Sentence examples for first countries to use from inspiring English sources

If ministers give the scheme the go-ahead the UK will be among the first countries to use UAVs to monitor its own citizens.

That is a significant commitment – one of the first countries to use coal for energy to commit to be one of the first to phase it out.

One of the first countries to use electric traction for main-line operations was Italy, where a system was inaugurated as early as 1902.

That's why the first countries to use it could eradicate polio early on," says Maher. "Once polio had been knocked out of some fairly large areas for good, that prompted health organisations to start thinking about global eradication.

One line that was scratched out of every copy of the report, but is just visible in originals by holding it up to the light at the right angle, argued that, should the United States be the first country to use nuclear weapons in war, it "might cause other nations to regard us as a nascent Germany".

"We have again and again said that we will not be the first country to use nuclear force," he said.

Australia issued a polymer $10 commemorative banknote in 1988 to mark its bicentenary and went on to become the first country to use solely polymer notes.

Advocates and experts say they believe that Zimbabwe is the first country to use international trade regulations devised to cut the costs of antiretroviral drugs for AIDS.

Recording cellphone conversations may be a technique more commonly used to fight terrorism than financial crime, but Britain would not be the first country to use taped cellphone conversations to support insider-trading cases.

And the first country to use them was Israel, in its 1982 clash with the Syrian Air Force in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, a battle commonly referred to as "the Bekaa Valley turkey shoot".

Despite lacking validity outside the lab setting, the P300 test and similar techniques, such as "brain fingerprinting", are admissible in some courts of law in the United States and in 2008, India became the first country to use the guilty knowledge test to convict someone of a crime.