Sentence examples for instance of its kind from inspiring English sources

A natural, though ultimately unsuccessful, reply is that construing something as the best instance of its kind that it can be does not require taking that kind to be good.

(RNS) In the first instance of its kind, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention, acknowledged it has admitted a Muslim to one of its doctoral programs.

The second part of the definition picks up those objects that definitely are works of art, but were created in a mechanical, almost an assembly-line fashion, or as just another instance of its kind.

As a result, saying that the law must be thus-and-so in order to be a good instance of its kind does not commit one to any thick evaluative claims.

In perhaps the most egregious instance of its kind, New York Times reporter James Risen was threatened with federal prosecution for seven years for refusing to testify in the espionage trial of former CIA employee Jeffrey Sterling.

In 1170, Henry the Young King, heir apparent to the throne, was crowned as a second king of England, subordinate to his father Henry II; such coronations were common practice in mediaeval France and Germany, but this is only one of two instances of its kind in England (the other being that of Ecgfrith of Mercia in 796, crowned whilst his father, Offa of Mercia, was still alive).

For instance, in the first published questionnaire of its kind developed for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), Cameron et al. (2010) tested a questionnaire for researchers in 10 LMICs focused on researchers' engagement in bridging activities related to high-priority topics (Cameron et al. 2010).

Moreover, one might think that in order to construe legal practice as the best instance of the kind of thing that it is requires making thick evaluative claims about the law.

It is an abbreviated way of saying 'that which it was for an instance of kind K to be an instance of kind K,' for instance 'that which it was (all along) for a human being to be a human being'.

"No law can deter every and any instance of this kind of behavior.

In the tropical resort city of Sanya a strike by hundreds of taxi drivers is a low-level instance of the kind of turbulence he has in mind.