Sentence examples for start of the summit from inspiring English sources

The eldest was Xhigae, the San elder who had proposed the wheelchair project prior to the start of the summit.

As Angela Merkel said at the start of the summit, deterrence and dialogue must go hand in hand.

Merkel instead flew to Buenos Aires aboard a commercial flight from Spain and missed the start of the summit.

The splashiest announcement came at the start of the summit, when America and the European Union said they would begin talks in July on a free-trade agreement.

But it has been climbing back since March, and by the start of the summit was around 460 basis points (see chart).

The French hosts have invited the leaders for the start of the summit, not the end, which will leave negotiators time to work on the deal.

Six months on – weeks before the start of the Paris summit – it dropped the idea.

From the start of the Cancun summit, developing countries were clear they wanted action to close this loophole.

President Barack Obama, who attended the start of the Paris summit, said the deal represented "the best chance we have to save the one planet we have".

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, greeted the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, with a kiss at the start of the European summit that ended today.

The trio lingered on the podium, chatting comfortably as they posed for photos at the start of the G7 summit in Quebec.