Sentence examples for as the first items from inspiring English sources

After the departure of the deportees, goods and livestock that were deemed "perishable" were prioritized as the first items that must be sold using public auctions, while the profits from these auctions were to be safeguarded under the entitlement of the owners.

Bercow says the debate will be held tomorrow, as the first item of business.

The USDA's MyPlate recommends choosing grain products with a whole grain as the first item in the ingredient list or listing whole grain as the first item and containing no added sugars.

I think that's the only time I've seen the QEII as the first item on BBC news".

That is why I decided to publish the MP's questions as the first item in the parliamentary column in yesterday's edition of Private Eye.

A spokesman for Hunt told Guardian Australia he would be "honouring the election promise of introducing the carbon tax repeal as the first item of legislative business" when parliament resumes next week.

The corrections department annual report, covering youth and adult justice, has "reduce recidivism" as the first item on a list of goals for the next year, but its 2015-16 budget predicts an increase in the daily average youth detention population.

Drat - that's a lot of recycling bags I've contaminated, and now I have a coffee lid as the first item in my very own "pile of shame".

Grieve has dropped the more controversial aspect of the amendment when it was first drafted, which had stated that any motion put forward by a minority of 300 MPs from at least five parties – including 10 Tory MPs – should be debated as the first item in the Commons on the following day.

But none of Mr Rudd's changes matches the historical resonance of a statement he plans to make on February 13th: a formal apology to Australia's indigenous people for past injustices under European settlement.Mr Rudd is making sure the apology is heard far and wide: he has listed it as the first item of business in Parliament's new session in Canberra.

There is no disputing that Descartes characterizes the cogito as the "first item of knowledge [cognitione]" (Med. 3, AT 7 35); as the first "piece of knowledge [cognitio]" (Prin. 1 194, AT 8a:7).