Sentence examples for matters for the first from inspiring English sources

As for the President himself, his obsession with these matters for the first eight months of his Administration was, to be charitable, limited.

Further complicating matters, for the first time since the U.N.'s founding, in 1945, the American delegation had cancelled its reservation at the Waldorf.

Dinners at these ladies' favourite restaurants are granted on the proviso that: "We'll speak about general matters for the first five minutes and the rest of the time we'll speak about me".

Dining with a previous girlfriend, Terri Seymour, he says: "We'll speak about general matters for the first five minutes, and the rest of the time we'll speak about me".

It may even alter the politics of north Sudan in ways that, for now, are hard to imagine.It is also true that despite the government's restrictions on opposition campaigning, the Sudanese have been able to speak openly about political matters for the first time in years.

President Bush saluted that law, the Clean Air Act, and said it would "make the 1990's the era for clean air". During the 1988 campaign Mr. Bush often said he wanted to be known as "the environmental President". But critics say that while he took strong stands on environmental matters for the first two years of his administration, his approach changed in the midst of the recession.

Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency matters for the eighth circuit, granted the second stay, setting the stage for the full court to hear the case later on Wednesday.

Woodson, addressing the matter for the first time, said: "I elected to move on.

In the United States, natural resource management was made a federal matter for the first time under the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.

A government spokesman, Khieu Thavika, described the attack as a personal matter "for the first and second wife to resolve".

"I don't know where it's coming from, because I hired Warkentien," Walsh said, commenting on the matter for the first time.