first instance

In the first instance he made money from his business.

So you don't have a case in the first instance.

All I wanted to do in the first instance was to find the place.

Although you'd have to do that in the first instance.

This was not the first instance of such a case.

How on earth would that have happened in the first instance?

This is the first instance of a work set to music.

This was the first instance of the name in use.

This led her, in the first instance, into the field of music.

The first instance we know about was before anything started with the Council, by almost a year.

Making contact with the families in the first instance was the most difficult problem.

I do not think that this should be done in the first instance.

That was the first instance where he dropped to the floor.

I think it would be much better if you wrote a letter in the first instance.

In the first instance, these seem to me to be excellent reports.

She calls out to a man without being addressed by him in the first instance.

That is, then, in the first instance, a legal opinion rather than a political one.

To him I must refer you, in the first instance.

How the event was reported in the first instance is not revealed.

The Fellowship will be for three years in the first instance.

While the appointment will be for 1 year in the first instance.

In the first instance could be something like we have for book reviews here.

That was the reason, in the first instance, for setting up the Agency.

This branch can hear such cases on the first instance.

In the first instance its students they will study common areas between the two religions.