"This is the first initiative of its kind across the US, to our knowledge," said Kristin Ford, Harris's press secretary.
Other large supermarkets such as Sainsbury's and Waitrose have relaxed their specifications to sell some ugly and imperfect produce, but this is the first initiative to clearly identify and separate them from the mainstream alternative.
Alluding to the original divide over the Anglo-Irish treaty in 1921 that partitioned Ireland into two states, leading to a bitter civil war and the formation of the two parties, McGrath said: "When you consider the history of those parties, the near 100-year history of our state, this is the first initiative of its kind".
This is the first initiative of its kind to be established by UNESCO for 40 years and is the result of effective networking among geoparks and their partners aiming to achieve significant progress in geo-conservation, geotourism, environmental education and sustainable local development.
To our knowledge this is the first initiative to clarify the complete scenario using powerful homologous grouping approaches and the total repertoire of sequenced genomes.
To the best of our knowledge this is the first initiative to provide a systematic methodology for the semantic integration of gene expression analysis tools and data sources using software connectors.
To the best of our knowledge this is the first initiative to provide a formal conceptual framework to support the UML-based development of ontologies according to OBO principles.
I met with Saudi Arabian entrepreneur/philanthropist Hani Farsi, here at Cannes to launch his new program, "Arab Women Filmmakers," to discuss how he came to create the first initiative of this program: three scholarships to Arab women for a full, four-year ride to UCLA's Master's of Fine Arts In Directing program.
To the best of our knowledge, this software platform constitutes the first initiative to allow crossmural standardized data transfer for clinical purposes.
This multinational cooperative represents the first initiative to study the addition of lactate clearance into the SSC bundle to create a modified bundle and compare the mortality with successful completion of each of the two bundles.
The library was opened four years ago – the first initiative of its kind in the country.
