At Zsitvatorok another peace was negotiated with the Turks, who for the first time recognized Austria and the emperor as an equal partner.
In a unanimous decision last month, the justices for the first time recognized a constitutionally-based "ministerial exception" from laws concerning employment discrimination.
Two hundred years later, the city government put up banners for the first time recognizing the Tigers' trip to the World Series.
After Chávez won the election, his government did write a constitution that for the first time recognized the country's Afro-Caribbean and indigenous populations.
Mr. Richardson had a longstanding interest in Russia, and in 1970 he negotiated an agreement for Doubleday with the Soviet Union in which the Russians for the first time recognized the copyright of an American publisher.
Although the plight of the war generation single mothers was only one factor, in 1986 the government passed the Marriage and Family Law, which for the first time recognized single mothers and their children as legally legitimate.
In the golden afternoon light, I saw the famous plant for the first time, recognizing its heart-shaped leaves, narrow yellow tubular flowers, and the round brown pods that have given rise to one of its local names: priest's balls.
WASHINGTON — In what may be its most significant religious liberty decision in two decades, the Supreme Court on Wednesday for the first time recognized a "ministerial exception" to employment discrimination laws, saying that churches and other religious groups must be free to choose and dismiss their leaders without government interference.
Supporters of the deal say that it finally brings unity after longstanding division — between an underground Church loyal to the pope and an official church approved by the Chinese authorities — and that with it, the Chinese government has for the first time recognized the authority of the pope.
