In its merits brief, at 33-36, petitioner for the first time argues to this Court that the Board erred by concluding that the taking of the state-court defendants' depositions constituted an unfair labor practice.
After last year's debt-limit debacle, the ratings firm Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. government debt for the first time, arguing that the paralysis of Washington policymaking was posing new risks to investors in U.S. government bonds.
The Abu Ghraib scandal seems not to have chastened Cheney or any other Administration officials; in fact, they are for the first time arguing openly and explicitly that C.I.A. personnel should be exempt from standards that apply to every other American.
The Chinese military is poised to send submarines armed with nuclear missiles into the Pacific Ocean for the first time, arguing that new US weapons systems have so undermined Beijing's existing deterrent force that it has been left with no alternative.
Not for the first time, they argued that the backstop guarantee there should be no hard border posed a threat to Northern Ireland's place in the UK.
Tuesday night, speaking to the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, Trump argued that the wall was needed to resolve a security and humanitarian "crisis".
For the first time, they argue, the United States has been looking beyond the drugs issue in Colombia.
This week she held a post-mortem on the presidential campaign, conceding the word "defeat" for the first time, and arguing that the failure had been of communication and organisation, not substance.
Not for the first time, they argue that clever regulation of the financial sector can allow for a rise in borrowing to spur moderate growth, without the risks associated with this strategy.
Were a preemption challenge to the poison pill to be brought now for the first time, they argue, courts would likely look to whether the pill permits "tender offerors … a meaningful opportunity to successfully acquire the target and whether shareholders are given an opportunity to evaluate the merits of tender offers". This test, they posit, the pill would fail.
