in the first instance's Usage Examples:

would become trapped as there is no ectoderm separating the lobes in the first instance.

§ 3553(a) "mdash; the statute spelling out which factors district courts were required to consider in fashioning a sentence in the first instance.

If the overtures of this individual are not repulsed in the first instance, he is soon joined by his accomplice, who professes to be a stranger.

The case is interesting because the patentee in the first instance had expressly disclaimed term subsequent to 2003 to get the patent granted.

] Print is the extreme phase of alphabet culture that detribalizes or decollectivizes man in the first instance.

Bishop be appointed on a part-time basis for a period of three years in the first instance.

When it was enacted in 1978, the Act applied in the first instance to the metropolitan city of Calcutta (now Kolkata).

, described in the first instance from Sri Lanka, has the cell red like the rest of wing; European examples of this form are generally entirety pale red, with the costal streak red-speckled and usually females.

self-defeating", since to mathematize a concept we need to be able to identify it in the first instance without mathematization.

Most cases are heard in the first instance by the district courts.

AftermathMichael's victory resulted in the first instance when the principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania were united under a Romanian ruler.

When a process "mdash;client or service"mdash; sends a D-Bus message, the message bus process receives it in the first instance and delivers it to the appropriate recipient.

470 (1917), reasoning [i]t is elementary that the meaning of a statute must, in the first instance, be sought in the language in which the act is framed, and if that is plain.

Synonyms:

clip, example, happening, humiliation, natural event, time, case, occurrence, bit, occurrent, mortification, piece,

Antonyms:

appearance, beginning, success, disappearance, past,