Sentence examples for first acknowledged in from inspiring English sources

In the mid-2000s, ESPN's appetite for programming was so voracious that the Justice Department looked into complaints that the network was engaging in anticompetitive practices — an inquiry that ESPN executives first acknowledged in recent interviews.

The FDA first acknowledged in 1977 that the overuse of antibiotics in healthy livestock for growth promotion and disease prevention was unsafe and could promote antibiotic resistant bacteria that could infect people.

Although the monoallelic mechanism of imprinting was first identified in 1984 [ 8], quantitative variance in expression of the two different alleles was only first acknowledged in 2002, in a small study where 6 of only 13 genes investigated showed allelic differences [ 9].

After a flush Germany turned a blind eye for years toward Greek budget fakery — according to a participant, representatives of all the member countries were present at a meeting in 2004 when the fraud was first acknowledged — Germany, in harder times, no longer wanted to cover the E.U.'s little secrets.

BASKETBALL gave Rick Pitino the new wrinkles that go with the first acknowledged failure in his career.

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary first acknowledged bibliotherapy in 1941, defining the term as "the employment of books and the reading of them in the treatment of nervous diseases", but according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it first popped up in print in 1920, in Christopher Morley's The Haunted Bookshop.

Since Target first acknowledged the problem in mid-December, when the stock was selling for nearly $64 a share, the price has fallen as low as $55.07.

She was first acknowledged by name in April 1996 as Debra McMichael, the real-life wife of Nitro announcer Steve "Mongo" McMichael, and soon began appearing regularly as a valet for her husband as he transitioned to competing as a wrestler.

Thus, the first acknowledged professional hockey team in the world was formed in the United States, in 1903, in Houghton, Michigan.

One of the first acknowledged black serial killers in the United States, Bird was arrested in 1947 after breaking into the home of Bertha and Beverly June Klundt and hacking them to death with an ax.

The first acknowledged incidence of cyberwar occurred in Estonia in 2007, when attackers launched a huge distributed denial of service attack against the Baltic nation's computer infrastructure.