The assertion that Israelis have a right to peace and security -- a first acknowledgment by the Arab world, in effect, of their collective humanity -- rings hollow, however, when juxtaposed with the league's indifference toward one of the most horrific Palestinian suicide bombings to date.
In a first public acknowledgment of the inquiry, Mr. Bodenheimer said in an interview, "It came and went quickly because there was nothing there".
Those statements -- each a first-time acknowledgment -- came at a hearing held by several State Assembly committees, where officials from Gov. George E. Pataki's administration testified under subpoena after declining to appear voluntarily.
It was the first acknowledgment of a scientific link between service in the gulf and a specific disease.
It was the first acknowledgment by a senior Western official that NATO planners had access to intelligence about Colonel Qaddafi's movements.
Syrian forces gave artillery and air cover to the operation, which marked the powerful militia's first acknowledgment of a widespread involvement in Syria's war that has has steadily taken on a regional, sectarian dimension over the past year.
other revenue sources to kick in". Among those revenue sources is the half-cent increase in the county's sales tax that Popejoy proposed Wednesday--his first acknowledgment that a tax increase might be necessary to close the county's budget gap.
His first acknowledgment came in a nationally televised interview with ESPN on Feb. 9 and the second in a news conference at the Yankees' spring training complex on Feb. 17. Afterward, Rodriguez was repeatedly asked when he would meet with investigators for Major League Baseball, who wanted to ask him about his drug use.
Dewey & LeBoeuf told employees Friday that the law firm might close and that they could lose their jobs, the first acknowledgment from management of a possible dissolution.
This man will lift up America," she told the Republican National Convention to a series of sustained ovations, capped by the emergence of Mitt Romney from behind the stage for a quick, chaste kiss and the nominee's first acknowledgment of the convention.
The shutting down of Mr. Jarrett's efforts had been previously reported, but Mr. Gonzales's comments Tuesday during a hearing on oversight of the Justice Department were the first acknowledgment of Mr. Bush's direct role.
