Sentence examples for grounds for the first from inspiring English sources

An A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds for the first time in the NHS's history, amid fears that its 500 patients a day are at what the medical regulator calls "serious risk" of suffering harm.

IN an unlikely location, behind the parking lot of a shopping center on Whalley Avenue in New Haven, the West River Fishway is enabling anadromous fish to swim upstream to their spawning grounds for the first time in more than 200 years.

This week, it really did happen, thanks to the Mets' Jose Reyes, albeit in less dramatic fashion: The fourth inning, I was still pitching good in the fourth inning... That's Arizona "ace" Zack Greinke, who told the truth on Monday after facing his old team, in his old stomping grounds for the first time since leaving LA.

The Giants won today, 7-2, completheirtheir first four-game sweep of the Mets since 1962, when the transplanted Giants returned to the Polo Grounds for the first time to play a four-game series against fthe expansion Mets, who had succeeded them and the Dodgers as New York's National League team.

"I mean, I remember when I was walking around the grounds for the first time.

Trying out skate tricks on new grounds for the first time can be nerve-racking, but skateboarder Micky Papa jumps right in, ready to go.

Last month Kevin McMahon, aged 25, was arrested inside the grounds for the second time in a week.

A large majority of those on the grounds for the third round of the tournament heeded the call to wear something pink in support of Amy Mickelson and to raise awareness for breast cancer research.

The oil crisis and productivity slowdown of the 1970s ended the first growth period and laid the grounds for the second.

Päts became acting president and was expected to prepare the ground for the first presidential election.

Ground for the first of two buildings was broken in 2006, and it now stands complete.