Sentence examples for earliest significant from inspiring English sources

The earliest significant event was the inauguration of a national theatre in Warsaw in 1765.

Bronze spearheads closely followed the development of alloys hard enough to keep a cutting edge and represented, with the piercing ax, the earliest significant military application of bronze.

The copper mace head, yielding higher density and greater crushing power, represents one of the earliest significant uses of metal for other than ornamental purposes.

That was The New Yorker's London correspondent, Mollie Panter-Downes, writing in 1943 about the seventeen-year-old Princess Elizabeth — the earliest significant mention in our archive of the British monarch, who this weekend celebrates the Diamond Jubilee of her reign.

The earliest significant act of domestic internet censorship, in September 1996, was to shut down an online discussion forum at Peking University, "Untitled BBS", when nationalist students began agitating for demonstrations against Japan after a right-wing Japanese group had made a provocative display at the Senkaku, or Diaoyu, islands, Japan's claim to which China disputes.

Peirce's earliest significant attempt at an account of signs comes in his 1867 paper "On A New List of Categories" (W2.49 58).

After earlier significant layoffs, employment is stabilizing.

One of his early significant results closes a chapter on a long story that started in the 1970s.

Too often, an early significant symptom of a serious illness is ignored or quickly dismissed because the patient is a "hypochondriac".

The second room of the exhibit, devoted to a group of paintings from 1959 to 1960, shows Ms. Martin making early, significant formal innovations.

His one-man mission has since burgeoned into an organisation with 1,500 UK members, whose early significant successes included Gatwick airport's decision to ban piped music in public areas.