Sentence examples for an early instance of from inspiring English sources

This was an early instance of Alan recognising, nurturing and celebrating gastronomic talent.

Karlheinz Stockhausen strictly schematized and rigorously controlled pitches, intensities and durations in "Kreuzspiel" ("Crossplay"), an early instance of total serialism from 1951.

It would not be amiss to call him the West's first populist, and his speech an early instance of negative campaigning.

In a way, it was an early instance of radical chic: the Transcendentalists preferred a real man to a squabbling set of Mrs. Jellybys.

These albums, which pushed the vogue for eclecticism to the point of incoherence, were an early instance of what the classical violinist Joshua Bell calls "Edgar-music".

Born in 1688, Drummond was an early instance of the tireless urban administrator; the Joseph Chamberlain or Robert Moses of his age.

However, there is an earlier instance of a blind governor.

The source for this is the Oxford English Dictionary, but of course there may be an earlier instance of the word which is yet to be discovered.

It took only a simple fountain, some trees, a few pieces of furniture and some grass to turn the old buildings inside out as a little refuge, a very early instance of what was later a common technique.

A very early instance of the joke was a chain e-mail from the 1990s that offered a dry translation of Biggie's "One More Chance (remix)" under the guise of a competition in an Oakland school district that asked students to "translate ebonics".

The Prince of Wales, wearing a jaunty hat, leans on the table, with a few inches sliced off his bulky frame (a very early instance of Photoshopping).