Sentence examples for instance of the kind from inspiring English sources

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.

In a different mosquito, this shift could be an instance of the kind of plasticity that allows organisms to cope with varying conditions.

A now notorious meeting in January, 2009, of Republican congressional leaders who, at a moment of national crisis, decided to deny the newly elected President Obama coöperation even to help end the financial crisis that was bleeding the economy to death is a perfect instance of the kind of thing Hamilton and Madison feared.

A now notorious meeting in January, 2009, of Republican congressional leaders who, at a moment of national crisis, decided to deny the newly elected President Obama coöperation — even to help end the financial crisis that was bleeding the economy to death — is a perfect instance of the kind of thing Hamilton and Madison feared.

Nevertheless, my token instance of the kind fear at time t will be identical with the token physical state in my brain at that time.

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.

He aims to establish agreement about the kind to which they ascribe the name (Sophist 218b c), and he wants to find a real definition a definition that applies to all and only members of the kind, and one that explains why any instance is an instance of that kind: the inquirers seek the essence of the target kind, the property or collection of properties that make the kind what it is.

But when it comes to routine, everyday bureaucratic abuse of "foreigners" — especially brownish ones with exotic names — there are increasingly frequent instances of the kind of ignorant, bullying, Kafkaesque, unaccountable stupidity that one more often associates with thug regimes than with supposedly advanced democracies.

One lesson of Lawrence Buell's new survey of our literature, "The Dream of the Great American Novel" (Harvard), is that the "American" in that famous phrase was one of the first instances of the kind — more ironic than solemn, and always touched with an undercurrent of self-mockery, even when people were pursuing it more openly than they do these days.

Things are true, that is, genuine instances of the kind of thing they are to the extent that they instantiate the form of things of that kind.

Here he cites Goodman (1955) to demonstrate that some hypotheses of the form, "(x)(Fx ⊃ Gx)", are not confirmable even by instances of the kind "Fc" and "Gc".