Sentence examples for secured for the first from inspiring English sources

This week, it secured for the first time a £350m ($550m) borrowing limit from the Treasury specially to develop its commercial arm.

Money has been secured for the first phase of the project, but the state Department of Health and Environment has estimated that it could take 20 years and more than $60 million to fill all the tunnels.

The first unit was scheduled to be online by June 2013, the second unit in 2014, and the third by 2017; initially a biomass supply had been secured for the first unit.

The four plants are expected to have a combined capacity of 1.63 million cubic metres per year, compared to a 2010 supply of 2.11 million cubic metre per year that is mainly from groundwater., funding had been secured for the first plant which is under construction thanks to a 250 million USD contribution from Danish development assistance.

(A successful suit to reclaim back-catalogue royalties means he is now financially secure for the first time in decades).

Despite polls suggesting that Harper would continue to head a minority government, he was able to secure for the first time a majority in the House of Commons, as the Conservatives won 166 seats.

After the war, beginning with a large exhibition in Vienna in 1947, Kokoschka was honoured with a series of exhibitions of his work in Zürich, London, Venice, and elsewhere throughout Europe and in the United States, and he became financially secure for the first time.

He secured, for instance, the first interview ever with Colette Bowe, a civil servant who shot to unwanted fame during a political scandal in 1986 known as the Westland affair.

It runs from Nov. 12 through to May 3. Cheryl Haines, Mr. Goldsworthy's San Francisco dealer, secured financing for the first spire and developed the idea for the show.

"This was a merit-based project that was open and transparent," said Mr. Scott, who helped secure $150,000 for the first phase of a harbor-deepening project in Charleston, his hometown.

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.