Sentence examples for the first certain from inspiring English sources

The first certain surviving work by him, a fragmentary fresco (1474) now in the museum at Città di Castello, shows a strong influence from Piero.

The first certain thing that emerges from the record, seen whole, is that the eleven-year-old Alice Liddell was not an improbable object of even a thoroughly unneurotic man's attentions.

The first certain occurrence of the name is as Parthava in the Bīsitūn inscription (c. 520 bc) of the Achaemenian king Darius I, but Parthava may be only a dialectal variation of the name Parsa (Persian).

The first certain written reference to the city is in the hieroglyphic tablets of Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, where it is listed among territories conquered by Thutmose III in 1490 bce.

Although local tradition dates many of the sites in the district to biblical times, the first certain historical mention of Dhamār is by the Arab geographer and philologist Yāqūt (1179 1229), who wrote of its fine public buildings and of the fertility of the surrounding countryside.

The first certain news of the Armada's advance reached Parma in Flanders the same day, and he at once began embarking his troops in their invasion craft, but the process required six days, and the Armada had no safe port in which to wait for him nor any means of escorting his small craft across the coastal shallows where Dutch and English warships cruised to intercept them.

Sixth, and bearing on the seventh, certain questions cannot remain unanswered if a diagnosis is to be made.

With trillions of pages online, the first option is clearly impossible – and the second certain to generate an immense amount of false positives (not to mention failing to block an equal number of undesirable sites).

Like Cassidy, Johnson filed affidavits in the New Jersey Supreme Court in this collateral proceeding following our decision in Escobedo, detailing for the first time certain supposed circumstances of his confession.

"We wanted to be there the first time certain things happened," Mr. Balmès said, "the first time each baby heard music or started to walk.

Here's what Growden said in his preview piece last week: "Not for the first time, certain Western Force officials have lost touch with reality.