Sentence examples for first to grant from inspiring English sources

Turkey refused at first to grant permission for dives to try to find the wreckage.

The state was the first to grant collective-bargaining rights to its public employees, back in 1959.

Ferdinand II of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was the first to grant one (Jan . 29 , 1848

Western states were among the first to grant women the right to vote; the small number of female residents meant that they were too important to ignore.

The state pioneered civil unions, becoming the first to grant them in 2000, but advocates of same-sex marriage have said civil unions are inadequate, and they are pressing for the further rights and recognition that such marriages could bestow.

Other presidents had plenty of photo ops with their birds – Ronald Reagan used Thanksgiving in 1987 to make a joke about pardoning a turkey in the midst of the Iran-contra affair – but President George Bush was the first to grant an official stay of execution, in his first year in office.

We reached out to Clarke's office, which at first declined to grant an interview.

If anything, he said, it almost grounded him, for the King at first refused to grant permission.

It was one of the first colleges to grant degrees to both men and women.

In 1959 Wisconsin became the first state to grant this right to public employees.

Wisconsin was the first state to grant collective bargaining rights to public employees.