Sentence examples for seldom the first from inspiring English sources

And yet, for all her consistency, Kerr was seldom the first American mentioned in the conversation about the No. 1 spot.

And they are seldom the first priority of an airline trying to get its fleet and employees where they belong so that flights can continue on schedule.

Britain, seldom the first to offer money for European projects, is the only country in the EU to have made a concrete pledge of €400m, while €500m is earmarked to come from the EU budget, leaving more than €2bn to be raised.

They can get you a first thing, what's meaningful for you, but they're seldom the first thing itself.

I'm seldom the first author and never the last, but along with the students, I am always the first to see the data, and when they have something important to say, I'm often the first to recognize it.

The earth isn't moving yet, but it seldom does the first time, does it?

Even though the performance started late, some latecomers in the darkened Metropolitan Opera House stood and argued about where they should be sitting, so that whole rows behind them could seldom see the first piece at all.

The kind of people who retreat to their two-room apartments or cluttered garages and emerge, two years later, with a better mousetrap are pathological optimists, and seldom have the first idea about politics.

Seldom has the first-past-the-post electoral system so clearly shown its flaws.

In 1959 the town's Gracie Fields had a hit with Little Donkey, possibly inspired by an inside- forward, and Dale have seldom left the fourth tier since.

Even if hung parliaments become more common, parliamentary arithmetic and political realities will seldom deliver the third party the "hinge" power to negotiate with two potential partners at Westminster.