Sentence examples for sought for the first from inspiring English sources

Mitt Romney on Saturday explicitly sought for the first time to turn the Arab Spring into an issue in the United States presidential race.

The ruling generals sought for the first time to sell the public on the decision to dissolve the Brotherhood-led Parliament on the eve of the vote.

Mr. Giuliani's aides sought for the first time to set up a meeting between the mayor and state Conservative Party leaders.

Seeking meaning and purpose in their increasingly unsettled lives, many sought, for the first time, an emotional connection with their political leaders.

From these studies there emerged (1901 04) Ehrlich's well-known "side-chain" theory, in which he sought for the first time to correlate the chemical structure of a synthetic drug with its biological effects.

Here we sought for the first time to investigate how the functional neuroanatomy of executive control is modulated by performance variability in healthy subjects by using an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (ER-fMRI) design and a Go/No-go response inhibition paradigm.

With an affiliate of the parent Louis Dreyfus organization scheduled to occupy the second floor, tenants are being sought for the third and final floor.

William J. Bratton, the former New York City police commissioner, endorsed Mark Green's campaign for mayor yesterday, coming to Mr. Green's aid as he sought for the second time in a week to burnish his anticrime credentials in his campaign to succeed Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

In the months after the announcement that applications were being sought for the second group of NASA astronauts, Armstrong became more and more excited about the prospects of both the Apollo program and of investigating a new aeronautical environment.

Detailed environmental sampling of the home was not permitted by the first patient and was not sought for the second patient.

When longer-dated bonds were sought on Tuesday, the Bank failed to attract the amount of sellers it was seeking for the first time since QE was initiated in March 2009.