On June twenty-sixth, the first C-47s landed at Tempelhof Airport - the beginning of the great operation that was to come.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

A large fireworks show always takes place on Bastille day which celebrates the beginning of the French Revolution.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

A big part of this prediction is based on signs that the housing market is beginning to improve.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Their attack on the draft office that day was just the beginning.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

The run on the British bank Northern Rock in September 2007 marked the beginning of the world banking crisis in Britain.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

There would be no lifetime limits on coverage beginning immediately upon President Obama signing legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

through the home school market, is beginning to catch on in schools across the country.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

He notes that broad policy changes that reduce reliance on fuels like coal and wood are being implemented and are beginning to have a positive impact on life expectancy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

"We were committed from the beginning to reset the U.S.- Russia relationship because we saw it as essential to making progress on our top priorities, from counter-terrorism, to nuclear security and nonproliferation."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

"But President Obama is starting to show that he is not quite as popular, or that he does not walk on water in the way that many people thought at the beginning of his term and his popularity has come down."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"What we are seeing is that the aid effort is beginning to scale up. We are all frustrated by the fact that there is not as much aid on the streets as anybody would like, but I think you will see that effort scaling up very rapidly,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

Damascus has steadfastly denied the charges. Hilal Kashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut, thinks that the Hezbollah-led opposition scored a big victory with the general's release and could win the parliamentary elections because of it:"The opposition is using the release of the 4 senior officers as a moral victory, and says for the past 3 years and 8 months, four officers were jailed for no reason, whatsoever and they are coming hard on the Lebanese legal system and the process the Lebanese government, and they say this is the beginning,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.30