But his blunt comments were hardly a sensible opening salvo in a highly contentious debate.
It's an uncanny opening salvo as Vesterbacka walks me through Rovio's plans for world domination.
That looks like an opening salvo for bigger attacks on the scheme next year.
His composition, "New (Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego), " is the opening salvo of "The Faith Suite, " a six-part suite on devotion.
Warrington were shocked by the energy of Wigan's opening salvo and were trailing before they had even touched the ball.
Blair opened the scoring after two minutes, profiting from the Blues' aggressive opening salvo, but Michalak levelled four minutes later.
John Terry was still sidelined with a back inury, and with Claude Makelele suspended, Liverpool's furious opening salvo was predictable.
If the storm over Baruch-Sharvit was the opening salvo, the first major media assault on the IDF came on Thursday.
The opening salvo might be a column in a respected print publication or an appearance on a cable business news network.
They are an opening salvo in a battle between the computer and the consumer-electronics industries over who will dominate the digital household.
Burnley looked like they might be in for a long night at Turf Moor after Cesc Fabregas capped a scintillating Arsenal opening salvo with an early goal.
The IMechE says this is the opening salvo in the debate about re-defining the UN's Millennium Development goals, which are up for review in 2015.
We'll be on the ground at Computex next week, so you can be sure that we'll give you the full rundown on Windows 8's opening salvo.
Saturday's fireworks were just the opening salvo against South Africa that will see Wales face them again in Cardiff next November, before the big showdown in the World Cup pool stages.
The move marks the opening salvo in an attempt by Equity Residential to take control of all of Archstone, which owns stakes in about 77, 000 apartments, many concentrated in major cities.
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"I consider this the opening salvo in a step-by-step process of providing relief for law-abiding Americans everywhere that have been deprived of this freedom, " said Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association.
It was a fabulous opening salvo in the tie and the Fulham fans threatened to raise the roof at Craven Cottage, but their joy was soon tempered as Shakhtar gained a foothold in the game.
While I have yet to digest all of the dozen or so essays, I suspect they are only the opening salvo in what is will soon become a robust debate about the significance of uncertainty in climate-change science.
The speech was billed as just one in a series questioning the thinking of the military services, but in retrospect it was something more: the opening salvo in a public debate about the future of the Marine Corps.
But there can be little doubt that United hold the ascendancy at the moment as they swept aside a Sunderland team that somehow survived an opening salvo that could have put Ferguson's men way out of reach before half-time.
In late June, Lai fired his opening salvo in a direct assault on the giants with a splashy opening for adMart, a home-delivery shopping service that might just be Hong Kong's most ambitious e-commerce effort to date (the "a-d" stands for Apple Daily).
Lobbyists say they are doubtful the amendment will survive and even consumer advocates who went vocal in their opposition to it Thursday concede it is likely just an opening salvo as Republicans try to stick amendments in the overall bill to take back some ground from the Democrats.
The bill introduced in the Wisconsin state legislature that would strip state employee unions of their collective bargaining rights, require members to vote to organize every year, allow members to avoid paying dues and put pay raises to a public vote, represents the opening salvo of the final battle in the war against unions in America.
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