How to Use in the first instance in a Sentence

in the first instance

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• And if the root tips are damaged, root hairs won’t develop in the first instance.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2021
• All books, meanwhile, exist in the first instance to feed their authors.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• Money growth will lead in the first instance (1–9 months) to asset-price inflation.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 17 Apr. 2021
• What did Binger say in the first instance that made Judge Bruce Schroeder react so strongly toward him?
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2021
• Why did Harris decide to engage in such self-flagellation in the first instance?
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• The sanctions are designed in the first instance to try to deter Russia from taking further aggression.
  — NBC News, 27 Feb. 2022
• Diana’s small victories were enjoyed by our mothers who were too pious to stray out of revenge or much too proud to even utter martial issues in the first instance.
  — Alegría Adedeji, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Nov. 2020
• Alice and Bob need, in the first instance, to trust that the contact identification is in fact accurate—that the two of them were indeed within transmission distance.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Wired, 18 June 2020
• Theirs became an epic friendship, built in the first instance on a shared love of words that grew with time into deep affection and profound intellectual kinship.
  — Daniel H. Weiss, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Both scores were set up by Otay Ranch mistakes, a roughing the punter call that enabled the Titans to maintain possession in the first instance and an interception that gave them the ball inside Otay’s 30-yard line in the second instance.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• Expect, therefore, to see more ethical and/or sustainable promotions like the one in Oslo popping up across European airports in the first instance, and then further afield.
  — Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Capitalism, as Peter Drucker remarked in 1954, is in the first instance about creating value for customers.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• However, social pressure is still present — family and friends often discourage women from divorcing and Chinese courts tend to rule against divorce in the first instance, in order to maintain social stability.
  — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2021
• Policy would come from a nine-member Transparency Commission and governor appointed by the Honduran president in the first instance and internally thereafter.
  — Quinn Slobodian, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• Most California employers will have to update their employee handbooks to incorporate the new bereavement leave mandate, either to adopt such a policy in the first instance or to revise their existing bereavement leave policy.
  — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 10 Sep 2024