Sentence examples for First bellwether from inspiring English sources

Mr. Beltratti said that banks would be the first bellwether of trouble in the case of growing jitters about the euro, and that Intesa Sanpaolo had been "very careful" from the point of view of liquidity and capital.

The day before he spoke, managers at a big private-equity fund based in New York were muttering in their Monday morning meeting that such loans were becoming harder to come by.That leaves a third bellwether for the buy-out market.

Second, bellwether central banks such as the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are tilting toward higher policy rates.

That makes Oracle the first technology bellwether to provide insight into corporate spending since the Nov. 6 re-election of President Obama and negotiations to avoid a fiscal crisis began to heat up in Washington.

The verdict was rendered Tuesday in the first Xarelto bellwether case to reach a Pennsylvania state court, whose jury decided after almost one month of proceedings that warnings from manufacturers Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson and Bayerr of the drug's risks for internal bleeding were inadequate.

The government was not a defendant in this first of several "bellwether" trials.

It was the first so-called bellwether case in state courts, chosen by a judge to help predict the potential outcome of other lawsuits making similar claims.

The decision represents the second of three bellwether jury trials on this issue to end in Merck's favor.

A wall of trophies, a degree from the Naval Academy, 89 combat flight missions and one stunning House Democratic primary victory later, Ms. McGrath is growing more used to the sound of "yes," even as she moves to turn around the toughest "no's" yet, Republican voters in the suddenly bellwether Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky.

With four weeks left in its quarter, which ends Nov. 2, Dell became the second high-tech bellwether in two days to surprise Wall Street with an announcement that it expects to meet estimates, joining Cisco Systems, the networking company that issued its forecast Wednesday.

And the work in his first solo show at Bellwether is of a piece with his recent book "Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the C.I.A.'s Rendition Flights".