Sentence examples for were first of all from inspiring English sources

There were, first of all, sharp differences between the liberals and the democrats.

"We told them that we were first of all happy that they were alive," Mr. Samton said.

"We ought not to forget that, although they committed those very serious crimes, they were first of all human beings and secondly they were children," he said.

These were first of all signifiers of rejection: scorn not just for the elite world of yachts, diamond watches and bodyguards, but for the everyday world of corporate conformity.

From a global perspective, they were, first of all, the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent rapid end of the Cold War order, and second, the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings on Sept. 11, 2001.

Mr. Webb's allies noted that his novels, mostly about men at war, were, first of all, fiction, and, second, had been widely acclaimed by a spectrum of prominent people like Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and a fellow Vietnam veteran.

What America needs is first-of-all a new vision.

He was, first of all, a fighter".

"He is first of all a person.

And his answer is: first of all, it's cinema.

There was, first of all, the matter of the United Nations.