Sentence examples for famous instance of from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the most famous instance of incumbent justices changing their mind on a high-profile issue occurred in the 1940s.

The undramatic, small-print language in which Lincoln offered the Emancipation Proclamation is the most famous instance of his mastery of anti-heroic rhetoric.

But it's hardly as unpredictable as Lautréaumont's famous instance of surrealist conjunction – "the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table".

The most famous instance of this came during the Gallipoli campaign, when on 17 December 1915, a game of cricket was played on Shell Green by ANZAC troops.

If the most famous instance of Berkshires alfresco dining was the mountaintop luncheon of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, the modern, hike-free version is an evening repast on Tanglewood's music-lapped lawns.

Perhaps the most famous instance of Western nonconformity to the ceremony occurred during the mission of the British envoy Lord Macartney to the court of the Chinese emperor in 1793.

One of the most famous instances of carrier-borne disease in medical history was the case of "Typhoid Mary" (byname of Mary Mallon).

In the normal course of things, editorial work is relatively subtle, but there are famous instances of heroic assistance: Ezra Pound cutting T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" in half when the poem was still called "He Do the Police in Different Voices"; Maxwell Perkins finding a structure in Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel" and cutting it by sixty-five thousand words.

One of the most famous instances of mistaken identity occurred in 1988.

In the past, the social worker explained, famous instances of abuse "tended to get compartmentalised into ciphers".

In the past, the social worker explained, famous instances of abuse "tended to get compartmentalized into ciphers.