Sentence examples for kingdom first from inspiring English sources

Before opening Perla in March, Michael Toscano spent years in Mario Batali's kingdom, first as sous chef at Babbo and most recently as chef at Manzo.

When news of the former basketball star's trips to the "hermit kingdom" first broke in February, it was treated with the same wry amusement as the story of the discovery of a mythical "unicorn lair" in Pyongyang.

"Ocean's Kingdom," first performed in September, is as plodding as ever: four movements of static choreography by Mr. Martins, along with blandly sweeping music and a convoluted libretto by Mr. McCartney.

In 1990, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saudi officials agonized for days before permitting American and other foreign forces to enter the kingdom, first as a defensive force and then as the army of more than 500,000 troops that ultimately forced the Iraqi withdrawal.

In 1982, psychologist Peter Thompson of York University, United Kingdom, first noticed that when two objects of different contrast are moving at the same speed, people always say the higher contrast object is moving faster.

Q'uq'umatz greatly expanded the K'iche' kingdom, first from Pismachi' and later from Q'umarkaj.

Open image in new window Figure 4 The Elements of Botany, by John Lindley in 1847 and 1849 Open image in new window Figure 5 Phyto-Theology, by John H. Balfour in 1851 Open image in new window Figure 6 The Vegetable Kingdom (Third Edition), by John Lindley in 1853 Open image in new window Figure 7 Volume 1 of Chambers's Information for the People, by William and Robert Chambers in 1848.

It runs KAUST, the kingdom's first mixed-gender university.

The kingdom's first generation of female lawyers is providing women with access to the law.

This included the kingdom's first sovereign sukuk last May, worth 15 billion Saudi Riyals, or about $4 billion.

These terms emerged in 18th-century Britain, during the rule of Sir Robert Walpole, the island kingdom's first true prime minister.