Sentence examples for started serious from inspiring English sources

"I only started serious training in January," she says.

Ignatev, started serious reforms to modernize the secondary schools and to establish a system of vocational and technical education, which he regarded as most important for the industrialization of Russia.

She started "serious ballet," as she puts it, when she was 10, and at 12 studied at the Washington School of Ballet, appearing with the Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Balanchine's "Serenade".

Two professional basketball players (whom Mr. Sanghoee declined to identify), a fund behind the 2006 film "The Namesake" and the Connecticut fund started serious talks, according to Mr. Sanghoee.

He claimed to have taught himself to read and write before his first year at school, to have started serious fiction writing aged 11, and to have known for certain that he would become a professional writer when he was only 15. Thirty years after Truman Capote's death, the rest of the world can now make up its own mind about his work as a precocious boyhood genius.

However, contrary to this proclamation, Truscott's paper resulted in a new wave of research that started serious investigation into the role and efficacy of feedback contrary to his claims (see Russell and Spada [2006] for meta-analysis of feedback research).

It is time "to start serious practical work in this field," he said.

We should go further and start serious debate on public financing of campaigns.

The Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot presidents will start serious talks on reunifying the divided island on September 3rd.

And how much harder is Mr. Obama willing to push Israel and the Palestinians to start serious peace negotiations?

Cheryl Reilly, 48, could not start serious racing until a few years ago, but soon chalked up two championships.