for outset first from inspiring English sources

A few things to understand at the outset: First, despite the happy fact that unlike many in this field, Mr. Taubes is not out to sell you anything (other than his book), it is still a manifesto.

Instead, Cullen points out, the Columbine story was obscured from the outset: first, by the misperceptions of the witnesses, and then, almost immediately, by the misreporting of the media, which at its worst resembled nothing so much as an enormous game of telephone.

A full two-thirds of projects did not meet the requirements of the contract or technical specifications set out at the outset, one-third were structurally flawed and unsafe to use, and a quarter of the projects were delayed for months.

A History of Helping In the spring of last year, Liz Goldwyn, a young woman whose closet could serve as a Lower Manhattan annex to the Musée de la Mode, landed the sort of position generally given to those well into life's fifth or sixth decade, not to one at the outset of her second.

But Cone's pitch count was 106 at the outset of the sixth inning, and when Jones singled to lead off the sixth, Grimsley got up one more time.

And if you count the many so-called Indian wars, the various Latin-American adventures, and all the military episodes that, to their participants at least, felt an awful lot like war (from the forays against the Barbarypirate states of North Africa at the outset of the nineteenth century, to the Balkan interventions at the close of the twentieth), the numbers begin to mount up.

At the outset of the second season of "The Voice" Jermaine Paul was all about business.

At the outset of the Second Seminole War, 166 years ago, rampaging Indians attacked the lighthouse.

The Mavericks are 8-1 sinCubanban stopped giving interviews, at the outset of the second round in Los Angeles.

What he pledged at the outset of his second term was "a renaissance of status and quality for public service".

But ugly reality set in for the Nets at the outset of the fourth quarter, as the Portland Trail Blazers turned a tight game into a rout.