And, she said, there is the refusal by some families to accept services that might keep them from becoming homeless in the first place.

And how had something so normally inconsequential become significant in the first place?

Nonprofit groups work with landlords and families at risk to keep people from becoming homeless in the first place.

They tried to keep us from becoming a nation in the first place and they still think we belong to them by rights.

Perhaps he could sway the warlock, keep him from becoming a tyrant in the first place.

It's still a struggle at times, but I would have given anything to have avoided becoming diabetic in the first place.

It was far harder to imagine them becoming friends in the first place.

It's one of the bonuses of becoming good in the first place, and England are beginning to benefit from that phenomenon.

What is needed are more efforts that prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place.

None the less, 'going from one to three children is a much bigger adjustment than becoming a mother in the first place.