Sentence examples for survived first from inspiring English sources

Nothing, however, can quite prepare you for its hero, Lothar Berfelde, a transvestite and collector who, living for decades in East Berlin as "Charlotte von Mahlsdorf," survived first the Nazis, then the Stasi.

But Heywood, less directly associated with the ERM policy, survived, first as private secretary for the new chancellor, Ken Clarke, and then in an even more senior and sensitive Treasury role.

As the ripples of sunlight on the artificial lake began to soften and the shadows from the very real trees lengthened, Colin Whaley was relieved that the two-year, quarter-billion-pound project had survived first contact with the great British public.

Displaying a greater physicality at the breakdown, Gloucester soon took control, but their Pro12 opponents successfully survived first May's eye-catching break and then 10 minutes without the sin-binned Anton Bresler.

That could have been any of us at any theater in America.... Indeed they were, be it the three-month-old baby who miraculously survived, first, the tossed tear gas then the shootings and wild stampede as bodies scampered for their lives.

Eugenides survived second-novel syndrome, and so do most novelists, but some are felled by it.

** Eugenides survived second-novel syndrome, and so do most novelists, but some are felled by it.

And while she's traded in her violin for a piano, her love of music survived second grade purgatory.

After the seedlings survived, second-instar larvae of C. suppressalis were introduced to the plants.

As for the lower class, to the need for survival is fundamental: humans must survive first, and only then seek development.

The last surviving first world war veteran died in 2012.