The first direct vote on the reform bill has been tentatively set for 4 p.m.
It marked the first direct encounter between Washington and Pyongyang since Kim Jong Il's death.
The first direct image of a planet orbiting around another star is still some years away.
On March, 2007 Iran Air, Iran's national airline, had completed its first direct flight to Venezuela.
Tesco to Metro Bank to PayPal and all-electronic banking organizations like First Direct.
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The ground-breaking talks - the first direct negotiations in a decade - are then expected to move to Cuba.
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The first direct polls were held in 1991, with 18 lawmakers popularly returned.
First Direct bank has 200, 000 text bankers, of which 16% are over 50.
The president's action on December 17 was his first direct effort to thwart the mandate of the Supreme Court.
The first direct charter flight for two years left Miami for Cuba .
First Direct is the company that brought us telephone banking in 1989.
The planes are expected to take back Russian citizens on the return flight, which would be the first direct evacuation.
Getting junta and opposition together for their first direct talks in more than a year was something of a breakthrough.
Customers using the website of First Direct, which is part of the HSBC group, have also been reporting problems accessing their accounts.
It was the first direct artillery attack since the 1950-1953 Korean war.
If confirmed as the work of al-Qaeda, it would be their first direct attack on Israelis - despite Bin Laden's hostility towards Israel.
President Barack Obama agreed last month to send food and medicine to the rebels, the first direct U.S. support for the armed opposition.
It had previously been suggested that black holes up to this mass might exist in quasars, but this is the first direct confirmation.
He is alleged to have allowed his company bank account, First Direct Recovery Ltd, to be used to launder criminal proceeds of the fraud.
Meanwhile, French airline Aigle Azur plans this January to offer the first direct flights from Europe to Baghdad since the 1990 Gulf War.
If it holds up, the latest finding would be one of the first direct observations of the very early stages of a planet's birth.
Next month, on the other side of the Arabian peninsula, Yemen will be holding its first direct presidential election since its two halves united in 1990.
"Zero Dark Thirty" was in postproduction when the book "No Easy Day, " the first direct account by a member of the SEAL team, came out last summer.
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Former prime minister Milos Zeman won the first direct Czech presidential election in January 2013, beating conservative Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg by a margin of 55% to 45%.
Yet both Delhi and Dhaka say that their recent agreement to open the first direct overland link between the far-eastern states of India and Bangladesh is hugely significant.
At the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, ruling party hardliners signed a petition demanding that Lee not run for re-election in the island's first direct presidential election next March.
However it will soon see its first direct European flights take off with BMI adding Amsterdam and Geneva this year, with Ibiza, Faro, Malaga and Palma in 2012.
The first direct democratic elections did not occur until 1991.
The survey suggested that Lloyds TSB, with 30%, had the highest proportion of customers who had experienced a problem in the previous 12 months while First Direct had fewest, with 9%.
But with more than 20 call centres now based there, all competing for staff, First Direct's Internet and banking manager Tim Basford says the city may be becoming a victim of its own success.
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