Dylan Thomas gave the first American reading of Under Milk Wood for the group and Samuel Beckett gave them permission for the first American production of All That Fall (1957).
In the last week, two of the biggest international relief agencies won permission for the first time from the Iranian government to ship food over the Iranian border into Afghanistan.
In 1794 95 he taught at the short-lived École Normale (later reestablished as the École Normale Supérieure), where he was given permission for the first time to lecture on the principles of descriptive geometry he had developed at Mézières.
Ministers have already delayed announcing permission for the first proposed new coal plant, at Kingsnorth, Kent, because of wrangling over the cost of CCS, said to have risen to between £750m and £1.5bn for the first trial alone.
However, earlier this month the FAA gave permission for the first commercial drone to fly over US soil to BP, the oil and gas multinational, and AeroVironment, a California-based drone manufacturer.
Between 1997 and 2005, during the mandate of the former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, when restrictions on art were temporarily relaxed, Alireza Samiazar, then head of the museum, struggled to secure permission for the first display of some of the works.
Contribute with Guardian Witness Lancashire council will decide on Tuesday whether to grant permission for the first new fracking sites in the UK in four years, amounting to a major expansion of shale gas industry.
Amazon has been granted planning permission for the first phase of its €1 billion data centre despite objections from a protestor who succeeded in stalling Apple's plans for a similar development in Athenry.
The decision to grant outline planning permission for the first phase of the new town - 10,000 new homes are planned by the end of the build - means developers Gallagher's could begin work in 2013 which would help to deal with the shortages of homes in the area.
Many observers think the upturn was directly related to the fact that in July 2008 China was given permission, for the first time, to take part in a "one-off" legal sale of 108 tonnes of ivory from four southern African countries – South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe – whose elephant populations were regarded at the time as relatively healthy and well-managed.
But though the legislative wheels have yet to start turning, the mood has already shifted.One sign of this shift came on January 23rd when the country's Food and Drug Administration FDAA) granted permission for the first clinical trial of a therapy based on human embryonic stem cells to Geron, a firm based in Menlo Park, California.
