Sentence examples for start of qualification from inspiring English sources

Instead of leading the line for his country at the start of qualification for the 2018 World Cup, Kang is banned for much of the season, his international career likely over before it started.

Despite being the lowest-ranked team in Asia at the start of qualification, and despite facing sectarian tensions that all but destroyed the sport in the country, Lebanon needs only a tie Wednesday in Abu Dhabi against United Arab Emirates to reach the final round of World Cup qualification in the region for the first time.

In one practical respect, this event marks the start of the qualification process for the Rio Olympics.

He arrived in Sri Lanka in March to prepare the national team for the Asian Five Nations tournament, which was the start of Asian qualification for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, and to see how the sport could be developed and the standard improved.

The Manchester Grand Prix  marks the start of the qualification campaign for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

"There were four of us at the start of the qualification period then it was whittled down to two of us.

"I must be satisfied with the point at the start of this qualification round," said Mihajlovic. "If you cannot win, it's important not to lose.

At the venue where the four-time Olympic champion won his first world champion's rainbow jersey in 2002 and suffered a career-threatening hip injury on Valentine's Day in 2009, Hoy's rhythm appeared to be upset by a problem with his pedal prior to the start of Britain's qualification ride in the men's team sprint.

And then there was Macedonia and the three points which lifted Scotland off the bottom of Group A. We could still end up at the wrong end of the table - other results can decide that - but I'm more interested in the start of the next qualification campaign than the end of this one.

Fabio Capello will turn to Fulham's emerging new goalkeeper David Stockdale when he names his England squad tomorrow for the start of the Euro 2012 qualification campaign against Bulgaria and Switzerland.

The FAW's chief executive, Jonathan Ford, spoke this week of the pressing need to identify a successor to Speed so as to ensure the new man is ready for the start of the World Cup qualification campaign in September.