This was the first law in American history to put restrictions on immigration targeting one nationality.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

It was the first time that a government had approved a law to preserve and protect land because of its great beauty.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

She is the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States and earlier, as head of Harvard Law School.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

The agreement,once it takes effect, will be the first under international law to target just this problem.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Tissainayagam is the first journalist in Sri Lanka to be sentenced under a law meant to prosecute terrorists and their supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Decades after the dangers of tobacco first became known, the strongest anti-smoking legislation in U.S.history has been signed into law by the president.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

Ensalaco said he hopes the conference is the first of many would help educate the public as well as law enforcement to reach the goal of ending human trafficking.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

"One of the things we found consistently in the academic literature and elsewhere was that the first responders, state and local law enforcement, did not recognize the signs of human trafficking."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23