Sentence examples for the first stab from inspiring English sources

The first stab at this is predictably (and intentionally) comedic.

That being said, it's also nice when you get it on the first stab.

The '95 Aurora was the first stab at fulfilling that tall order.

They included the first stab at a reconstruction of the Navy Seals' mission, written by Mr. Mazzetti and Ms. Cooper.

The first stab at corrective legislation emerging from Barney Frank's Financial Services Committee in the House is porous.

Earlier in the week Mr. Samaras, the leader of New Democracy, had the first stab at forming a government but failed to rally adequate support in favor of the debt deal.

That gives results which are a lot more reliable than the first stabs at doing the whole world from orbit.

The first stabbing on Monday took place at 5 45 p.m., when a float surrounded by a teeming crowd turned off Eastern Parkway at Bedford Avenue and a fight broke out.

In the first stabbing on Saturday a 16-year-old Arab attacked two Israelis who were walking from the Old City toward the city centre, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

Evidently the first stabs of bereavement have been somewhat allayed by so many hectic distractions – from absorbing a flood of communal commiseration, to the simple practicalities of keeping the show on the road as Cecil had urged.

Mexico defend it diligently and from the second stab into the box Fred leaps and heads at goal, but the big-haired Ochoa collects safely.