Sentence examples for been the first deadline from inspiring English sources

It may have been the first deadline she ever missed.

Tuesday is the first deadline for debtholders to say whether they would be willing to exchange their debt under terms easier for the airline to meet.

Last Thursday was the first deadline for prospective challengers to lodge challenges -- and post the $150,000 entry fee -- for the next running of the event.

So there was the first deadline: Halloween.

The negotiation process has taken place over months of diplomatic brinksmanship and this is the second deadline extension after the two sides failed to reach an agreement by a July 2014 target.

That might be the first firm deadline.

It is the first hard deadline offered by the Treasury and compounds the problems of a Congress already struggling to keep the government open past Monday, when much of it will run out of money.

The new policy statement will go into effect in February 2014, with 12 March of that year being the first application deadline affected.

But Brazil informed the consortium in 2001 that it would not be able to meet the first deadline, in part because funds were lacking.

The website — HealthCare.gov — will probably be more operational by the first deadline.

Diplomats from all sides have voiced readiness to stay in Lausanne through the Persian new year holiday, Nowruz, which begins next weekend, but western negotiators are reluctant to push the first deadline beyond the end of the month.