We recognize the first line of Abba's "Take a Chance on Me" and duly adopt the brace position, steadying ourselves for yet another mangling of yet another hit.
Based on the oxidative stress related free radical theory, the antioxidants are the first line of choice to take care of the stress.
We created our first line of shirts and took boxes to ComplexCon.
"Our job is to be the first line of defense, and we take that very seriously," James Green, the director of planetary science at NASA headquarters, said in an interview Friday after the Russian strike.
He accurately observes that this system failed in its role as the first line of defence against excessive risk taking and bank failure.
After the curtain rose, a young woman sang the first line of Sting's "Every Breath You Take" in a slow but powerful voice.
But projects like the wall -- vast but largely unseen, because they take the first line of defense away from the center of New Orleans -- are knitted into a single barrier.
Take the first line of the Twits, for example: "What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays" – written in 1980 but unerringly applicable to hipster fashion today.
If the reader has the patience to take the first line of the first stanza, then the first line of the second stanza, and then repeat the alternating process with the second, third and fourth lines of each, and so on, he or she will have no difficulty in writing out quite a different poem.
Take the first line of the entry: "Reich is popularly regarded as repetitive and minimalist, but in some works deviates from a purely minimalist style, which shows some connection to Minimalism and the work of Reich's visual artist friends such as Sol Lewitt and Richard Serra". Run that past me again!
