Sentence examples for branches for the first from inspiring English sources

4. A single party now controls the executive and legislative branches, for the first time in Polish post-communist history.

Bank One's head of retail banking, Charles Scharf, says his bank has been adding branches for the first time in five years.

In January, after the election of Pat McCrory as governor, Republicans took control of both the executive and legislative branches for the first time since Reconstruction.

(After McCrory was elected in 2012, Republicans had complete control of the executive and legislative branches for the first time in more than 100 years).

Two years later, the DFL regained control of both houses, and with Governor Dayton in office, the party has same-party control of both the legislative and executive branches for the first time since 1990.

Matt also describes being a Samaritan as being a "sounding board" – the phrase reminds him of the day he walked into a Samaritans branch for the first time.

Then, in elections on Nov. 2, the Republicans lost control of the legislative branch for the first time in 80 years.

ASSEMBLY DEMOCRATS: The majority party in the Assembly, the Democrats were elated when the governor was elected, giving them a fellow Democrat in the executive branch for the first time in a dozen years.

In January the Democrats took control of the legislative branch for the first time in 80 years; on March 9 the death of Ms. Johnson, a Democrat, left it deadlocked 9 to 9 as the county struggles with a serious fiscal crisis.

And many here attribute the voter revolt of 1999, which gave the Democrats control of the legislative branch for the first time in 80 years, to anti-Gulotta sentiment.

Mr. Malloy will at least enjoy support in the capital: his party will control both houses of the state legislature and the executive branch for the first time in 20 years.