first comer

"This vision of 'might is right' has engendered immense inequality, injustice and acts of violence against the majority of humanity, since resources end up in the hands of the first comer or the most powerful: the winner takes all," he writes.

"They have the first comer advantage and that will give them a chance of succeeding, because at the end of the day, while somebody needs to build their network, they can just use Haier network," said Nicholas Studholme-Wilson, retail sector analyst at Sun Hung Kai Financial.

"They have the first comer advantage and that will give them a chance of succeeding, because at the end of the day, while somebody needs to build their network, they can just use Haier network," said Nicholas Studholme-Wilson, retail sector analyst at Sun Hung Kai Financial.

Frederic II., in his famous statute of November 22, 1220, which made the persecution of heresy a part of the public law of Europe, only threatened confiscation and outlawry, although this, it must be added, placed their lives at the mercy of the first comer.

It is true, he said, that the count had been found guilty of many offences against the Church, for which he had been excommunicated and his lands exposed to the first comer; but the loss of most of them had served as a punishment, and it must be remembered that, although suspected of heresy and of the murder of the legate, he had never been convicted, nor did the pope know why his commands to afford him an opportunity of purging himself had never been carried out.