at the start
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A third defendant, lawyer and former lawmaker Albert Ho, pleaded guilty at the start of the 24-day trial in January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
But consumers were still wary of buying things like clothing and home goods, and management said the latter category was at the start of “a multiyear journey” to get back on track.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
A third defendant, Albert Ho, pleaded guilty at the start of the trial, and all three face prison terms of up to 10 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Durham man tried to play at the start of the English summer, yet his only cricket in the run-up to the Ashes was a warm-up game against England Lions.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Maybe if we’d tackled it at the start, things would have played out differently, who knows?
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
