As important and substantial as these first baby steps are toward intelligent building energy networks, they are just a beginning.
"This is just a beginning, but we knew the hurricane season starts June 1, and we knew we needed to have some measures in place going into the next hurricane season, " Mr. Burke said.
Rhetorical support from Obama in his speech to Congress is a necessary first step in a serious reform effort, but it is just a modest beginning.
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The Wal-Mart Sustainability Index may just be a beginning.
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In 2003, then-French President Jacques Chirac opposed Mr. Bush's drive to war in Iraq, as did Mr. Obama, who at the time was a state senator from Illinois just beginning a long-shot U.S. Senate campaign.
This would, by definition, deepen splits in a fractious and demoralised party only just beginning a debate about its own future.
That said, a compelling purpose is just the beginning of a strategy.
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It suggests that just a snippet of the beginning of a song (or movie, for that matter) could be stored locally on a device, and then be synced to the complete version in the cloud, which would let you begin playback "immediately" rather than having to wait for the usual buffering to take place.
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The government is just beginning a review of that system - as it does once every ten years.
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And it's just beginning a radical overhaul of its product-design process to mimic the success of rivals like Toyota.
Cambridgeshire is just beginning a public consultation on its budget and said it would await the results before replying.
But at the same time, here we are just a few weeks away from the beginning of a new school year, and Congress has not found a bipartisan path to send us a bill to send the President a bill.
Since then, we have added 11 more sites, introduced a booming wireless business and launched very promising enhanced television operation that is just now beginning to reach a large audience.
It's admirably weird music and hopefully just the beginning of a long and wonderfully strange conversation.
Yet this innovation is probably just the beginning of a huge customer-centered shift in interactivity.
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Fifteen years ago, after Steve Jobs returned, Apple was just beginning its a new trajectory.
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Smartphones and tablets are just the beginning of a new generation of computing products.
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Putting badges on workers is just the beginning of a broader trend, researchers say.
"The key question is whether this is just the beginning of a greater purge, " says Jomo.
But this may be just the beginning of a brighter year for the North Carolina bank.
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Agreeing on an open standard for chat is just the beginning of a painful transformation for portals.
Many experienced campaigners know this is just the beginning of a long process so patience will be required.
"What you have seen today is just the beginning of a long campaign, " says political activist Kim Min Sik.
Fixing public finances is just the beginning of a much-needed programme of reforms.
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This was just the beginning of a discussion to ensure the future health of our ocean, coasts and Great Lakes.
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For Houck, it was just the beginning of a career in crusading for preserving wildlife habitat within the city limits.
Inhaled insulin is just the beginning of a revolution in drug delivery that will make numerous injection-only drugs easier to take.
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