Sentence examples for in the first instance is from inspiring English sources

Handling complaints efficiently in the first instance is the best way to prevent unnecessary escalation and wasted resources.

They believe that the author of the mistake in the first instance is the one who ought to take responsibility.

What I mean, in the first instance, is feel free to dispute or ignore everything in this introduction or in the articles that follow.

The task of the investigators in the first instance is "a job … of understanding the sounds, the alarms, the voices, to attribute the voices to different people," he added.

"The priority for the team in the first instance is establishing the facts such as the precise identities of those taken and what has actually happened to help Nigeria build a better picture".

"The priority for the team in the first instance is establishing the facts, such as the precise identities of those taken and what has actually happened, to help Nigeria build a better picture".

"Basically our force will in the first instance be a bridging force, before the African force is fully operational, and after that … we will support the African force," he told reporters.

Caltech's offer to me in the first instance was a one-year "visiting" appointment.

Instead, he said he would in the first instance be "writing tomorrow [Weds] morning to Wikipedia.

"We recommend that new grammars in the first instance are exclusively focused on the needs of white working-class children".

"The intention in the first instance was them to find something incriminating that they could blackmail me with," he said.