Sentence examples for but an instance from inspiring English sources

Professor Jeffries, the Powell biographer and Virginia professor, said the presence of openly gay clerks at the Supreme Court these days is but an instance of a societal transformation on gay rights.

As for outside influence in the election, Mr Martelly argued yesterday that his inclusion in the second round was "not a gift of the international community" but an instance of foreigners standing with the Haitian people.

His is not simply a tale of individual sacrifice but an instance of how artists attempt to use cultural [End Page 95] value as a means of mediating the hegemonic force of market values in the age of global capitalism.

Watch the rest of the clip to see Jon Stewart find more than just unfair Nazi comparisons on Fox News, but an instance of such name-calling within the same 24 hours of Megyn Kelly's comment, a Fox News pundit making the same Joseph Goebbels comparison as Steve Cohen, Fox News President Roger Ailes calling someone Hitler, and another Nazi remark on Megyn Kelly's own show.

This fudging was not deliberate, Dr. Gould said, but rather an instance of unconscious doctoring of data, a practice he believed was "rampant, endemic and unavoidable" in science.

But he still takes the act-object model to be the proper analysis of sensory experience except that the act is now directed toward not a mental object but rather an instance of a quality.

But even Hart's account, on closer examination, identifies the relevant necessity not as conceptual or linguistic but as an instance of the rational necessity of means needed to secure purposes which are non-optional.

But this is an instance in which playing power politics offers the United States tremendous upside.

But is this an instance of poor logic?

Usually we speak to our mobile phones but this is an instance where mobile phones speak for us.

I appreciate the concern, but this is an instance where we cannot afford to say "no".