Sentence examples for instance of a modern from inspiring English sources
There is no other recorded instance of a modern democracy systematically and wilfully shooting at people to blind them.
It's rather that it is the first instance of a peculiarly modern variant of the historic event - its media simulation.
For instance, Gurgaon, a modern suburb of Delhi, was once a network of vast millet and mustard fields.
The protests in America against a grand jury's decision not to indict white police officer Darren Wilson for shooting dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, have thrown up a sickly sweet instance of this modern dishonesty.
The Industrial Canal lock, for instance, is half the size of a modern one, which means that barges transiting in convoy need to be broken up.
The online hysteria over this show is just another instance of our modern obsession with true crime stories and miscarriages of justice.
The flattening out of the word "literal" is just one instance of a trend that Barfield detected across modern English.
