This of course is not the first time committed intellectuals have spoken in support of a movement of occupation.
He announced that he had sent several initiatives to the Mexican Congress that would, for the first time, commit his country to cooperate with and abide by the judgments of international human rights tribunals.
The bill, signed into law last October by President Bush, for the first time commits a single agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to investigate disasters involving buildings -- including the World Trade Center attack -- and gives it subpoena power.
International negotiators at the Lima climate change talks have agreed on a plan to fight global warming that would for the first time commit all countries to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions.
LE BOURGET, France — With the sudden bang of a gavel Saturday night, representatives of 195 nations reached a landmark accord that will, for the first time, commit nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off the most drastic effects of climate change.
Infanteriedivision was for the first time committed to battle at the Grebbeberg itself when two battalions of its 322.
"After nearly 20 years of dysfunction and paralysis, the administration has put a plan together that, for the first time, commits New York State budget funds to jump-start improvements to the Peace Bridge plaza," Ms. DeRosa said.
If he wins the referendum, Mr. Sharon will for the first time commit Likud -- a bulwark for the goal of a Greater Israel -- to evacuating some settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel occupied in the 1967 war.
Six years after the chaotic ending of the Copenhagen climate summit, the agreement now known as the Paris Agreement for the first time commits rich countries, rising economies and some of the poorest countries to work together to curb emissions.
The historic climate agreement reached outside Paris on Saturday for the first time commits virtually every nation to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
