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first and decade-long
The decision signaled the end of a bitter, decade-long debate within the Party leadership between first two, and then three factions.
His first term also saw the start of a decade-long development boom, and he later established the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund, which used oil revenues to invest for the long term in such areas as health care and research.
The crew was first group of a planned decade-long " permanent inhabitation " of the ISS.
It is the first album in a decade-long association with new label Warner Bros. Records ; the band's first project to be produced by David Foster ; and their first bona fide hit album since 1978's Hot Streets, giving the group a significant and lengthy " second wind " in commercial fortunes, in some ways eclipsing their considerable 1970s successes.
The crisis was aggravated by the beginning of Saracen ravages, the first Saracens having been called in by Radelchis and subsequently Siconulf in their decade-long war.
On February 26, 2011 the team captured the Connecticut State Open team championship, breaking Danbury's decade-long hold on that title ; the team ended the season ranked first in the state of Connecticut.
The first case heard by the CCJ was in August 2005 and was to settle a ' decade-long ' libel court case from Barbados.
After independence in 1971, Habibur Rahman Sheikh published in 1979 the first daily under the name and title Dainik Jahan, following his decade-long trial with weekly Banglar Darpan which had been launched in 1972.

first and series
The first series of Sherlock Holmes adventures ends with Holmes and Moriarty grappling together on the edge of a cliff.
This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.
Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.
The first report in this continuing series appeared in the September 1960 issue of the Journal.
The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.
Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.
Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.
In the first courtyard there are some fine bas-reliefs and friezes, and in the second a series of delightful terraced roof gardens above an ivy-covered wall.
Hansen will engage in his first workout at Miami Stadium prior to the opening tomorrow night of a two-game weekend series with the New York Yankees.
-- The first in a series of five productions will be held in War Memorial Auditorium Thursday, Oct. 26.
It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.
Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.
In English the noun alpha is used as a synonym for " beginning ", or " first " ( in a series ), reflecting its Greek roots.

first and severe
A naturalistic study from first admission for mania or mixed episode ( representing the hospitalized and therefore most severe cases ) found that 50 % achieved syndromal recovery ( no longer meeting criteria for the diagnosis ) within six weeks and 98 % within two years.
* 1811 – The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri.
Sheet erosion is generally seen as the first and least severe stage in the soil erosion process, which is followed by rill erosion, and finally gully erosion ( the most severe of the three ).
* Ohtahara syndrome is a rare but severe epilepsy syndrome usually starting in the first few days or weeks of life.
During the last three weeks of shooting, Fellini experienced the first signs of severe clinical depression.
The first was the American Civil War, which caused severe damage to some economic sectors in the South, including the Gulf Coast.
Tom Frame also records that Holt had already got into trouble twice while skindiving earlier in 1967 — on the first occasion, while snorkeling at Portsea in May, he got into severe difficulties due to a leaking snorkel and had to be pulled from the water by friends, gasping for breath, blue in the face and vomiting seawater.
The first heart operation using hypnosis rather than normal anesthesia ( because of severe problems with the patient ) was performed by his students with Dave Elman in the operating room as " coach ".
He was made Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in 1985, before being promoted to become Minister of State in the same department in 1986, first attracting national media attention over cold weather payments to the elderly in January 1987, when Britain was in the depths of a severe winter.
The first month in the Atlantic, the seas were not severe, but by the second month the ship was being hit by strong north-Atlantic winter gales causing the ship to be badly shaken with water leaks from structural damage.
This recovery was interrupted twice, first by a banking crisis and the bankruptcy of Banka Baltija, Latvia's largest bank, in 1995 and second by a severe crisis in the financial system of neighbouring Russia in 1998.
According to Jerzy Mazurek the native Polish-speaking population, like in other areas with Polish inhabitants, faced severe discrimination from Germanized local administration, in this climate first resistance defending the rights of rural population was formed ; according to Jerzy Mazurek usually teachers engaged in publishing Polish-language newspapers.
" An important implication of their work was that a " first strike " nuclear attack would have severe consequences for the perpetrator.
He was held for twelve months in different concentration camps suffering severe torture: first at the Tacna Regiment, then at the Military Academy ; later he was sent for eight months to a political prison on Dawson Island and from there he was transferred to the basement of the Air Force War Academy, and finally to the concentration camp of Ritoque, until international diplomatic pressure, especially from Diego Arria, then Governor of the city of Caracas in Venezuela, resulted in the sudden release of Letelier on the condition that he immediately leave Chile.
Low commodity prices and economic difficulties in Uruguay's main export markets, first in Brazil with the devaluation of the real then in Argentina in 2002, caused a severe recession — the economy contracted by 11 %, unemployment climbed to 21 % and the percentage of Uruguayans in poverty rose to over 30 %.
The first human studies attempted to correct the genetic disease severe combined immunodeficiency ( SCID ), but clinical success was limited.
* 1310 – 1330, many severe winters and cold, wet summers in Europe – the first clear manifestation of the unpredictable weather of the Little Ice Age that lasted for several centuries ( from about 1300 to 1900 ).
The rest of Admiral Drake's squadron also suffered heavy damage, but the casualties were not as severe as those taken on the first two ships.
Its membership declined dramatically after severe government repression as part of the first Red Scare and a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict.
These processes normally cause the first severe road interruptions, due not only to deposits accumulated on the road ( from several cubic metres to hundreds of cubic metres ), but in some cases to the complete removal of bridges or roadways or railways crossing the stream channel.
In 1941, they treated their first patient, Albert Alexander, who had been scratched by a rose thorn and was now suffering from severe facial infections.
When lasers were first invented, the speckle effect was considered to be a severe drawback in using lasers to illuminate objects, particularly in holographic imaging because of the grainy image produced.
Grazing animals with slow movements that will back off at the first notion of pain ( e. g., sheep and cows ) will not generally suffer the severe injuries often seen in other animals.

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