Sentence examples for instituted the first from inspiring English sources
Charles I instituted the first cup race there in 1634.
Roosevelt passed the first campaign-finance reform and instituted the first big antitrust cases.
Great Britain in 1871 instituted the first competitive entrance examinations for the foreign service.
In 1965 Amsterdam instituted the first bicycle-sharing program, though it was poorly organized and largely a failure.
Through a series of edicts proclaimed between 1536 and 1544, King Francis I instituted the first systematic measures to police France.
Tired of buying bookshelves and anxious about the economic downturn, my wife recently instituted the First Law of Literary Thermodynamics, otherwise known as the conservation of libraries.
Aid cutbacks come as Afghanistan has instituted the second stage of its transition plan, taking over responsibility for security in 24 provinces or cities, areas accounting for half the country's population.
The prospect of serious, costly shortages is what led New Jersey, Maryland, New York City and other places to institute the first water restrictions long before largely unused snow shovels were stashed away.
Keating went on to institute the first Indonesia-Australia ministerial forum in 1994, to be held biennially, bringing together our foreign affairs, trade, immigration and environment ministers.
SACRAMENTO (AP) — State agencies scrambled Thursday to institute the first employee furloughs in California history, ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to save money in the face of a budget crisis.
He has also pledged to create 1.35 million jobs a year, spend millions to fight illiteracy, poverty and disease, and to institute the first coherent tax-collection system that Mexico has ever known.
