Yet after the first world war every cardinal was the son of a working man.
And yet, after the ninth inning, when scoring chances had been squandered, the score was tied and the teams were heading into extra innings once again.
His own sister, dying from cancer, is "now grey as a lizard, and yet after the first shock the effect is very beautiful".
Yet after the first two nights, Mubanga said, he was not held at a conventional police station or prison, but in a series of guarded motel rooms in and around Lusaka.
Yet after the first real signs of inflation surfaced this year — in January, consumer prices in Europe and core wholesale prices in the United States both climbed to their highest level in two years — emerging-market stocks experienced their first real setback since the global financial panic of 2008.
Yet after the first graceful feat, in which he saves Lois Lane, who has fallen from a helicopter that crashed on a skyscraper, and then steadies the falling chopper (with the injured pilot inside) and gently lifts it to safety, the other miracles don't have enough tension to he memorable: each one wipes out our memory of the one before.
Yet after the first few furlongs of the season, Sleepy Hollow has turned out to be a hit for the Fox network, well-received by critics, clamoured over by obsessive viewers and already the winner of the greatest prize of all: a second series commission.
They sat top of the pile on Christmas Day, rightly satisfied by their campaign and with Suárez signed up to a new contract, and yet, after the first successive league defeats of Rodgers' tenure, now languish fifth and outside the Champions League places.
Yet after the first cruel waves of grief, something changes.
Yet after the first round Chicago received only 18 votes from the 110-member committee.
