Sentence examples for admitting the first from inspiring English sources

He was instrumental in admitting the first black applicant, Edith Irby, to the state's all-white medical school.

In 1948, after the collapse of its Detroit franchise, the NBL made history by admitting the first all-black team into an otherwise white professional league.

He also had been president of the California Institute of Technology, where he was instrumental in admitting the first women undergraduates.

Dr. Gottschalk demonstrated his own liberalism by admitting the first gay and lesbian students to rabbinical studies, in addition to performing the landmark ordination of Sally Priesand as a rabbi in 1972 in Cincinnati.

The Union now talks optimistically of admitting the first new members, most of whom would be from Eastern Europe, by 2004.Mr Chirac's euphoria was understandable, for transcripts of parts of the leaders' discussions, obtained by The Economist, show how close the meeting came to breaking down (see article).

Indeed, the likely date of the first round of enlargement keeps on slipping: supposedly it is 2002, but 2005 now looks a much more plausible date for admitting the first new countries, and even that could slip.That would be a great shame.

Cook, 28, admits the first time he went to Los Angeles he thought "it was a dump".

I admit, the first time I saw it, I was initially fooled too.

The candidate, Josephus tells us, is not admitted the first year.

Both Ben Cohen and Olly Barkley admitted the first half had cost England the chance of victory.

I'll admit the first words out of my mouth were defensive.