Sentence examples for first time recognised from inspiring English sources

ReprintsIn recent days, however, he has for the first time recognised his mistakes, apologising at length during a television interview.

One of the critics who saw Man and Superman there was Max Beerbohm, who for the first time recognised Shaw as an original playwright with "an instinct for the theatre".

The action plan is based on UN resolution 1325, a landmark agreement that for the first time recognised how conflict affected women and highlighted the key role they play in peace-building.

At the gathering the party agreed on a wide-ranging policy platform that for the first time recognised the rights of gay couples to marry (in America a party platform is a general statement of values rather than specific policy proposals).

Although it was largely ignored at the time, that study led to the 1988 Welfare Reform Act, which for the first time recognised a father's duty to support his children (and a mother's responsibility to find a job).What, then, does he think of the 1996 "welfare-to-work" reforms, which limit federal handouts to a lifetime total of five years?

"Previous UN resolutions have had hold-outs; and one of the successes of Rio+20 has been that Canada and the UK have for the first time recognised the universal right to water and sanitation respectively - so where the Brazilians have lost this agreement is a mystery".

But the court did for the first time recognise that a same-sex couple in a stable relationship constitutes "family life" in the same way that a heterosexual couple does.

It was the first time I recognised wonderful writing.

American Werewolf in London (1981 – John Landis) The scene set in Tottenham Court Road tube station was the first time I recognised a familiar location on celluloid, and it had a profound effect on me (as did the Jenny Agutter shower scene).

Then I looked at the angelic sleeve, the grasses and leaves, the palms, the Virgin's hair, which for the first time I recognised as another riverine braid straight out of a Leonardo drawing.

The 2011 census for the first time will recognise the Gypsies and Travellers of England and Wales.