Sentence examples for because they were first from inspiring English sources

These colours were known to the Chinese as yangcai ("foreign colours") because they were first introduced from Europe (about 1685).

But we don't believe that companies have any ownership on a category or a genre just because they were first or more popular".

In the paraffin case, as in others, some of the biggest offenders walked off with no, or relatively small, fines because they were first in the door with information implicating less-involved conspirators.

For one thing, the spear tips that, for decades, were the oldest known human artifacts in North America — called Clovis points, because they were first discovered near Clovis, New Mexico — dated from about thirteen thousand years ago.

What the piece, a sort of two-person profile, adds to the ample Snowden canon is a thesis about not only the leaker but also his chronicler: that both became who they are because they were first "alienated, angry geeks".

All the uncles tell this story a bit differently, but according to Uncle Kiki, "they had to get a dispensation from the church to marry, because they were first cousins.

People who in the past may have felt immune because they were first-time offenders or of good standing within the community are now going to be in a position where they will have to pay the penalty for their actions.

While the Indian spies had similar functions to the local and surviving spies described by Sun Tzu, they were inherently different because they were third parties, paid as freelance spies.

Meanwhile, some rapists or murderers may have received sentences of less than 10 years -- simply because they were first-time offenders.

For example, the seventh-grade students in December 2011 were not surveyed in May 2013 because they were eighth-grade students at that time and, thus, they attended a different school.

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