Synonym: earlier, in the beginning, originally, primarily, to begin with. Similar words: the first person, first prize, marketplace, first, at first, first of all, place, at first sight. Meaning: adv. 1. before now 2. of primary import.
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61. In the first place, it was relativist; it proclaimed no value system as its basis; it lacked normative quality.
62. This assumes that banks have surplus liquidity in the first place.
63. What interests me most is where he got all that money in the first place.
64. There won't be a brain being wired up in the first place, unless there is a complete developing embryo.
65. Superman never would have injured his knee in the first place.
66. In the first place, Handy attributes more permanence to the professional core than actually exists.
67. But he bears the responsibility for hiring Livingstone in the first place instead of a career security official.
68. We haven't made a decision, because, in the first place, we do not know enough at this point.
69. In the first place, the opinion polls frightened the life out of everyone.
70. In the first place, it deals with those elements in human nature which are timeless.
71. It does not deal directly with possession of weapons, nor with the legitimacy of resort to war in the first place.
72. He hadn't been offered the part in the first place and was more than content in the role of Smee.
73. Prices had not climbed as fast in the first place and were less dependent on volatile international buying.
74. We robbed them of their land in the first place to reward the Annamese who collaborated with us.
75. Well, in the first place(sentencedict.com), Quinn would never say such a thing.
76. It is the towering, 103-foot cross atop city parkland that landed the measure on the ballot in the first place.
77. In the first place, the pension being offered was roughly halved in value.
78. Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place.
79. And who bought them in the first place, in those orange and red floral patterns?
80. In the first place, most of its key concepts are essentially ambiguous.
81. He hadn't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place, as she knew very well.
82. A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association.
83. The administration is more concerned not to get caught in the crossfire than to prevent the crossfire in the first place.
84. The better approach, in my opinion, is to eat the right foods in the first place.
85. In the first place the division of trade between intra- and extra-trade is not only affected by economic integration.
86. Even though Ausmus should never have been sent away in the first place.
87. Infanticide is a defence to murder, but it is more usual to charge infanticide in the first place.
87. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
88. In the first place, governments all over the world offer fiscal incentives to attract foreign firms to open factories.
89. For goodness sake, what made you think David Chester would walk into this in the first place?
90. If not, why build in the capability in the first place?
More similar words: the first person, first prize, marketplace, first, at first, first of all, place, at first sight, in place, replace, first and foremost, workplace, take place, out of place, in place of, placement, replacement, in the future, take the place of, palace, burst into, in that, in the way, in the end, in the air, complaint, in the dark, in the past, in the way of, in the open.