Sentence examples for extraordinary instance from inspiring English sources

Or was this an extraordinary instance of prime ministerial authority and our "elective dictatorship"?

But the intensity of their love is documented by Stein's erotic poems (published after her death), by the memoirs of contemporaries, and, in one extraordinary instance, by a piece of literary vandalism.

Child Welfare Toughens Laws on Removal of Newborns New York City has enacted a tough new policy that allows the authorities to remove newborns from their parents' homes in all but an "extraordinary instance" if the parents previously had children taken from their custody and their case is still open, Leslie Kaufman reports.

New York City has enacted a tough new policy that allows the authorities to remove newborns from their parents' homes in all but an "extraordinary instance" if the parents previously had children taken from their custody and their case is still open.

Child welfare officials began tightening standards again, and this spring, New York City enacted a policy that allows the authorities to remove newborns from their parents' homes in all but an "extraordinary instance" if the parents previously had children taken from their custody and their case is still open.

Marci A. Hamilton, a professor at Cardozo Law School who argued before the Supreme Court against the similar earlier law that the justices struck down, said this latest move by the government was an extraordinary instance of federal intrusion into local decision-making.

It was one of the more extraordinary instances of Ma Bell's involvement with Uncle Sam.

When it comes to shutting down a city, it's very unlikely that we're going to make a habit of this sort of thing: it's immensely costly for the government, somewhat costly to the economy, and except in very extraordinary instances, people don't like it.

It is the combination of mutation and the selection filter that produces the extraordinary instances of adaptation we can document in nature.

Hanushek, the Stanford scholar, argues that "some of the evidence about the importance of pre-K comes in extraordinary instances and extraordinarily expensive circumstances".

This week, for instance, I write about the extraordinary case of "wrestling diplomacy between Iran and the United States.