Sentence examples for start of serious from inspiring English sources

Labor Day has always meant the start of serious politicking.

The best way, likely the only way, to head off this debacle is with the start of serious negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

I've been weight training since last year and every session takes me a bit closer to the end of the handweights and the start of serious lifting.

Liberal Democrats will wish that Gordon Brown had agreed to stand down in the hours after the election: by waiting, he delayed the start of serious talks with Labour and drove them into the arms of the Conservatives.

In Phase 1 (before the start of serious gaming), the teacher scaffolds students with initial abstract knowledge related to the subject matter that the serious game intends to cover.

Back in the days when Labor Day represented the start of serious presidential campaigning, candidates would routinely exalt the dignity of work itself, laud the virtues of working people, hail the importance of honoring those whose productive labors generate far-reaching prosperity, and denounce "malefactors of great wealth" and "economic royalists".

Those two evenings were indeed the start of something serious.

Let's not badmouth Athens, always the infinitely rewarding start of any serious exploration of Greece.

I hope my report will be the start of a serious conversation on that.

The start of a serious parting of the ways – the eurozone going one way, Britain in the other direction.

Less optimistic observers suggest that what some now dismiss as a blip is the start of a serious slump.China's astonishing rate of growth cannot last forever.