Sentence examples for direction of first from inspiring English sources

But as Jeter retreated toward first, in the direction of first baseman Jose Offerman, Nomo threw the ball just as Offerman stepped out of Jeter's path.

Rodriguez and Jeter and Robinson Cano could concentrate on their offense knowing that if they threw the ball in the general direction of first base, Teixeira's supple hands would hold on to the ball.

In this paper, the search direction of first iteration is the subgradient direction, which is same as initial search direction in [9].

While mission for the brand's first publication, The Intercept, seems clear, with a heavy focus on national security reporting and media criticism, the overall direction of First Look remains opaque a year after Omidyar expressed his desire to build a new media and technology company.

However, a previous study [ 8] nonetheless attempted to identify evidence for discrimination in naïve males, and failed to see any under comparable conditions in courtship latency (no-choice), in direction of first courtship (choice), or in courtship intensity of manipulated females that could not mate (choice).

Deliver the ball by moving the index finger downwards over the ball, thus imparting overspin towards the direction of first slip or the point.

But Wiest and Pinkins, under the direction of first-timer Cynthia Nixon, give superb performances.

When Hales had 15 he skied Ravi Rampaul massively in the direction of third man.

With his momentum turning him in the direction of second, he threw toward the bag, seeing Zeile off the base.

Presently, from the direction of Sixth Avenue appeared a tall, sturdy young man who, too, surveyed the snowscape for a moment, then gazed upward and waved, to a window higher than Mr. Carson's thirty-fifth floor.

Because she was a novelist with important things to say about the direction of twentieth century fiction, because she was also a feminist with important things to say about the dominance of man, because she was, primarily, a great writer, Virginia Woolf's essays are nowhere to be found in the cemetery.