The phrase "advisers in the first" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to advisers in a primary or initial context, but without additional context, its meaning is ambiguous.
Example: "The advisers in the first round of interviews provided valuable insights."
Alternatives: "initial advisers" or "primary advisers".
Richard Reeves, his influential strategy adviser in the first two years of the coalition, was the most adamant.
One of the former officials was identified as Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser in the first Bush administration.
Clients may want to believe that they made the right choice of adviser in the first place, or will "cling to nurse, for fear of finding something worse".
It is no secret that she and Anthony Lake, the national security adviser in the first Clinton administration, didn't like each other.
She has repeatedly aligned herself with the most consistent realist in the Obama Administration: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who was deputy national-security adviser in the first Bush Administration and Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush.
Sullivan & Cromwell of New York was the top M. & A. adviser in the first three months of the year, according to Bloomberg News, after being hired by AT&T for its acquisition of BellSouth, the biggest deal of the year.
The strategy you have adopted as candidates is the same one that Democrats have used for decades without success (including in 1993, when I was a health policy adviser in the first Clinton administration).
The White House acknowledged today that the president and his senior advisers had been mining the veins of previous Republican administrations by soliciting advice from stalwarts of national security planning like Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser in the first Bush administration.
"The story of the past eight years is not mainly the pivot or the rebalance; it is the very substantial increases in Chinese capacities since 2008," said Jeffrey A. Bader, who helped formulate Mr. Obama's Asia strategy as his chief China adviser in the first term.
