from the outset

English

Prepositional phrase

from the outset

  1. 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.