• Many people were nevertheless quick to express outrage at this first apparent instance of sleaze in the new government of President Jacob Zuma.

    ECONOMIST: Will the new president be as strict as he promised?

  • They are -- these are individuals whose lives were lost, and they need to be looked at not as -- at least in the first instance, not as how they affect the overall mission, because to say that the mission continues regardless in some ways might diminish the tragedy that their loss represents, and I wouldn't want to do that.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • It favours additional regulation (which is no less harmful for coming, in the first instance, at firms', rather than governments', behest).

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • On Wednesday, judges at the European Court of First Instance said the fact Germans said "vest" and not "west" did not lessen the confusion with the merchandise of a pop group many would know as "Vestlife".

    BBC: Judges said the similarity with West was enough to confuse

  • The King of Shaves brand, for instance, looks at first like something from the portfolio of a global consumer goods company.

    FORBES: Small Is Big: SmugMug, King of Shaves and More

  • At rival Next, for instance, first-half sales in stores fell 1.5%, while its home shopping business saw sales rise 7.8%.

    BBC: Zara launches online retail store

  • Mr. Baish, for instance, looks first at a fund's performance to get a sense for whether it might produce the sort of returns his clients need.

    WSJ: What Is a Sharpe Ratio?

  • It was the first, for instance, to have TV consoles at every seat, including those in economy class.

    FORBES: PROSPERING THE LASTING WAY

  • In contrast, only children, who in theory share many characteristics with first borns, reported the highest instance of taking financial risks at least sometimes, 39 percent, such as borrowing for short-term investments, or investing in risky ventures.

    FORBES: One More Reason to Blame Mom and Dad for Your Money Habits?

  • The Egyptian Court system is composed of a number of tiers: Courts of First Instance, Court of Appeal, and the Court of Cassation at the apex of the judiciary.

    UNESCO: Database 4: Legislation and guidelines

  • Along the way, Winchester pauses every third paragraph or so to delve into some topic that is not, at first glance, relevant to his story: Lloyd's of London, for instance, or the Reuters news agency, or Dutch colonial policy in Java, or the biological theories of Alfred Russel Wallace.

    FORBES: Don't Go Near The Volcano

  • Traffic at the Kwai Chung terminal, for instance, was up by 12.8% in the first quarter compared with the same period in 2002, according to the territory's Port and Maritime Board.

    ECONOMIST: On a roll

  • Australians who wanted to study their own literature at university, for instance, could not do so until 1962, when the University of Sydney set up the first full chair in Australian literature.

    ECONOMIST: The wizards of Oz come of age

  • It was the first instance of a narrower decline, after four months of accelerating losses, and likely reflected policy easing at the margins of the property market by Beijing and local governments in an effort to reverse slowing economic growth.

    WSJ: China Housing Market Shows Signs of Warming

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