Sentence examples for earliest to recognize from inspiring English sources

Piddington was among the earliest to recognize that a cyclone wreaks most of its damage not through wind but through water, by means of the devastating wave that is known as a "storm surge".

The Hindu tradition is one of the earliest to recognize that human sexual orientation is diverse and not just heterosexual.

Neurosurgeons learn early to recognize the sound that a drill makes as it passes through each layer of the skull.

He was early to recognize the problem that inadequate housing in the city posed for people with AIDS.

In the interest of self-preservation, young people learn early to recognize the various cues that indicate ethnoreligious identity.

De Quincey was early to recognize Wordsworth's genius — early in his own life, early in the career of the great poet — which meant, by his inescapable logic, that he was already too late to do anything about it.

And he was also early to recognize that personal computers would become a commodity business like consumer electronics, and focused his company's efforts on squeezing costs out of the manufacturing process and passing the savings along to buyers.

Though his reputation has been tarnished since the stock market bubble burst in 2000, most economists still credit him with being early to recognize major turns in the economy and bold in his responses.

The cellular network was built and is operated by a unit of Western Wireless of Bellevue, Wash., whose executives were early to recognize the commercial potential of bypassing a precarious state-controlled communications network that showed few signs of modernization.

It was early to recognize technology as a possible link to economic growth.

During his career at Ziff-Davis, Hippeau was early to recognize the growth potential of online media.