The phrase "instance of the latter" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a specific example or case of something that was previously mentioned. For example: - Jane prefers cake over ice cream, and her recent birthday party was an instance of the latter. (meaning her birthday party served ice cream instead of cake) - The government's new policies have been met with mixed reactions. The protests in the city are an instance of the latter. (meaning the protests are an example of the mixed reactions) In both of these examples, "latter" is referring to the second option or choice that was previously mentioned.
The richest instance of the latter is in the way it plays with the idea of fundamentalism itself.
One instance of the latter is the financializing of a rapidly growing range of material and immaterial elements in our political economies.
Exploiting the structural similarity between these two problems and the non-linear fractional knapsack problem, an instance of the latter is generalized and implemented as the preliminary test platform for the proposed EA PSO hybrid model.
Recreational archery also was practiced, along with military, among the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, one instance of the latter being the competition in which Odysseus won the hand of Penelope.
As a whole, the trilogy mimics the uneven shape of the composer's career, which has ranged from achievements of staggering originality ("Music in Twelve Parts," "Einstein on the Beach," the Violin Concerto) to statements of baffling neutrality (a world-music cantata entitled "Orion" is the newest instance of the latter).
The former is an instance of the latter, which means that we cannot grasp the one independently from the other.
For instance, the concept of quadrilateral is considered to be more abstract than that of the concept Square, because the former not only contains all instances of the latter but also others such as Rectangle and Rhombus.
Instances of the latter include the feeling of warmth, say, as my hand approaches a fire or feeling how cold, rough, smooth, slippery, or sticky some things are or whether they are vibrating, stiff, resilient, or loose.
This obviously suits the (role-) functionalist interpretation of higher-level properties; these higher-level properties are realized by lower level ones in the sense that instances of the latter play the role of the former in virtue of their physical organization.
For instance, butterflies of the latter landscape type were able to orient towards a wooded target habitat from twice as far than individuals of continuous woodland landscapes [ 14].
