1.   After a promising start, the campaign fizzled out in the summer when the full Co-operative Congress refused to back it.

2.   I went to the match on Tuesday and was a bit disappointed with it after the promising start at Man.

3.   The RAF made a promising start and kept up with the French until Sgt Pete Woodward mistimed his landing.

4.   Both partner horses whose careers took down turns after a promising start and now need to prove themselves again.

5.   As a young patrolman in the Los Angeles Police Department, Mark Fuhrman got off to a promising start.

6.   A promising start.

7.   A promising start to the Christmas shopping season helped retail shares advance.

8.   A promising start, certainly.

9.   After a promising start, the Americans were having a great deal of difficulty with the Australians.

10.   Advocates of changing the drug laws, in the Legislature and elsewhere, pronounced it a promising start for negotiations.