Sentence examples for instance was taken from inspiring English sources

Wholesale energy-trading, for instance, was taken up by Enron as a way to transform a stodgy electric utility into a nimble risk taker.

Freescale Semiconductor, for instance, was taken over by a pack of private investment companies in 2006 for $17.6 billion, of which $7 billion came from the firms.

The Congolese diamond concession, for instance, was taken by decree from the Congolese state diamond company, Miba, and given to Oryx with a six-year tax moratorium, according to Jim Williams, an independent technical consultant who prepared a report on the concession for the merger prospectus.

The image of North Korea's leader featured on the People's Daily home page on Tuesday, for instance, was taken from a recent Time magazine cover that referred to him as "Lil Kimm," playing on a joke frequently made by bloggers who use the name of a female rapper to refer to the young leader.

Russian opposition party leader Gary Kasparov's Web site, for instance, was taken offline by a two-week denial of service attack in late December in the midst of the Russian presidential campaign.

The case against Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, for instance, was taken up on request from Uganda.

The novel's title, for instance, is taken from the name of the apartment building where Quirk and his wife have lived.

Nitpickers might argue that the prettiest shots in the spot (the hammock, for instance) are taken from the Moorings, a private luxury hotel in the Keys — nowhere near the 221 miles of beach in northwest Florida.

The last twenty minutes of the film, for instance, are taken up with an entirely superfluous diversion to a factory yard, where he takes the opportunity, rather than leaving the country, to waste as many of its citizens as he reasonably can.

It cannot, for instance, be taken to be self-evident that the status of items as types or universals renders them causally inert.

Further, the instantiation of a universal by its specific instance is taken to be a relation that obtains in reality, rather than amounting to a constructed superimposition.