I was very surprised, however, to have fallen straight into that parent trap, head first, like an idiot, where you think you have the special, super-good child who doesn't do that annoying/naughty thing that all other children do, when all you really have is a child who is slightly too young for the age-bracket in which that naughty thing commences.
Ever since that June day last year when you signed off your first tweet with "let da fun commence", things have never really been the same for me.
I brought together a team— experts in chemistry, optics and physics— and we started figuring out which wavelengths of light were optimum, what kind of nanotechnology we could use, what kind of coating was optimum, and all the other things that could commence this idea around 2007.
As the latest battle for what might charitably be called Labour's soul commences, things are different.
I. Act., to lay the foundation of a thing, to begin, commence (syn. incipere; opp. absolvere, perficere; class.).
For one thing, the United States will commence six-country talks in Beijing on Wednesday over how to deal with North Korea's nuclear program.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act, and every clause, provision, regulation, and thing, herein contained, shall commence and take effect upon the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four; and be, and continue in force, for and during the term of three years.
It's been a solid 12 hours since the Disrupt Hackathon commenced, and things are getting a bit loopy.
Among other things, President Obama has unilaterally commenced war, authorized the assassination of American citizens abroad and denied the writ of habeas corpus to detainees not accused of a crime.
Our Northern meetup tour has officially commenced, and we're kicking things off in the Great White North.
Things reached a heady peak in the week commencing Monday 23 February 1981.
