Sentence examples for familiar instance from inspiring English sources

One familiar instance of this class of events is referred to as the phi phenomenon.

Jeremy says Yours seems to be an all too familiar instance of pigeonholing – I've touched on it in previous columns.

Laws prohibiting the sale of milk or cream containing less than fixed percentages of butter fat present a familiar instance of such legislation.

However, the reliability of this approach is undermined by the fact that we are able to react to stimuli before they become conscious ('blindsight' is a familiar instance of this).

Markets are a familiar instance of an alternative form of coordination: in a market economy, market outcomes are less than choices on the part of the government, and are not directly attributable to the state.

If the purpose he imagined was this familiar instance of narrative shorthand, used to quickly vilify the random gangsters, then it has a long history of similar usage in Mafia stories.

One of the functions of reputations in societies is to enable coordination, and some of the most familiar instances of this occur when reputations are based on past actions.

Hart criticized the command theories of law associated with John Austin and Bentham because of their failure to make sense of all those familiar instances of laws that confer legal powers on individuals rather than commanding them to abstain from particular conduct on pain of punishment.

One of the most familiar instances of such arguments is the Quine-Putnam argument for the existence of mathematical objects.

We are of course familiar with instances of girls and women's claimed being minimized.

These laggardly responses are familiar in instances of other environmental health hazards such as asbestos, second-hand smoke and greenhouse gases.