Sentence examples for historical instance from inspiring English sources

The Emperor Augustus overruled his wishes, a rare historical instance of an authoritarian leader insisting on the publication rather than suppression of a text.

In at least one historical instance, the author of the biography wound up being better known to posterity than the candidate he helped make president.

"I don't remember another historical instance when it was so clear who the next chief justice would and should be," says Walter Dellinger, a former solicitor general in the Clinton administration.

On the one hand, he argues that there is at least one historical instance of a functioning international order that lived up to his criteria of legitimacy.

For those blessed with an EU passport, visa requirements are today often trivial, whilst border controls inside of the Schengen area are regarded as no more than a historical instance.

Is there any actual historical instance of the Christian elect being deceived?

Other specific historical instances of federal government action to regulate interstate commerce can be cited.

In all these historical instances the paneling was almost always made of either oak or pine.

There are historical instances of corporate sacrifice for civic good, but they are rare.

He cited some historical instances of suspected differential pricing (at Amazon and Victoria's Secret) but said he didn't know about Amazon Prime.

Marshall was struck by this idea, and, throughout the eighties, he assigned teams of analysts to search for historical instances of such advances.