Sentence examples for belonging first from inspiring English sources

It has its roots in very real historical conceptions of women as property (belonging first to their fathers, then to their husbands), but nowadays some see it as a rare chance for the suitor to demonstrate respect and good breeding.

The honor of the promotion belonged "first and foremost" to the archdiocese, he added.

It belonged first to her mother, my grandmother, and hung in her bedroom.

Of late, dominance within the triad has belonged first to Novak Djokovic, then Rafael Nadal, and, very much lastly, Roger Federer.

These possessory tags subtly convey the message that culture belongs, first and foremost, to the rich, that artists serve at the behest of an elite privileged class.

Here belongs, first of all, the rabbit, whose real domestication was carried out from the 6th to the 10th century ce by French monks.

For example, some points that may seem distinctively Burkean, belonged first to Berkeley.

Reichenbach's probability implication is also a generalization of a deductive concept, but the concept generalized belongs first to an object language of events and their properties.

"Liverpool don't belong in seventh, eighth or ninth in the table.

Belonging at first to the Ptolemaic kingdom, it passed after 200 BCE to the Seleucids.

This creates a seamless, reusable flow of information between internal systems and those belonging to third parties.