At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.

At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.

At the very outset, he had to meet the formidable attack of the Normans ( led by Robert Guiscard and his son Bohemund ), who took Dyrrhachium and Corfu, and laid siege to Larissa in Thessaly ( see Battle of Dyrrhachium ).

At the series outset, the producers felt that his character would be too over-the-top for viewers and planned to drop him after his debut, but early test screenings showed that he was popular with the audience.

At the outset of the Second World War, Thomas was worried about conscription and referred to his ailment as " an unreliable lung ".

At the outset he was successful, taking Edinburgh and then defeating the only government army in Scotland at the Battle of Prestonpans.

At the outset of cognitive-behavioural therapy during the 1950s, hypnosis was used by early behaviour therapists such as Joseph Wolpe and also by early cognitive therapists such as Albert Ellis.

At the outset he was of the opinion that the question turned on a quibble of words.

At the outset of Jeanne d ' Arc's appearance, the English had nearly achieved their goal of a dual monarchy under English control and the French army had not achieved any major victories for a generation.

At the outset of World War I in 1914, the Bolsheviks opposed the war unlike most other socialist parties across Europe that supported their national governments.

At the outset, let me state that Buddhism is not atheistic as the term is ordinarily understood.

At the outset, it appeared that the new Pope was willing to negotiate with Henry V, who received the papal embassy at Strasbourg, and withdrew his support from the antipope he had proclaimed at Rome.

At the outset, he had to reckon with the presence of the powerful antipope Clement III in Rome, but a series of well-attended synods held in Rome, Amalfi, Benevento, and Troia supported him in renewed declarations against simony, Investiture Controversy, clerical marriages, and continued opposition to Emperor Henry IV.

At the outset he proposed a centralised approach to supplying the fleet.

At the outset of the trial, Raulston quoted Genesis and the Butler Act.

At the outset, Garfield's relationship with the newly inaugurated President was cool on both sides ; Grant refused a requested post office appointment which Garfield recommended ; Garfield, out of loyalty to his army commander, still harbored some resentment for Grant's dismissal of Rosecrans.

At the outset of the U. S. entry into World War I, then-Major General John J. Pershing promoted Patton to the rank of captain.

At the outset of the war, the French government ordered a blockade of the North German coasts, which the relatively small North German navy ( Norddeutsche Bundesmarine ) could do little to oppose.

At the outset of his reign, Commodus, age 18, inherited many of his father's senior advisers, notably Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus ( the second husband of Commodus's sister Lucilla ), his father-in-law Gaius Bruttius Praesens, Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio, and Aufidius Victorinus, who was Prefect of the City of Rome.

At the outset of World War II, the few G. 1s and D. XXIs of the Dutch Air Force were able to score a respectable number of victories against the Luftwaffe but many were destroyed on the ground before they could be used.

At the outset of the Football War, El Salvador enlisted the assistance of several American pilots with P-51 and F4U experience.

At the outset of World War I, Modigliani tried to enlist in the army but was refused because of his poor health.

At the outset, the troubadours were universally noblemen, sometimes of high rank and sometimes of low.

At the outset India's relations with Bangladesh could not have been stronger because of India's unalloyed support for independence and opposition against Pakistan in 1971.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

At the same time, the party's nominally socialist ideology faced a legitimacy crisis as it gradually adopted capitalist practices.

At various times governments indiscriminately granted authorization for privateering to a variety of ships, so much so that would-be pirates could easily operate under a veil of legitimacy.

At the same time the church became more tolerant of war in the defense of faith, espousing theories of the just war ; and liturgies were introduced which blessed a knight's sword, and a bath of chivalric purification. The first noted support for chivalric vocation, or the establishment of knightly class to ensure the sanctity and legitimacy of Christianity was written in 930 by Odo, abbot of Cluny in the Vita of St. Gerald of Aurillac, which argued that the sanctity of Christ and Christian doctrine can be demonstrated through the legitimate unsheathing of the “ sword against the enemy .” In the 11th century the concept of a " knight of Christ " ( miles Christi ) gained currency in France, Spain and Italy.

At the same time, corruption undermines the legitimacy of government and such democratic values as trust and tolerance.

* The success of the Intifada gave Arafat and his followers the confidence they needed to moderate their political programme: At the meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers in mid-November 1988, Arafat won a majority for the historic decision to recognise Israel's legitimacy ; to accept all the relevant UN resolutions going back to 29 November 1947 ; and to adopt the principle of a two-state solution.

At common law, a child born to the wife during a marriage is the husband's child under the " presumption of legitimacy ", and the husband is assigned complete rights, duties and obligations as to the child.

At the same time that vassalage ties tightened between samurai and shogun, the legitimacy of these ties were sorely tested.

At the onset of the war the United States did not recognize the legitimacy of the Confederate States and refused to establish a system that allowed for a formal prisoner and mail exchange.

At the nation-state level political legitimacy for political power is held by the representatives of national sovereignty.

At the other extreme, others ( mostly interested non-Ethiopians ) understand this as an expression of propaganda, attempting to connect the legitimacy of the state to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

At the familial kurultai called in 1222, the issue of Jochi's legitimacy was brought up by Chagatai.

At other times, the band council system has been used as an insider trading house where federal governments and corporate partners manipulate deals that have the appearance of legitimacy, when in fact they have only persuaded members of a momentarily non-representative band council.

At the end of the 8th century the popes definitely aspired to independence, and found a way to achieve it by allying with the Carolingian dynasty of the Franks: the Carolingians needed someone who could give legitimacy to a coup against the powerless Merovingian kings, while the popes needed military protection against the Lombards.

At the trial Camenisch refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of the court or cooperate with its procedures.

At best, it was a fraud, a spoof ; at worst, an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of anarchist practice, and cause readers to injure themselves.

At the time of the promulgation of the strictest versions of the maritime prohibitions, the Ming dynasty had lost control of much of China and it was unnecessary, and perhaps undesirable, for Japan to pursue official diplomatic relations with either of the Ming or the Qing governments while the issue of imperial legitimacy was unsettled.

" At the center of Canaanite religion was royal concern for religious and political legitimacy and the imposition of a divinely ordained legal structure, as well as peasant emphasis on fertility of the crops, flocks, and humans.

At this point, eager to regain their legitimacy, both Arbogast and Eugenius set off to claim Italy in support of their cause in April 393, and even so much as to threatening to turn the basilica at Milan into a stable for their horses in 394.