Sentence examples for means in the first from inspiring English sources

That means, in the first instance, making sure that Ukraine does not collapse economically and financially".

"A ceasefire means in the first place halting the terrorists from strengthening their positions.

There is no clear sense of, or consensus on, what offensiveness means in the first place.

Rather, it makes more sense to see the new Bush administration as trying to rebuild the Gulf war coalition of George Bush senior.The main aim of the rebuilding is to tackle Saddam Hussein, which means in the first instance changing the sanctions regime.

That means in the first step, all the blocks are weighted equally.

We must clarify what convergence means in the first place and what it is that supposedly converges.

You start to feel that you won't score, but if you manage to create chances in the first half it means, in the second, you will have some".

The total number of the lacking links is 16 links that means in the third map remained only 10.53 percentages of all possible lacking links.

Thus, adjusted means were unbiased estimates of the genotypes' performances in the different environments, which allowed formulating a mixed model for adjusted means in the second stage.

Using the year-mean correction for adjusted means in the second stage (Approach 1b) produced a lower ρ-GP-CV, that, given the overlay of the clouds of predicted vs. observed values, seems to be more realistic.

The mystery: What did "virility" mean in the first place?