Sentence examples for on the first summit from inspiring English sources

It all looks so familiar: just like in 2012, a Team Sky leader has taken the yellow jersey on the first summit finish of the Tour and then swept his rivals from the board with a dramatic time-trial performance.

Schleck took 10 seconds on Contador on the first summit finish, at Morzine Avoriaz, but could not shake him when the race went over its longest climb so far, the Madeleine.

The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 gathered steam when hundreds of foreign journalists poured into Beijing to report on the first summit meeting between China and the Soviet Union since the end of the cold war and found themselves diverted by swelling crowds of demonstrators.

The North yielded to Mr. Chung's pleas to revise Hyundai Asan's agreement a week before the anniversary on Friday of the first summit meeting between the two Koreas, in which President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, issued a joint declaration in Pyongyang for reconciliation.

But not even that tiresomely blood-curdling threat could dampen relief among South Korean officials at the friendly outcome on May 14th of the first summit between their new president, Roh Moo-hyun, and America's George Bush.The two men still have their differences.

This potent eastern European populism is likely to be on full display when the European Union's members gather in Bratislava, the Slovak capital, on Friday for the first summit since Britain's Brexit vote.

As the prime minister of Japan, Junichiro Koizumi, prepares to travel to North Korea on Tuesday for the first summit meeting between the countries, speculation is rife here about what to expect from a meeting between Japan's iconoclastic leader and Asia's least predictable despot.

Friday's sixth stage begins in Sidmouth, with the riders taking in the 138km route to Hayter on Dartmoor for the first summit finish in the Tour's history.

On May 24 the first summit party, with Hunt and two Sherpas in support, reached the col.

ASEAN's impotency in these matters is reflected in its inability to reach consensus on sea disputes for the second summit in a row.

The NATO Response Force (NRF) was launched at the 2002 Prague summit on 21 November, the first summit in a former Comecon country.