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'The criminal charge was wrong in the first place, so the ruling by no means can be right itself, ' he said.

You know. . . after you break outside these walls, that's the first place they're gonna look for you-- family.

To see why rainbows are curved it helps to understand what causes them in the first place.

The only way to get out of debt is to understand why you're in debt in the first place.

The only safe way to avoid a build-up in public debt is not to have the bubble in the first place.

But pointing out how risky venture capital is only raises the question of why the government went into it in the first place.

This might have been intended as a mild slap in the face of GM, which had gotten them into this trouble in the first place.

He said the other side of the free economy is that much of it never would have made money in the first place.

You'll never make the time that it takes to produce the sort of good work that theoretically made you so appealing in the first place.

In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me.

Billie: "Madagascar. " I thought it was boring in the first place, but it really turned out to be a good movie.

While performing the cleanse I had to address why I was a host in the first place and what I got out of it.

Surely the best way to cut down on your carbon emissions would be not to make your frivolous world trip in the first place.

There before my eyes the bridge shimmered and disappeared as if it had never been visible in the first place.

But I had not spoken to any of the questions which got me started reading philosophers in the first place.

This article will show what is meant by "overlapping iterations" and why the question of using this technique comes up in the first place.

If the employee denies it, you are legally required to describethe symptoms that led you to ask the question in the first place.

You say to yourself, "I wish I could get it out of my head. " But isn't it amazing that you got it in there in the first place!

He is always in the first place in his class, so there is no way for all the other students to catch up with him.

I suppose she said all that because she opposed the idea of calling you in the first place.

While some may say he has lost his pace, I would question how much pace he had in the first place.

The better question might be why do they get married in the first place, and then end up in divorce?

In the first place, when all I've got to say is done, let me lose my miraculous power; let all these dangerous miracles be stopped.

You've got to ask yourself how he became posh in the first place.

The integumentary system (which includes hair and nails) is often the first place that a serious vitamin deficiency shows up.

On account of the fact that he took the first place in the match, many of his friends held a party for him.

Gastric cancer is one of the most common tumors, of which the morbidity and mortality are in the first place in malignant neoplasms.

Pug did not know why he was back in her good graces, or why he had fallen out in the first place.

This relationship is not likely to start up in the first place, and not likely to last if you do make it to first base.

She looked at me as though she'd expected this sort of answer and didn't know why she'd asked in the first place.

In medical professionalism the doctor's responsibility is always to put patient's interest in the first place.

As he's got the first place in the English contest, John can't wait to tell his mother the good news.

Had I known you were such a deadbeat, I never would have taken on your project in the first place.

Hatamura says it's not always easy to look back and admit to problems that you should have thought of in the first place.

How you judge him on the former depends in part on how much you deem him responsible for Britain's parlous situation in the first place.

When you throw ice into a cappuccino it'll melt the foam, which is what by definition makes it a cappuccino in the first place.

And that was that, he thought, if it had ever been anything in the first place.

Before you know, our school is the first place in the school, the boarding school discipline, and style.

Some of you are probably asking how the connections ended up in the DCL in the first place.

Thus, marriage can only be a man and a woman because we are accountable to the One who made marriage in the first place.

With your help I made such rapid progress that I won the first place in the Spoken English Competition of the city.

Some non-profits are trying to step in and encourage people not to abandon their furry friends at shelters in the first place.

In the Old Testament the thought of the kingdom took the first place; in the New Testament prominence is given to that of Priesthood.

But the industry and the governments keen to promote it look like repeating some of the mistakes that gave it a bad name in the first place.

I was a monitor in elementary school and had a good grade , so I got the first place in the graduation exam.

They did not find much evidence that state policies had a notable influence on the establishment of the clusters in the first place.

How much would these mean without his family, who made them special in the first place?

your mom has always been a free spirit, that's one of the reasons i fell for her in the first place.

The first is a failure to do the planning necessary to avoid lawsuits in the first place. In the U.

It is also easy to see how the availability of credit pushed house prices up to such absurd levels in the first place .

What really was a source of grief to her was, not that she lost Charles, but that she never really had him in the first place.

On the general question of bubble, in the first place you don't know it's a bubble until the bubble ends, by definition.

But most seem to think the best defence against a legal assault is to produce a relatively timid redistricting plan in the first place.

Greece would not have such a problem with higher bond yields if it had not borrowed so much money in the first place.

It is not so much a question of decoupling as [these markets] do not appear to have been tightly linked in the first place.

But notice how much easier it is to create the message in the first place!

Despite what got the ball rolling in the first place, you can choose to be part of a move in the opposite direction.

Julia: I guess it's too much to hope for you to apologize for getting me kidnapped in the first place, right?

"I get much more pleasure giving money to what I consider worthwhile causes than making the money in the first place, " he says.

No. But you would try to coerce a girl not to go out with me in the first place.

No one should kill in the first place, but killing as a means of punishment is just as bad.

I just saw Vanessa and I realized all over again why I fell in love with her in the first place.

But that does not address the point that the new cells have relied on the output of genes from the old one to get going in the first place.

It was said that she had taken the first place in the contest.

"It was the first place I could think of, " she said.

Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of those concerned are far from convinced that it's a good idea to use toilets in the first place.

But, most of these young visitors did not have a clue about what they would be studying, or why they wanted to go abroad in the first place.

She got the first place in the exam and was proud of it.

The first place that vascular disease can show up is where the blood vessels are the smallest and the farthest away from the heart.

In the first place you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.

Youngor company occupies the first place in Chinese shirt market and leads shirt product upgrading by independent innovation continuously.

Or it might dismiss the complaint on the grounds that the plaintiffs did not have the right to lodge it in the first place.

Many wonder if the authorities could not spend the money more wisely, or not collect so much in the first place.

To punish him for not fixing everything immediately they gave the car keys back to the party who smashed up their car in the first place.

In test-driven development automated tests should be written in the first place, in comparison to manual tests performed by team members.

Those ideas concern the existing users of tobacco; another three are aimed at persuading people not to light up in the first place.

Each generation likes to think they invented sex, conveniently forgetting how they came into this world in the first place.

Despite the incredible success of her media company, she has not forgotten what made her want to be a journalist in the first place.

Clearly marking the beginning and end of a break will help you take a break in the first place.

The key problem, though, was that he shouldn't have been appointed in the first place. He was too much of an insider.

My suggestion: Try the best not to do something with which you hate others in doing so in the first place.

In theory, being able to withdraw money from a pension scheme may persuade employees to contribute to it in the first place.

Less welcome was the company's failure to explain how the problem had arisen in the first place.

He did as his teacher told him and won the first place in the exam.

"Even better, it may prevent the progression from prehypertension to hypertension in the first place, " he said.

These two problems take up the first place in the meeting.

At the age of 5, he won the first place in a local competition.

To ensure that the probability that this might happen is zero, the Terrans will insist that the articles are never built in the first place.

I said to Dad and planned to get the first place in my class.

I believe that you can't help singing our national anthem when you win the first place in the Olympic Games.

They also fail to answer the fundamental question of what this money was doing in Swiss or British banks in the first place.

That argument, I suppose, does not carry much weight nowadays, because, in the first place, cause is not quite what it used to be.

I want you to be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be very unhappy.

But, of course, I think I'd prefer not to have had to come from behind in the first place.

Joey: How do you think I got him in the first place?

It would seem that we are still struggling to grasp the concept of "good nutrition" and the reason why we eat food in the first place.

That plan is said to be aimed at avoiding subpoenas, though the publishing of the location data at all is opt-in in the first place.

I was the chairman of the Students' Union and I always got the first place in exams among those 1316 students.

On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

The time spent setting this system up would simply be lost productive time since there was no problem in the first place.

Your site has content that you want to get out to the masses, which is why you put it on the Internet in the first place.

You might have given up because it was too hard, too much work, or maybe you think that you don't deserve your goal in the first place.

He also never explained why some graduate students, with low GRE scores, were working for him in the first place.

The first place (that) they visited in London was the Big Ben.

By appointing Mr Palocci in the first place, Ms Rousseff had sent a strong signal to investors that she could be trusted.

One question though: why on Earth did the usually wise, usually insightful Dumbledore hire him in the first place?

She bet me a meal that Jane would get the first place in the speech contest.

In the rush of activity, sometimes we lose track of, you know, the ways that we connected with folks that got us here in the first place.

Mr Madoff seemed unable to say no and risk disappointing those around him, which apparently sparked the fraud in the first place.

This strategy sounds much better than what was the setup in the first place.

Some of the best are now disinclined to leave in the first place.

Asking for cash from the company that sold the buggy software in the first place sounds a bit like blackmail.

Huh, so if we won't be able to tell what they're saying, what good is picking up the transmission in the first place?

I got the first place in the National English Speech contest, winning honors for my school.

What I won't do is return to the failed theories of the last eight years that got us into this fix in the first place. . .

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.

A lot depends on why you broke up in the first place, and how you feel now, but if you'd like to try, be my guest.

Most companies have ways of trying to keep software and data from being tampered with in the first place.

But its main projects, in stable places like the United States, Canada and Chile, never seemed that risky in the first place.

Egypt Watchman says that the report mentioned that the judge is not entitled to file such a case in court in the first place.

I reluctantly went with him, even though I desperately wanted to stay in the first place that really seemed like home.

But many would question the need for this sort of industrial policy in the first place.

The manager has come to realize that just what a wise decision he made by recruiting me in the first place.

The brain is the first place in the body to become dehydrated.

After all, they wouldn't have typed in "Mr. X" in the first place unless they were interested in learning more about him.

In the first place, the time of learning the mother tongue is the most favourable of all, namely, the first years of life.

In the first place, in my opinion, I believe that vocabularies are the most difficult to overcome the obstacle for us.

You're walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

What made Madeleine sit up in bed was something closer to the reason she read books in the first place and had always loved them.

"In the first place, looks in a man are of no importance with a woman, provided he is manly, and not disfigured or deformed. "

Finally I got two golden prizes as the first place of the group and was awarded the title of "Little Performer of Shandong Province" .

Individually we also need to put God's word right back into the first place in our Christian life.

In the first place the men of the disbanded royal bodyguard suddenly turned loose on to the street of a capital seething with unrest.

You have to read between the lines to see it: Respect for those who take on the role of innovators in the first place.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul was the only candidate who disagreed, saying there never was a good reason to go to war in the first place.

In a time of change, young people often put self interest in the first place and tune out social commitment.

In fact, it's probably not appropriate for you to be "friending" her or the cute summer intern in the first place.

Thankfully, he wasn't hurt, but he never should have been there in the first place.

For that reason the tool does not allow invalid names to be entered in the first place.

Just as the advantaged are now more likely to tie the knot in the first place, they are also more likely to remarry following a divorce.

A tonne of coal fetches around $120. A diamond for the same price would be so small you'd probably never find it in the first place.

During his tenure, due to their efforts to work seriously, has sales in the company's in-house guide to all in the first place.

Staying motivated to lose weight and exercise is tough -- and the hardest part is usually getting started in the first place.

Feicui is the traditional import goods in Yunnan, which still occupies the first place in the jewelry trade of the whole province.

Shell has still not been able to say why the leak occurred in the first place.

Now let us look at the matter the other way round, and see the effect of imposing a tariff in the first place.

Go back in time: The first step to overcoming self doubt is to recognize that it's there in the first place.

That said, the two countries are as different as chalk and cheese, and the comparison is silly in the first place.

You are bound to suffer a legal claim from them sooner or later: better not to start such an arrangement in the first place.

How you display the wisdom of your crowd can be as important as how you ask for it in the first place.

It is not the best definition, because it obscures the reason why prices for most everything go up in the first place.

In fact, the company can honestly claim to have made such photographs possible in the first place.

I cant for the life of me understand why they made him Captain of England in the first place !

This tends to be the first place I stop at and start working on.

But now you're finding out that keeping up with it is as hard as starting out in the first place.

'That's the whole reason we put it in a vault in the first place, ' he said.

Hainan was the first place in China to experience a development and real estate boom after it was declared China's newest, province in 1988.

After all, that's where the ideas for useful software come from in the first place.

Ancient desert-dwellers knew better than anyone that the best way to keep a home cool was to keep it from getting hot in the first place.

How the hell do they expect you to get three years experience in the first place, if they won't hire you unless you've already got it?

Our college won the first place in the number of Microsoft examination.

I can't believe that you got the first place in that English contest!

The decree aroused only muted controversy, yet it called into question the point of holding a referendum in the first place.

First, China takes the first place in grain production and consumption, and exports the most grain in Asia.

In the first place, no one can ignore the fact that wood is an indispensable raw material for industrial production and daily life.

In other words, you sacrifice one of the main attractions for setting up a yuan fund in the first place.

However, if everyone were that reasonable, there would not be so many problems in the first place.

And was that why she always chose the weak ones in the first place?

Let your speech reflect your personality and your passion for the project that brought you to this stage in the first place.

He implied that we had been wrong in attempting such a rescue in the first place.

And then they repackage them and sell them out on markets for literally more money than a sterile syringe, in the first place.

If we had not expected a raise in the first place, however, we never would have been disappointed would we?

However, such a strategy runs counter to the underlying reasons for conducting a quality test plan review in the first place!

If these were people working in county hall or any office, these issues would be taken seriously or not happen in the first place.

It has been 16 months since Australia's Northern Territory became the first place in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia.

The idea that God , that sustaining the world is as much of a task for God as creating it in the first place.

It is more important to be able to apply technology intelligently and efficiently than it is to develop it in the first place.

That's because China's household savings is not high in the first place, ' he said.

This state of denial stems partly from the fact that the north's politicians never wanted the south to have a referendum in the first place.

If you don't want that happening, don't put it up in the first place.

He was told to have got the first place in the speech contest.

It might be objected that in some Muslim societies women are not allowed to drive in the first place.

Some borrowers have exhausted their unemploymentbenefits, while others did not qualify in the first place.

As if she would even be attracted to guys like us in the first place.

Though it changed direction again, a couple of weeks ago, it is only now getting back to where it was in the first place.

We think that it is better to feel his greatness in his commonness than treat him as a great man in the first place.

And two obtain province quality compare and assess the first place in succession.

Come to think of it, where did her pose of moral superiority come from in the first place?

Of course it is prudent to be prepared for a threat against you, but you may question what caused it in the first place.

Of course, we had to be a little brave to choose Egypt as our vacation destination in the first place.

Though they offer entrancing subjects for study, they were in the first place written to be enjoyed.

But, as he concedes, "that might be because we selected the right people in the first place" .

Somewhat demoralising, you may think, but before you worry about all that, you have to write the manuscript in the first place.

I have no regrets about leaving him out in the first place but equally, I had no hesitation in bringing him back.

With the help of the pen I got the first place. I became famous soon and a lot of people came to beg me for some characters.

after all, that order made it middle class in the first place.

You're the reason we're on "gossip girl" in the first place. If it wasn't for you we'd all be safe.

As the boom times fade, an important holiday question surfaces: why in the world did we buy all this junk in the first place?

Why the rules were not enforced in the first place is the better question to ask.

Admittedly, the case would have been simpler had the goldsmith registered his design under the design law of India in the first place.

This doesn't seem ideal to me as I would rather not be slipping in the first place and then waiting for the system to react.

Regardless of the route, no one's sure why arctic terns have such a long migration in the first place.

driving, u win, but I'm not the first place here eh, you know that?

you know in a dog show . you would definitely take the first place.

In the first place, my parents are different religions, and all the children in our family are atheists.

More disturbing than the fact that this doll was even made in the first place is the "try me" button on his stomach.

Congratulations to get the first place in this competition! Please come and get your paper!

Yet such a turn would, in the first place, be symptomatic for Europe's own failure to adjust to changing economic realities.

Other than the general problem of identifying what souls are in the first place, two arguments have been suggested against soul theory.

As we say in the sewer, if you're no prepared to go all the way, don't put you boots on in the first place.

Though this may have persuaded him to negotiate with the Ugandan government in the first place, it also made later peace talks trickier.

I don't know why I've invited you on this show in the first place except somebody told me you were an expert.

And that there is indeed an inherent ignorance of any expression of fear in the first place.

In the first place, school authorities should provide far more services to help freshmen to get used to the new life as soon as possible.

For some, the motivation to leave is the same one that drew them to Wall Street in the first place: money.

Can you imagine that he should take the first place in the long jump contest?

The best strategy is to avoid putting such a person on a team in the first place.

He failed to win the first place in the competition.

He has become an envy of all his friends, since he won the first place in the oral-English competition.

Jun: The Eiffel Tower is the first place I would visit in Paris. But I don't think I could climb all those stairs!

However you find such vestigial code, or whyever it was put there in the first place, take it out.

Nevertheless, the U. S. regulatory framework forces many foreign companies to give up on a NYSE or Nasdaq listing in the first place.

Depending on how you look at it, Savant will either never be beaten, or was not worth beating in the first place.

For the same reason, they are less keen to pay for goods with yuan -- and don't have much of it on hand in the first place.

Even if children stop tantrums when spanked, that doesn't mean they get why they shouldn't have been acting up in the first place.

How you behave during stressful situations is just as important as planning for the problem in the first place.

And many observers share Mr. Brill's analysis that the big mistake was allowing readers to grow used to getting it free in the first place.

In the first place, it is a study of the tradition that women were members of a subject sex throughout history.

A: For your first question, in the first place, China will not hand over the North Korean to South Korea.

David Brooks: Interestingly, that was the argument F. D. R. used to create Social Security in the first place.

As a consequence, he got the first place in this grade exam.

"We should never have been there in the first place, " he says of Afghanistan, to a constituent startled by his candour.

It was because defence chiefs on both sides of the Atlantic foresaw this that they were reluctant to intervene in the first place.

For me, the physical effects of the disease were what brought me to the doctor in the first place.

Very likely, whatever it was that made them not want to get married in the first place ended up becoming a problem long-term.

"Take a subway, and get off at a random stop, and eat at some dump that's the first place you see, " suggests Fisher.

Found a blue ring, feeling the first place mouth could hang.

You can't imagine how they were excited when they won the first place in the game.

In the meantime he had forgotten how the machine came to be in their basement in the first place.

In the first place it is a perennial --- if not in actual fact, at least in the greengrocer's shop.

Men might not admit that they're into the romance stuff, but that difference is actually part of your allure in the first place.

Among older adults, falls are becoming an increasing problem, so it is important that we find ways to help prevent them in the first place.

Children take part in competitive sports, trying to break school records and take the first place.

Of course, for potential victims of video spam, the best thing is not to get duped into visiting YouTube in the first place.

Rather than picking fights over the currency, Congress should step back and ask why Americans are so upset with China in the first place.

The cost of replacing a bad hire far exceeds the marginal additional cost of hiring the best person in the first place.

I often thought to myself that I could get the first place in our class last term.

In the first place, education is the only way to turn the population pressure to human resource advantage.

In many cases, a friend sent me a vCard via email or Bluetooth, and I never looked at the number field in the first place.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.