Sentence examples for first set forth from inspiring English sources

He was 6 when his father and uncle first set forth from Venice, intending to find trade in Russia.

This idea was first set forth by H. J. Muller, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist, in 1939, but it's a familiar process in the development of human technologies.

Objective correlative, literary theory first set forth by T.S. Eliot in the essay "Hamlet and His Problems" and published in The Sacred Wood (1920).

Dozens of citizens' groups, small political parties and the media are backing the idea, which was first set forth in a side agreement to the Dayton peace accords.

A rigorous proof, a notion first set forth by Euclid around 300 B.C., is a progression of logic, starting from assumptions and arriving at a conclusion.

Beginning in the 1930s, Marx's apocalyptic expectations were largely replaced by the less-violent but equally disquieting views of the English economist John Maynard Keynes, first set forth in his influential The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936).

She first sets forth a large body of social science research that reveals a widespread tendency among whites to convict black defendants in instances in which white defendants would be acquitted.

3 But let this suffice on this subject; we must now write about the events that belong to my theme, first setting forth the chronological scheme of our narrative.

Tsongkhapa first sets forth this mature philosophy linking dependent origination and emptiness in a special section at the end of his Great Exposition.

First, we set forth an analytic framework, grouping negative activism into three categories.

Beginning with "The Preservationist" (about a curmudgeonly Noah) and "Fallen" (a brilliantly intricate account of the Bible's first family, set forth in reverse chronology so that Cain and Abel's histories precede those of Adam and Eve), Mr. Maine has brought a startlingly contemporary tone to some of the world's best-known narratives.