Sentence examples for ruling first from inspiring English sources

Azerbaijan's ruling first family, the Aliyevs, have a huge offshore business empire.

He also presumed that Justice Department officials would make their ruling first, as that is the way it had worked in the past.

Some officials have straddled the issue as effectively as Mr. Porricelli's home straddles the town line, ruling first that his residence was in Greenwich, then more recently that it was in Stamford.

The state courts have chipped away at municipal prerogatives, ruling first that beach towns could not exclude nonresidents, then that they could not charge nonresidents higher fees, and then that fees could not exceed actual maintenance costs.

In a ruling first reported by Newsday on Thursday, Justice Flug said that the foundation had formed a corporation to buy the property in 1987 and had built the current mosque, which opened in 1999.

He had spent a lifetime observing the business of ruling – first within Florence and then across Europe – and he knew only too well that the link between virtue and success was tenuous at best.

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The nightmare began again: the refusals, a second adjudicator ruling, a second slap with a second court appeal.

INSIDE PITCH The umpires reversed Lance Berkman's second-inning single, ruling that first baseman Jorge Cantu tagged him after a wide throw from shortstop Elvis Andrus.

The group behind the ads, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, sued, and in July won a federal court ruling on First Amendment grounds.

The patent office ruling was first reported Tuesday by Florian Müeller, a patent analyst and blogger based in Germany.