Sentence examples for earliest instance of a from inspiring English sources
This salvation concerned three aspects of postmortem existence, as imagined by the ancient Egyptians, and, in the concept of Osiris, it involved the earliest instance of a saviour-god.
Robert P. Morgan's "20th-Century Music" (Norton, 1991) describes this score as "possibly the earliest instance of a completely graphic musical score... without conventional musical indications of any kind... not unlike a nonrepresentational painting that the performer is to interpret musically".
The earliest instance of a liquid-driven escapement was described by the Greek engineer Philo of Byzantium (fl.
Ensisheim meteorite, meteorite whose descent from the sky onto a wheat field in Alsace (now part of France) in 1492 is one of the earliest instances of a meteorite fall on record.
Any philosopher with an interest in the relation between conceivability and possibility should be prepared to recognize in Parmenides' assertion that you could neither apprehend nor indicate what is not (and must not be) one of the earliest instances of a form of inference that from inconceivability to impossibility that continues to occupy a central position in metaphysical reasoning.
The game has been widely praised by both contemporary and modern critics, and is one of the earliest instances of a sandbox game.
However, there is an earlier instance of a blind governor.
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".
Here was an early instance of a puzzling phenomenon: when hip-hop and R&B artists turn their attentions to rock music, they appear to be seized by a madness that destroys their sense of good taste.
In Rainbows anticipated the proliferation of pay-what-you-want downloads (and was, for that matter, an early instance of a group of major artists selling directly to fans).
(This was an early instance of an important feature of Sharon's public life: though known for his hawkishness, he has received crucial support and protection from several of the Labor Party politicians admired by doves, most notably Yitzhak Rabin).
