Sentence examples for first documented instance from inspiring English sources

On Friday, two women distributing Falun Gong leaflets were assaulted by a man with an iron bar -- the first documented instance of violence toward members of the movement in Hong Kong.

The first documented instance in English of "elector" as a translation of the German word Kurfürst (literally, "choose-prince") is from 1529, some 61 years later.We then have knights electors (first attestation: 1628).

Opposition activists have swarmed and harangued the league's monitors in Homs and other cities, confronting them with what they said was evidence of crimes by the security forces, but this appears to be the first documented instance of violence.

The case, announced today, is the first documented instance of transmission from a mosquito to a person on the mainland of the United States outside Florida.

The same trend was evident in Tokugawa Japan in the 18th century, which in the midst of hard economic times had the first documented instance of "replacement fertility" -- two children per woman -- and a stable population for decades.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Wrangham has had the extraordinary experience of witnessing both a recent human genocide (the calamity in Rwanda) and the first documented instance of a murderous ambush perpetrated by a band of chimpanzees.

Four cases of Zika infection in Florida are very likely to have been caused by mosquitoes there, the State Department of Health said Friday — the first documented instances of local transmission in the continental United States.

But the Persian attack may represent one of the first documented instances of soldiers purposefully producing toxic fumes.

To put that into a better perspective, since its first documented case in Japan in 1916, over one hundred other instances of the disease have been reported.

The first known documented instance of an attack by the Phylloxera in France was in a department of the former province of Languedoc, some time around 1863.

In the eighty years since, there is not a single documented instance of it ever happening.