Sentence examples for characterized the first from inspiring English sources
Gone were the tight crosses and swift counters that characterized the first half.
The New Yorker, July 12 , 1969P. 69 LETTER FROM WASHINGTON about the blundering which has characterized the first 6 months of the Nixon Administration.
The convention got under way with speeches that were noticeably more partisan than those that characterized the first two days of the recent Republican event.
Mrs. Obama's press secretary, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, characterized the first lady's relationship with Ms. Goldman as that of a loyal client.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON about the blundering which has characterized the first 6 months of the Nixon Administration.
The most recent results of national polls show the Conservatives have broken free of the three-way deadlock that characterized the first half of the race and now enjoy a clear lead.
Parcells characterized the first-round draft choice as a nonentity -- the 16th-best college senior in the next draft.
An influential book with that title by the psychologists Lee Madigan and Nancy Gamble, published in 1991, characterized the "second rape" as "more devastating and despoiling than the first".
Sveum made it clear that the lackadaisical work habits and casual clubhouse atmosphere that characterized the fifth-place Cubs the last two seasons would not be tolerated.
The conductor Serge Koussevitzky characterized the Third as "the greatest symphony since Tchaikovsky's Sixth".
In place of the guerrilla-style armed struggle that had characterized the twentieth-century revolutions in non-western countries, the Iranians modeled a spontaneous nonviolent mass movement.
