Sentence examples for first and afterwards from inspiring English sources

In war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat fights first and afterwards looks for victory.

And what I received from President Bush first, and afterwards from President Obama, was full support in diplomatic terms.

The simulation protocol was set in order to keep directly under control the theoretical values of sensitivity and specificity by simulating the survival times first, and afterwards the biomarker values conditional on time.

The up and down arrows denote the uplifts and subsidences immediately after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (first arrow) and afterwards (second arrow), respectively.

It is observed that as soon as the flow measurement is started, the pressure inside the burette reduces rapidly for first few seconds and afterwards it becomes constant.

In both groups we used the same SI of 50 cmH2O for 60 seconds and afterwards set the mPaw 3 cmhighergher than after lung injury.

For the LNS task, participants are presented with strings of numbers and letters at a rate of one item per second, and afterwards asked to repeat back the numbers in numerical order followed by the letters in alphabetical order.

Evidence is given that Co acac 3 is evaporated and adsorbed on carrier surface in a first step and afterwards decomposed during the microwave-plasma treatment in oxygen atmosphere.

Yet the Doctrine of Discovery prevails, he asserts, so long as the "principle has been asserted in the first instance, and afterwards sustained".

At his first PMQs – and afterwards - Cameron will note that Ed Miliband won fewer MPs and regular party members than his brother.

In prose full names are often given only on first occurrence and afterwards abbreviated to a single character.