outset

Right from the outset Ireland has been resistant to its own parallel inquiry.

You would not — though a voice-over at the outset suggested it had something to do with two selves battling for control of a soul.

You would not — though a voiceover at the outset suggested it had something to do with two selves battling for control of a soul.

At the outset of the film’s narrative, Rickey is kindly asked to leave a grief support group that he’s all but taken over after the death of his father.

As I observed at the outset, I understand Leslie’s impulses implicitly.