Sentence examples for first samba from inspiring English sources

Founded by British expat Paul Davies, Embaixadores da Alegria is the first samba school devoted entirely to people with any kind of mental or physical disability.

It became the first samba to be given full marks in the show's history when the pair performed it for the first time in week 10.

The First Samba Cup, in Skanderborg, Denmark, from Oct. 10 to 19, intended to be the initiation of a new tournament series, saw four grandmasters tie for first place -- Peter Heine Nielsen and Curt Hansen of Denmark, Darmen Sadvakasov of Kazakhstan and Nigel Short of England.

Gil would later take these ideas back to Brazil, engaging with black-Brazilian politics and pioneering some of the first samba-reggae hybrids.

The performance led to a determination "to bring this awesome spectacle home to Liverpool and create the first Brazilian samba carnival in the UK," the Liverpool Carnival Company's spokesperson said.

The fourth Sushi Samba will open in Chicago in 2003; there are also two Manhattan locations.

SAMBA Carioca da Gema (79 Avenida Mem de Sá; 55-21-2221-0043, www.barcariocadagema.com.br) lays claim to being one of the first casas do samba to return to Lapa.

"First two dances, samba and cha-cha, I win.

DRESSED all in black, their silhouettes stark against the sparkling white ice, Meryl Davis and Charlie White, the only American ice dancing team to ever win the world championships, zoom around the rink, their bodies perfectly synchronized as they twirl, glide, step and spin, first to a samba and later to Strauss.

Hundreds of drummers donned their colors and played out Brazil's trademark beat, as athletes from over 200 countries tried out their first steps of samba.

And his third dance, the samba, was the worst score of week five But despite all that, each week our unlikely hero comfortably survived – thanks to viewers' votes which kept him out of the ignominious "dance-off" in which the judges decide between the two dancers who receive the lowest scores from the public.