Kerry himself often fires the starting gun for the wheelchair race at the marathon.
Predictive analytics can gather weather and tidal data to help crews ready themselves for the next starting gun.
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If this was the starting gun to a leadership challenge most MPs seemed to flinch with surprise at hearing it.
Kind of like standing at the starting line with Olympic athletes, then not even hearing the starting gun go off.
But the Jenkins report fires a starting gun for the referendum campaign.
Bolt was clearly up out of the blocks before the starting gun -- which under next year's new rules would have disqualified him automatically.
Praising leader Ed Miliband, she said his conference speech had "changed the game" and "fired the starting gun" for the next election - expected in 2015.
With Santorum out and near universal recognition that the GOP nomination contest is over, the starting gun has been fired signaling the official beginning of the general elections season.
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Or as another big beast in local government put it, they might be casting it as a public services commission but here's "the starting gun for Local Government Reform at last!"
As the campaign drew to a close, nearly four out of five of the polls conducted since John Major had fired the starting gun gave Labour a slight lead, making a narrow victory look quite likely.
Among partisans on both sides, there is still a sense that a piece of gun control can be passed (starting with background checks) and perhaps a larger piece of immigration (starting with H-1B visas and legal status for the undocumented).
It is starting a campaign to shame those who voted Wednesday against the gun-control measure.
The Gun Rack store in Aiken was supposed to be the starting grounds of Mr. Perry's post-Iowa offensive on Wednesday afternoon.
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