Sentence examples for serious opening from inspiring English sources

I really don't see a serious opening until after Putin retires, and I have no idea when that will be".

While those offers of more than 90percentt of the West Bank, Gaza and part of East Jerusalem may not have been sufficient for Palestinians, they were a serious opening bid.

It is a thinly veiled — and serious — opening attack on the economic and health security of those who have spent a lifetime contributing to our nation.

Self/less was the "serious" opening last weekend -- directed by overt stylist Tarsem Singh, starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley -- and the worst sin that could be leveled at it was that it was kind of stoopid.

Persuasive speeches are often serious and may use a serious opening, especially if the speaker is trying to persuade an audience to take a certain beneficial action or to adopt a new perspective about a topic.

And now that process will continue in "The Theatre Of Dreams" as they survived the meeting with a visiting side lacking the spark of captain Wayne Rooney, and failing to create any serious openings until the second half.

But is it a serious Israeli opening bid that a serious Palestinian counteroffer could improve?

One virtue of this book is how believable, and in a sense how serious, these opening denunciations are.

We hope you enjoyed our serious, industry-based opening to today's In the News.

The furor over former President Bill Clinton's pardon of the fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich turned more serious with the opening of a preliminary criminal investigation by Mary Jo White, the top federal prosecutor in New York.

Even more useful, though, would be serious, creative, open-minded research into the circumstances, conditions, and factors that lead to job openings and people getting hired.