Sentence examples for first to be captured from inspiring English sources

In the decades-long fight for autonomy by the Tuareg rebels, the town of Menaka in the east of the country has been on the front line, typically the first to be captured each time the separatists rise up against the central government.

The first to be captured, Yukawa, is believed to be 42.

All vessels entering or leaving the port were stopped, and as the town had no guard ship, its pilot boat was the first to be captured.

Having a lower seroprevalence in bats with the poorest BCS may be explained as an artifact of the nonrandom sampling (we sampled those bats that were first to be captured), by the limited sample, or it could suggest that NiV infection causes death in P. giganteus bats that are in poor physical condition.

Iraq and Afghanistan are hardly the first wars to be captured by documentary filmmakers, but a particular kind of documentary has arguably become the visual medium that defines those wars.

For an Oort cloud object to become a short-period comet, it would first have to be captured by the giant planets.

In addition, the reflecting tapetum lucidum in the back of the horse eye, gives the non-absorbed photons a second chance to be captured by the photoreceptors and thereby enhances sensitivity further [11].

First, regulators tend to be captured by the industry.

The United States Department of Agriculture is by no means the first such body to be captured by industry groups.

The first German spy to be captured was Carl Lody, "a really fine man" in the estimation of Vernon Kell, head of MI5.

The 1992 Nicaragua earthquake was the first tsunami earthquake to be captured on modern broadband seismic networks.