But sometimes it's better to go to war than it is to allow the Holocaust to develop a second time," asserted Graham, thus reducing the debate on Iran policy to a false choice between all-out war or a second Holocaust.
The first time she asserted herself, she says, was when she was 17 and told her parents she didn't want to go to university, she wanted to go to drama school and act.
"It's certainly possible that the president's declaration of the end of US combat involvement in Afghanistan will prompt courts for the first time to assert jurisdiction over lingering military detentions there," said Robert Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas.
China has long claimed them, and is now for the first time aggressively asserting that claim.
Next year, the number of smartphone subscriptions will exceed those for basic phones for the first time, Ericsson asserts.
Recently, the landscape changed: For the first time, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asserted that several wellness programs violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Back in 1995, Bill Clinton assured Americans that he was still relevant; this may be the first time a president asserted that he was still alive.
The case is the first time Mr. Picard has asserted that a supposed victim of the fraud got such preferential treatment that Mr. Madoff's misconduct should have been obvious.
