In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
I've been a fan of Adele since her first project.
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
In the first years of the Queen's reign, the level of adulation - you wouldn't believe it. You really wouldn't.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
We are the first to ever publicly advertise we don't test on animals.
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
Henderson had a thousand times more to do with the discovery of insulin than had Macleod. In the first place, he knew more about it. In the second place, he was consulted before every series of experiments, and he advised, criticized, or commended.
Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection.
One of the first bills I introduced in Congress was the Be Open Act, legislation to help ease an unnecessary, duplicative and punitive burden placed on employees and employers under the Affordable Care Act.
I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.