Sentence examples for first handed over from inspiring English sources

Corpses were not at first handed over to families.

An adviser to Major General Nelson Cannon, deputy commander of the US detention programme said all US detainees were first handed over to Iraqi authorities before being freed.

It was there in 1980 that prime minister Margaret Thatcher first handed over the keys to a council tenant, sparking the right-to-buy revolution.

The clergyman's case first gained attention in March 2000, when he became the first person handed over by the United States to an international tribunal.

But decisions on which provinces will first be handed over to Afghan control have not yet been made, the official said.

Arrested in Texas in 1996, he fought extradition but finally became the first person handed over by the United States to an international tribunal.

First, he handed over his land to the state; he was soon followed by his stepfather and his friends, and then by the rest of the citizens.

In the first and third robberies, tellers handed over cash to the robber, the police said, but he left empty-handed in the second encounter.

A third body, bearing signs of multiple bullet wounds and beating, like the first two, was handed over later.

He called Sorkin his "first reader," and handed over chapters as soon as he finished them.

The kindling material for the first torch was handed over as a gift from the Chairman of the Greek Olympic Committee to Collins, for Princess Elizabeth.