• This will mark the formal end of his papacy and the beginning of the period of transition to his successor, due to be chosen next month.

    BBC: Pope Benedict XVI recalls joy and 'choppy waters'

  • It's exactly the same when people sign a declaration of peace, the Belfast Agreement when it was signed was not the end, it was the beginning of a long period of struggle which requires just as much determination from all of us to see it succeed and I believe there is a will there, certainly among the pro-agreement parties to make this succeed.

    BBC: News | BREAKFAST WITH FROST | Dr John Reid MP, Secretary for Northern Ireland

  • But this happened to coincide with the beginning of a long period of electoral oblivion for the Tories.

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  • At the beginning of the second period Cairns's break to five metres from the Connacht line was finished off by Paterson.

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  • This was the beginning of the legendary period of prodigious, radiant creativity.

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  • And Tkachov vowed at a public meeting that the government will "build... a new home for you in three to four months, before the beginning of the cold period, " according to the same report.

    CNN: July 9, 2012 -- Updated 0150 GMT (0950 HKT)

  • They spent the beginning of the second period encamped in Everton's half and two Drogba free-kicks came close to breaking the deadlock - the first picked up well by Howard, the second headed wide by Lampard.

    BBC: Chelsea 1-1 Everton (aet)

  • It's also worth chucking into the mix that the global average temperature variation between even the strongest El Nino event and the next ordinary year is a fraction of a degree Celsius - certainly less than the rise of about 0.6C that we've seen since the beginning of the study period, in 1950.

    BBC: Warm, wet - and warring?

  • They are almost reduced to the plan, but, through the remains of towns, of canals and roads, it is possible to observe the evolution of this interaction of cultures stage by stage, from the very beginning to the period of final decay, when the Eurasian route lost its importance and the towns their economical role.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • As soon as possible, but not later than the third year after the beginning of the transitional period, negotiations will take place to determine the final status of the West Bank and Gaza and its relationship with its neighbours and to conclude a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan by the end of the transitional period.

    BBC: The Camp David Accords of 1979

  • Some professionals are even predicting that we are just at the beginning of a really bad period for public finance.

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  • The intense international scrutiny may have moderated the response of the security forces for a brief period at the beginning of the riots in Tibet in March.

    ECONOMIST: The Beijing Olympics

  • For starters, the participants' sodium consumption was gauged by measuring the sodium content of their urine over just one 24-hour period at the beginning of the study.

    CNN: Huh? Low-salt diet ups risk of fatal heart attack?

  • Malaysia was selected as member of the committee for a period of four years beginning next year, together with eight other new members namely Algeria, Colombia, Germany, Japan, India, Serbia, Senegal and Qatar.

    UNESCO: Malaysia Elected to UNESCO World Heritage Committee

  • The order of private investigation covers a variety of matters for the period beginning January 1, 2007 including the antifraud provisions of the Federal securities laws.

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  • Everyone marvels at the growth of the Chinese economy in the reform era, the period beginning at the end of 1978.

    FORBES: The End of China��s One-Child Policy?

  • Mr Pastrana's public popularity was at its lowest since he came to office last August, and American officials had warned him that he was in danger of losing credibility in Washington too if he extended the period of demilitarisation without beginning formal negotiations.

    ECONOMIST: Colombians dream of peace

  • Today, with the flurry of announcements regarding media events over the next two weeks, the expected features and looks of the smartphones are beginning to feel very similar and reminiscent of the period when cell phones were commoditized.

    FORBES: Smartphones and Tablets: Racing Toward Commoditization

  • At the beginning of Mr Fry's period the Highlands were virtually a different nation from the Lowlands of Scotland.

    ECONOMIST: Scottish history

  • "My reading of the parliamentary election was that it was the beginning of a possible lame duck period for Ahmadinejad, " he says.

    NPR: Level of Iranian Support for Ahmadinejad Uncertain

  • Right at the beginning of the post-Prophetic period in the history of Islam and Muslims there was a fork on the road, and the manner in which the path to go ahead was chosen selecting Abu Bakr as the successor of the Prophet of God, Khalifat Rasul Allah, was burdened with grief and discontent.

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  • He was part of a 39-strong Royal Navy team which carried out a number of dives on sunken ships, including HMS Coventry, over a four-month period beginning in the autumn of 1982.

    BBC: HMS Coventry diver searched wreckage after ship sank

  • The proposal will be submitted to the Board of Health on June 12, which will mark the beginning of a three-month comment period before a vote.

    WSJ: New York City Plans To Restrict Big-Size Soda Sales

  • Kabuki is a Japanese traditional theatre form, which originated in the Edo period at the beginning of the seventeenth century and was particularly popular among townspeople.

    UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

  • Tens of thousands of Malaysia's 13.3 million registered voters lined up at schools and other voting centers Sunday to cast their ballots at the beginning of a 10-hour voting period.

    NPR: Voting Begins In Tight Malaysian National Election

  • Section 6532(a)(1) indicates that the mailing of the Notice of Claim Disallowance by certified or registered mail triggers the beginning of the two-year limitations period in which the taxpayer can bring a suit for refund.

    FORBES: When It Comes to the Two Year Statute - You are on Your Own

  • An experiment in rural Bangladesh provided men with the bus fare to Dhaka at the beginning of the lean season, the period between planting and the next harvest when there is little to do except sit around.

    ECONOMIST: Free exchange

  • The correlation between the dollar-yen exchange rate and the Nikkei a measure of how closely linked their movements are was 0.97 from mid-November to Feb. 1, but slipped to 0.70 for the period from the beginning of February through Wednesday.

    WSJ: Japanese Stock Rally Shifts To a New Gear

  • Rural farmers have now pressed the Bureau of Land Management to expend the public consultation period for the planned pipeline until the beginning of August.

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  • The statistics were collected from over 61, 000 Mplayit Facebook users over a two-week period beginning at the start of February.

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