British soldiers in Afghanistan have become the first to use miniature surveillance helicopters in frontline operations.
But if you are the first to use it on a product, it is yours alone.
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Bluma Trell did not claim to have been the first to use coins as an aid to archaeology.
Apple Front isn't the first to use performance as a method of protest.
Las Vegas casinos were among the first to use the dots, in an effort to root out fake gambling chips.
Peter Thiel, a founder of PayPal, was one of the first to use the word "bubble" to describe the current higher-education market.
Nor am I the first to use this half-clever title (Google it).
The advertising service was one of the first to use "cookies, " the often-criticized small files downloaded to users' computers to track their surfing.
The researchers tested their attack against a Samsung Galaxy Nexus handset as it was one of the first to use Android's disk encryption system.
It is an updated version of its original Wii device, the first to use a wand-like controller that could be manipulated like sports equipment.
Nothing is more natural nor common than first to use a general phrase, and then to explain and qualify it by a recital of particulars.
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Operational officers from the Road Policing Branch and Community Patrol Officers from the west of Edinburgh will be the first to use the new system.
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And of course, they hope to save money over competitors by being the first to use common wireless services--calling, text messaging, Internet access and so on.
The tool is particularly effective when employed by skilled traditional hunters, such as San bushmen in Botswana, some of whom were the first to use it.
His group is not the first to use such data (ice cores, fossils, marine sediments and the like) to probe the climate's sensitivity to carbon dioxide.
First to use it will be the Spanish oil company Repsol YPF, which plans to drill an exploratory well around 100km (62 miles) from the Florida Keys.
Mr Vlahos was not the first to use a blue-screens - earlier versions of the technique can be seen in films including The Thief of Bagdad, and The Ten Commandments.
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Both firms were among the first to use computerized databases to scan the genome-the "map" or blueprint of 25, 000 or so active genes that contain the code for the body's proteins.
At age 24--among the first to use plastic strapping, instead of wire, to wrap newspaper bundles after they leave the printing press--he bought out his father's partner and relaunched the company as Power Industries.
The major American manufacturer Lockheed Martin was the first to use the high thrusting (635 newtons) Leros-1b on its telecoms platforms, but the engine has also found favour at the US space agency down the years.
The new sets add features like NFC, MHL and Miracast support to certain models, while the top of the line W900A is its first to use Quantum Dot technology in combination with edge LED lighting.
The film was the first to use only blue screens which means the actors performed the whole film in, essentially, a blue room but it looks like they are out fighting robots in old fashioned fighter planes.
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More moderate politicians, such as India's foreign minister, Jaswant Singh, have suggested a less aggressive posture: a capability to respond to a nuclear attack, along with a promise that India would not itself be the first to use nuclear weapons.
Scientists have known for a long time that aerosols cool climate by reflecting sunlight and making clouds brighter, but the new study is the first to use a global model to estimate the net effects on plant carbon intake resulting from this type of atmospheric pollution.
Less than twelve hours after creating the alert and in the midst of a still-unfolding crisis, it was the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, who, as far as I can tell, gets the honor of being the first to use Sandy to stoke cyber fears.
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Now, a brief analysis of 10 European countries published Thursday in the Lancet --- the first to use government data on suicide rates from the past few years -- suggests that the ongoing economic downturn may be no different, and in fact may have had a larger impact on suicide rates than expected.
The IPO Process : According to Mark, Workday was one of the first companies to use the JOBS Act, recent legislation to make public offerings less onerous.
Hybels then crafted his services to address their concerns, becoming one of the first pastors to use video, drama and contemporary music in church and encouraging a more casual dress code.
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