Sentence examples for first time helped from inspiring English sources

FINANCIAL MARKETS The Hang Seng index closed above 14,000 for the first time, helped by an upgrade in Hong Kong's credit ratings by Standard & Poor's.

The defining moment for Venezuelan soccer came in 2007, when the country hosted the Copa América for the first time, helped by a $186 million investment from Chávez's government and a number of private companies.

Mr. Kanipak, the architect, told me that the threat of Mr. Erdogan's architectural intervention at Taksim "has for the first time helped to break down the walls of fear about opposing an autocratic state".

Not only were the soldiers calling in American naval fire and airstrikes themselves, the leaders of their elite unit for the first time helped plan the war game, taking on a role closer to equals than to junior partners.

Mr. Ziser, who was running for political office for the first time, helped campaign for Nevada's constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage and had hoped to use that network of voters to rally conservatives.

Like James Baldwin, who wrote that hearing Bessie Smith for the first time "helped to reconcile me to being a 'nigger,' " Wilson saw the moment as an epiphany: "a birth, a baptism, and a redemption all rolled up into one".

Moeen made 44 first time, helping add 96 for the first wicket, as well as bowling his off-spin tidily.

And the inclusion of all four major golf tournaments and the L.P.G.A. Tour — both for the first time — help make this edition the series's best ever.

Civil servants will for the first time help Britain's political parties to stitch together a post-election agreement if the general election results in a hung parliament.

Mr Okamoto says the proposed rules would for the first time help him to borrow from banks rather than from JA.

In November, Channel 5 aired MTV's music awards show, the EMAs, for the first time, helping to deliver a record UK TV audience for the event.