Sentence examples for declared in the first from inspiring English sources

As Australia often won by an innings, and declared in the first innings on many occasions, Saggers only had 12 innings in his 17 first-class fixtures and was not out three times after his remaining partners had been dismissed.

As Australia often won by an innings, and declared in the first innings many times due to their batting strength, Toshack only had 12 innings in his 15 first-class fixtures, never batted in the second innings, and scored 78 runs at 8.66.

Buttler, who ended the summer early by taking a break for mental fatigue, made just 23 of England's 598 for nine declared in the first innings of the draw in Abu Dhabi last week.

"Australia made 527-7 declared in the first innings here last year but we got lucky with the overheads.

In the second Test at Adelaide, England had made a mammoth 551-6 declared in the first innings and victory looked impossible for us.

"The written word hasn't kept up with the age," Brown declared in the first line.

A failure to polish off the tail was also evident in the first Test of the series against India, when the tourists enjoyed a 10th-wicket stand of 111 in their first innings and recovered from 184-6 on the final day to reach the safety of 391-9 declared in the second innings of a drawn game at Trent Bridge.

The Byzantine emperor Justinian declared in the sixth century that "by natural law" air, running water, the sea and seashore were "common to all".

"The poem cannot live until it has been willing to die," Vernon Watkins declared in The Second Pressure on Poetry (Unicorn, X, Spring 1963, reproduced in The Prose of Vernon Watkins).

Regarding the last section, we are led to reflect on the era's amplification of the concepts of Christian bellum sacrum — "God wills it!" was the Crusader battle cry — and Islamic military jihad, waged "to uproot the unbelievers," as a Muslim leader declared in the twelfth century.

"He who has enough to satisfy his want," a philosopher declared in the fourteenth century, "and nevertheless ceaselessly labors to acquire riches, either to obtain a higher social position or that subsequently he may have enough to live without labor, or that his sons may become men of wealth and importance--all are incited by a damnable avarice, sensuality or pride".