Sentence examples for first time approved from inspiring English sources

In Maine, Minnesota and Maryland, voters for the first time approved marriage equality, which Warren said is part of liberalism's promise of equal opportunity and dignity for all people.

Not until the McCarran-Walter Act in 1952 did Congress crack open America's door slightly wider, maintaining the national-origins systems but for the first time approving minimum annual quotas for all countries.

A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration took a historic step last week when they recommended that the agency for the first time approve a drug that healthy people can take once a day to prevent H.I.V. infection.

It is seen as a marked shift in the court's stance; for the first time it approved a restriction on abortion without regard for a woman's health.

In Shenyang, the largest city in the northeast, delegates refused last year for the first time to approve a major government report, rejecting one on the judiciary.

In a 2008 ballot measure (before Mr Brown became governor for the second time), they approved $9 billion in bonds to fund just such a train.

Cassidy's petition also said for the first time that Claudia Williams approved of the cyronics plan.

Endorsing a set of common criminal penalties across the European Union for the first time, the European Parliament approved legislation that would impose jail sentences and fines on counterfeiters of drugs, toys and other goods in the 27-country bloc.

Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska and chairman of the Appropriations Committee, said it was hardly the first time that items approved by the House and Senate had been stripped from final bills to win approval.

Inhibitor structures show for the first time how clinically approved anti-influenza compounds interact with an NA of the human pathogen S. pneumoniae and give a rational explanation for their antibacterial effects.

The third-penny sales tax failed the first time but was approved in 1980 and was projected to raise $150 million over five years for city improvements.