This proverb was said to be first used in the fifteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

However,observers said the negotiations clearly settled the race to be first.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

And I wanted to be first.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

"So,therefore, I think now there is a possibility that the sentences would be first reduced, then crushed,later on.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

Equally excited fans greeted the launch from Hong Kong to Frankfurt, where some arrived as early as 3 am to be first in line.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

"And so based on that moment, I wrote a song called 'Let him be first.' After all,he'll be the most hated and reviled man in all of England.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Let him be first."

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

He is the first person to be tried on piracy charges in the United States in more than one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The study is said to be the first to examine in detail measurements of bone strength instead of bone density.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

It would be the first of seven trips that she would make to the area in the next forty-seven years.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

An advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there are five groups that should be vaccinated first.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

But he was also right that it would be the first step toward ending slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

There are worries that the crisis could be the first of more to come in other parts of the world.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09