In the earnest, irony-free spirit of TED, it did not seem like hyperbole.
Originally founded in the 16th Century by the Portuguese, work commenced in earnest on the fort in 1663 under Dutch colonial rule, when it became the country's primary port.
But the revolution started in earnest in the mid-2000s with the rise of Five Guys.
In this manner, a powerful Transatlantic impetus has properly been given to the debate that will begin in earnest on the floors of the U.S. Senate and House over the next few days -- a debate that House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently, correctly described as "the most important national defense debate since Churchill argued for building radar" in the peacetime years before World War II.
Way too many families begin the college admission process in earnest at the start of senior year.
Congress returns tomorrow for a short, pre-midterm election session, and with the political season starting in earnest, the mood on Capital Hill is becoming more partisan.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s the idea was revived when American strategists began thinking in earnest about the technologies they would need to shoot down nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
Economic growth this year is expected to hit a repectable 5.3% - and growth is sure to be spurred once the rebuilding begins in earnest, although the government has yet to put a firm price on the daunting reconstruction bill.
The campaign for women to have the right to vote began in earnest during the second half of the nineteenth century.
The requesting Inspectors General are tasked with overseeing investigations that can take multiple years to complete, and the oversight work often begins in earnest during the final phases of a project.
The financial meltdown that commenced in earnest during the autumn of 2008 has led many observers, commentators and regulators to question more closely what it is that private equity and hedge funds actually do.
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After the agreement is reached, and the Presidential election cycle begins in earnest, the focus will then shift towards whether or not increases in revenue or decreases in spending, or some combination thereof, will be the best cure for the balance sheet woes of the United States.
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And it was the nations of Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand that came together and began to patrol in earnest the Strait of Malacca and quelled piracy quite a bit.
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The search won't start in earnest unless the man in charge of the government's investigation, Attorney General Andi Muhammad Ghalib, gives the go-ahead.
The selling of stocks took off in earnest at the same moment that Greek police and demonstrators clashed, an event widely televised on the trading floor of the NYSE.
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They crossed the Fort Peck reservoir in boats, and began to explore the Montana badlands in earnest.
The efforts began in earnest in 2010 in the wake of an investigation by Italian prosecutors into whether the Vatican bank had violated Italy's money-laundering laws an allegation the Vatican denies.
And, as we all now know, thanks to the civics lesson to which the country has been treated in the weeks since the health care debate began in earnest, 41 Senators can preclude consideration of legislation - including treaties.
Chase began using the software in earnest two years ago, shortly after the school was put on the city's probation list for chronically bad reading scores.
The rise of mid-season collections began in earnest following the global recession of 2008, when even luxury shoppers stepped back from conspicuous spending.
But it was not until the second half of the 20th century, when material comforts ceased to satisfy and the wheels of human life seemed stuck in fast-forward for ever, that the search began in earnest for a simple way to make existence bearable.
The outsourcing of government began in earnest really in the Clinton administration with the reinventing government initiatives of Vice President Al Gore.
Although we'll have to wait until the second half of the year before HMC 1.0 products appear in earnest, the Consortium already has a next-gen blueprint due in early 2014 that should nearly double individual data link speeds (from 15Gbps to 28Gbps).
This year was supposed to begin in earnest the payoff on those expectations.
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If there is a single day on which the Paris insurrection began in earnest it was August the fifteenth 1944, ten days before de Gaulle's triumphant appearance.
Once the average Joe started using the Internet in earnest, things began to change at warp speed in the retail world of separating you from your money.
For their part, African leaders should pursue in earnest the development of a regional strategy that protects and secures the long-term goals of the African people, their civilization and rich culture.
Hezbollah fighters joined the battle in Syria in earnest earlier this year, to defend Shiite-majority Syrian towns along the Lebanese border and to protect a Shiite shrine in Damascus.
At most top private schools, the college selection process gears up in earnest early in the junior year.
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