in the first place

“This is really justification for newsrooms to stop doing what they never really wanted to do in the first place,” Williams said.

It was those subsidies that Democrats had said they were willing to fight for, which helped fuel the shutdown in the first place.

Mahmood believes Denmark's policies serve as a disincentive for people to seek asylum in the first place and is impressed that successful claims are at a 40-year low.

That is a daunting task for any leader, but it’s especially difficult for one who has been part of the decisions that landed the company in trouble in the first place, he added.

The bank has now been billed almost as much—more than $142 million—for their defense as it paid to buy the startup in the first place.