Sentence examples for first and ultimate from inspiring English sources

In this sense, it remains perhaps the first and ultimate detective story.

An eminent and ruthless food critic lies dying, struggling to pinpoint the one flavor from his youth that constitutes "the first and ultimate truth" of his life.

The promise is what makes "Oedipus Rex" the first and ultimate detective story, that of a man in simultaneous pursuit of an unknown criminal and his own identity.

Life-cycle performance of the ship structure is quantified in terms of the reliability with respect to first and ultimate failures and the system redundancy.

Appropriately called STAR MAPS and available soon for both Android and iPhones, Flagg says his creation is "the first and ultimate mobile tour guide to celebrity homes and addresses".

In moments of national crisis, the state -- holding monopoly on the legitimate use of force and the collective resources of the society -- is supposed to be the first and ultimate source of refuge, providing relief, rehabilitation, and rule of law in affected areas under its jurisdiction.

This leads us onto the third, and ultimate misdemeanour: hypocrisy.

I was then stunned when questions from the bench to my co-counsel David Boies, who argued the second and ultimate case, hinted that the court might make permanent its earlier decision to stop the recount temporarily.

First, inter-racial harmony; second, and ultimate state of non-communalism".

Remaining over water for less than 12 hours, the typhoon made its second and ultimate landfall in Fujian Province late on October 2.

In the seventh and ultimate round of the election, 30 states abstained - the highest number of abstentions in the history of AUC elections.