Sentence examples for were at the outset from inspiring English sources

But as bad as the scenes were at the outset, they only got worse.

As young as his children were at the outset, they understood that their father had an enemy out there.

The Clifton superintendant testified that the system had lost teaching staff, increased class size and cut academic support for struggling students, putting them at even greater disadvantage in meeting state standards than they were at the outset.

His lead actors were at the outset of their careers: Meryl Streep had won a best supporting Oscar for Kramer vs Kramer (1979) but was not yet established, while Jeremy Irons was a relative unknown, yet to make his big impact on British TV with Brideshead Revisited (1981).

Much as there were at the outset, there are probably only a handful of women capable of winning this year's Wimbledon, and though Mauresmo and Jankovic probably fell into that category at the outset, on recent form Mauresmo was an outside bet compared to Justine Henin, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova.

The quality of Bewick's engravings attracted a far wider readership to his books than he had expected: his Fables and Quadrupeds were at the outset intended for children.

Broken and alone is exactly what Misty is at the outset of "Bound".

Written Kyrgyz literature arose from rich oral traditions and was at the outset exclusively poetic.

Its population is still lower than it was at the outset of the Second World War.

As dominant as the Tide was at the outset, Alabama also made three crucial mistakes.

Whatever happens on November 8th, we are at the outset of a much longer reckoning.