Those bones constituted the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton ever discovered.
Only 18 Europeans had survived the voyage, which constituted the first journey around the globe.
Its chosen ambassadors constituted the first and finest diplomatic service in Europe.
The six whites constituted the first batch of 2012 releases I have assembled.
A small aid shipment in May constituted the first humanitarian supplies to reach the besieged town since 2012.
The Gosudarstvennaya Duma, or state duma, however, constituted the first genuine attempt toward parliamentary government in Russia.
These shapes, drawn in the wet clay with a reed stylus or a pointed stick, constituted the first writing.
A 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia "probably constituted the first international attempt to provide in time of peace for the protection of prisoners of war".
The approximately half-hour Adagio, Fugue and Maenads' Dance from Hans Werner Henze's opera "The Bassarids" constituted the first half of the program, conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi.
As with other Vinci operas, it constituted the first setting of a libretto by Pietro Metastasio that went on to be used by many other composers.
Not everyone agrees about precisely what constituted the first real stand-alone water park, but many in the business credit Wet 'n Wild, opened in Orlando in 1977.
