outset

At the outset — in 2010 — almost every state signed up for one of the two testing consortia.

But the real money, Washington believed, lay in the western land investments he had made at the outset of the war.

Bill Clinton courted Mixner and his expertise at the outset of his run for president.

Things seem fine at the outset, as they always do—the children are fun and adorable, the husband and wife happy and carefree.

At the outset, only a handful of the victims spoke out about what had happened to them.

Is it day to day, game to game, or do they prepare a master plan from the outset.

Since we are to learn by thinking we must at the outset learn the definition of the three Laws of Thinking.

Here, however, is the place where the water trouble will first arise, which will have to be provided for at the outset.

From the very outset of his career in Spain he showed a lack of strategic insight and a want of rapidity of movement.

Thereupon began a procedure identical to that which had characterized the outset of every successful case of the Chief Inspector.

Organization was Aguinaldoʼs peculiar talent, without the exercise of which the movement would have failed at the outset.