How to Use in the first instance in a Sentence
in the first instance
idiom
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And if the root tips are damaged, root hairs won’t develop in the first instance.
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Jeff Lowenfels,
Anchorage Daily News,
10 June 2021
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All books, meanwhile, exist in the first instance to feed their authors.
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Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2020
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Money growth will lead in the first instance (1–9 months) to asset-price inflation.
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Andrew Stuttaford,
National Review,
17 Apr. 2021
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What did Binger say in the first instance that made Judge Bruce Schroeder react so strongly toward him?
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Christopher Kuhagen,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
12 Nov. 2021
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Why did Harris decide to engage in such self-flagellation in the first instance?
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Charles C. W. Cooke,
National Review,
17 Feb. 2022
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The sanctions are designed in the first instance to try to deter Russia from taking further aggression.
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NBC News,
27 Feb. 2022
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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.
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Alegría Adedeji,
Harper's BAZAAR,
24 Nov. 2020
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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.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
Wired,
18 June 2020
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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.
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Daniel H. Weiss,
WSJ,
18 Nov. 2022
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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.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Apr. 2021
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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.
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Kevin Rozario,
Forbes,
9 Sep. 2021
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Capitalism, as Peter Drucker remarked in 1954, is in the first instance about creating value for customers.
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Steve Denning,
Forbes,
28 Apr. 2021
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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.
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NBC News,
27 Mar. 2021
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Policy would come from a nine-member Transparency Commission and governor appointed by the Honduran president in the first instance and internally thereafter.
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Quinn Slobodian,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2023
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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.
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Dan Eaton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Nov. 2022
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