With the passage of the Mazeaud Law, in 1975, the government for the first time provided funds, facilities, time, and specialized coaching for the country's élite athletes.
For eccentric exercise the dynamometer has, for the first time, provided possibilities to elicit delay onset muscle soreness in shoulder muscles.
The new opinion, the officials said, for the first time provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures.
Wetlands were particularly threatened, and in 1971 Hoffmann helped set up the Ramsar Convention, named after the Iranian city where the agreement was signed, which for the first time provided truly cross-border protection for wetlands and their wildlife.
The residency permit will allow Snowden to travel out of Russia for the first time, provided he does not stay outside the country for more than three months at a time, Kucherena said.
Spectroscopy from the Infrared Space Observatory ISO has for the first time provided the sensitivity to observe mid-infrared fine structure lines and PAH features in a wide range of luminous infrared galaxies.
The modified technique of tissue preparation used for this study allowed for observation of new nerve structure features and, for the first time, provided a complete view of the human corneal nerve architecture.
Instead, Western Australia for the first time provided an Australian prime minister (Labor's John Curtin, 1941 45) and returned Labor members to every seat in the House of Representatives in 1943.
A sort of haemorrhoid pillow that fools children into thinking they're being cuddled, the Poddle Pod has – for the first time – provided us with somewhere to put him down during the day.
In 1951 Salpeter showed how carbon atoms could be produced from helium atoms in the nuclear reactions deep within certain stars and for the first time provided an explanation for the origin of elements heavier than helium.
They also said that the new law for the first time provided a legal framework for much of the surveillance without warrants that was being conducted in secret by the National Security Agency and outside the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that is supposed to regulate the way the government can listen to the private communications of American citizens.
