Sentence examples for the first instance in from inspiring English sources

Wikimedia lost at the first instance in the federal court, especially on standing grounds.

The first instance, in Sri Lanka in September 2011, was fair.

It is certainly not the first instance in which God inflicts appalling misery on his people.

The contentious marriage is not the first instance in which Ms. Otieno has trampled tradition.

The Clean Air Act entrusts such complex balancing to EPA in the first instance, in combination with state regulators.

The Ali case represents the first instance in which the military decided to use its expanded authority.

"We want to hear exactly how they dispute that, in the first instance in terms of written responses.

This would not be the first instance in which the National Guard has been invoked in Chicago.

Anyone who envisages unconventionality in the first instance in sexual behaviour has a most unremarkable sort of mind.

Nor was this the first instance in which the spreading of democracy overseas redounded to America's profound benefit.

After the first instance in 2008, Dostum went into a long exile at his lavish home in Turkey.