Moments later, the contest begins and all the competitors met at the starting line.
There was the preparation for the attack, a concentration of troops, an assembly point and a starting line and all the apparatus of regular and irregular warfare.
We call this the starting line principle.
We now have four new schemes on the starting line.
In this case we are going to set a single starting line, but not necessarily a single finishing line.
They will certainly not be joining the starting line-up.
One had instructions about getting up in the morning, having breakfast and crossing the starting line.
We have reneged on a vital promise, to put all the candidates at the same starting line.
