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.
I don't rightly know how these panthers and cheetahs and tigers came to inhabit the park in the first place.
If you want to win the first place, you can't lie on your oars.
If LTC Shaffer such a "desperado," why did he get a security clearance in the first place and why did it keep getting renewed? Danger Able Danger (re-edited)
The trousers shrank when I washed them, but they weren't really big enough in the first place.
Why couldn't ESMD have simply directed that things be done in metric in the first place - in compliance with NASA's own regulations (note the OIG report from 2001 years before Constellation was even started). NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives
And, perhaps more pertinently, why do we insist on knowing about it in the first place?
Critics called the plot insensitive and offensive, raising questions about why this book was published in the first place. Christianity Today
It is, in the first place, a pity that there is so little written of the history of these people, so little material from which to gather the development of the idea of acrobatics in general, or of any one phase in particular. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
He is recalibrating the health service to try to prevent people getting ill in the first place.
Coach scribbled his name and grumbled, “You could have asked her in the first place.” Parents Behaving Badly
Mr. Lloyd submitted that Joanne Colley's non-appearance and the inability of the police to locate her brother were reflective of the fact that neither of the Colleys had any interest in prosecuting the matter in the first place.
And it's never, ever as effective as keeping your bazoo shut in the first place. RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
You married a woman you never should have married in the first place I think you know that, but you were enough of a self-flagellator to stick it out til the bitter end. "The disdain is palpable," Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about Andrew Sullivan writing about me.
The irony is, if you had used the element in the first place, pressing the Return key would have actually worked.
More than anywhere else was German influence felt in France, and here we must mention in the first place the pupils of Jager: Viktor Stöber (1803-71), professor at Strasburg, and Julius Sichel of Paris (1802-58; choroiditis, glaucoma, cataract, staphyloma). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
In the first place a subvariety of the weeping-willow with leaves rolled up into a spiral coil. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
The term fortified means that additional nutrients have been added to a food that weren’t there in the first place. Baby Bites
The argument is, we'll kill it in litigation, so do what we want in the first place, even if it takes looooooooonger. Nine Years We Didn’t Have « PubliCola
Euan gives voice to another reason why people "lurk" - or maybe why they never jump into the community in the first place. Knowledge Jolt with Jack
Roses grown primarily for flowers in the landscape, like big floribundas and shrubs, should be left higher, and pruned mainly to keep the plants confined to the space you allowed for them in the first place.
All of which suggests that better maintained rail track in the first place would avoid failures. Times, Sunday Times
In the first place, this cult was said to exercise a corrupting influence perversive of piety. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
Maybe you should re-spike your studs to your silt, because they were wobbly in the first place.
But this simply raises the question: why was lawful conduct abandoned in the first place?
All of which suggests that better maintained rail track in the first place would avoid failures. Times, Sunday Times
In the first place, I must remark that these human remains, which are in my possession, are characterized like thousands of bones which I have lately been disinterring, by the extent of the decomposition which they have undergone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinct species: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are rounded, as is frequently found to be the case in fossil remains of other species. On Some Fossil Remains of Man
I am so angry they even had the nerve to appeal in the first place.
Was she too risky a choice in the first place? Times, Sunday Times
The alphabet network never seemed to have much faith in Cupid anyway (why did they greenlight it in the first place), and they seem content to let it fade away. 23 « April « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
In the first place, it is an established fact that these days of the week of creation were also, according to the meaning of the author, _days of The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.
In the first place, we should decide on one program.
Sam, who has bought the General Store, is immediately faced with the prospect of paying protection money to the town baddie, Parker Tillman, the double-dealing varmint who sold him the store in the first place.
My point is why make the claim for a developed canon in the first place, especially when it is based on conjectural attributions and dates.
No mention is made of the fact that it was his knot that slipped in the first place.
The most surprising Democrat to engage in this daydreaming is one who never dated Dean in the first place: Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic. September 2004
Escobar's trying to work backward to find how the guy got ahold of them in the first place, how he knew they'd be willing. FOLLY
A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association.
She starred as Christine in the 2004 film version of "Phantom of the Opera," where she displayed the singing voice - described as "angelic" - that had launched her career in show business in the first place. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Red is the actual Hadley data - so you'll note that their "hindcast" isn't terribly accurate in the first place. Center for American Progress Action Fund
But how do mass extinctions perturb these systems in the first place?
I worked at the parly fot 7 years, know exactly the set up, who's who's and how they inter-relate - indeed who appointed them, and what they were paid in the first place. A NATIONAL DISGRACE: £1.5 million payoff for 8 parly bosses
Funny, the crazy thing is that ever since I met Angie my life has kind of paralleled the damned book that started it all in the first place. Clean Kill
That's unfair - the more so because it was Stern's style and content of speech that made him rich in the first place.
This lack of support also means that more people are becoming acutely ill in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
Critics called the plot insensitive and offensive, raising questions about why this book was published in the first place. Christianity Today
I doubt he would be woofing about him missing the shot because the bottom line is that the guy outplayed him to steal the ball in the first place.
Looking to the future, though, we asked him what the prospects are for a vaccine to prevent infection in the first place.
Real estate prices too have zoomed, ironically pushed up in the first place by the IT companies themselves.
Sharing these views is what made the Internet in the first place; a medium to quickly share and distribute information.
The player, meanwhile, is forced to uproot his family and move to another team because he didn't anticipate that such a situation could happen when he signed the deal in the first place.
In the first place, the rule could apply only to a certain kind of poetry.
The construction was rightly criticised as requiring a knowledge of the ratio of a line and an arc of a circle, so one assumed as known the property required to square the circle in the first place.
No one knew how he had ended up in Egypt in the first place—but it was speculated that he might have been among a number of East Germans that Nasser had recruited to help him build ground-to-ground missiles for the army. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
The main thing was not to leave clues in the first place. Times, Sunday Times
We should also think about the problems of the world as a whole, which cause mass migration in the first place.
Next day saw a "real" doctor in town and he said it was colitis, which is what I thought in the first place. Encouraging words
And to what extent does the tax regime encourage entrepreneurial activity in the first place? Times, Sunday Times
In the first place, most of its key concepts are essentially ambiguous.
Despite this, Hollywood continues to supply the public with remakes of films that were perfectly fine in the first place.
This is where it all went wrong in the first place - in what was known as MDF, the site's Mox fuel demonstration facility. Whitehaven News headlines
personally, I always thought the "extremeness" of these makeovers was ridiculous in the first place Digg.com: Stories / Popular
You're not making me jealous. You're making me wonder what I saw you in the first place.
Thus the winds maintain the conditions that set them blowing in the first place. Ice Time: Climate, Science, and Life on Earth
In the first place, we should decide on one program.
Mr. Thomson, the "curat" of Anstruther Easter, was a man highly obnoxious to the devout: in the first place, because he was a "curat"; in the second place, because he was a person of irregular and scandalous life; and in the third place, because he was generally suspected of dealings with the Enemy of Man. Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays
The hotel concierge just went and hailed a cab which we should have done in the first place.
This contrasts with developmental dyslexia which is an impairment, possibly congenital, in learning to read in the first place.
It may prove smarter to be behind the wheel of a nippy, whippy hatch and thus have a greater chance of not getting into accidents in the first place.
If experiments conducted in the here and now are to shed light on the there and then, they must meet two conditions: They must demonstrate in the first place the existence of a detailed chemical pathway between RNA precursors and a form of self-replicating RNA; and they must provide in the second place a demonstration that the spontaneous appearance of this pathway is plausible under pre-biotic conditions. Berlinski stirring the pot
It disturbed the agenda, and patients seemed to be distracted from the subject that made them seek health care in the first place.
The White House also joined in to "laud" the Senator for coming to Washington to help bailout the companies that put us in this mess in the first place. Joshing Politics
Hummell explains how it is that government gained its monopoly privileges in the first place and how the will to be free is essential in undermining this monopoly.
In the process, the patient is willfully blinded to the conduct that inevitably causes his misery in the first place.
It's a complex story involving what may be misguided notions of why we have acid in the stomach in the first place, and the role of a hormone called gastrin.
I'm surprised they can afford to run a car in the first place.
To do otherwise would be as childish and immature as my behaviour in the first place.
In the first place, capital is a resource. MANAGING IN TURBULENT TIMES
I dare say that had she briefed a silk in the first place she would have been acquitted and saved a large sum because the case would not have run for five days let alone five weeks.
Somin liked this idea in the first place: because it might work without being completely politically unfeasible on account of upsetting a long list of powerful interest groups. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Creative Proposal for Reducing Prison Rape
In the first place, a personal prelacy is not necessariy governed by a bishop. Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English
To "desecrate" something it has to be sacred in the first place. Palin hits back at 'malicious' photo
In the first place you are not old and in the second place you are a very attractive man.
I forgot how demeaning it is to get rejected for a job you're overqualified for and really didn't want in the first place.
You're not making me jealous. You're making me wonder what I saw you in the first place.
Shouldering that catfish is almost more impressive than catching it in the first place. The Best Reader Photos of July 2009
I wasn't the one who talked me into this cockamamy adventure in the first place.
But registering for wedding gifts in the first place when you are having a $10 million wedding may be the tackiest thing of all. Keli Goff: The Real Reason We Should Be Offended by Kim Kardashian (And Every Other Bride Like Her)
The clearance process has taken somewhat longer than it took to do the studies in the first place at this point.
Was she too risky a choice in the first place? Times, Sunday Times
Dont nobody know what happened except chris brown rihanna and whoever was with them at that time so people can stop talking all that mess about chris brown even though he shouldn ` t have hit her in the first place and just wait to see what she does cause she so sprung that she might drop the charges and they go live happily ever after. Chris Brown & Rihanna Moving In Together
Chariot's sidecar for bikes is ingenious, not only to its approach to mounting a sidecar to a bike, but also in its approach to the baby-transport problem in the first place.
Bollinger and the rest of the Columbia administration had to be shamed into setting up the committee in the first place.
In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch.
If human violence is just a vast free-for-all of people merely reacting to the wrongs they've suffered, who started the fights in the first place?
In the first place, Horace was not a knight; he was the son of a freedman of Venusia, in Apulia, who exercised the humble office of coactor exauctionum, (collector of payments at auctions.) (Sat.i. vi. 45, or 86.) History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
A promise can be a lie if the promissor never intended to perform in the first place. Balkinization
Stressing education, drug treatment, and job placement isn't about "coddling" criminals, it's about expanding the tax base and reducing the very poverty that causes the vast majority of crime in the first place. Mark Olmsted: Crime and Punishment: Perception vs. Reality
He must have thought that the music teacher was porky himself to have made the association in the first place.
This perked his interest to learn more about why Gabi stole it behind Creg's back in the first place.
Those in the know will tell you he got in the team in the first place only thanks to family influence and political clout.
In the first place, I am convinced that not one man in ten thousand or in a hundred thousand is a genuine, chemical dipsomaniac. Chapter 39
Can you use tamoxifen or an aromatase inhibitor to prevent breast cancer in the first place?
The best way to combat split ends and breakage is to prevent them in the first place.
The point of Sam Sacks's essay, it seems to me, was precisely to protest the creation of these rules in the first place, to point out the insipidity of such formulas as A Story, as it progresses, is counterbalanced by a Backstory, which informs the reader what of importance happened beforehand. Narrative Strategies
It calls for renewed examination of the processes whereby those families have been divided in the first place.
Hadn't they gotten in a stew with her over him in the first place because of that?
The best option is to shop carefully to avoid the potential waste happening in the first place. The Sun
In the first place, the kind of stereoscope to be used must tend to modify the mental impression; and secondly, the _amount_ of reduction from the size of the original has a considerable influence on the final result. Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
A lot more people will suddenly want to have a direct say in deciding who gets the job in the first place. Archive 2009-10-01
Bringing the Ex was extraordinarily tacky, but narrowly/technically legal; her not warning you in the first place was especially grody.
Of course! If he thinks it was his idea in the first place, he's bound to agree. What an inspiration!
This was a very vexatious issue in the first place and the way it was constructed caused a lot of angst.
Nice mistake Murray but you should maybe halve the winnings - she did pick the teams in the first place!
When I’ve spoken to dozens of audiences during the two months since the Democratic National Convention, where I was an elected Obama delegate, there’s been an overwhelmingly positive response when I make a simple statement about Obama and the prospects of an Obama presidency: the best way to avoid becoming disillusioned is to not have illusions in the first place. 29 « October « 2008 « Niqnaq
If he wasn't so sweet and gorgeous and funny she would never have been attracted to him in the first place.
In the first place, it's uncommon to discover such overwhelming scientific consensus on such a controversial set of issues.
There is evidence that they are less likely to be employed, are bullied in schools and social situations, and spend their days focused on the number on the scale, obsessing about ways to lose weight and dreaming of how their lives will change for the better if they are thin -- all of which creates anxiety and feeds in to the reasons the person overeats or binges in the first place. Open Letter to the First Lady and the 'Let's Move' Taskforce
Just because you can afford to pay off the shortfall doesn't mean that the policy wasn't mis-sold in the first place.
If they did, the SCt might be less interested in intervening in midrange policy in the first place! Archive 2009-10-01
The rest of us are aware how low the chances are of actually arresting and convicting anyone for an offence in the first place.
Good behaviour is abiding by the law in the first place. The Sun
In the first place, the film depicts some imaginary breed of gracious and principled gangsters.
It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.
You two are the stupid punks who spiked her drink in the first place!
For when, in our representation of the Darwinian conclusions and in our own investigation, we proceed as objectively as possible, and try to avoid all systematization which is unfruitful for our task, in discussing the Darwinian theories in reference to religion, we shall have to take chiefly into consideration their relation to religion in an objective sense, and chiefly also their relation to the contents of religion; but this would make it appear that we supposed religion in a subjective sense, religiousness, to be in the first place an activity and a possession of knowledge. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
Who thought it was a good idea to ask such a daft question in the first place?
You need to change your reaction to their antics if you want to alter their behaviour in the first place.
Almost all of my torso and lower body had been numb in the first place, so the result was merely a dull ache.
Just a couple of years ago, I wrote a column about the advent of tearless onions that included some background on why onions make us cry in the first place. A half-billion years of irritation
What did shock me was that the hip-hop press, perhaps in a guilty, knee-jerk response to the bacchanal hip-hop that essentially gave rise to the genre in the first place, chose to ride along.
The Labour backbenches are now stuffed with the disappointed, the thwarted, the fired, the has-beens and those that were never likely to amount to anything in the first place.
But, my question is: why is it four minutes and thirty three seconds long in the first place?
To repeat a defamatory statement was precisely the same as if one had said it in the first place.
In the first place, the revolution, the abolition of the feudalistic system of exploiting land, the abolition of the latifundium and something else, the abolition of the minifundium, the establishment of adequate agricultural structures, the application of technology and scientific methodology in agriculture -- In two words, we can state that here in 12TH BULGARIAN KIMSOMOL CONGRESS
In the first place, Slang is universal, whilst Cant is restricted in usage to certain classes of the community: thieves, vagrom men, and -- well, their associates. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
I think it treats readers like idiots, insults their intelligence and denigrates the whole point of delivering news in the first place.
Ironically, women who seek these treatments to improve the appearance of their skin could have avoided their fate by avoiding excessive sun exposure in the first place.
This is your blameful thinking that fueled her anger in the first place.
This needs fixing too and, at least, the Tories are addressing that by, effectively getting rid of the useless FSA and restoring the powers to the BoE frow where they should have never been wrested in the first place. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
I need to do my sums carefully to ensure that I can afford a new property (and all the other connected costs) in the first place!
If that doesn't work, encircle the suburbs with heavily armed tanks and frogmarch these people back into the city where they're supposed to be living in the first place.
To me, the only thing worse than being stuck in traffic on the way to give a performance in a panto is being so desperate not to get a proper job that I’d accept a part in panto in the first place. But what is a busy and important celebrity to do? « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
In the first place, he is superannuated in his spiritual functions, and, being so, has to do something less harassing and laborious than spiritualizing Ethiopians to supply the domestic exchequer; anglice, to find beef and potatoes for a beloved wife and four little boys. Pictures of Slavery in Church and State; Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc. with an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery
I see some killers that are instable in the first place and get pushed over the edge by mitigating factors such as religion, politics, and personal beliefs. Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 17, 2010
This will give them the incentive to do right in the first place," he said. Computing
I wondered what on earth a self-proclaimed organic gardener was doing with a stock of resource-squandering, non-returnable containers in the first place.
Helping people is why I became an endodontist in the first place.
Among them, in the first place, is required a due preparation of soul, by humility, meekness, and teachableness. Pneumatologia
For Pynchon, the hieroglyph hints at, but ultimately frustrates, hermeneutic operations, leaving the interpreter faced with a social text whose key either has been irretrievably lost or never existed in the first place.
I reason that if a felon is deemed too dangerous to possess a gun then why is he being turned loose in the first place? The Volokh Conspiracy » The Second Amendment and the Takings Clause
You didn't take me seriously in the first place or you wouldn't have engaged this tack. … and you would have grokked the aside. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
The huanaco has never been a hybernating animal; but we must assume that, like the crotalus of the north, he had formed a habit of congregating with his fellows at certain seasons at the same spot; further, that these were seasons of suffering to the animal -- the suffering, or discomfort and danger, having in the first place given rise to the habit. The Naturalist in La Plata
This second strategy, though clearly popular, leaves much to be desired, as it relies on the same distancing of ecclesiastics from business that gives rise to the problem in the first place.
She looked dead, waxen, looked as though she had never been alive in the first place. HOPE TO DIE
I thought about it, and I talked to a number of people, and I was very flattered that people were interested in talking to me in the first place.
Of course the world shares the responsibility to rid itself of despots - and to avoid creating them in the first place.
Maybe, for you, this piece of wisdom was cheap at £26, but binning the stuff in the first place would have been cheaper still.
I cannot, however, think that botanical evidence of such a nature is sufficient to warrant a satisfactory reference of these Indian coal-fields to the same epoch as those of England or of Australia; in the first place the outlines of the fronds of ferns and their nervation are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera, and much more so of fossil fragments: in the second place recent ferns are so widely distributed, that an inspection of the majority affords little clue to the region or locality they come from: and in the third place, considering the wide difference in latitude and longitude of Himalayan Journals — Complete
In the first place, he promoted logic from being the organon or tool of philosophy to that organic part of it which as bones and sinews supplied the articulation and dynamic of its structure.
The best option is to shop carefully to avoid the potential waste happening in the first place. The Sun
The industry over builds and offers incentives - discounts and rebates - thereby losing money on each car that never should have built in the first place.
Why are people so fascinated by gender differences in the first place?
More than anywhere else was German influence felt in France, and here we must mention in the first place the pupils of Jager: Viktor Stöber (1803-71), professor at Strasburg, and Julius Sichel of Paris (1802-58; choroiditis, glaucoma, cataract, staphyloma). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
And to what extent does the tax regime encourage entrepreneurial activity in the first place? Times, Sunday Times
This afterall is the main section of the population currently being hammered by sanctioned detections and clearups because they are easy targets, the very people that the majority of us joined the job in the first place to try and help, instead of the shits that consist of 10% of the population who cause 90% of the crime. I Can Tell We’re Going To Be Friends « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Why don't these guys just talk and write like normal people in the first place, and thus pre-empt the ‘media misunderstandings’ they're always complaining about?
Public opinion and the public attitude to war is often a key to whether there will be a war in the first place.
First, how dare she assume that our main goal is to walk, without consulting us in the first place.
All of her songs lacked harmonies in the higher voice ranges, and I spent much of the concert wondering why anyone ever really played these songs on the radio in the first place.
In the first place, they are British citizens with all the rights and duties appertaining thereto.
A BusyBodyBook is a dayplanner for parents, which, although I have no direct experience of it, has got to be a good thing because hello? keeping track of all baby-related activities and appointments and whatever ain’t easy when you’re all bleary from the parenting business that you can’t keep track of in the first place. Oooh, prizes…! | Her Bad Mother
Fasting certainly bring benefits to physical well - being, but for believers, it is, in the first place, a "therapy" to heal all that prevents them from conformity to the will of God.
In the first place, it is important to realize that faith has always come enmeshed in a cultural context.
The issue on which we seem to not connect is the polarized partisan political environment which lets thugs like Rove and Gingrich and Cheney work their wonders, such as putting the failed oil man, Bush, in the White House, in the first place. Balkinization
This will mean that not only do fewer houses get built, but people stuck in wells will be much worse off than if the government had never intervened in the first place.
If you don't want to lose your phone in the first place, consider a wireless leash like the ZOMM for its multifunctionality. A Leash on Mobile Devices That Wander
Or again, using Bruno Giacosa as an example (not because his wines have been any more likely of fraud than any others, but simply as an example), buy his white label non-Riserva bottlings instead of the red label Riservas - if a counterfeiter is going to go through the trouble of making the fakes in the first place, would not the most likely thing be to fake the more expensive bottling and maximize profit? Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
Why had he been so determined to create a second see of archiepiscopal rank in the southern province in the first place?
The final item on our agenda, the raison d'être I'd invited Mr. Keno over in the first place, was to examine the table by the front door, the one that resembled the piece of furniture I'd seen him appraise on "Roadshow," and which also came from my grandmother. Picky on Provenance
In the first place, I refer to the reform of ecclesiastical studies of philosophy, a project which has now reached the last stages of its elaboration, in which the metaphysical and sapiential dimensions of philosophy, mentioned by John Paul II in his Encyclical Fides et Ratio cf. n. 81, will certainly be emphasized. Archive 2008-02-01
In fact, classification is why he says he wants to speak to the spooky senate comities behind bug proof closed doors in the first place! Think Progress » NSA Blocking Whistleblower From Telling Committee About Shocking, Illegal Activities
Though it does soundtrack a sad scene for lovely Kurt, it was one of the world's most sickly songs in the first place, and the Glee treatment turns it so sugary it makes candyfloss taste like salt and vinegar crisps. Glee is back but which song will be the new Don't Stop Believing?
First off, it has an odd "news peg" -- that is, the newsy reason why a story is written in the first place. What a weird story - Ezra Levant
This is why the film is "apolitical" - it doesn't take a stance on the Iraq war, which means in practice that (in the absence of critique) it can only be read as ratifying the war (or, at least as ratifying the late-Bush-surge and Obama-post-surge versions of the war, if not the idiotic Cheneyism that got us involved in Iraq in the first place). Warren Ellis
Garner, always the character, once described the office of the vice presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss" at the time reported with the bowdlerization "spit" and that his decision to take it in the first place was "the worst damn fool mistake I ever made. Your Right Hand Thief
And when its co-founder, Herb Abramson, was called up by the Army in 1953, Ertegun drafted Jerry Wexler, who'd coined the term "rhythm and blues" in the first place, to replace him as a partner. NYT > Home Page
And to what extent does the tax regime encourage entrepreneurial activity in the first place? Times, Sunday Times
The referee got it right in the first place, then the linesman put his flag up and he changed his mind. The Sun
The really crass error was in conceding the free kick so needlessly in the first place. Times, Sunday Times

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