The agency tightened the existing standards for ozone and for the first time adopted a standard for small, sooty particles, a major component of smog.
Three weeks later, the Senate for the first time adopted a rule allowing two-thirds of the members to cut off debate and, soon after, declared war on Germany.
Following all Parliament's amendments, it has now for the first time adopted a proposal on these lines by a qualified majority.
Many of the late self-portraits, shown here in public for the first time, adopt Kitaj's preferred square format: "Square paintings, I don't know why, maybe there's a reason among the secrets of Kabbala," he commented.
Aaron Shmulewitz, a real estate lawyer who represents 200 co-op boards, said that besides the conventional applications, more and more boards are, for the first time, adopting a "decorating agreement," encompassing cabinet replacement, wallpapering and painting.
"I don't think the citizens of a state have a human right to be identified with its symbols," says Mordechai Kremnitzer, one of a group of Jewish Israelis who drafted a "Constitution by Consensus", which says Israel should for the first time adopt a constitution defining a "Jewish and democratic state".
Moreover, this paper applies three constraint handling techniques, which are factor-free penalty function based, to transform a constrained optimization problem into an unconstrained problem, and for the first time adopts the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm to search the solutions.
Therefore, we randomly select 300 first-time adopting companies from a subsample of firm-year observations from 2009 and 2010 with other provisions reporting under German GAAP.
That "George Eliot" should prefer the method of publication he now for the second time adopts may or may not be regrettable.
In early 1854, Know-Nothing candidates won citywide offices in Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Coming together as a formal political organization for the first time, they adopted the name the American Party and swept statewide offices in Massachusetts, Maryland, and other states.
We are clearly still not good enough".' This year, for the first time, New York City adopted the state's method of scoring and reporting standardized test scores, so that scores on city tests could be easily compared with those on state tests.
