Sentence examples for an earlier example of from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors did dig up an earlier example of charging someone with aiding the enemy by printing something in a newspaper, but it was back in 1863, during the Civil War, and an imperfect parallel.

Trinity's high glass roof is said to put it into the Leeds tradition of arcades, and I walked from it to an earlier example of one of these: Kirkgate Market.

The only Ponti design that ever got built in America, it's an earlier example of Denver's adventurousness, but when it opened, in 1971, not everyone was pleased: it was described as "an Italian castle wrapped in aluminum foil".

"Mendel's Dwarf" (1998), by Simon Mawer, an earlier example of lab lit, is about a geneticist, Benedict Lambert, who is not only a dwarf but distantly related to Gregor Mendel.

That recalls the way the country's policy making elite saw fresh dangers as well as opportunities in Asia after America's withdrawal from Vietnam — an earlier example of Washington's cyclical preoccupation with perceived threats from one end of the Eastern Hemisphere to the other.

I remember an earlier example of this kind of blackmail by the duke in 2003, when we had to buy his Raphael, The Madonna of the Pinks, to prevent it going to the Getty Museum in California, I went to see the picture at the National Gallery and was happy to stump up a contribution, as it is ravishingly beautiful and I would go and look at it every day if I could.

or Theatre?" is an early example of the graphic novel.

Varèse's Déserts is an early example of this.

It was an early example of an unsaleable literary hybrid.

Ollin and Dr Atl are an early example of a kind of social and cultural transgression.

"Citibank" was an early example of a corporation that used the technique to catch our attention.