Sentence examples for first acceded from inspiring English sources

Gandhi, the daughter of Indian independence leader and first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, first acceded to prime minister in 1966.

The real problem is not NAFTA and American subsidies, but Mexico's failure to adapt to trade liberalisation in general since the mid-1980s, when it first acceded to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

The State Department first acceded to an Indian request to accredit Khobragade — a mid-ranking consular official — to its permanent mission in New York under a higher-grade visa that affords full diplomatic immunity.

Going a bit further, the Comptroller's office released two previously undisclosed letters from 1993, the first acceding to a bank's request to hold a condominium for its own use and the second allowing the bank to rent it out when it was not needed.Each of these steps was innocuous.

After Cnut's death in 1035, Harold Harefoot, his elder son by his first wife, acceded to the English throne.

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention Against Torture clearly ban such behavior, and Cameroon has ratified the first instrument and acceded to the second.

The first move, acceding to the Electoral Commission's rewrite of the referendum question was, perhaps, inevitable.

Respondents from the capital, Riga, and its agglomeration (Pieriga) were among the first to accede to citizenship; respondents from other regions tend to be more recent citizens.

For the first collection, he acceded to the wishes of his publisher, which paid the estate a fee.

The San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which has a long and proud tradition of cameras in the courtroom, acceded first.

The country has long been a battleground for competing powers, and in the early nineteenth century it acceded to the Russian Empire, which it hoped would protect it against the Persians.