Sentence examples for of first thing from inspiring English sources

Wherever Memphis goes, they will have to make it there without head coach Lionel Hollins, one of the most surprising victims of "First thing we get rid of the head coaches" uprising in the NBA this offseason.

At least for me, that's what I think of first thing.

I was just sitting here, waiting for the flush of first thing in the morning coffee to flood its way into my Grand Central nervous system, staring at the keyboard like a mournful baboon, when I suddenly realized that the keyboard is me.

I favour, as a practical policy, the putting of first things first.

But Archbishop Chaput went further, taking to the pages of First Things, a religious magazine, to explain his rationale.

"Clearly a lot of people in the Vatican like Obama," said Joseph Bottum, editor of First Things, a conservative religious magazine.

The first reason involves a point made by R.R. Reno, the editor of First Things, in a recent symposium on that religious journal's future.

He fiercely opposes abortion, and for five years, until 2010, he was editor in chief of First Things, a key opinion journal for religious conservatives.

"When an administrator comes in one of first things they have to do is stabilise the finances.

Take care of first things first.

That was sort of the first thing I noticed.