Dieng says it is the first time that such a court decision has been put into action.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

"It is the first time that Africa is now giving money back to the Global Fund.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

One critic calls it the first television show in a long time that is just plain fun.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

"That is the case today. And it is the first time any president has acted outside the June 1 time frame,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

It is also the first time that the government allowed refugees to return to areas which were formerly controlled by the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The OIC undertaking is ambitious, it involves not just rebuilding, but in many cases building for the first time the infrastructure that could make Darfur self-sustaining.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

And the high court is going to look at it and it is very strange in that for the first time in Iranian judiciary that they are having the high court session just (a) few weeks after the sentence was issued.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

"Now that Operation Panther's Claw has shown that it can bring success and the first phase of that operation is over, it is time to commemorate all those soldiers who have given their lives and to thank all our British soldiers for the determination, the professionalism and the courage that they have been showing,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.27