At the White House, President Obama noted that Sunday's voting was only the beginning of a long process.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

He would have to pay a small amount of money at the beginning of the game.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Jean-Baptiste Lamark attempted a fuller explanation.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

VOA: special.2010.10.31

Beginning treatment when CD4 drops to 200 works well, but a team of Haitian and American doctors at the GHESKIO clinic in Port-au-Prince wanted to see if they could do better.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Although June's total was higher than the number recorded in May, both figures are significantly lower than job-loss totals recorded at the beginning of the year a fact Romer was quick to point out.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

"I think I learned the skill of really staying focused and staying with a project, because at the beginning our business was not very popular, we were not selling very much, but I learned to stick with it and to not give up,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04