in eerste instantie

Dutch

• in eerste instantie (aanvankelijk, eerst, in het begin)
• in een eerste instantie

English

• (court of) first instance
• at first
• at first glance
• at first sight (bij aanvankelijke beschouwing)
• at the outset
• at the start
• basically
• first of all
• in the early stages
• in the first instance
• in the first place
• in the first stage
• in the first step
• in/at the beginning
• initially
• originally
• primarily
• principally
• specifically (special meaning!)
• the primary
• to begin with
• to start with

External links

• https://www.proz.com/kudoz/dutch-to-english/accounting/1190684-in-eerste-instantie.html
• https://www.linguee.com/english-dutch/search?source=auto&query=in+eerste+instantie

References

Quotations

in the first instance = ‘In the first place or at the first stage of a proceeding’:
• the appointment will be for three years in the first instance
• He said soldiers may have been acting in self-defense in the second instance.

(Oxforddictionaries.com)