Sentence examples for first weighs from inspiring English sources

The first weighs the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the measure passed by voters in California that ended the state's brief experiment with marriage equality; the second is a challenge to the exquisitely ill-named Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages even in states where they are legal.

The results suggest a "bottom-up" decision-making process, in which the ventral pallidum is part of a circuit that first weighs the reward and decides, then interacts with the higher-level, conscious regions later, if at all, Dr. Frith said.

Any right-thinking person — filmmaker and filmgoer — would do well to look at the nature of movie messages; Gus Van Sant said thoughtfully in our Tuesday story that whenever he includes an act of violence in one of his movies, he first weighs how it will land with a susceptible filmgoer.

DPClus first weighs each edge based on the common neighbors between its two proteins and further weighs nodes by their weighted degree.

MCODE first weighs every node based on their local neighborhood densities, and then selects seed nodes with high weights as initial clusters and augments these clusters by outward traversing from the seeds.

First, weigh the importance of the organic label.

When Mr. McCain first weighed in on the ruling last week, he reacted with muted disappointment.

It was another Thomas, Geraint, who first weighed in on the Armstrong controversy on Wednesday.

She entered the world head and forelegs first, weighing an unsurprising -- for a lamb -- 14.5 pounds.

But since he first weighed into the Israelis over last year's Gaza incursion, Erdogan's popularity ratings in the Arab world have soared and bilateral ties have shredded.

If individual investors are considering reducing their exposure to Europe, they should first weigh making smaller moves that can reduce risk without upsetting their overall asset allocation plans, strategists say.