Example sentences of "the first international " in BNC.

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1 ( First Edition ) The first international conference to discuss openly air disaster contingency plans was told yesterday that the recent spate of major incidents , including the Lockerbie and Kegworth tragedies , has led to a review of emergency tactics .
2 At the end of September , 35 English dealers and 15 from the Continent joined 35 American dealers to hold the first International Antique Dealers ' Show at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue , in the heart of Manhattan .
3 From about 1864 on , much of Marx 's time and energy was spent in connection with the setting up of the international association of working men , the first International .
4 Thus , at one stage in the meetings of the first International ( September 1864 ) , the followers of the French socialist , Proudhon , opposed any movements for national independence on the grounds that the concept of the nation was already obsolete .
5 Vic goes down in football 's annals as the first international player to be chosen from the ranks of the 4th Division ( for Wales against Northern Ireland in Belfast on 22 April 1959 ) , but Palace fans should know that this was no freak selection , for Vic had impressed many with his splendid performances and was in a run of 143 consecutive League games with just a single absence for us .
6 THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops .
7 The first International Games for the Deaf at Paris in 1924 created such interest that the B.D.D.A. 's Congress at Southampton included an international football match between England and Wales , which was won by England 3–0 .
8 In 1976 Norway held the first international conference on the effects of acidification , and a year later put forward the proposal to set up a convention to control emissions of sulphur dioxide and thereby reduce transboundary pollution .
9 The first international hotel has been built , so get in quick if you want to escape the package tourists .
10 The Hall of Fame is not the first international honour awarded to Professor Solomons .
11 The first international hotels with standards proud enough to bear his name .
12 BGS provided much of the logistical support for the first international conference arranged under the auspices of IGCP Project 294 , Very Low Grade Metamorphism , which was held at the University of Manchester , 5–6 July 1990 .
13 Alan Shearer wore the number ten shirt with high hopes of scoring the goals in the first international since the retirement of Gary Lineker .
14 Merson was a member of Graham Taylor 's England squad in Sweden and wants to be part of the first international gathering in Spain early next month .
15 Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects .
16 Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ .
17 When the attack finally came Madrid withstood it , thanks in part to the courage of the left-wing militias and the ordinary people of the city , and in part to the stiffening effect of the first International Brigades — foreign volunteers organized by the Comintern , who arrived at the crucial moment .
18 A further restraint upon the High Authority , though less potent or practicable , was to be provided by a Common Assembly of 78 members ( 18 from each of West Germany , France and Italy ; 10 each from Belgium and the Netherlands ; and 4 from Luxembourg ) , the first international assembly in Europe with legally guaranteed powers .
19 A second conference — though the first international gathering for it was co-sponsored by the Centre de Pastorale Liturgique of Paris — was held in July 1951 .
20 Both men helped found the First International Working Men 's Association , and both contributed to its collapse after twelve years by their attacks on all other forms of socialist thought and their feud with the anarchists over maintaining full-scale industrialization .
21 The BBC had missed the first international wicket of the season , in preference to a weather report and some local tittle-tattle .
22 In addition to a steady flow of Western social , political , economic , and scientific works , contact was being made with Western radical organizations , including the first International , and an expanding body of Russian social criticism was becoming available .
23 The first International Cricket Masters event — a tournament for international players aged 35 and over — will take place in Barbados in October .
24 Undaunted , the staff and supporters of Etnias are joining with indigenous communication organisations throughout Latin America to organise the first international meeting of indigenous press .
25 The first International Meeting of Indigenous Press will take place in Mexico , 24–26 April 1992 .
26 ‘ Louis I. Kahn : In the Realm of Architecture ’ is the first international retrospective dedicated to the work of the American modernist architect .
27 Although the conference brought about the first international agreement on a multilateral adjustment in exchange rates , it did not prevent the collapse of the adjustable peg system .
28 The antique fountain-pen market is in its early stages , with the first International Pen Show and Auction being held in Geneva , November 1–3 .
29 One year later in July 1935 , he delivered a major speech at the First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , 9 and also played a significant role in orchestrating the behind-the-scenes collaboration between communist and non-communist contributors to the congress itself .
30 The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries .
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