to begin with

"If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country then it wasn't very strong to begin with."

At the time, Rachel Kaser, a reporter at The Next Web, said: "People are annoyed by this update to the Skype app because it's fixing something that was never broken to begin with."

Evangelista said it's hard to prove that something has gone extinct if you didn't know it existed to begin with.

"I was not aware that I was going in there to play a killer to begin with, but it was delicious at the end of the day."

But for now, it’s a pretty big deal that they were able to get it off the ground to begin with, changing the landscape for what’s possible for women in sports and in the workplace.