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 his legitimacy was disputed by his brother Afonso, and a brief civil war ensued.

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.

At least 70 new members entered the latter, with 20 seats going to Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip, 11 seats filled by women ( the highest number of votes went to one woman who spent years in Israeli jails for her role in the resistance ), four seats went to Christians, and one was filled by a Jewish-born convert to Islam, Uri Davis, the first Jewish-born person to be elected to the Revolutionary Council since its founding in 1958.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.

At the June 28, 1778, Battle of Monmouth, near Freehold, General George Washington's soldiers battled the British under Sir Henry Clinton, in the longest land battle of the American Revolutionary War.

At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, on April 19, 1775, a company of minutemen from Acton responded to the call to arms initiated by Paul Revere ( who rode with other riders, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, with Prescott the only one of the three who was able reach Acton itself ) and fought at the North Bridge in Concord as part of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

At the end of the Revolutionary War, Bayard ’ s property was confiscated by the Revolutionary Government of New Jersey.

At the Battle of Monmouth, an American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778 in Monmouth County, American General Charles Lee led the advance and initiated the first attack on the column's rear.

At the time of the Revolutionary War, a man named Capt.

At an early age, John Schell, Jr. became possessed of considerable means after his patriotic service in the U. S. Revolutionary War and his father's death in 1777.

At the start of the Revolutionary War, Hanover consisted of about 500 homes, most of which were built out of logs.

The most popular — though probably mythical — story regarding the reason the area was named Liberty was put forth by Mrs. Annie Craig in 1936: “ At the close of the Revolutionary war a religious meeting was being held at a church close to a spring near the present town of Liberty when the word came that Cornwallis had surrendered and the colonies had gained their independence.

At the time of the American Revolutionary War, Leonia was known as part of the English Neighborhood, a name that survives in neighboring Englewood.

At the beginning of 1801, during the French Revolutionary Wars, Britain's principal advantage over France was its naval superiority.

At the close of 1789, he returned to France, and then placed his services at the disposal of the French Revolutionary government.

George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America.

At the start of the Revolution of 1789, however, only the foundations and the grand portico had been finished ; the choir of the former church was demolished in 1797, but work was discontinued while debate simmered as to what purpose the eventual building might serve in Revolutionary France: a library, a public ballroom, and a marketplace were all suggested.

At the same time, he opposed Georges Danton and The Mountain, and rejected the creation of a Committee of Public Safety and Revolutionary Tribunal ( but abstained when the question of Marat's trial before the Tribunal was brought up by the Girondists ).

At age 15, after the American Revolutionary War, Tecumseh joined a band of Shawnee who were determined to stop the white invasion of their lands by attacking settlers ' flatboats traveling down the Ohio River from Pennsylvania.

At least five times between 1712 and 1782, Tecumseh's village was attacked by colonials and later American armies, as the Shawnee had allied with the British during the American Revolutionary War.

At sea, the British and French were bitter rivals ; the French aided the fledgling United States in the American Revolutionary War, but their strategic purpose was to capture territory in India and the West Indies -- which they did not achieve.

At the height of the Mao Zedong era, the music accelerated at the political level into " Revolutionary Music " leaning toward cult status and becoming mainstream under pro-Communist ideology.

At the close of the Revolutionary War, Samuel and Elisha Payne moved from Lebanon, Connecticut, to the town of Whitestone ( now Whitesboro, New York ), a few miles from Utica.

At the time of its formation, the Cambodian party was called Khmer People's Revolutionary Party.

At The Parting Of The Ways — A cartoon from the May, 1919 IWW periodical One Big Union, published in Revolutionary Radicalism, shows a worker ( representing the working class ) choosing between an AFL slogan ( A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work ) and an IWW slogan ( Abolition of the Wage System ). Anti-IWW cartoon from The American Employer, published 1913, with the Industrial Workers of the World organizing drive editorialized as " a volcano of hate stirred into active eruption at Akron, by alien hands, which pour into the crater the disturbing acids and alkalis of greed, class hatred and anarchy.