This week, the United States for the first time refused to rule out deploying troops.
Reacting to these tragedies, the NCAA has for the first time established a rule for mandatory testing of all student athletes in D-1 schools.
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Since the time of the first Neanderthal primary, rule No. 1 in politics has been to tell people what they want to hear.
GDP, the government can borrow quite heavily for some time to finance investment without breaching the first rule.
Lawyers for the claimant said of the ruling in November 2011 that it was the first time a court had been asked to rule on whether the "relationship between a Catholic priest and his bishop is akin to an employment relationship".
Lawyers for the claimant, who is set to pursue a civil case, said it was the first time a court had been asked to rule on whether the "relationship between a Catholic priest and his bishop is akin to an employment relationship".
Making any mistake once was OK, but repeating that same mistake a second time was NOT OK. The hard, fast rule was that if you made any mistake for the first time the entire team would have your back in fixing that mistake if anything went wrong.
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This rule applied for every first-time occurrence of each new mistake you made.
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If teens are swimming in a natural body of water like a lake or river, they should use the rule "feet first, first time" to prevent spinal injuries.
That rule came into play for the first time in 1996, when San Diego's Tony Gwynn won his third straight NL batting title, and his seventh overall.
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Under outside pressure, the NYSE also last year repealed Rule 390, which for the first time enabled its member firms to freely trade listed equities over the counter, exposing the exchange to the full brunt of competition from Nasdaq and other venues.
It will be the first time the SFA has taken such action, invoking the same rule that led European governing body Uefa to punish Lithuania's Hearts midfielder Saulius Mikoliunas for diving in a game against Scotland.
Rangers were playing a second leg at Ibrox for the first time in four years and, having used the away goals rule to their advantage on several occasions in the intervening period, they were on the receiving with quarter of an hour gone.
On Feb. 9, NFHS announced its football rule changes for 2012, and, besides a concussion-protection rule that forces a play who gets his helmet dislodged to sit out the next play, one new rule is 1-2-3l, which for the first time allows member high schools to sell on-field advertising.
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For the first time in my career I doubt that it is fair to apply the strict liability rule in these cases.
In 2011, city officials tried unsuccessfully to convince the state to change a "last-in-first-out" rule that dictates newer teachers must be laid off before those with more time on the job.
The first rule of strategy is to keep your opponent busy attending to your agenda so he has no time to advance his own.
We all know what is needed -- a transition that is timely, new laws and a constitution that uphold the rule of law, political parties and a strong civil society, and, for the first time in Libyan history, free and fair elections.
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