Sentence examples for an instance of good from inspiring English sources

If you were looking for an instance of "good bacteria" – and this tricky conceit is intelligently addressed in this book – B. infantis sounds like a candidate.

He calls it an instance of a good idea and good intentions gone stale.

Every day, Waschbusch and his counselors tracked each child's behavior — the number and severity of outbursts, any instances of good behavior — and entered the results into a blinded data set.

But that was a rare instance of good public relations.

Others see it as a classic instance of "good cop" salesmanship.

It is also important to recognise that in the context of quality improvement finding a single instance of good practice or bad practice (special cause variation) is sufficient for an organisation to learn and hence to improve.

And it would be wrong to destroy an instance of a basic good for the sake of bringing about some other instance of a basic good: for that would make sense only if the good brought about were more valuable than the good destroyed, but on Finnis's view all distinct instances of basic goods are incommensurable — none is of more, less, or equal value with any other.

It would be unreasonable simply to try to destroy an instance of a basic good, for no further purpose: for that would treat an instance of a basic good as something that it is not — that is, as valueless.

That, I think, is an instance of Oliver's good old British self-deprecation: the show is unfailingly astute and informed (in 2008 The Project for Excellence in Journalism released a report suggesting that The Daily Show comes close to providing the complete daily news).

He argues, for example, that it is always wrong to intend the destruction of an instance of a basic good (Finnis 1980, pp. 118-123).

So the rule forbidding intentional destruction of an instance of a basic good is justified because it rules out only choices that presuppose something false about the nature of the basic goods.