Sentence examples for first peculiar from inspiring English sources

The first peculiar institution, of course, is the caucusing itself, the kick-off in a four-step process of electing delegates that leads from the neighborhood firehouse or school gym to a county convention, a district convention, and the state convention that finally elects the delegates to the national convention.

Maruyama et al. (2011) found the first peculiar "cusp" signatures at virtual altitudes of 200 300 km on the ionogram taken during 1458 15 1458 30 JST, but not during 1443 15 1443 30 JST (also see Liu and Sun, 2011).

"It's mind-boggling". This is not Greenfield's first peculiar campaign.

The first peculiar galaxy found was a worm-like object that does not look like a known type of galaxy.

But Iowa's real comparative advantage is its second peculiar institution, its redistricting law.

The second peculiar thing about the British media market sounds like the opposite of the first: it has an extraordinarily well-developed social-media culture.

Broadly speaking, there are two sets of causes of this strident polarisation, the first common to many advanced western democracies, the second peculiar to the United States.

A third peculiar aspect of the study by Sergent and Dehaene (2004) is that the T2 stimuli, of which participants had to rate the subjective visibility, were words.

There are broadly two justifications for a special law of insurance: first, the peculiar governance problems associated with insurance firms; and second, worries about unsophisticated consumers being duped by complicated and essential products.

In 1940, in the midst of the second world war, she became an organiser for Australia First, the peculiar pro-Japanese fascist outfit established by the writer PR "Inky" Stephensen.

At first, this peculiar little enclave, in the shadow of the giant Independence Plaza housing project, had a synthetic character, but the passage of time has gradually added the patina of age.