Sentence examples for first satisfactory from inspiring English sources

Instead of choosing the best alternative possible, individuals actually choose the first satisfactory alternative they find.

The first satisfactory electrical blasting machine was invented by H. Julius Smith, an American, in 1878.

The strike against UPS brought, in the union's view, the first satisfactory labour outcome for several years.

In 1938 German-born physicist Hans Bethe proposed the first satisfactory theory of stellar energy generation based on the fusion of protons to form helium and heavier elements.

She set up a laboratory right after the New Year, and it took only four weeks of fumbling to make her first satisfactory print, the portrait of a nine-year-old girl named Annie Philpot.

There has been some rethinking of the at first satisfactory conclusions that many British immediately drew from the international currency drama that, with Bonn, now calling the tune in Europe, Britains prospects of being admitted to the Common Market were likely to be much improved.

A silver was a start, a second satisfactory - but a third was a sign that this career was stuck on silver.

Chilean nitrate was not at first considered satisfactory for the manufacture of black powder because it too readily absorbed moisture.

Not all substances that contain hydrogen, however, are acids, and the first really satisfactory definition of an acid was given by Justus von Liebig of Germany in 1838.

The first, less satisfactory approach is to prop up the banking system by using public funds to buy loans from banks for more than they are worth.

We face the problem by first computing satisfactory bounds for the cardinality, then by capitalizing on these bounds to determine a good probabilistic estimate for it.