Sentence examples for constitutes the first time from inspiring English sources

He has purged members of the country's traditional elite from government, concentrated his powers through referendums and embarked on a lavish social spending binge that, supporters in the barrios say, constitutes the first time a government has put them first.

Indeed, for many sites the services provided by these units constitutes the first time that formal health care services have been offered in a continuous manner in their area.

World soccer body FIFA's creation of a watchdog to monitor the living and working conditions of migrant labour employed on World Cup 2022-related consitestion sites constitutes the second time in a month that Qatar has been warned that it needs to demonstrate sincerity in its reform of the Gulf state's controversial labour system.

A1 Respite From Bronx Gunfire The seven days from March 29 to April 4 constitute the first time that a week has gone by without a reported shooting in the Bronx since the New York Police Department first began using a computerized system to measure crime by precinct, Mayor Bloomberg said.

Robert Joseph, the Bush administration's under secretary of state for arms control and international security, who is known as one of the administration's hawks, said in an interview on Saturday that President Ahmadinejad's claim constituted "the first time I've ever heard the Iranians admit" to have a significant effort on the advanced technology.

The five Stones recorded their contributions separately, in different studios at different times, but the track constituted the first time since 1992 that Wyman had recorded on the same song as his former bandmates.

Our results constitute the first time that a lensfree on-chip platform has successfully imaged fluorescent C. elegans samples.

That occasion constituted the first time in 20 years that Kwa-Zulu Natal has not recorded a single human death caused by rabies in a year.

Hence, the selection of an adaptive mutation introducing a functional splice site, and consequently the emergence of a novel intron which results in an in-frame deletion between the novel donor and previously described acceptor splice site constitutes the first-time alternative splicing has been associated with an adaptive gain-of-function in IAV.

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The present review constitutes for the first time an effort in furnishing a structured framework of these works, with the aim of helping future contributors to gain both insight and perspective on the subject.