"And this will require that we continue to tackle the underlying problems that caused this turmoil in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.04.24

Particularly employees who got them into this mess in the first place. I think it is an outrage."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

Actual modernization,says Nemtsov, is impossible without naming and removing the people responsible for the stagnation and authoritarian rule in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Tabachnyk has raised eyebrows with statements that suggest western and eastern Ukraine should be separated, or should never have been united in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

"We don't want the girl to get on the plane in the first place."

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

To others, he is the financial industry insider who facilitated reckless corporate risk-taking that placed the national and global economy in grave peril in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

His latest statement focused on the need to correct flaws in the aviation security system that allowed the would-be bomber to board the Detroit-bound flight in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

NATO has nearly 60,000 troops in Afghanistan, but few alliance members wholeheartedly support the deployment, with many questioning what the North Atlantic alliance is doing there in the first place.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

You can't focus completely on pleasing them because you'll never win and then you're excluding a whole other world of people who weren't aware of the comic in the first place.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

"They have seen what happens when patients do not come in for regular check-ups or screenings because either their insurance company does not cover it, or they cannot afford insurance in the first place,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

"If an actress is getting older and you can tell by looking at her or him that they have had plastic surgery, then that takes away what people liked about that actor in the first place."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

It offends our values,". The president says the goal now must be to ensure that these kinds of abuses do not happen again, and that regulations are imposed that prevent the kind of risky deals that drove AIG to the verge of bankruptcy in the first place."

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

That was in nineteen eighty-seven, a year after the first induction ceremony, which took place at a hotel in New York.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

The first shooting incident by a person who could be considered a professional gunman took place in Texas in eighteen fifty-four.

VOA: special.2010.03.10