Sentence examples for set the beginning of from inspiring English sources

He therefore set the beginning of the first Julian period at January 1 , 4713bce.

In 2009 the International Union of Geological Sciences IUGSS) officially ratified the decision to set the beginning of the Quaternary at 2,588,000 years ago, a time when rock strata show extensive evidence of widespread expansion of ice sheets over the northern continents and the beginning of an era of dramatic climatic and oceanographic change.

Davis set the beginning of the national and international women's rights movement at Worcester, Massachusetts in 1850, at the National Women's Rights Convention when women from many states were invited, the influence of which was felt across the continent and in Great Britain.

It does not run counter to the idea of the process of evolution; it just sets the beginning of the whole business somewhere and some time other than the Earth.

One retirement analyst doesn't expect much from this, and suggests it's more a tactical maneuver to set "the beginning stages of a debate about retirement issues".

I haven't managed to accomplish all of the recommendations set at the beginning of the week.

Neither is it far off the target of less than 3% set at the beginning of the year.

Role-based pay will be set at the beginning of the year, and will be paid in 12 instalments.

Trinity Mirror said that it has managed to make £25m in cost savings, well ahead of the £15m target set at the beginning of 2012.

By the low standards they had set in the beginning of the season, the Wizards team I looked down upon from afar was surging.

The popular show will be back for a Christmas special in 2015 before eight new episodes set at the beginning of 1961, air in 2016.