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
• Certain issues might or will be perceived as political, but these are never on our minds in the first instance.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 July 2025
• Why did Harris decide to engage in such self-flagellation in the first instance?
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• This will allow managers to transfer out players who have been knocked out in the first instance, before targeting the best fixtures for each round.
  — Holly Shand, New York Times, 2 July 2026
• The designer wants to use AI technology to design swimwear in the first instance.
  — Marc Bain, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• States are allowed in the first instance to set the time, place and manner of elections subject only to congressional override.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
• Science is communal in the first instance, a matter of clubs and, not infrequently, pairings.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• The popping of those bubbles led in the first instance to the Great Depression and in the second to a recession.
  — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 31 Mar. 2020
• 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
• The sanctions are designed in the first instance to try to deter Russia from taking further aggression.
  — NBC News, 27 Feb. 2022
• Under Loper Bright,] our task [instead] is to determine ‘the best reading of the statute’ in the first instance.
  — Alden Abbott, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
• 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
• The more important question, though, is why Brazil’s government was demanding those removals in the first instance.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024
• Sometimes, courts threaten to hold the lawyers themselves in contempt if there is a belief on the part of the court that the lawyers are not complying with what the court ordered in the first instance.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
• These YouTube audiences are being attracted to the channels and the creators in the first instance, not the football.
  — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
• Without order and national solidarity, there can be no liberty—let alone license—in the first instance.
  — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
• Using my fitness examples again, in the first instance, my actions were irregular, insufficient and not aligned.
  — David Deane-Spread, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
• 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
• For them, there was no fundamental problem to solve in the first instance unless ESG goals were to be pursued to facially unfair extremes.
  — Robert Profusek, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
• How much leverage Ukraine has in the first instance on the battlefield, and ultimately, in turn, how much leverage Ukraine has at the diplomacy – at the diplomatic table.
  — NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
• During this time, Ukraine would require ironclad security guarantees from the West, likely by European forces in the first instance.
  — Miriam Sapiro, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Resolution of whether [Section] 2 affords private plaintiffs the ability to challenge state action is best left to the Supreme Court in the first instance.
  — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2023
• 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
• The commission is trying to get the parliament and EU member states to agree, in the first instance, to a postponement law, that would set down the timeline changes for implementation to offer some clarity for businesses.
  — María Mendiluce, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
• That would require creating those spaces in the first instance, but there were times in the October game that Palace set Munoz free down the right, while Hughes was sufficiently aware to be able to play in Sarr in the first half.
  — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• 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