Sentence examples for the summit began from inspiring English sources

The summit began with a poster presentation on student-initiated sustainability projects at Berkeley.

The two leaders accepted Carter's invitation, and the summit began on September 5, 1978, and lasted for 13 days.

Before the summit began, Sarkozy had threatened to walk out unless he got his way on financial regulation.

The two leaders met before the summit began on Thursday to try to iron out their differences.

The summit began the next morning, in a convention center set among the resort hotels and casinos on Santo Domingo's seafront.

The meeting, held before the summit began, was his first with a Chinese leader since his re-election and follows a campaign in which both he and his Republican rival Mitt Romney criticised China for unfair trade practices.

The true work of the summit begins Tuesday, with discussions of defense cooperation, trade and climate change.

The mountain lowers over the village and it is from its medieval streets that the classic route to the summit begins.

He acknowledged that the clock was ticking – with the summit beginning in just over a fortnight's time – but pointed to the need for business certainty and a range of other "immediate pressing issues".

Free-trade talks with Mexico are expected to be concluded later this year.But it is the EU's future relations with Mercosur which form the crux of the Rio summit the EU leaders will hold a separate meeting with their Mercosur counterparts before the summit begins.

When the summit begins on Saturday, leaders are expected to expand on plans agreed in February at the G20 finance ministers' meeting to boost global economic growth by 2% in five years.