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    1. They were all well cleaned and nicely battered, toasted to perfection and served inverted, hottest on the bottom, so they could commence powering thru them as soon as the basket was set in front of them


    2. The Autumn terms shall commence each annum on the first Tuesday of September, and run its first term through the fourth Wednesday of November


    3. Spring terms shall commence each annum on the second Tuesday of February and run through the last Tuesday of May


    4. ' When she was convinced that all was ready, she gave the signal to commence


    5. 'You are too early the operation is to commence at eleven


    6. So on this fine morning the villagers gathered by the putting green below Clothiers farm where battle was to commence


    7. Ome should have never let that mission commence


    8. Tests, as they are called, were to commence from the third of


    9. Before they dispersed, Ashpenaz announced that their tutoring would commence the following day


    10. Helez was told that she could move into the palace the following day to commence her duties

    11. And so the investigation into the deaths of the three Justiciars would be scheduled to commence very shortly, if it had not happened already


    12. The soldiers were directing the exiles towards the registering point where Ashpenaz and his officials were ready to commence the massive task of cataloguing the exiled families


    13. The slave girls then took up their positions in a row and a silence fell on the crowd as they awaited the king’s signal that the banquet could commence


    14. as Yeshua gave the order to commence the


    15. Therefore, when someone has great faith or a strong sense of knowing that he will be healed, this form of intuition activates the biological aspect of the human body to commence ‘natural healing’


    16. The Hebrew language having no connection with classical learning, and, except the Holy Scriptures, being the language of not a single book in any esteem the study of it did not commonly commence till after that of philosophy, and when the student had entered upon the study of theology


    17. ” The flares burnt out and darkness descended on us once more we stood there shitting ourselves and waiting for the next attack to commence


    18. He would then prepare the canvas for oil paints and mix different colours of paint in different ratios to obtain the colours he wants and only then commence painting a scene with the various levels of detail


    19. The farm, in both cases, was to commence in 1768, and to last for six years


    20. When annuities are granted upon tontines, the liberation of the public revenue does not commence till the death of all the annuitants

    21. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery


    22. This group put forward their intentions, theories and ideas as a serious alternative to the reformists – otherwise thought of as moderates – who were still to commence with that first assignment


    23. Before Zolla was about to commence with his questioning, Jimmy noticed the anxious presence of the chief medic in the background


    24. The lead wolf was sensing the pressure from the others to commence the attack


    25. I’d be more than happy when all of this was over with so I could commence with my retirement


    26. Then commence attack


    27. ” Now you can commence the implementation project for real,


    28. As soon as this reverse process begins various stages of rebirth commence, firstly in the "Bardo", the Tibetan word for this intermediate state, then in a new physical incarnation


    29. I told them when we would commence our march south


    30. The invasion will commence as soon as our new commander

    31. rumble; it appeared the locals had waited for their guests to finish prancing around to allow the next floor show to commence


    32. Wait a little bit until the wood starts smoking, and commence with grilling


    33. must commence another, a third, and so forth, until they have acquired the


    34. You may, however, wish to ask the following question: what prompted the project to commence? And the answer would be the need for control—control of the minds and, therefore, the bodies of the workers


    35. “That’s how your training will commence, and how you will learn about the Spirit


    36. We will take our leave now, for with this knowledge we can commence the final planning for the operation


    37. Jo’s a fine man, and his Healers have given him permission to commence with planning for his new charge, though they insist he do so while remaining in bed


    38. It was now late July; the big day was planned and ready to commence


    39. Snoopy operations would not commence until such time as the concept was approved by 7th AF, MACV, CINCPAC, and the CSAF


    40. That was where the first field-labourers found him when they came to commence their day-cycle

    41. Once there, Simon will have to face a test of his courage in order to commence the next stage of the journey home


    42. Trial wil probably commence within the week


    43. when brought near to each other, attract each other; and then commence


    44. “That’s when the harvest will commence


    45. Hence…the reading shall commence!


    46. to commence an authentication depends upon the availability of that evidence, AND then


    47. “I have already started planning her funeral but when she dies the war will surely commence


    48. In twelve hours the final act of his career as a headmaster would commence, and in twelve weeks he would leave this home of twenty-two years


    49. Once they stepped into the director’s office, the yelling would commence


    50. of the bedrooms; however, when I was about to commence










































    1. It should be commenced as early as possible (this situation unfortunately is utopian)


    2. The next day, with the show ground full to bursting with every type of plant, with new roses, new fuscias, begonias, hostas and hebe, with the walkways full to bursting with eager competitors and excited crowds, the judging commenced


    3. crowds, the judging commenced


    4. Later, as he commenced the steep climb out of Saint


    5. The group had just commenced blessing the walls


    6. Nimblefax trotted up and and commenced a thought process conversation


    7. Just then Lemoss took a hand in the proceedings, Nimblefax has commenced to preen his horns


    8. When the public inspection commenced, Nerissa’s foreboding turned out to be accurate


    9. GingerKat commenced once more; “Yes dear; that's when Tei and Chéri approached us to have a looksee for ourselves


    10. This time – as the room and its contents shrunk (or he enlarged) and he commenced the usual tirade of threats that could never be fulfilled – he had the distinct impression that the central L-Seven-Six persona was not present

    11. The palaver then commenced


    12. But they were disconcerted by the steady American advance, and redoubled their volleys as the thin blue line crossed the valley and commenced to climb the steep ascent


    13. He searched the dead also, taking charge of personal effects, and attempting to establish the identity of each, before the vultures commenced their work or the burial detail was sent out


    14. The alert defenders before Santiago responded heavily; their outposts in the valley, falling on their faces to escape the fire of friend and foe, also commenced to shoot


    15. Late in the afternoon a long line of emaciated non-combatants commenced to stream back to the city


    16. William turned and commenced walking toward the house


    17. And there, in front of the largest sett ever built, the final Great Battle commenced as the two forces clashed in mortal combat, with only the Prime Mover knowing what the outcome would be


    18. Now more than ever since this ordeal commenced, he felt alone, as if he were the only man left on earth


    19. Clarence pulled her into his arms and commenced kissing her


    20. He realized something was amiss with William and commenced walking toward him

    21. William could see the list he had constructed in his mind so vividly that he read it over and over until he commenced verbalizing the memorized list out loud


    22. He commenced a fresh list:


    23. William commenced walking again and then he stopped and looked again at the waterfall in the distance and the abrupt end of the canyon


    24. He commenced turning his head upward to focus in on the water droplets that had been there each time with the exception of last night


    25. Paul commenced at the beginning of the year and moved forward


    26. Charles sometimes growled like a dog; when cooking commenced


    27. It cumulated one night when, particularly drunk and abusive, he pulled a gun and commenced to menace Edgar


    28. He commenced to explain that with diminishing catches, it was increasingly necessary to divert to the port of Limon for purchases of fish to fulfill a contract for bi-weekly deliveries of red snapper to Tampa, Florida


    29. With the SAS moved into ‘immediate action area’ the commanding officer commenced his target appreciation work


    30. An unusual journey through the forest commenced

    31. was conveyed to the priests from Wadi, they commenced their lunch


    32. As Nick walked back to his table, taking lanky strides and looking down at the floor, a slow and building applause commenced


    33. It was sold to the city of Niagara Falls at auction in 1920, and the City commenced using it for waste disposal for its petrochemical industry


    34. Ardara commenced, “And T for Traitor!” she ravenously


    35. Simultaneously with and under the cover of the war, Hitler commenced his extermination program


    36. ” The Cold War probably commenced then


    37. The Persian archers and infantry commenced a wild retreat, stampeding their own and


    38. the glass and commenced to attack him


    39. General Zachary Taylor reported that hostilities commenced when Mexico’s Army of the North clashed with the U


    40. In this way, and many others, he commenced to invisibly kill off the battalion

    41. The Japanese attacked the Philippines on December 8, 1941 and commenced a regime of


    42. A bustle of activity had commenced across the heavenless sky of


    43. Plains beyond, whose lush greenery had already commenced the


    44. Leaving the smashed shards in the bathroom and having his best friend gone, George connected to the internet on his laptop and commenced writing an email to Elizabeth


    45. 12 But we may now at once enter on the question, having commenced, as


    46. 34 In his five hundred and ninety-fifth year Noah commenced to make the Ark, and he made the Ark in five years, as the Lord had commanded


    47. A team of doctors then commenced splitting apart his lower


    48. 19 And all the people of Egypt saw that the famine had commenced in the land of Egypt, and all the people of Egypt opened their stores of corn for the famine prevailed over them


    49. After Heather commenced Family Court proceedings regarding child support and custody, I filed a Financial Affidavit for Mike showing his income and outgo


    50. 34 In his five hundred and ninety-fifth year Noah commenced to make the Ark and he made the Ark in five years as the Lord had commanded










































    1. It is at this that the age concludes and the Great White Throne judgment commences


    2. and the waiting commences, the waiting for warmth


    3. the voting commences as follows


    4. The recitation of the sermon commences at the


    5. "Your honour, I would like to request that until the trial commences, the accused resides with me where I will look after him and prepare him to be ready for the court case


    6. "The court grants you bail under the conditions that you remain under Paul's guidance and that he brings you back to court when the case commences in… now let's see…" He placed his glasses on the tip of his nose, looked down at his desk and said, "…three days from today at nine am


    7. The Prayer commences following the Iqama:


    8. and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice


    9. commences the statement we will take you straight over to


    10. At 07:53 hours still on December 7th, the first Japanese assault wave commences the attack, taking the Americans completely by surprise

    11. However, once bankruptcy commences, the


    12. behind that line until the time commences


    13. The Chol Qij commences on the day 8 Batz


    14. The wedding is slated for 7th June and needless to say, I need you here before the countdown commences


    15. shaped from the moment when the mind commences approaching the


    16. tion which he has repeatedly spoken of commences only after the renun-


    17. commences with an articulation of the sacred OM, for this utterance re-


    18. pointed out in Chapter 16 that the undertaking of yagya commences in


    19. Sustainable art is the answer to the question, 'What is beyond the modern malaise and cornucopia of austerity?' In this way, the Good, the True, the Beautiful is not what you create, but what benefits your creation commences in society and what ideological attractors it deposits for culture


    20. This habit of questioning commences the enlightening; whenever we cease it, we begin our own private Dark Ages

    21. Education commences when the body is healthy


    22. One good way to avoid conflict is that when it commences simply say, “Let us start over again


    23. ” This must be done when it commences


    24. become a truck driver, he commences to meditate, wandering why his interest was lost


    25. wanted to be remodeled a truck driver, he commences to meditate, wandering why his


    26. James commences his letter with the words “To the twelve tribes, which are scattered abroad


    27. The record of revelation to man commences with man's creation, and as it unfolds it brings out in vivid colors his relations with some man-destroying agency above him in the air


    28. ’ The history of the miraculous conception, with which Matthew begins his gospel, was a trifle in comparison with this portentous declaration with which John commences his


    29. Paul commences the second chapter with a statement of his theme—'Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (parousi>av), and our gathering together to Him (kai< hJmw~n ejpisunagwgh~v term which fixes the reference to the personal return of Christ from heaven, when Christians are to be ever 'with Him’), I beseech you that you be not soon troubled, neither by a spirit, nor by word, nor by a letter as from us, as that this DAY OF CHRIST is imminent


    30. ’ It commences with the statement that Adam was created immortal, as God Himself—with respect to his soul, but as to his body, susceptible of death; (2) that he was placed in Paradise, on trial forever lasting life, under the menace of death; while notwithstanding, irrespectively of the tree of Life, the chief part of his nature was already incapable of extinction; that the privilege held out to him really was, therefore, to escape death of the body alone in the literal sense of the threatening, and death of the soul only in a metaphorical signification of the term; (3) that, failing in his probation, he brought upon himself death of the body, and eternal misery of the soul; and upon his posterity, according to one account, simply temporal death (which system of interpretation does not render any very lucid explanation of the natural state and legal prospects of the souls of the posterity);—according to another account, more ancient and orthodox, and held by all the great historical churches, both temporal death and eternal misery of the soul; (4) that, therefore, all mankind are born, before they have sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, justly liable to everlasting misery, whether through imputation, or through the possession of a nature necessarily corrupt in all its developments; (5) that Christ came into the world to bear the curse of the law, which was death a curse which signified eternal misery in the instance of mankind, but was taken to mean 'death of the cross’ only, in the person of the Savior; (6) that in consequence of this literal death of Christ, death in all the figurative senses has been removed from the believer, and his physical death shall be abolished by resurrection; (7) that although the Mosaic law 'entered that the offence might abound,’ it made no mention of eternal misery, while nevertheless Christ's death delivers us from that legal curse of which no mention is made; (8) that while the penalty for despising the law of Moses was literal 'death under two or three witnesses,’ the penalty of despising a system of mercy shall be infinitely more tremendous than that, being to suffer misery throughout endless duration; the punishment for rejecting the divine mercy being, therefore, infinitely more terrible than that for rejecting the divine justice; and, lastly, (9) that although the greater part of mankind have been altogether deprived, under divine providence, of the means of grace, they have been placed on the same awful probation, unknown to themselves, for an eternal existence in happiness or in misery; the redemption by Christ having added this incalculable burden to the original curse on Adam, that their bodies shall be raised from the dead to die a second death, which signifies living forever in torment

    31. The mischief commences only when men, as in our day, trained by science to larger conceptions, think earnestly of it


    32. It commences with the personal ministry on earth; it closes with his personal coming to judgment at the end of the world


    33. ends and the rounding swell of the hips commences; where the skin,


    34. The sitting commences at two; it is now three, and I am to speak


    35. `Again, let us suppose that an employer is, say, thirty years of age when he commences business, and that he carries it on for twenty years


    36. Let us assume that he employs forty men more or less regularly during that period and that the average age of these men is also thirty years at the time the employer commences business


    37. struck, and that the trial commences at twelve


    38. may be arrived at by sitting before the concierge an hour or so before the representation commences


    39. In the case of a participation feature, it is similarly desirable that the current dividends or earnings on the common stock should be close to the figure at which the extra distribution on the senior issue commences


    40. The cardinal rule of the market analyst that losses should be cut short and profits safeguarded (by selling when a decline commences) leads in the direction of active trading

    41. With it, evil commences


    42. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he contents himself with the remark:—


    43. Beside, there is something essentially unclean about this diet and all flesh, and I began to see where housework commences, and whence the endeavor, which costs so much, to wear a tidy and respectable appearance each day, to keep the house sweet and free from all ill odors and sights


    44. Some Indian Ceres or Minerva must have been the inventor and bestower of it; and when the reign of poetry commences here, its leaves and string of nuts may be represented on our works of art


    45. [Note 14: Elvine, or Elvina, was not improbably the owner of the seductive feet apostrophized by the poet, since, in 1816, he wrote an ode, "To Her," which commences thus:


    46. The procession commences, but here the French horn, in the accompaniment of the recitative, does something wrong; and the director, with a shudder as if some catastrophe had occurred, raps with his stick on the stand


    47. Mime goes away, and a scene commences which is intended to be most poetical


    48. Groups of hills rise one above the other, covered with thick forest, which, at the period when our tale commences, had just begun to assume the first light green of spring


    49. Pinkney of the twenty-second, the Secretary commences, as he says, with much surprise, that Great Britain had not revoked her blockades, and that she had not sent a man of rank to replace Mr


    50. South of these hills commences another alluvial and secondary tract, extending on both sides of the river to Haddam, in Connecticut, where the river passes between mountains, and perhaps this region also was the bed of a lake











    1. the priest was now commencing the service


    2. The time was near for him to pass on, but he needed to tie up some loose ends before commencing his journey to the afterlife


    3. ” announced Jones, “They say the airlocks are refusing to open on Callisto station, so they are commencing cutting the doors open


    4. This caused many problems for SAP COIN Instructors, who did not have the time to toughen up the newly arrived members before commencing training


    5. The alternative is to remove all tooth fillings from cadavers prior to cremation commencing, but due to the time involved, it would raise the cost of cremation considerably


    6. “It is fitting that we have feasted before commencing with the more official portion of today’s activities, for this is a time of great contentment, and one is seldom more content than after feasting!”


    7. commencing the team‘s activities are:


    8. pirate, towering above me, his axe raised over his head and already commencing


    9. They were all surprised that; though Podo had been a nuisance to the commencing of the meeting, he brought up a very good point, indeed! They all looked at Apuna with expressions that told they distrusted him


    10. “As you all know,” Jo said commencing her story, “I was

    11. the rainbow, commencing with red and ending in violet,


    12. Valuables secured, we were set to swim across when our friend came back over the loudspeakers, "Dock 2 drain commencing," she said without warning, and suddenly the pumps came on and the water level began to drop


    13. called to do our Citizen Force Military Duty commencing that July


    14. the Witwatersrand commencing in February 1970


    15. tionlessness by not commencing work, nor can he attain to the state of


    16. It will be a mistake to think, however, that this stage is reached without commencing the


    17. does not achieve the state of actionlessness by just not commencing


    18. “Is that Evy talking again?” Guvney watched her parent ignore safety protocols, presuming IT's redundant safety features would catch any failures, while commencing the process of shutting down their Bubble State's power grid


    19. The complaint of humanity is as a roll of heaven’s artillery, commencing with low and threatening notes and increasing until the sound is sent from cloud to cloud and the lightning rends the air and earth


    20. “Hum! I can’t forget that incident in a hurry,” our mother would declare before commencing as we sat around her

    21. Snapping on a pair of rubber gloves, he exited the car and launched into an organized search, commencing in the garage, replacing every item he disturbed to its original place


    22. The part of Einstein's equation that dealt with time travel commencing when the


    23. In commencing a program like this, it is assumed that you’re reasonably fit


    24. What kind of notice would you require before commencing with the rearrangement of a Serbian’s bodily


    25. Still, I held off from commencing the final assault


    26. Occasional raindrops began spattering the pavement slabs, indecipherable on the tarmac of the street, the windscreen wipers of the Audi commencing by way of response


    27. In commencing a drawing, don't, as so many students do, start carelessly floundering about with your chalk or charcoal in the hope that something will turn up


    28. Commencing the next stage of the ritual, Master Joe lowered himself down to one knee and placed both hands on the ground


    29. (2) We shall now proceed to point out some such portions of Scripture as appear to fulfill the conditions just stated and required, commencing with the gospel of Matthew


    30. Human nature was commencing then the process of degradation, through which the spiritual would become materialised, and the divine be transmuted into the diabolical

    31. It is as if there were an Act of Parliament partitioning certain lands between a thousand of the people; commencing with a general statement of goodwill towards the whole company so designated for endowment, and with an expression of the desire and intention of the Queen and Parliament for an equal division between all the thousand; but distinctly providing, in words repeated again and again, that if any of the beneficiaries should commit robbery or murder, or disobey the Commissioners appointed to divide the land, they should on conviction be put to death, and so be shut out and cut off forever from their portion of the grant


    32. That every unregenerate being, who, having been born in sin, has died in sin, is destined to an endless existence in some degree of misery of body or mind, or both—an existence, the duration of which would be only commencing when it had lasted through a number of millenniums denoted by lines of figures as numerous as the vibrating beams of light which extend from all the suns and stars of the firmament into the infinite darkness—even if these innumerable lines of figures should be multiplied into each other,—this is a proposition which requires for its support something more solid than two or three disputed texts out of the English version of Matthew’s and Mark's gospels, and which nothing short of absolute demonstration ought to persuade any man to embrace as from God


    33. First, then, whether the question is to be put in jest or in earnest, let us come to an understanding about the nature of woman: Is she capable of sharing either wholly or partially in the actions of men, or not at all? And is the art of war one of those arts in which she can or can not share? That will be the best way of commencing the enquiry, and will probably lead to the fairest conclusion


    34. "And listen," she continued provokingly, commencing a verse of an old ballad in the same fashion


    35. Nothing deterred by the smallness of his audience, which, in truth, consisted only of the discontented scout, he raised his voice, commencing and ending the sacred song without accident or interruption of any kind


    36. Then, commencing a loud whistling noise, he rubbed them well all over their bodies for several minutes; then, undisturbed by the noisy crowd collected round the broken carriage, Ali quietly harnessed the pacified animals to the count's chariot, took the reins in his hands, and mounted the box, when to the utter astonishment of those who had witnessed the ungovernable spirit and maddened speed of the same horses, he was actually compelled to apply his whip in no very gentle manner before he could induce them to start; and even then all that could be obtained from the celebrated "dappled grays," now changed into a couple of dull, sluggish, stupid brutes, was a slow, pottering pace, kept up with so much difficulty that Madame de Villefort was more than two hours returning to her residence in the Faubourg St


    37. , although - even when there was anything to do - they now put in only six hours a day, commencing in the morning and leaving off at four, with an hour's interval for dinner between twelve and one


    38. The individual whose visual organs while the above was going on were at this juncture commencing to exhibit symptoms of animation was as astute if not astuter than any man living and anybody that conjectured the contrary would have found themselves pretty speedily in the wrong shop


    39. Wrestling-matches, in the different fashions of Cornwall and Devonshire, were seen here and there about the market-place; in one corner, there was a friendly bout at quarterstaff; and—what attracted most interest of all—on the platform of the pillory, already so noted in our pages, two masters of defence were commencing an exhibition with the buckler and broadsword


    40. Dimmesdale were heard commencing his discourse

    41. But, with a baby coming, the mill just commencing to pay and Tara depending on her for now of all times, she could not afford to be pushed back to her beginnings—not now money until the cotton came in in the fall


    42. But the “new era” commencing in 1927 involved at bottom the abandonment of the analytical approach; and while emphasis was still seemingly placed on facts and figures, these were manipulated by a sort of pseudo-analysis to support the delusions of the period


    43. Commencing September 30, 1977, the issue became callable at the option of the company at $30 per share, and the call price would decline each year until it reached $27


    44. Some of them struck me as singularly odd compounds of ardour and flatness; commencing in strong feeling, and concluding in the affected, wordy style that a schoolboy might use to a fancied, incorporeal sweetheart


    45. ‘And listen,’ she continued, provokingly, commencing a verse of an old ballad in the same fashion


    46. Before commencing, it is but fair to warn you that the story will sound somewhat hackneyed in your ears; but stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips


    47. We had gone scarcely a mile when I noticed that my thoat was commencing to stumble and stagger in a most pitiful manner, although we had not attempted to force them out of a walk since about noon of the preceding day


    48. The plaza was now commencing to fill with people going and coming upon the daily activities of their duties


    49. Kantos Kan accompanied him to act as guide, the green warriors commencing a thorough search of the palace for other Zodangans and for loot, and Dejah Thoris and I were left alone


    50. Was not hair commencing to grow upon his face? All the apes had hair upon theirs but the black men were entirely hairless, with very few exceptions






























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    Synonyms for "commence"

    begin commence get get down set about set out start start out lead off embark on start up originate issue set forth arise depart

    "commence" definitions

    take the first step or steps in carrying out an action


    set in motion, cause to start


    get off the ground