Sentence examples for earliest act of from inspiring English sources

"We've defined the point in evolution when the origin of internal fertilisation in all animals began and that's a really big step," said Long. "In terms of evolution, this is the very earliest act of copulation that we know of".

The earliest act of congress which conferred on the circuit courts of the United States general jurisdiction of suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, 'arising under the constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made or which shall be made under their authority,' was the act of March 3, 1875, c. 137 ( 18 Stat. 470).

But one of the earliest acts of this government, back in November 2010, was to extend the Atos contract for a further five years.

Afonso was persuaded to allow the assassination of Inês in 1355, and one of the earliest acts of Peter I as king was to take vengeance on her murderers.

The discovery throws into doubt the theory that the arrival of modern humans was solely responsible for the demise of the neanderthals, by outcompeting them for food or even engaging in the earliest acts of genocide.

But the early act of decisiveness didn't translate into rapid policy development.

In an early act of encouragement, his parents bought a piano to further his musical education.

Ryan recounted this early act of civil disobedience during a recent interview in a windowless 8ft by 8ft room in a high-security county jail in Portland, Oregon.

In the case of Guernica, we might view the 1937 bombing as an early act of terrorism and explore terrorism today.

The "negative selection" of Thomas Morus's student intake, says Mr Steffens, is "downright extreme".The plight of Turkish students has many causes, but they begin with an earlier act of negative selection, the "guest-worker" programme launched in the 1950s.

An early act of postmodern appropriation, "Innocence Unprotected" takes a curious cinematic artifact — the first Serbian talkie, also titled "Innocence Unprotected" and produced during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia by a Belgrade weightlifter and escape artist — and recontextualizes it as a mordant national epic.