inaugural

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Contracted runners were promised lucrative prize money and salaries in the competition's inaugural season, but the final event was cancelled and organisers later voluntarily filed for bankruptcy in the US.

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“Grover Cleveland had his inaugural ball in this building,” Theo says after a few silent minutes of flipping through pages.

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Hundreds protested outside the group's inaugural meeting and a petition calling for the society to disband reached over 18,000 signatures.

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Adam Waugh, from Angerton in Northumberland, had limited sailing experience before signing up for the inaugural Mini Globe Race.

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The singer-songwriter, who is originally from Bangor, County Down, rose to prominence in 2013 with his critically-acclaimed album Joy of Nothing, for which he won the inaugural Northern Ireland Music Prize.

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