Sentence examples for as a first statement from inspiring English sources

The former Canterbury stand-off, who has recently signed a three-year contract as a first statement of the City Reds' intent to launch a genuine top eight challenge next season, provided the final pass for tries from Luke Swain and Matty Smith, converted them both and added a penalty for a 14-4 half-time lead, with Rob Purdham supporting the burly centre Tony Clubb to score Quins' only points.

• Dealers said that many people buy an electric car — be it an $11,200 Zap Xebra Sedan or a $99,000 Tesla Roadster — as a second, statement-making vehicle.

[Update: The victim has been identified as 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr . Facebookissued a second statement clarifying that the shooting was uploaded by Stephens after the murder, not broadcast on Facebook Live.].

The subject may be begun in one part as usual but then proceed immediately in another as well, before the first statement has finished.

Write the hypothesis as the first statement and write "given" as the reason.

"As a first step," the statement said, "Dubai World intends to ask all providers of financing to Dubai World and Nakheel to 'standstill' and extend maturities until at least 30 May 2010".

The gesture told some of the story of Chelsea's utter dominance as they delivered a first proper statement of intent on a group they now lead.

Trump, whose very first statement as a Presidential candidate decried "rapists" whom Mexico "sends" over the border to the United States, struck the familiar law-and-order and anti-immigration themes of the campaign: the country has been suckered by wily foreign regimes; the "tough" people who can handle the problem have been handcuffed by politically correct élites.

Although it seems appealing to use only the first statement as a criterion for replication, we have to resist this route, as Griesemer [[ 19], p. S356] has pointed out: 'surely replication means more than just [non-zero parent-offspring] correlation'.

In a fateful hour, during his first statement as Prime Minister in 1940, Churchill told the House of Commons: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat".

The sequence follows a hierarchical and a logical order; for example, the first statement was regarded as the most important one, but other items were also deemed important.