Sentence examples for acted for the first from inspiring English sources

Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, has been equally confident: "The summit has generated, for the first time, commitments on emissions reductions from the world's two largest emitters, China and the US, and they have acted for the first time to produce proposals for action.

"The Commission has acted for the first time to curb the effect that European fish imports have on the long term viability of global fish stocks and the fight against illegal fishing," said Saskia Richartz from environmental campaign group Greenpeace.

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials.

When crying is prompted by this idea, the child sees it as a means to a further end, and acts for the first time on a desire (that is, with an end in view) (TV 197 8).

But when they acted together for the first time, she says she was bowled over: 'I was thinking, "Whatever you're doing is extraordinary," she remembers.

Congress as a body has begun to act properly for the first time in five years.

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are to act together for the first time in 13 years, in an animation of the Oscar Wilde story The Canterville Ghost.

Chemical mechanism acts only for the first layer of analyte in direct contact with metallic surface, when charge transfer between surface and adsorbate molecule can occur.

The festival focuses on European acts for the first two days and Dutch bands on the third.

See articleChina linked Bo Xilai, a fallen former member of the Politburo, to a criminal act for the first time.

State media reports of the trial implicate Bo in a criminal act for the first time, increasing the chances of him facing charges.