Sentence examples for Prior instances from inspiring English sources

"You have had apparently 70 prior instances where you have not taken the steps available to you," Judge Orenstein said to Apple's lawyers during a hearing.

The motive to avoid failure is also assumed to be relatively stable by adulthood and represents the compilation of those prior instances where achievement behaviours were unsuccessful.

Since sustaining his second concussion this year on May 20, Church has experienced setbacks in each of the three prior instances in which the team's medical staff and outside neurologists cleared him to play.

"At the time, this issue had not occurred in prior instances when properties had chosen to opt out of the Mitchell-Lama program, and so was not part of H.P.D.'s review," said the spokeswoman, Catie Marshall.

This bothers Pipes: he recalls "some prior instances of Muslim women winning beauty contests in Western countries," and this surprising frequency of Muslims winning beauty pageants makes me suspect an odd form of affirmative action.

While the mass media largely ignored the story, and the two or three mainstream reporters who tried to write about it were getting little traction, bloggers were collecting more stories about prior instances where Lott's actions tended to suggest support for racist causes.

Administration officials and experts in pardon law said they were not aware of a prior instance of a president's withdrawing a pardon after it was announced.

Private individuals have been convicted of spying for Cuba, but federal officials said they knew of no prior instance of the arrest of an American government official.

In each prior instance the establishment has won, and a core of frustrated voters sulk off to vent on radio and await the next election.

But a 5-4 Supremajority majority held that the district court hadn't allowed enough public comment before making its decision — despite the dissenters' argument that they could not find a single prior "instance in which this court has pre-emptively sought to micromanage district court proceedings as it does today".

Fortunately, if a future instance is very similar to a prior instance, studying history can suffice.