Sentence examples for declaration the first from inspiring English sources

The drought declaration, the first for the state since 1991, comes after the driest California spring on record, with runoff in river basins that feed most reservoirs at 41percentt of average levels.

Under federal fisheries law, the formal declaration, the first since 1992 to come before the end of the fishing season, makes it possible for lawmakers from the two states to move forward in seeking up to $80 million in aid, an effort that has been stymied for lack of a declaration.

On Wednesday, Sept. 12, the newly formed National Council of Elders released the Greensboro Declaration, the first statement of the organization since its founding a month ago.

As a result, they do not receive a birth declaration – the first step towards receiving a child's birth certificate.

Armitage argued that the Declaration was the first in a new genre of declarations of independence that announced the creation of new states.

The declaration was the first major expression of the Netherlands' national self-consciousness.

Here, the mayor made an emergency declaration for the first time since the city's last blizzard, two years ago.

After the United States was attacked on 11 September 2001, Nato invoked Article 5, its mutual defense declaration, for the first time.

But let's be clear; getting some of these companies to even put their name to the declaration in the first place was no picnic.

That declaration was the first to drop the adjective British, and thereafter the official name of the organization became the Commonwealth of Nations, or simply the Commonwealth.

I am sure a braver person would have set 240 but I thought it was a fair declaration in the first game of a series".