Sentence examples for a historical first from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a historical first" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used to describe an event, achievement, or occurrence that has never happened before in history. Example: The election of our first female president was a historical first for our country.
There are four films directed by women in competition, a historical first.
The British and American ambassadors in Cairo enjoy the confidence of the Brotherhood's leadership: a historical first.
But clearly, Mr Obama's accomplishments were given more play than those of Mr McCain, as everything he did was a historical first.
He also pointed to the recent visit of the Saudi King Abdullah to Jordan as a historical first and turning point for relations between the two countries.
The Russian ambassador, Sergey Lavrov, hailed the vote to put a time limit on sanctions as a historical first for the council.
Come Jan . 20 eggheads can celebrate a historical first: the first time a president, vice president and both spouses bring experience in higher education to the table.
The April 26th-27th meeting of the Fed's policy committee concluded with an historical first, as Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, welcomed journalists into the central bank's headquarters in Washington, DC for a press conference.
Ironicallyand this may be an historical first in American businessthe people who got rewarded for poor work were the people who performed it.
Like all the other stride-piano soloists of the teens and 1920s, Johnson has been lodged in a historical second tier, probably because he's not known for band music and didn't tour sufficiently.
But the two that seemed to cause the most ire among commentators were those of Chinese diver Qin Kai, who proposed to girlfriend and teammate He Zi as she collected her silver medal, and that of Brit Dean whott-Golding, who stuck a half-arsed A4 sign to his chest reading, "Can we get married now?" as his girlfriend Charlotte Dujardin bagged a historical third gold.
As such, the election of an African American male to the presidency of the United States, under the reality of this unique American experience, is or would not be any less of an event or "historical first" than the election of a middle class white woman as President of the United States.
