Sentence examples for as the first man from inspiring English sources
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Zoroastrian tradition dislodged Yima as the first man, replacing him with the figure of Gayōmart.
As the first man to walk on another world, Mr Armstrong received the lion's share of the adulation.
That amount included a bonus for a special challenge as the first man or woman to finish the race.
An earlier version described Beckenbauer as the first man to win the World Cup as a player and a manager.
As the first man into the semifinals, Safin sat back and watched Sampras and Agassi rekindle their rivalry.
The manned space program might have had a better chance of firing a second stage if an approachable hero had returned to us as the First Man.
One of Bowdoin's most prominent alumni is the explorer Robert Peary (Class of 1877), credited in 1909 as the first man to reach the North Pole.
In 1957 the Soviets launched a multistage ballistic missile (later given the NATO designation SS-6 Sapwood) as well as the first man-made satellite, Sputnik.
On Nov. 12, 2014, the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter dropped a little lander named Philae down onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The robot made history as the first man-made object to have a controlled landing on a comet and was meant to help us uncover some of the secrets of our early solar system from 67P's icy core.
The contest, which was billed as the "First Man-Machine Poker Championship" and which offered prize money totaling $50,000, pitted two professionals, Phil Laak and Ali Eslami, against a program written by a team of artificial intelligence researchers from the University of Alberta.
