George Canon, supervisor of the town of Newcomb, praised the plan for recognizing "for the first time the economic impact that snowmobiling has on the communities of the Adirondacks".
"The truth is, thousands of people are involved in loving relationships and having them recognized for the first time," Mr. Ragone said.
What the Rio+20 agreement recognizes, for the first time on such an intergovernmental scale, is that sustainable development is not simply 'code' for an environmental action agenda.
PAGE A10 Japan's Royalty Admits Pain In admitting that Princess Masako was receiving therapy for depression and anxiety, Japan's monarchy publicly recognized for the first time something most take for granted: personal happiness.
A Tokyo court last week rejected a lawsuit for damages filed by the 180 Chinese but recognized for the first time that Japan had conducted biological warfare experiments in China during World War II.
Three years ago, the Supreme Court recognized for the first time that keeping a handgun at home is a fundamental constitutional right, prompting a wave of gun-rights litigation that has placed New York and other cities on the defensive.
However, years later, when Pocahontas makes her way to England, she witnesses — and Malick's camera registers — the scale of European achievements, and she recognizes, for the first time, that the raw settlers nonetheless carried the seed of such purposes with them to the New World, to flourish somehow, albeit differently, in that soil.
Those words come from Justice William O. Douglas's 1965 opinion for the Court in Griswold v. Connecticut, in which the Justices recognized for the first time a constitutional right to privacy, and ruled that a state could not deny married couples access to birth control.
She was forty-six when she gave birth to the last, and he was eighteen and on a weekend home from college when he recognized, for the first time in his life, what the sighs and the stirrings coming from his parents' bedroom on that Saturday morning actually signified.
