Sentence examples for notorious first from inspiring English sources

In June last year, a White-throated Robin had the same effect on the Headland at Hartlepool (scene of the notorious First World War bombardment by German cruisers).

Ken Griffey Jr., their notorious first choice, snubbed them and then forced his old team, Seattle, to send him to Cincinnati, where his father is a coach.

As a BBC reënactment of the notorious first performance plays, boos and all, a quartet of veterans (Sally Silvers, Pat Catterson, Emily Coates, and Patricia Hoffbauer) do a little Nijinsky, a little Rainer, some slapstick.

She took her pen to the pages of a book on the Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann: "Who cares anyway?" On the first page of Anthony Burgess's 1980 novel, "Earthly Powers," above its notorious first sentence ("It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me"), she wrote, "That's when I stopped reading".

Here Lies Love tells the story of the Philippines' notorious First Lady Imelda Marcos, most famous for her extensive shoe collection at a time when her dictator husband, Ferdinand, presided over unprecedented famine in the country.

Nonetheless, Mr. Sarsgaard was happy to discuss the process of being cast on the series, and why its notorious first-season finale made him more eager to be involved with it.

She knew that women wouldn't stop doing housework once they joined the work force — rather they would return home each evening for the notorious "second shift".

With your icon leverage you might have helped convert Nike, the notorious third-world workplace abuser, but you didn't do causes that were not commercials.

Amendment V, the notorious Fifth, which forbids the taking of property — presumably including that of bondholders — without due process of law.

Accounts of the violence meted out to the suffragettes and their supporters, Holloway prison's notorious "second division" and horrific force – feeding of those on hunger strike – are not glossed over.

In 1963, having been exposed in Britain as the notorious "Third Man" in the Cambridge Spy Ring, Kim fled to Moscow, never again to set foot from behind the Iron Curtain.