Local courts had already begun to impose such sentences, indicating that the reform process had begun to raise judges' awareness of the issue.

Kidnappings and massacres had begun to decrease in 2001.

Since 2000, however, life expectancy had begun to increase.

However, negotiations had not begun by the end of September.

The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them

Work on Line 5 had already begun on September 25, 2000.

The fire had begun in the afternoon hours and quickly spread.

Procedures had improved greatly over the years and the rapporteurs themselves had begun to refine them.

By this time, the violin had already begun to spread throughout Europe.

A process that had begun with the Enlightenment had now reached the point at which anything goes.

And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them

By this time flights of the third generation U.S. Apollo spacecraft had begun.

Work on these two lines had begun respectively in December 1999 and 2000.

Background and recording Throughout 1986, Carey had already begun writing music while in high school.

This consolidated the oligarchy which had begun to form as early as the 15th century.

Those sessions had begun in March 2005 and would continue until the end of 2005.

Accordingly, the report had begun in medias res, with the section on validity of reservations.

The Executive Director assured delegations that planning for the future had already begun in earnest.

But, already before the recent debt ceiling imbroglio, the dollar had begun to lose its luster.

Women had begun to be elected as village heads and to area councils and local government.

Cape Verde had begun the transition process towards graduation from the group of least developed countries.

Ukraine welcomed the adoption of the Convention against Corruption and had begun the process of ratification.

All CARICOM member States had concluded safeguards agreements with IAEA and the process of signing additional protocols had begun in the region.

Pre production had begun by April 2011, and principal photography began in London, England in July 2012.

By 1871, the New Brunswick parliament had begun to have substantial doubts about this system of education.

When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

Each time that tensions had begun to lessen, however, the two parties would again spiral into violence.

But, given falling demand for gas, Russia had already begun renegotiating contracts in Europe and giving customers discounts.

Flight testing of the engine had begun in June 1968, using a Boeing B 52E as a testbed.

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.

The Scientific and Technical Subcommittee had begun to consider an item on space system based disaster management support.

After reviewing the data, he noted that Africa had begun to receive the focused attention its circumstances warranted.

A year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, confidence in the United States financial system had been restored, and recovery had begun.

William joined the League of Augsburg in its war against France (begun earlier in 1688), where James had fled.

Owing to large repatriation movements, 2005 had begun with the smallest number of refugees in almost a quarter century.

The Russian Federation had also begun dialogue and consultations with Canada, France, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Italy and Poland.

The Committee's concluding comments had been widely disseminated and the Government had begun to take the necessary action to incorporate the Committee's recommendations into national policies.

When work had begun on construction of the separation wall, thousands of additional acres of Palestinian lands, natural resources and water had been destroyed and thousands more Palestinians had been displaced.

Heidelberg had just begun to install coal gas street lighting, so the new laboratory building was also supplied with gas.

Moreover, some States that had favoured model B have now begun to speak about an improved version of that model.

The National Action Plan, which identified the activities and strategic measures for improving gender equality, had begun to yield results.

The measures taken by the authorities in Riyadh at the national, regional and international levels had begun to bear fruit.

The recovery phase was already under way in some areas, and UNICEF had begun to plan for long term rehabilitation.

The Liberian people had begun the process of establishing democracy, accountability, good governance, respect for human rights and popular participation.

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia had also signed the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols and had begun the process of ratification.