Firstly, IBM chose to stick to the hierarchical model with semi-network extensions in their established products such as IMS and DL / I.

Firstly, the Ti4400 was perceived as being not good enough for those who wanted top performance ( who preferred the Ti4600 ), nor those who wanted good value for money ( who typically chose the Ti4200 ), causing the Ti4400 to fade into obscurity.

Firstly because it assumed that the two depleted aquifers had no chance of recovering, and it chose the easy and cheaper immediate solution with no account taken of future water resources.

Firstly, they often use a railroad track design, to allow the toe and heel pieces to slide, which in turn allows the ski to flex deeply, without a non-flexing spot underfoot due to the binding.

Firstly, the use of such a weapon is of no use to an occupying force, as the target area becomes uninhabitable ( due to the fallout caused by radioactive poisoning of the involved environment ).

Firstly, it was the working headquarters of Ireland's major bank, which would need to have an alternative headquarters provided, were the state to use the building for parliamentary purposes ;

Firstly, the number of attributes in use was heavily restricted.

Firstly, and most importantly, the guard would use the brake van's brakes to assist with keeping the train under control on downwards gradients and whenever he could see that the locomotive's crew was attempting to slow the train.

Firstly, the board's election of 1870 was polled by secret ballot, being the first large-scale election to use this approach in Britain.

Firstly, proportionality refers to the relationship between the defending state's scope and nature of the objectives being pursued, and the instruments available for use to pursue this.

Firstly, there is the identification of the system in use, in this case Enigma ; secondly, breaking the system by establishing exactly how encryption takes place, and thirdly, setting, which involves finding the way that the machine was set up for an individual message, i. e. the message key.

* Firstly, CPTED professionals see the causes of crime one-dimensional because of the use of language such as certainty as opposed to probability when predicting crime, which results in crime being caused by poorly designed environments.

Firstly, the RMA established one integrated framework that replaced the many previous resource-use regimes, which had been fragmented between agencies and sectors, such as land use, forestry, pollution, traffic, zoning, water and air.

Firstly, he can only use his own three boards ( ironically, these boards spell his name correctly ), and can't go to the board shop.

Firstly, several junior agnatic members of the House of Oldenburg ( the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp among the first ones ), themselves usually titular Dukes in Schleswig-Holstein, assumed the title to constant use, as one of their main titles.

Firstly, Sir John Floyer, a physician of Lichfield, was struck by the remedial use of certain springs by the neighbouring peasantry, investigated the history of cold bathing and published a book on the subject in 1702.

The positivist view on law can be seen to cover two broad principles: Firstly, that laws may seek to enforce justice, morality, or any other normative end, but their success or failure in doing so does not determine their validity.

Firstly, it allows laws to be enacted without using up scarce Parliamentary time on technical matters, for example the fine detail of a public sector pension scheme or the precise design of traffic signs, thereby freeing Parliament to discuss matters of broad principle and policy.

Firstly, the Council of Ministers agrees on ( often very broad ) policy goals.

Firstly, there is metaphysical or philosophical materialism, in which matter-in-motion is considered primary and thought about matter-in-motion, or thought about abstractions, secondary.

# Firstly ( 4. 7 ), the Scythians ' legend about themselves, which portrays the first Scythian king, Targitaus, as the child of the sky-god and of a daughter of the Dnieper.

Firstly, the sun is not a point, but has an apparent size of about 32 arc minutes.

Firstly, a number of weeks following his original surprise appearance, Trevor cropped up during a spoof edition of This Is Your Life to ' reminisce ' with Lenny Henry about the earlier event.

Firstly, he would have been unaware of the speed, flexibility and determination of the Australian, British and New Zealand mounted force, which they were about to demonstrate.

Though it is difficult to sum up almost five centuries of evolution and differentiation among the Anabaptists, five distinctive attributes of Anabaptist Christians can be discerned: Firstly, they do not practice infant baptism – they believe it is important for someone to be old enough to make a mature choice about whether to be baptized and to be a church member.

Firstly there is a dispute about the utility of a very artificial term that covers an extremely long and complicated period of Egyptian history.

Firstly, it is necessary to know about Nairs.

Firstly, there if lobbyists are responsible about the issue, they will provide healthy animals, maintain healthy reefs, sustain reef animal populations, and adequately compensate fishing communities for their efforts.

Firstly, historians and political analysts who wrote about this issue directly after the war were not in possession of closed diplomatic records.

Firstly proving that there is a unique reconstruction of the signal from the zero crossings and secondly how to actually go about reconstructing the signal.

Firstly, it was into Henry IIs hands that the manor of West Tilbury Hall was taken, after its tenant in chief, William of Essex, defaulted in the King ’ s service against the Welsh at the battle of Conseyeth in 1163, when Gervase would have been about 10 or 15.

Firstly he set about coordinating the three bodies that had been set up to face the catastrophe.

Firstly, the Machines could allow any humans who did not, or could not, accept the Matrix for what it was to live in the physical world without having to recapture them ( this reduced dissent within the Matrix's population and prevented an exponentially-growing rejection rate from its population from causing entire " crops " of humans to die out, reducing power output ).

This is for two reasons: Firstly, many ethnic Faroese live in Denmark and few who are born there return to the Faroes with their parents or as adults.

Firstly they tend to be a vessel for showing eras of audiences issues across the globe visually and in the most effective manner.

Firstly, the British declared martial law in parts of the country — allowing for internment and executions of IRA men.

Firstly, a dissatisfied employee appropriates information to advance their own interests or to damage the company or, secondly, a competitor or foreign government seeks information to advance its own technological or financial interest ' Moles ' or trusted insiders are generally considered the best sources for economic or industrial espionage.

Firstly, he wanted to prevent it from degenerating into ' mere amusement ' for an opera-going public.

Firstly, contemporary works, including concertos and sonatas, usually specifically written for Segovia himself by composers he forged working relationships with, notably Spaniards such as Federico Moreno Torroba, Federico Mompou, and Joaquín Rodrigo, the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and the great Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Firstly as holiday homes, designed for short-term living.

Firstly, a former High Master of St Paul's School, Richard Mulcaster is credited with taking mob football and turning it into an organised, refereed team sport that was considered beneficial for schoolboys.

Since the Second World War, parts of the castle have been used by various educational establishments: Firstly, by the Newcastle Church High School for Girls then, from 1945 to 1975, as a teacher training college and, since 1981, by St.

Broadly, there are two different sources to traditional Eastern European Jewish civilisation: Firstly, the continuation of Talmudic centred scholarship, augmented by Kabbalah for a reserved elite, known as Lithuanian Orthodoxy, saw itself as continuing and protecting the traditional forms of Jewish worship through advanced study.

Firstly, they are non-constructive: they may show that some structure exists, but they give no process for finding this structure ( other than brute force search ).

Firstly, it failed to account for the slowness of the Austrian staff work, which impaired coordination between these forces.

Firstly, the northeast lowlands of Java were suitable for rice cultivation, and during Majapahit's prime numerous irrigation projects were undertaken, some with government assistance.

Firstly, like most evolutionary accounts of human nature, the importance of cultural diversity for survival may be an un-testable hypothesis, which can neither be proved nor disproved.

Firstly, large numbers of connections ( for example, those with peer-to-peer ( P2P ) software ) would cause the connection to slow down and eventually freeze the modem part of the STB ( also required for interactive TV services, which suffered a similar effect when downloading ).

Firstly, Bowra chaired a committee that produced the Report on Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, which resulted in a grant for those purposes from HM Treasury.

Firstly, on 17 September 2003, over six months after the required constitutional period expired, she finally announced a 16 November date for a third attempt at electing a President for Serbia.

Firstly, as " black boxes " are invented and abandoned, the individual is left with numerous devices that can perform the same task, rather than one dedicated for each task.

Firstly, because of his involvement in the Battle of Siffin against Ali, whom the Shia Muslims believe was Muhammad's true successor ( see Succession to Muhammad ); secondly, for the breaking of the treaty he made with Hasan ibn Ali, after the death of Hassan ibn Ali, one of broken terms being appointing his son Yazid as his successor ; thirdly, on account of his responsibility for the killing of Hasan ibn Ali by alluring his wife Ja ' dah binte Ash ' as to poison him ; and fourthly by distorting Islam to match his unislamic rule.

Firstly, the newly dated coins in the silver coin hoards give an earliest possible burial date for the coin hoards to 52 / 3-66 CE, based on an interpretation of a countermark.

Firstly, the application is assessed by an examiner for deficiencies which go to formalities.