Sentence examples for the earliest method from inspiring English sources

The earliest method for nominating candidates was the caucus, which was adopted in colonial times for local offices and continued into the 19th century for state and national offices.

Drilling and blasting was the earliest method of tunnel construction.

The earliest method for reconstructing daily keys was the "grill", based on the fact that the plugboard's connections exchanged only six pairs of letters, leaving fourteen letters unchanged.

The earliest method used to test the presence of anti-Stx-antibodies has been the standard neutralization assay (Stx-Nab), which is tedious and difficult to standardize.

Visual (qualitative) assessment of T2-weighted changes (hyperintense signal on T2-weighted images and atrophy) was the earliest method that demonstrated an association among hippocampal pathology and MR-detectable signal abnormality.

Ribotyping was the earliest method widely used[ 17], including the first report where genetic fingerprinting was able to link human and animal B. pseudomallei isolates to an environmental isolate from contaminated farm soil[ 16].

One of the earliest methods by which poems were categorized was that of rhyming syllable.

Mr. Coffer, 48, has for more than 20 years been practicing one of the earliest methods of photography and living the life that went with it.

Assaying by "touch" was one of the earliest methods employed to assess the quality of precious metals.

The earliest methods of communication at a distance made use of such media as smoke, fire, drums, and reflected rays of the Sun.

Raymond Pepi, president of Building Conservation Associates in Manhattan, said that the earliest methods were often used to analyze interior paint finishes in residential buildings and were derived from the work of art restorers, who often had to strip away successive layers of paint.