FROM THE BEGINNING

Beginning

Adverb: at the beginning, in the beginning; Noun: first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost; in limine; in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine.

Crosswords: FROM THE BEGINNING

We've had this day from the beginning, huh, Mickey? (Natural Born Killers; writing credit: David Veloz)

From the beginning you hated the Navy. (The Caine Mutiny; writing credit: Herman Wouk; Stanley Roberts)

For a story like that, you have to start from the beginning. (Vajont - La diga del disonore; writing credit: Pietro Calderoni; Renzo Martinelli)

It was an evil house from the beginning -- a house that was born bad. (The Haunting; writing credit: Shirley Jackson; Nelson Gidding)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (reference)

• The Shadow of God and the Hidden Imam: Religion, Political Order, and Societal Change in Shi'Ite Iran from the Beginning to 1890 (Center for Middle) (reference)

• The Practice of the Essence of the Sublime Heart Jewel, View, Meditation and Action: The Propitious Speech from the Beginning, Middle and End (reference)

• Thog Mtha Bar Gsum Du Dge Ba I Gtam Lta Sgom Spyod Gsum Nams Len Dam Pa I Snin Nor Zes Bya Ba Bzugs So/the Propitious Speech from the Beginning, middl (reference)

• Tale of the future, from the beginning to the present day : an annotated bibliography of those satires, ideal states, imaginary wars and invasions, coming catastrophes and end-of-the-world stories, political warnings and forecasts, inter-planetary voyages (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Travis Tritt: Greatest Hits - From the Beginning (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Then it was all a trick from the beginning. Credit: Library of Congress.

A question of labor. : This question is from first to last, from the beginning to the end, from skin to core and from core to skin again, a question of labor--James G. Blaine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

When a diagnosis of cancer is confirmed, it is best for your child to begin treatment at a center that has an experienced staff and the resources to apply the most effective form(s) of treatment right from the beginning. (references)

Business

Most products go to the industrial sector, hotels, and commercial buildings that have been designed from the beginning to include central air conditioning. (references)

All goods imported into New Zealand are liable for a Goods and Services Tax (GST). GST is an indirect tax imposed on each sale or supply of goods and services starting from the beginning of the production cycle and finishing with the sale to the final consumer. (references)

Nevertheless, it is recommended that attention is given to CHP plants, industrial co-generation and co-firing in coal plants as higher priorities in order to emphasize the most efficient use of indigenous renewable resources from the beginning of renewed efforts to promote and expand biomass energy applications. (references)

Civil Liberties

Chad

The Minister of Interior previously had banned the group in January 1998; however, from the beginning of 2000, the group increasingly was active, which resulted in the arrests in the Kanem. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

There is one employment condition, however: the center should employ, in Belgium, at least 10 employees within 2 years from the beginning of its activities. (references)

Ecuador

From the beginning of 1999 until June of 2000, new vehicle sales and automotive parts imports suffered a progressive reduction of 50-70 percent due to negative economic conditions. (references)

Political Economy

COLOMBIA

As of October 2001, the peso had depreciated only 4 percent from the beginning of the year, and depreciation expectations for the year-end vary between 7 percent and 8.3 percent, equal or slightly lower than expected inflation, which could actually result in the peso's revaluation in real terms. (references)

Trade

Finland

Tax rate on capital income and corporate income was raised from 28 percent to 29 percent from the beginning of year 2000. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

From the beginning

Expressions using "FROM THE BEGINNING": from the beginning to end ♦ from the beginning to the end. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

открай (from the beginning to end, from the end of). (various references)

Chinese 

一直 (all along, always, continuously, from the beginning of ... up to ...). (various references)

Danish

det ekstra koerebaneareal,som opstaar ved udvidelsen for anlaeg af et venstresvingsspor,skal fra udvidelsens start markeres i vejmidten som spaerreflade med en foranliggende,ensidig spaerrelinie (where the carriageway is widened to provide a left-turn lane(U.K.:right-turn lane)the extra road surface thus resulting should be marked from the beginning of the flare as a hatched area/ghost island/ with a continuous line at the approach to it). (various references)

Dutch

de bijkomende rijbaanoppervlakte die ontstaat door de verbreding noodzakelijk voor het aanleggen van een uitrijstrook voor linksafslaand verkeer moet vanaf het begin van de verbreding,in het midden van de weg,gemarkeerd zijn als verkeersvrije zone,aangedu (where the carriageway is widened to provide a left-turn lane(U.K.:right-turn lane)the extra road surface thus resulting should be marked from the beginning of the flare as a hatched area/ghost island/ with a continuous line at the approach to it). (various references)

French

dès le début. (various references)

German

von vorn, von anfang an. (various references)

Greek 

εξαρχής. (various references)

Hebrew 

מבראשית (ab initio, ab ovo), מראש (beforehand, in advance). (various references)

Hungarian

elölrõl (afresh). (various references)

Italian

daccapo (again, once more, over again). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �から , 元より (from the first), 始めから . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あたまから, もとより (from the first), はじめから. (various references)

Pig Latin

omfray ethay eginningbay

Portuguese

via de mudança � esquerda:alargamento:espaço proibido � circulação:linha intransponível.A superfície do pavimento suplementar resultante da superfície necessária ao arranjo de uma via especial de ace (where the carriageway is widened to provide a left-turn lane(U.K.:right-turn lane)the extra road surface thus resulting should be marked from the beginning of the flare as a hatched area/ghost island/ with a continuous line at the approach to it). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

s početka (beginning: from the beginning), oduvek (beginning: from the beginning, immemorial: from time immemorial). (various references)

Spanish

la superficie suplementaria de la calzada que resulta cuando se ensancha la carretera para facilitar el giro a la izquierda debe ser señalizada desde su inicio como área no transitable con una li nea continua lateral (where the carriageway is widened to provide a left-turn lane(U.K.:right-turn lane)the extra road surface thus resulting should be marked from the beginning of the flare as a hatched area/ghost island/ with a continuous line at the approach to it). (various references)

Turkmen 

birbada. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: infringement.

-5 letters: befingering, brightening, frightening, neighboring, rebeginning, regimenting.