It was the first use of compulsory licensing under Indian patent laws passed in 2005.
This milestone in aeronautical history marks the first use of the sextant in air navigation.
It is also significant as it may also have seen the first use of artillery in warfare on English soil.
In 1925, following the horrific experience of chemical warfare in World War I, an international convention banning the first use of chemical weapons was signed.
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It also involved the first use of new Advanced Tomahawk Weapon Control System software, which is designed to ease joint missions involving Royal Navy and US Navy vessels.
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While the driving lights are the first use of a laser beam reflected off a mirror, the daytime running lamps, with their characteristic "torch" effect, and the indicator lights use LEDs.
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On Tuesday, in the first use of the 2001 Patriot Act against a virtual currency, the Treasury Department invoked a section of the law to choke off Liberty Reserve from the U.S. financial system.
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He has attended gatherings for a medical association celebrating the anniversary of the first use of anesthetics and another for the Gasparilla Parade, a pirate-themed festival that is the city's version of Mardi Gras.
Over the past week, researchers at Finnish security company F-secure have identified what they say is the first use of Storm's massive "botnet"--a collection of hundreds of thousands of computers hijacked with hidden software--to steal users' banking information.
The term first appears in peer-reviewed scientific periodicals in 2000, but geosciences journals are a little slower to adopt it: the first use of the term in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research for example seems to have been in 2008.
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Nevertheless, stone circles and henges do appear to be connected parts of a tradition that developed in Britain from around 3000 to 2000 BC - in other words, during the later Neolithic period (when agriculture began here) and moving into the earlier Bronze Age (when we see the first use of metals, from about 2400 BC).
Perhaps we will call this the "job loss recovery" because we don't seem to have turned the corner in the labor market--and it appears much worse than earlier jobless recoveries (thanks to Erica Groshen at the New York Fed for finding that the first use of the term "jobless recovery" was in The New York Times in the 1930s).
In 2008, Dr Cummer first described the theory of acoustic cloaking in an article in Physical Review Letters, and earlier this year a group from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrated the first practical use of the theory in an article in the same journal.
Labour leader Ed Miliband, whose phrase "squeezed middle" - referring to those hit hardest by falling living standards - was word of the year in 2011, made the first recorded use of omnishambles in the House of Commons in April.
Henry Ford, back in the 1930s, was one of the first to posit the use of soybeans as a source for plastics for his automobiles and fabric for his clothes.
Henry Ford (nyse: F - news - people ), back in the 1930s, was one of the first to posit the use of soybeans as a source for plastics for his automobiles and fabric for his clothes.
The Mini was one of the first cars to popularize the use of the universal joint in the drive train, previously used in submarine control gear.
It was the first important use of rubber, and the misspelled "mackintosh" was soon in great demand in Britain's rainy climate.
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In 1925, following the horrific experience of chemical warfare in World War I, an international convention was signed which attempts to do nothing more than bar the first-use of chemical weapons.
This is the first known use of social media being employed in this manner though, and the growth of individual online presences will only make it easier for the U.S. to do it again.
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Rajaratnam was charged in an indictment unsealed last week with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and five counts of securities fraud, similar to charges his brother was unable to overcome in a 2011 trial that featured the first extensive use of wiretap recordings in the history of insider trading prosecutions.
Sir MICHAEL QUINLAN (British Defense Ministry): I see the theoretical case for brandishing the option of first use if anybody else uses biological or chemical weapons, but I think the realism of having to do that is very low, and it seems to me unfortunate at a time when everyone is expecting the five nuclear powers to downplay nuclear weapons, to reduce their salience.
The study was the first of its kind to use facial measurements to assess the similarity of the faces.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health recently published the first ever guide to the safe use of adult drugs in children, giving guidance on safe dosages and side-effects.
In 2008, Congress passed the PRO IP Act, which for the first time allowed the use of civil asset forfeiture in copyright cases.
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He was one of the first presidents to use tools of our profession to shape public sentiment.
The U.S. military plans to use the prototype with a small group of soldiers first before deciding whether to expand its use of the technology, Taussig said.
Tom Skinner, a CDC spokesman, said the agency has sent H1N1 strains to roughly seven labs around the world to use in the first steps of vaccine development.
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