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Similarly, much of the policy rhetoric coming from Washington focuses on fears of incipient inflation that have yet to pan out.

At a dinner with journalists, hedge-fund manager George Soros spoke of an “incipient war in currencies.”

He was a prime mover behind the Saudi military intervention in Bahrain a year ago to smash an incipient Shia reform movement.

He takes on multiple projects, but he will prevent incipient confusion if he stops multitasking and completes one thing at a time.

Whether he had shot a man, or robbed a bank, or fired a church, the incipient accusation died away.

And this failure to get hold of the incipient case applies to all the various kinds of adverse influences that cause destitution.

Another arrived with a fine mat, a man of higher rank, whose incipient consumption had often troubled the Master.

Spirits of turpentine rubbed in around the base of the horns, will arrest the disease in its incipient stages.

It was as if some spirit that had breathed on him, sustaining him, lightening his incipient heaviness, had been removed.