Sentence examples for outset not from inspiring English sources

Having promised at the outset not to give anyone lessons, he nonetheless adopted a lecturing tone.

"I told our guys from the outset not to let their seed fool us," Robeson Coach Larry Major said, referring to the ninth-seeded Judges.

One would have thought that the "eminently rational" response to the "political irrationality" and "silliness" of the birth issue would have been to put the best evidence on the table at the outset, not wait until now.

But whatever lessons Zurbarán learned from Caravaggio, his own paintings, not to mention his subject matter, remained distinct from the outset, not least in the intense spirituality with which he infused his images.

As with so many recent discoveries about natural history, what seems, in the end, most surprising about the Greenland cores is exactly what might have seemed, at the outset, not to require any explanation at all.

Serious and super-loyal, the former minister for political reform cautions me from the outset not to interpret any of remarks as being remotely at odds with Tory policy.

The Jets arrived here through a path that appeared daunting at the outset, if not improbable.

Their chemistry at the outset would not have automatically been comfortable.

The home team were jolted at the outset and not for the last time.

But Agassi was from the outset determined not to make this the end.

But Cancellara, who held the yellow jersey for eight days at the Tour's outset, was not in Chartres.