Sentence examples for in the first instance just from inspiring English sources
Objects are, in the first instance, just what are ordinarily called "objects"—tables, chairs, rocks, planets, stars, and human and animal bodies, among innumerable other things.
This would be like a physician with a headache, who experiences pain in the first instance just like ordinary folk and only subsequently applies medical terminology to the headache (Compare King, 1988).
"I guess I didn't have presence of mind in the first instance -- just fear -- but in the second episode, presence of mind took over and I just talked calmly to something that was a wild and beautiful creature".
"I'll be working with three highly-promising Glamorgan players in the first instance and just working with those three guys; not involved with first team or second team.
In the first instance, it's exhausting just thinking about it, especially when, like me, you're used to ambling around parks with a pushchair at no particular speed.
So in the first instance it will have just $2.9m extra the money it would have paid to the IMF to spend on health care, education and so forth.Some notably, America would have been happy to leave it at that.
He just shrugs: 'The Christian right had no business attaching themselves to dangerous art in the first instance.
In the first instance, inventories increase.
In the first instance, what followed was the Great Depression.
