Debt write offs should be considered in the first instance.

According to the age old belief of Malayalees, an auspicious kani at dawn on the Vishu day is lucky for the entire year.

At first it seems baffling.

And it seems like kind of an admirable philosophy at first something we might all agree to sign onto ...

Now, when you look at that the first time, you think, My god. How is reality coming out of that?

Listen, I'm going back to the swamp mermaid. Can you call me in a little while?

The reference to prima facie evidence would mean different things to different States.

At first, this seems surprising, since he said before the referendum that he would abide by its outcome.

In any case, the Chinese wage story is much more complicated than it might seem.

At the first glance there seems to be a huge mental, cultural and political gap dividing Turkey s women.

And, given such riches, competition might appear lucrative at first sight. But cooperation stands to enlarge the pie.

By contrast, seen from afar, in their new suits, you might think that Chinese economic elites are Japanese.

It is an attractive solution at first glance, but a closer look suggests cause for serious concern.

With respect to the last point, recent shifts in the composition of Chinese GDP appear disconcerting at first glance.

6) With regard to other classes of treaties, e.g., extradition treaties in the absence of any clear expression of intention otherwise, prima facie these are suspended.

Sudden terror before this omnipresent, all devouring monster was soon overtaken by fascination.

The difference is actually much smaller than often assumed, but at first sight a growth rate of 0.6 qualifies as a lost decade.

As so often happens in biotechnology, what looks at first like an abstruse technical issue raises many questions that cut to the core of our humanity.

At first it seems baffling. But, as I made clear at the time in my interview with Jean Paul Sartre in Le Nouvel Observateur , I was only the loudspeaker for a rebellion.

At first sight, this might seem like another dispute between economists and non economists, but the rift runs within, rather than between, disciplinary boundaries.

Considerations related to the low level of biological containment were major factors in the initial perception of the unsuitability of Iraq's dedicated biological weapons production facilities for the production of pathogens.

Your first your first pocketknife is like the first universal tool that you're given.

BOSTON September 11, 2001, may at least at first seem like an inappropriate addition to the history of nationalism, given Al Qaeda s explicitly stated global pretensions.

At first sight, the easiest question to address is the issue of the rights of the affected populations vis à vis their own States.

The difficulties that President Barack Obama is having in passing his basic program, whether in health care, climate change, or financial reform, are hard to understand at first glance.

But, charges of corruption aside, this outcome indicates that gas is not such an easy source of hard economic power as it would first appear.

He is the first survivor from his area.

SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA One commonly repeated argument for doing something about climate change sounds compelling, but turns out to be almost fraudulent.

It's the first version of the time machine.

The first ever ceremony consisted of six categories.

He was the first emperor of the House of Luxembourg.

By contrast, seen from afar, in their new suits, you might think that Chinese economic elites are Japanese. Where Russia represents a return to the past, one sees in China an opening, however ambiguous, to the future.

They re one of the first subsea aviators.

You are not the first to make this mistake.

The revolution changed the modern history of Egypt.

He was the first of the popes to come from a monastic background.

The first Commissioner of TfL was Bob Kiley.

Poland was the first to oppose Nazi aggression.

One of them turned up in our class as a maths teacher, and asked us to prepare the first 20 pages of the book on the first day!

The arbitral tribunal in North Atlantic Coast Fisheries stated that i nternational Law in its modern development recognizes that a great number of treaty obligations are not annulled by war, but at most suspended by it. At first glance, this school may appear diametrically opposed to the traditional view that war ipso facto terminates treaties after an examination of the many exceptions to each view, however, they do not appear to differ drastically.

It all started on October 25, 2006, when Egypt witnessed the first mass harassment incident on the first day of Eid Al Adha (Courban Bairam).

Counter intuitively, however, the excessive number of Europeans actually diminishes Europe s influence, because they usually defend national interests, which are often divergent.

On 6 May 1949 the EDSAC in Cambridge ran its first program, and due to this event, some consider it the first complete and fully operational regular electronic digital stored program computer .

When considered in this wider European context, there was more symmetry in the Russia Ukraine energy relationship than the simple numbers on energy dependence implied at first glance.

The first slap!