So in the end, the Mafia was first understood not by G-men but by the bureaucrats at the federal government's Bureau of Narcotics, a precursor to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
In film, the potential of dramatic lighting and chiaroscuro effects was first understood by the German expressionist film-makers of the 20s.
The promising benefits of ENM technology can be best realized if the potential risks are first understood and then minimized in product and system designs.
What was first understood in the personal terms of local snapshots now has to be considered in the completely general terms of the cartographer.
The fundamental mechanical characteristics of the individual SMA elements were first understood via cyclic tests, and subsequently a comprehensive test programme on of four proof-of-concept connections with varying bolt dimensions and washer arrangements was conducted.
Take a look at how cosmic rays were first understood - and see how far our knowledge has come since then - with Simon Peeters, a senior lecturer in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sussex.
This was first understood from Percival Pott's 18th century epidemiological observation of scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps [ 1].
The concept of the 'genetic program' began to take on its real meaning in the mid-1960s, when the correspondence between the genes and the proteins, via the rule of the genetic code, was first understood.
The illness was first understood as any other, with recourse to a mix of biomedical and traditional treatments, the latter in particular responsible for significant use of family resources to secure traditional healers' intervention.
Their goal, de Santis says, is first to understand the link between Earth's crust and atmosphere.
