We began by declaring that all men are created equal.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

but when he passed us by, a musket roared, and he reared his horse, swung it around, and began to whip it back in the direction from which he had come.

The man began to creep in the wrong direction, deceived by a slight rise in the ground!!

As head of the firm Darling & Swartz, Mr. Darling began by challenging Brown & Sharpe to its keenest competition during the 1850's and early 60's.

Vernon was serviceable on the botanical field trips, but he could arrange no schedule with the cooks, and he was glad when the trips dropped off, and the botanists began to motor out by themselves.

So he paid a call on Barco in his cell and began their chat by stating bluntly:

The study of the radio emission of the moon and planets began with the detection of the thermal radiation of the moon at 1.25-cm wave length by Dicke and Beringer ( 1946 ).

The writer began this special class by explaining his background thinking for creating such a section in the first place.

instead they divided the surface into many bands or covered it by all-over patterns into which freehand drawing began to creep.

These were carried out not too faithfully by Filippo Costaggini, who began by supplying the missing member to the founder of Pennsylvania and noting in pencil, in Italian, that he `` began at this point ''.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

As the twenties grew older, and as radio broadcasts of baseball games began to involve more and more people daily in the doings of the professionals, the great hitters ( always led by Babe Ruth ) overshadowed the game so that pitchers were nearly of no account.

By winning operationally, strategically it could not keep up the momentum as the superiority of the Soviet Union's industrial base and economy began to take effect.

Colorado began the season on a high note, winning their opener on April 1, in a 2 – 1 comeback victory over the Cardinals.

In his sophomore season, Earnhardt, now with 20-year old Doug Richert as his crew chief, began the season winning the Busch Clash.

Earnhardt began the season by winning his Twin 125-mile qualifier race for the ninth straight year.

The first reformatory writings began the work of winning him over to the evangelical cause.

However, at 13 he began focusing his energy on reading and study, winning his first academic prize in midsummer 1809.

He began auspiciously, winning the first race of the season, the South African Grand Prix, and then led the third race, the Monaco Grand Prix until the very last turn of the last lap.

In the 1998 elections, the Latvian party structure began to consolidate with only six parties winning seats in the Saeima.

After the massacre and subsequent violence, Gandhi began to focus on winning complete self-government and control of all Indian government institutions, maturing soon into Swaraj or complete individual, spiritual, political independence.

Hope was restored in 1987 when, guided by rookie manager Tom Trebelhorn, the team began the year with a 13-game winning streak.

After shooting five short films one after another in three years and winning many awards consecutively, he began shooting his feature films.

He also became a fan of Mad magazine, and began spending long hours practicing his drawing talent, winning a competition at the age of eleven.

The Chargers then began a three game winning streak most notably beating the Ravens by more than any team has beat them this season.

The Padres ' 2007 season began April 3 in an away game against the San Francisco Giants, winning it 7 – 0 in front of a capacity crowd of 42, 773 at AT & T Park, defeating $ 126 million staff-ace Barry Zito in his Giants debut.

New York began the regular season by winning their first 10 games, and then went into a tailspin and lost three of their next four.

The primary season began with U. S. Senator Tom Harkin winning his native Iowa as expected.

As she matured, people commented on her beauty ; she began entering beauty pageants, winning the title of " Miss Richland " in Washington state in 1959.

The award winning ULTra PRT system began passenger trials at London Heathrow Airport, Terminal 5, in October 2010 and opened for full passenger service 22 hours a day, 7 days a week, in May 2011.

Davenport began her clay-court season by winning the tournament in Amelia Island, Florida.

Nancy also began at this time to show her skill at winning over critics.

According to the game, after winning the war with the aliens, the Confederation did not relinquish its naval power and began exploiting the resources of the outer worlds.

The year began with Häkkinen winning the first four of six rounds.

French-Canadian literature also began to attract a great deal of attention globally, with Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet winning the Prix Goncourt.

Their rivalry began to truly develop after Rafter shocked the tennis world by winning the 1997 US Open, a tournament that many expected Sampras to win, having won in 1995 and 1996.

Turcotte began his career in Toronto as a hot walker for E. P. Taylor's Windfields Farm in 1959, but he was soon wearing the silks and winning races.