Sentence examples for term for the first from inspiring English sources

Labor has won a historic victory in Victoria, defeating a government after a single term for the first time in almost 60 years.

This term, for the first time since the cap on tuition fees was tripled from £3,000 to £9,000 in 2012, almost all undergraduates will be paying top whack.

The darkening mood of American cinema didn't escape anyone's attention; critic Nino Frank's writeup in L'Ecran Français, using the term for the first time, finally gave film noir a name.

The savings clubs would be given "seed" funding of around one per child per term for the first year for all youngsters who want to join and take part.

He served out his full five-year term for the first time, but after the party lost to the Congress Party in the 2002 assembly elections, he left office.

The 2013 election was historic for being the first time the country had ever experienced the peaceful transition of power after a democratically elected government survived its full five-year term for the first time.

He also defines "bootlegging" in opposition to "drug dealing," explaining that the first is a white term for the second.

Caliphate is the term for the seventh-century Islamic empire that spanned the Middle East, spread to Southwest Asia, North Africa and Spain, then ended with the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258.

One new case assured the new session's status as an important term for the Fourth Amendment law of search and seizure, already the subject of three cases the justices had scheduled for argument during the coming weeks.

The sabbath, or sabbat, derived probably from the term for the seventh day used by the Jews, might be held on any day of the week, though Saturday was considered rare as being sacred to the Virgin Mary.

Though he only drew a sentence of six months of home detention from the embezzlement conviction, he now faces a stiff prison term for the second conviction and is cooperating with state and federal investigators to lower his sentence.