1.   The Republicans were trying to win control of their first state legislature in the South since Reconstruction.

2.   This is the first legislature elected in a multiparty ballot in four decades.

3.   Belarussians voted Sunday for their first post-Soviet legislature and on whether to seek closer ties with Russia to boost their ailing economy.

4.   But he did not confirm whether HKPA members in the first SAR legislature would go for the freeze alone if other parties refuse to follow suit.

5.   Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said he hoped to build up a good and constructive relationship with the first SAR legislature.

6.   However, despite losing his seat in the first SAR legislature, Mr Lee vowed that his party would not retreat from direct elections.

7.   Jamestown survived the drought and Indian attacks, and became the site of the House of Burgesses, the first representative legislature in the Western Hemisphere.

8.   Supporters of the law said the Northern Territory Parliament is the first legislature in the world to enact a voluntary euthanasia law.

9.   Step toward first legislature under Chinese rule.

10.   Supporters of the law say the parliament is the first legislature in the world to enact a voluntary euthanasia law.