It's pretty much the same thing. In writing, you have a blank page for you to start with.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

But as she watches her students run through the woods,she smiles, and says it's a good start.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

So I think the tradeoffs are enough that it's really worth it to start early."

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

"It's a start." "I'm just really excited. I had to be down here today."

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

The minimum wage is relatively high compared to the wage in France so it's a barrier when you don't have any qualifications and when you start your career."

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Yes! It turns out that it is." But that's not enough to start the revolution that they claim to be starting and that's I think my principal disappointment here.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

It seems this benchdmark in Libya's modern history is coinciding with hope at home that the country can start to reap the benefits of a rehabilitated and redirected Colonel Gadhafi.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Australia's defenses against the outbreak of the H1N1 virus will be boosted when mass flu vaccinations start next month after officials fast-tracked a scheme capable of covering it's entire population of 21 million people.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

We are going to get there the day before the games start two days before. And it's all about building, and getting better every game and that is how the team is going to win.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

"What we've proven to be useful and what does work is having a person in a stressed state, and then reducing that stress because it's that contrast is what motivates a person to cooperate, what motivates a person to start talking.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

And so,once we get out there in the alliance and we start talking about the value that increased trade brings for forest protection, then it's going to allow us to sell the message so that architects and designers can increasingly specify imported wood products.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

But the evening really kicks into high gear after the scientist's presentation ends, when the audience gets to start the conversation: "Is it still a question as to whether there is a lot more plant diversity in the Andes versus the Amazon?"

VOA: standard.2010.05.04