starting line

Several big figures in the party never made it to the starting line.

And as the government gets off the starting line with funding announcements, it will be acutely aware of calls for other whole-system reforms later on down the road.

Imagine being among a whole fleet of boats crowded together, each jockeying for the same place on the starting line at the same time.

She didn’t see the leaders after she left the starting line and finished nearly an hour behind the next-closest runner.

Even now, far removed from the days of high school and Division I running, I still wear the same gray, checker-patterned sports bra anytime I approach the starting line.