"It's our first time to experience that kind of flood, " he said, estimating it could take about a month for the waters to completely recede.
Raising a boy, for instance, is quite different from raising girls. (In our first time as parents, my husband and I had two daughters.) While my girls were emotional, easily upset, demonstrative and clingy, boys often slink into the house after school, trying to avoid all manner of human contact.
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The consequences of that are serious, as the first time in our history, and for the first time we risk default and we have obligations that exceed our capacity to fulfill them.
And what is important about this is that we have not simply averted what would have been an absolute disaster, assuming, again, Congress acts, which would have been passing a period beyond which we would no longer have had borrowing authority and risking -- creating the possibility of default on our obligations for the first time in our history.
We don't know about anyone else, but we love to see classics in HD for the first time and although animated features aren't our first choice, any time there is more HD content for our kids to watch over and over again, we're pleased.
We felt excited about our future for the first time in years.
Michelle and I will never forget the opportunity to introduce our daughters for the first time to the City of Lights.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Sarkozy at the White House
The consequences of defaulting on our obligations for the first time in the history of this country would be serious and unpredictable.
We are finally getting our first Summer blockbuster in time for the holiday season, after some rumors of delays, as Iron Man is set to hit the shelves tomorrow.
This isn't the first time our wonder-naut has done such a thing, either, having "ran" the Boston marathon in 2007, clocking in a time of 4:23:10, which frankly, is just showing off.
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Daniel, the winner of our Bring a Reader to CES contest will show you what it's like going to the show for the first time and our editors discuss how this year's event compares to years past.
"The first period was (our) best first period in a long time, " Julien said after the Bruins' third game in four nights.
For the first time in our history we have more members than the Tories.
We cannot threaten the United States' full faith and credit for the first time in our history.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama��s News Conference on Deficit Reduction
We met up for the first time in our training camp in Portugal before the tournament, and it was a young group.
For the first time in our history, the number of people living alone has surpassed the number of people living with others.
For the first time in our history, we now have an independent consumer watchdog with one job: to look out for you.
The monthly composite index for ten cities, included for the first time in our table, fell by 1.9% in the year to March.
If we hit August 2nd without an agreement and for the first time lose our borrowing authority, the impact of that will be felt dramatically, without question.
For the first time in our history, we have the ability to manipulate in a very precise and detailed way the very blueprint of any living organism.
Whoever succeeds him now faces the task of reassuring the Coptic community as the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood look on the verge of sharing power in Egypt for the first time, our correspondent says.
For the first time in our history our credit markets have been rendered incapable of providing sufficient capital for small- and medium-size businesses, while starving startups and would-be startups of the wherewithal to grow to their full potential.
The only issue under discussion and debate right now is what kind of deficit reduction package can accompany a measure that would ensure that we do not, for the first time in our long history, default on our obligations.
What we do know is that within the next 11 days, the Congress will do as the leaders have said it will do, which is to take action to ensure that we do not, for the first time in our history, find ourselves unable to pay our bills.
We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.
It's certainly our hope that we'll demonstrate for the first time, as you mention, in more than a year growth in our economy.
We learned how to manage real-time and semi real-time engagement with our first multiplayer online game site.
Our economy is growing for the first time in more than a year, and we know that economic growth is a prerequisite for job growth.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks to Press After Cabinet Meeting
"As we're sitting around talking about our rashes, that was the first time that I actually felt like other people understood what I had gone through, " she said.
Our first task was, at that time, making sure that people who were in refugee camps in Darfur had access to basic water, food, other necessities of life.
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