Sentence examples for first contradicted from inspiring English sources

Figuring out the proposal's status was hard enough when the president first contradicted his administration's initial claims that it had already been rejected.

Having first contradicted Kafka in deciding that the charwoman employed by Gregor's parents did not dispose of their monstrous son, Estrin, like Gregor, is liberated to explore the implications of human intelligence trapped in a cracked carapace (remember the apple the appalled Papa Samsa throws so violently it permanently wounds his son?).

A recent Congressional Research Service report, which suggests the Treasury may not have the authority to pick and choose which obligations the United States can pay first, contradicts Meckler's reasoning.

These new observations first contradict the current statement that RON2 assembly and the so-called junction structuring in the host cell PM commit parasite to invasion [ 42, 49].

The Egyptian government and media outlets in Egypt said that the second statement contradicted the first -- and indicated that the council did not mean to criticize Egypt's claims about Qatar.

The RC t value of AG93, which at a first glance contradicted hypothesis number one, could therefore have another explanation.

His second task contradicts the first: No 10's instructions are to close down NHS trouble before the election: stop the noise, tell a good story, schmooze the staff, keep it off the headlines – all this with cuts beyond anything the NHS has ever known.

But he later issued a second statement, contradicting the first.

Obviously, the second statement contradicts the first, but this is sort of confusing stuff for any user.

In the second, he contradicted his earlier statements and said he was in the US of his own free will and rejected rumours about his defection.

On Monday a second nurse contradicted key testimony from a corrections officer about which department wanted to move Dungay from his cell.