first stab

The executive oversees daily operations for the county and takes the first stab at drafting the roughly $46-billion annual budget.

In 2002, the Federal Communications Commission thwarted the companies’ first stab at a union.

Of course, Yeoh eventually flaunts her fighting skills but in the first few episodes, her stylistic contrast with Charles — who likes to kick first, stab second, then ask questions — is essential to the family drama.

Jenkins will therefore take the first stab at drawing new lines for the district that Latimer is running in.

We have now seen and heard his first stab at trying to take on that hunch.