Sentence examples for early instance of a from inspiring English sources

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).

"Skills arbitration, context carryover and the memory feature are early instances of a class of work Amazon scientists and engineers are doing to make engaging with Alexa more friction-free," Sarikaya continues.

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

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.

The slang lexicographer Grant Barrett spotted an early instance of it in a 1996 post to an online pro-wrestling forum deriding one wrestler's "junk grab".

Also according to Cernat, the collaboration between Samyro, Vinea and Janco was an early instance of literature becoming "an interface between arts", which had for its contemporary equivalent the collaboration between Iser and writers such as Ion Minulescu and Tudor Arghezi.