Sentence examples for fulfill the first from inspiring English sources

As transit agencies struggle to keep fares low to fulfill the first mandate, they have to cut service.

"We can't fulfill the second part of our mandate if we can't fulfill the first," he said.

The most tragic was the failure in the early days after the invasion to fulfill the "first duty" of an occupying power: providing basic security.

Nicholas Kristof, a noble man and an extraordinary journalist, is able to fulfill the first half of Mr. Lippmann's counsel, one imagines, precisely because he observes the second.

For almost all such offenders, according to social science, sentences need be no longer than 10 years to fulfill the first three goals.

Though "American Tabloid" and "The Cold Six Thousand" may aim to fulfill the first book's promise to set straight "our continuing narrative line," they aren't entirely free of a certain kind of hagiography.

The Mets lost, 6-2, in a game in which they made far too many mistakes to fulfill the first-year manager Terry Collins's promise that this team would make fans marvel at how they played the game the right way.

If that belief were to vanish because the S.E.C. did a bad job on the first mandate, the commission would have no chance to fulfill the second one.

Libya has satisfied two conditions set down by the United Nations for lifting the sanctions and is expected to fulfill the third on Friday.

There was speculation throughout the season about whether he would fulfill the second year of a three-year contract with Mercedes next year.

When the courts ordered Aleksei Yashin to fulfill the fifth and final year of his contract with the Ottawa Senators last season, fans at the Corel Center took to jeering him, even though he played for the home team.