The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.

Opera lovers will be interested to learn that this church was the scene for the first act of Tosca.

In a long commentary which he has inserted in the published text of the first act of the play, he says at one point: `` However, that experience never raised a doubt in his mind as to the reality of the underworld or the existence of Lucifer's many-faced lieutenants.

There is, for example, a stunning Krakowiak that closes the first act ; ;

Wallace Gray has directed a difficult play here, usually well, but with just a bit too much physical movement in the first act for my taste.

After Amadeus abandonment in 1873, Parliament declared the Federal Republic ( including the Cuba, Puerto Ico and he Pacific Archipelagos ), the first act of President Estanbislao Figueras was to extend the Abolition Act to Puerto Rico.

The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.

In the first two visions, Amos is able to convince God not to act out the scenes of discipline presented to him.

According to Livy, his first act as king was to order the Pontifex Maximus to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of Numa Pompilius to be displayed to the public, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.

The first figure, which represents Eurydice in flames and smoke, in the act of leaving Hades, was completed towards the close of his sixteenth year.

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

After John Hinckley's attempted assassination of U. S. President Ronald Reagan, first lady Nancy Reagan commissioned astrologer Joan Quigley to act as the secret White House astrologer.

Gassmann's first act was to take Salieri to the Italian Church to consecrate his teaching and service to God, an event that left a deep impression on Salieri for the rest of his life.

He also notes that according to Genesis, the first speech act is due to Eve, addressing the serpent, and not to Adam.

The first two acts were successfully premièred in Zürich in 1937, but for personal reasons Helene Berg subsequently imposed a ban on any attempt to " complete " the final act, which Berg had in fact completed in particell ( short score ) format.

That moment, halfway through the first act, belongs to Ms. Lansbury, who has hitherto been perfectly entertaining, playing Madame Armfeldt with the overripe aristocratic condescension of a Lady Bracknell.

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack ; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own ; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

His first major act was to institute the Wild Card and divisional playoff play, which has created much controversy amongst baseball fans.

The Statute of Anne was the first real copyright act, and gave the publishers rights for a fixed period, after which the copyright expired.

Previously, there would be a sanity hearing first, and only then a commitment to an asylum or involuntary therapy.

In 1966, Reginald Pound, the first biographer given access to Scott's original sledging journal, revealed personal failings which cast a new light on Scott, although Pound continued to endorse his heroism, writing of " a splendid sanity that would not be subdued ".

All jurisdictions require a sanity evaluation to address the question first of whether or not the defendant has a mental illness.

Ornstein himself was unsettled by the earliest of these compositions: " I really doubted my sanity at first.

When he is first introduced in Ellis ' novel, young investment banker Patrick Bateman's " mask of sanity " is about to slip, according to his own admission.

The main character, Felix Farmer, is a phenomenally successful film producer who has just made the first flop of his career, to the dismay of his movie studio and the loss of his own sanity.

To keep her sanity, Emecheta wrote in her spare time ; however, her husband was deeply suspicious of her writing, and he ultimately burned her first manuscript.

After sleeping with Douglas, Murray temporarily regains his sanity and even displays some likeable characteristics, such as his genuine concern for the first victim of the violence.

Unfortunately, by the beginning of the novel, an accident on the first mission has damaged his senses and probably his sanity.

The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.

But first, we must define two terms so that their meaning will be clearly understood: form -- any unique sequence of alphabetic characters that can appear in a language preceded and followed by a space ; ;

The essential characteristic of an optimal policy when the state of the stream is transformed in a sequence of stages with no feedback was first isolated by Bellman.

Poem 30 of that sequence, for instance, speaks of how " Fear contended with desire ": " Others, I am not the first / have willed more mischief than they durst ".

The first was a movement away from the sequence dances towards dances where the couples moved independently.

The so-called shotgun sequencing technique ( which was used, for example, by The Institute for Genomic Research to sequence the first bacterial genome, Haemophilus influenzae ) does not produce entire chromosomes.

Beechcraft was not Beech's first company, as he had previously formed Travel Air in 1924 and the design numbers used at Beechcraft followed the sequence started at Travel Air, and were then continued at Curtiss-Wright, after Travel Air had been absorbed into the much larger company in 1929.

Claudius II was the first of a sequence of military emperors ( the so-called " Illyrian emperors " from their main ethnic origin ) who restored order in the empire in the late 3rd century.

The final expression follows from the previous one by the symmetry of x and y in the first expression, and by comparison it follows that the sequence of binomial coefficients in the formula is symmetrical.

If the convention B < sub > 1 </ sub >=− is used, this sequence is also known as the first Bernoulli numbers ( / in OEIS ); with the convention B < sub > 1 </ sub >=+ is known as the second Bernoulli numbers ( / in OEIS ).

The first step, fetch, involves retrieving an instruction ( which is represented by a number or sequence of numbers ) from program memory.

As an example of this process, in 2008 Danish researchers first revealed the sequence of events when oxygen and hydrogen combine on the surface of titanium dioxide ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >, or titania ) to produce water.

In one sequence, Marker repeats the same collection of shots three times with different commentary: the first one praising the Soviet Union, the second denouncing it, and the third taking an objective stance.

The name of this metabolic pathway is derived from citric acid ( a type of tricarboxylic acid ) that is first consumed and then regenerated by this sequence of reactions to complete the cycle.

Guest played a small role in the 1977 All In the Family episode " Mike and Gloria Meet ", where in a flashback sequence Mike and Gloria recall their first blind date, set up by Michael's college buddy Jim ( Guest ), who dated Gloria's girlfriend Debbie ( Priscilla Lopez ).

His first story sale was the climax of Modern Inventions, for a sequence where a robot barber chair gives Donald Duck a haircut on his butt.

He is known for being one of the first to sequence the human genome and for creating the first cell with a synthetic genome.

On September 4, 2007, a team led by Sam Levy published the first complete ( six-billion-letter ) genome of an individual human — Venter's own DNA sequence.

The 32 bit Berkeley RISC I and RISC II architecture and the first chips were mostly designed by a series of students as part of a four quarter sequence of graduate courses.

It first appeared in the sequence ii ( as in ingeníí ) in Latin manuscripts of the 11th century, then spread to i adjacent to m, n, u, and later spread to all lower-case i. The j, which separated from the i later, inherited the " dot ".

Ephrem did not comment on all passages in the Diatessaron, and nor does he always quote commentated passages in full ; but for those phrases that he does quote, the commentary provides for the first time a dependable witness to Tatian's original ; and also confirms its content and their sequence.

The first element in a sequence has an index of one.

Note that the first element in a sequence has the index one and that $ refers to the length ( i. e. total number of elements ) of the sequence.