Sentence examples for affair first from inspiring English sources

When news of the affair first surfaced last year, Mr. Ensign apologized to his constituents and resigned his position as the fourth-ranking Republican leader in the Senate.

The plot turns on an explosive affair (First Husband, anyone?) and a disaster in the Middle East, neither of which seems implausible.

The so-called submarines affair first surfaced more than two months ago, but was quickly overshadowed by two more conspicuous graft investigations.

He told the inquiry he had been distracted during the NightJack affair, first by an attempted political coup against Gordon Brown and later by the Iranian elections.

Had Cameron listened to those who urged him to show "strong leadership" by turfing Fox out when the Werritty affair first broke, he could have regretted it.

As he had experienced the Groer affair first hand from the beginning, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Groer's successor, has become an excellent crisis manager.

When war restarted, the Royal Navy was dispatched to retake Cape Town in 1806 – a bloodier affair second time around.

Davis, who entered Saturday's affair ninth-seeded, was his school's first athlete to advance to the CIF State Meet since Richard Erbes finished 10th in the 3,200-meter 3,200-meter.

Take the defeat-and-collapse theory of world affairs first.

Macmillan stated he intends to fight the election on domestic affairs first and foreign ones second.

Hu Jintao's career overseeing provincial affairs, first in Guizhou and then Tibet, sent mixed signals.