Sentence examples for focused first of all from inspiring English sources

"Putin is quite a pragmatic politician who is focused first of all on public relations and the mood of the people, so he won't touch Lenin".

So too was its "phenomenological" approach, derived from Heidegger, which focused first of all on the state of consciousness of historical actors and only then on the phenomena that their consciousness perceived.

The search strategy focused first of all on free-text words referring to (i) the TTM (e.g. 'transtheoretical'stageage of change'), (ii) target behavior change (e.g. 'diet', 'change'modification'on') and (iii) type or content of the intervention (e.g. 'counseling'clienteducationtion').

"Let's focus first of all on the performance today, let's not focus on any medication," said Wambui.

It focuses first of all on the role of the English language in the fulfillment of Bologna stated goals and, secondly, it analyses the methodological and pedagogical challenges derived from the objectives and guidelines established.

So let's begin with the continuous-time case and the complex exponentials that we want to deal with and focus, first of all, on what I refer to as the Eigenfunction property of this particular set of building blocks.

At the beginning, technical goals had been in focus: first of all, the successful demonstration that a large-scale antenna array consisting of autonomous stations is feasible.

As a solution most oncologists, even those with substantial trial involvement, focus first of all on the possible benefit to their immediate patient and not on the theoretical benefit of future patients.

For this, we focused our attention, first of all, on genes specifically upregulated in tumor compared to transgenic state, that encode components of the revealed EGF and IGF-2 pathways.

If we focus on delivery, first of all, we're not likely to be very good at it, and second, who will create the message?

And are minds sufficiently focused on rectifying this? "First of all, I'm 67, for heaven's sake, and I'm married to a charming and beautiful 66-year-old, and I would be delighted if she was the face of anything on television.