Sentence examples for as an early instance from inspiring English sources

For Henry Gatz the book is evidence of his son's drive to succeed, while Nick might take it as an early instance of the self-delusion that would lead his friend to a brutal end and an unattended funeral.

I used the example of Logo, an innovation introduced into schools in the early 1980's as an earlier instance of school reformers as "true believers" in teaching coding to children.

The opening display includes the famous matelot sweater, backless and sexy on a jaunty male — an early instance of the Gaultier man as sex object.

It was an early instance of what are now known as ruddervators.

Carneades' theory is thus an early instance of fallibilism.

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

Think of it as an early modern instance of theological praxis.

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.

As a result of this early instance of a faith-based initiative, England "was able to survive the economic revolution of the 18th century without succumbing to a political revolution".

Yet in 1975, scholar Norman Cohn demonstrated that these documents were not original and would be most appropriately described as early instances of research fraud.

The Lumière brothers called their spectacles (the first of which showed workers filing out of the family's factory) "actuality films," and they have gone down in history as early instances of both the documentary and realist tendencies in cinema.