Sentence examples for be either the first from inspiring English sources

The "insider" said: "Why would Christian Bale walk away from what is certainly going to be either the first or second highest grossing movie in the history of cinema?

The Weibo message from China Telecom also stated that China would be either "the first" or "one of the first" countries to get the new phones, based on Chinese phrasing that could be translated either way.

"They are beginning to appreciate that when countries emerge from this current economic crisis, China is likely to be either the first to emerge or right after the U.S., and that China will be one of the very few countries at the end of this crisis to emerge without having high levels of government debt".

Provenge is expected to be either the first or second cancer vaccine to reach the market.

I see no reason why a local derby should not be either the first or final game of the season, except that paranoid managers will spout their conspiracy theories.

However, in practical problems, the Markov chain (alpha(t)) is unobservable, even in the case of two regime environments, it may not be possible to identify the environment to be either the first or the second one.

This was about all that's certain: The Clippers will be either the second- or third-seeded team and will have home-court advantage, with their playoff opener coming Saturday or Sunday at Staples Center.

What it actually means is either the first word or the last word.

Depending on how that announcement is counted, Colorado's move is either the first or second significant domino in conference realignment.

Figure 6b shows the probability that, for a given top ranked score, the correct category is either the first or the second prediction (green), and its inverse, i.e., the probability that both predictions are incorrect (red).

The value of the userid is either the first argument (if it was a non-negative integer) of the submit call or else it is a positive integer unique only to this ParallelContext.