Sentence examples for sight for the first from inspiring English sources

Whether the committee could reach the finish line was very much in question, but at least it was in sight, for the first time in the nine weeks the group had been meeting.

It was a striking sight: for the first time, seven men and boys from homes with no electricity or running water, wearing traditional, flowing shalwar kameez, turbans and skullcaps and speaking through interpreters, came face to face with the crew-cut sergeant in dress blues who has admitted to storming his victims' homes and opening fire as they screamed for mercy.

Over the past few years, a string of HIV prevention research breakthroughs has put that ambitious goal within sight for the first time.

A mere US$25EUR2020) donation will allow Focus on Vision to deliver clear vision to a youngster in Africa or Asia, clear sight for the first time in his or her life.

When George Christie was a kid in California in the mid 1950s, he caught sight for the first time of a long-haired, denim-jacketed biker, and knew that life was for him.

"These last couple folks, they could get them if Obama leaned on them". But with fundamental reform of the health care system in plain sight for the first time in half a century, the president appears to be siding with those who see the Senate and its entrenched culture as too resistant to change.

That the winning points came at the free-throw line — a place where Marquette scored 11 of its final 13 points — was a welcome sight for the first-year coach Buzz Williams.

Three whip-smart siblings, Peter, Tilte and Hans, display an inherited talent for flimflammery when their dissembling mother and clergyman father (who display an unseemly fondness for Maseratis and mink coats) suspiciously drop from sight for the second time in two years.

During the 20th century and with anthropogenic activities being the primary cause, emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and the nitrogen deposition (ND) have increased sizeably with no levelling off of CO2 in sight for the second decade of the 21st century.

12.57pm GMT 33rd over: Australia 133-1 (Rogers 61, Doolan 1) Steyn has Doolan in his sights for the first time.

In 2016 koalas were sighted for the first time in decades at Mount Kembla, Wollongong and in Kosciuszko national park in New South Wales.