Sentence examples for the initial portion of from inspiring English sources

He is "notoriously mercurial" and "often avoids making eye contact during the initial portion of meetings," according to one cable from 2008.

It flows northwestward along the north side of the Greater Antilles islands and merges with the Florida Current, which issues from the Gulf of Mexico through the Straits of Florida to form the initial portion of the Gulf Stream system.

Ms. Palin read from a prepared text for the initial portion of her appearance, so it appeared that the notes scribbled on her hand were in preparation for the subsequent 15-minute question-and-answer session she did with Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, the social networking site that organized the convention.

However, these limitations may not significantly affect our results because we analyzed only the initial portion of the P codas.

Therefore, the storm runoff treatment systems or strategies designed for capture and treatment of the initial portion of runoff may be inappropriate for control of runoff toxicity.

Consummatory performance decreased more abruptly during the initial portion of the extinction sessions after training with 32% as compared to 4% sucrose solution.

We then consider whether the amplitudes or τc could discriminate the main-shock from the smaller foreshocks during the initial portion of their waveforms.

The U i ′ value has to coincide with the initial portion of the e-coin (L i ) that the new vendor is requesting.

BEDROC applies Boltzmann weighting to the AUROC calculation thereby emphasizing the initial portion of the ROC curve calculated using the CROC package [45] at α = 20 [47] 47].

Actually, the second-order equation shows linear behaviour in the initial portion of the experiment also, though the linear section is quite short.

A method for evaluating the mass transfer coefficient, kLa, in a gas sparged stirred vessel from the initial portion of the liquid dynamic response curve is described.