from the outset
English
Prepositional phrase
- Synonym of from the jump
- 2004 March 3, Paul Foot, “In bed with the Tories”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 15 July 2022:
- On the central issue in foreign affairs—the Iraq war—these ministers have been in bed with the Tories from the outset.
- 2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport[2], archived from the original on 21 May 2022:
- Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.
- 2012 September 15, “The war in Syria: Death from the skies”, in The Economist[3], archived from the original on 10 March 2023:
- But unlike the intervention in Libya, where France and Britain took point and America “led from behind”, an intervention in Syria would have to be a mostly American affair, and as such it would be done with massive force from the outset.