in the first place

How To Use in the first place In A Sentence

• We clearly need to replace the name ascribed to those whose ideology got us into this situation in the first place: the Neoconservatives. Making Sense of the News: Time To Update Some Terms
• In the first place there was some music; then tables were placed all about for all kinds of gambling; there was a 'lansquenet'; at which Monsieur and Monseigneur always played; also Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• The morons do not even protect the exposed steel with paint - and something as simple and old-fashioned as using galvanized bolts in the first place is clearly way beyond their ken.
• The speaker had, finally, demonstrated the synthesis of hippuric acid and sulphate of phenol in the excided kidney as a function of its cells, by adding to the blood pouring through the kidney, in the first place, benzoic acid and glycol; in the second place, phenol and sulphate of soda. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
• She will probably behave brilliantly if you make the generous overture of inviting her in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
• Every few years Oscar sees fit to reward genuine artistry, thereby reminding us why we watch the show in the first place.
• In the first place, chemical solutions can conform to the geometry of the sample vessel or object being irradiated.
• [Ed: his house was subsequently raided, his data and computers confiscated and examined] After four years the police have finally admited they should never have arrested him in the first place. Boing Boing
• In the first place, it was found that, because of the reducing action of metallic copper on cupric sulphate to form cuprous sulphate, too little copper was deposited in the copper coulometer to correspond to the current. Theodore W. Richards - Nobel Lecture
• After that, the stories came out in a rush, many of them editorials by journalists congratulating themselves for not running the story in the first place.