Sentence examples for outset to have from inspiring English sources

He would have been pleased at the outset to have survived 100 days.

Opera Note: Deems Taylor, who gets a lot of scripts through the mails from people who think they can write libretto, has finally received one that seems at the outset to have merit.

He appeared at pains to bring closure to the episode, which appeared at its outset to have the potential for seriously jarring ties between Britain and the United States.

For Elizabeth Kendall, almost as soon as the family car spun out of control, the accident that took her mother's life began to accrue metaphoric power, enough, 30 years later, to provide the organizing principle to the story of a family that, Kendall would have us witness, seems from the outset to have been founded on poor visibility and bad traction.

Tom Luddy was associate producer on Godard's other English-language feature film that was backed by a Hollywood producer and was, at the outset, to have been made within a "Hollywood production structure": "King Lear," from 1987, for which Godard had a script written by Norman Mailer.

It is important at the outset to have a short glimpse at the failed status of Somalia and its repercussions.

My suspicion is that by confessing at the outset to having operated a "big lie," Madoff was trying a damage control ploy to absorb all of the legal heat so that his family might avoid prosecution and a forfeiture of their vast assets.

A problem at the outset seems to have been that nobody really knew what such a collegial association was supposed to achieve, beyond providing a club room and a mutual grooming salon for literary lions.

"[Trump's] administration, at least at its outset, seems to have less respect for the rule of law than any in recent memory, and is challenging the Constitution in unprecedented fashion," New York senator Chuck Schumer said Wednesday.

Undoubtedly, the plan from the outset was to have Armitage get the info to his (and Rove's) pal Novak and if they got caught, well, it was an inadvertent slip.

In the nineteenth century, the connection between the chemistry of food and bodily chemistry that marks the emergence of nutrition science was from the outset seen to have philosophical and political urgency for the social management of human biology.