Sentence examples for first time rich from inspiring English sources

The pact marks the first time rich nations have used pledges of increased aid to back government bonds as a means of financing a major development program.

First, there's the march of the meat-eating Chinese — that is, the growing number of people in emerging economies who are, for the first time, rich enough to start eating like Westerners.

Jan van Dijk, a criminologist based at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, points out that in the 1950s and 1960s millions of people across the Western world acquired cars, televisions, record players, jewellery and so on for the first time; rich pickings for those who would steal them.

For the first time, rich concentrations of the element boron have been found in Isua's ancient marine rocks, study author Takeshi Kakegawa, a professor at Tohoku University in Japan, said Monday (June 9).

At the end of last year Eurostat announced that the average Spaniard was for the first time richer than his or her Italian counterpart.

This is by no means the first time Riches has made headlines.

But for the first time richer countries seem to have accepted their moral obligation to offer aid given their outsized contribution to the problem.

It was the height of the "Celtic Tiger" boom, which made Ireland, for the first time, a rich nation.

In Lima last month, bishops from every continent expressed their frustration with the stalled climate talks and, for the first time, urged rich countries to act.

In the meantime, Americans have a chance to see, in many cases for the first time, a rich body of work that has been waiting just next door.

The collection, seen here for the first time, is rich in exotic objects with exquisite granulation and vigorous shaping, occasionally brightened with colorful gems.