Sentence examples similar to an instance of exercising from inspiring English sources

This apparently shameful exercise was an instance of the Academy's practice of arguing on both sides of a question, the better (if possible) to discover the truth.

According to Suárez, one might truly say, for instance, that a doctor is a cause of health, without yet understanding the precise activity of the doctor in virtue of which he is a cause, how it is that his activity on a specific occasion qualifies as an instance of healing how, that is, the cause exercises its causality (DM XII 2.13).

Thus, to deny ourselves access to the important contributions of either Chomsky or Žižek would be to engage in an exercise of self-mutilation, an instance of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.

Is it an instance of Gondry's infectious pranksterism at its most childishly exuberant, or a cynical exercise in web 2.0 astro-turfing?

We had an instance of that recently.

b) an instance of mimicking.

To create an instance of.

as an instance of its constituting law.

Create an instance of JTree.

An instance of a class.

In the instance of exercise, it appears to affect gene expression for strength and metabolism.