That is true, but the growth of the club still leaves Germany first among an increased number of equals.
Germany at first refused even to discuss any document on proliferation that made mention of the use of force.
The decision makes Germany the first major industrialized power to turn its back on nuclear power since the Fukushima disaster.
Germany was the first test market for an expansion strategy that might be used elsewhere.
Germany controlled the first half but only had a Philipp Lahm goal to show for their efforts.
The arguments made by Keynes with regard to Germany after the first world war remain valid today.
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The loss of monetary sovereignty has hobbled first Germany and, more recently, Italy.
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In the 1500s, Germany became the first nation to associate evergreens, trees that stay green year-round, with the Christian celebration.
First Germany said that they were going to back off ratifying ACTA, following the position taken by Poland earlier.
One of West Germany's first orders of business after reunification was to shut down four East German reactors of this basic type.
Loth to give up its goal of balancing the budget by 2011, Germany was at first reluctant to adopt a fiscal stimulus.
The result saw Germany become the first country to unite all three Olympic bobsleigh titles, having already captured the two-man and women's titles.
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Merkel is not the only German who seems to have forgotten the inspiring example of Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's first postwar economics minister.
It was, accordingly, declared Germany's first victim, a chance pounced upon by Austria's post-war politicians (many of whom were themselves victims of Nazism).
"Madam chancellor, not since Konrad Adenauer has a German chancellor been so humiliated in Europe, " he said, referring to West Germany's first post-war chancellor.
But far fewer Americans still recall the even more passionate debate over our stance toward Nazi Germany during the first two years of World War II.
He reckons that leading his party into Germany's first ever Red-Green government lands him with a double responsibility, and he feels all the weight of it.
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Deutschkron remembered West Germany's first postwar chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, saying that most Germans opposed the Nazis' crimes against Jews and that many had helped Jews to escape.
Following Monday's action - when an estimated 60, 000 workers downed their tools in Germany's first major strike since the mid-1990s - there was little hope of a speedy resolution.
Its network of 14, 000 agents have made Allianz No. 1 in Germany's traditional life insurance market, with Euro4.2 billion in gross premiums written in Germany in the first half of 2000.
The race for the IMF's managing director took on the element of farce when the United States, which holds a blocking minority vote, effectively rejected Germany's first choice to head the world organisation.
The IMF will be hoping to put behind it the disputes which took on the element of farce when the United States, which holds a blocking minority vote, effectively rejected Germany's first choice to head the world organisation.
It's not the first time News Corp, has made had a foray into Germany, though the first time was something of a disaster.
In 2009 the number of people of working age in western Germany shrank for the first time.
First, Germany provides a natural experiment of Keynesian versus Non-Keynesian labor market policy.
Germany might support the first of these - spending more EU money, at least if it came with enough strings attached.
First, Germany knows how difficult it is to integrate and reform an economically (much more) devastated country of roughly the size of Greece.
Christine Louise Hohlbaum, who lives near Munich, Germany, says the first lady impresses German women because she is a powerful public figure who doesn't seem threatening.
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