Sentence examples for adopted in the first from inspiring English sources

Still, this week's measures were nowhere near as drastic as those adopted in the first weeks after the collapse of the twin towers.

This may not sound much, but it is an average; for some individuals the costs may be much greater.If removing the foreskin brings so many benefits, why was the custom adopted in the first place?

Portugal, whose presidency of the EU ends this month, would be wise to propose such a compromise as the least humiliating way to junk a policy that should never have been adopted in the first place.

(TVA and the Grass Roots: A Study in the Sociology of Formal Organization [1949].) That is to say, an organization's structures and processes tend to take on new meanings that are unrelated to the reasons they were adopted in the first place.

We are told early on that Sheba "was adopted in the first place out of white naïveté," and Zan grapples repeatedly with the question of what he, "a middle-aged white man," has a right to feel and think — and write — about race.

They use the methodology adopted in the first section.

It was interesting that this seemed to be the approach England adopted in the second innings to the prolific Steve Smith.

That guarantee, she said, was imported to America and adopted in the Second Amendment.

The accounting change will be adopted in the fourth quarter and be retroactive to Jan . 1to provide investors a clearer picture of financial results, Sunoco said.

When emphatic measures to improve the education and supervision of priests were adopted in the fourth Lateran Council, it was already too late in France.

The eagerly awaited revisions -- to be published, if adopted, in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, due in 2013 -- would be the first in a decade.