Sentence examples for is the first instance from inspiring English sources

This is the first instance where it's not hypothetical.

The disclosure is the first instance of Cisco's breaking out stock option expenses on a quarterly basis.

The pact is the first instance of Amazon's agreeing to feature an investment partner permanently on its Web site.

The waiver, first issued last Friday, is the first instance of the agency's having invoked its emergency powers.

This is the first instance of the complete overthrow of Governmental authority in any provincial capital since the Taiping rebellion.

"This is the first instance in which a supervisor has come to me extending help," said Mr. Haque, who is originally from India.

"This is the first instance in which a country itself turns to the highest body of the U.N. to deal with such problematic issues," he said.

Scott McGraw, senior vice president of sports sales for CBS, said: "This is the first instance where we've had any issue related to that part of the contract.

But the current review is the first instance of the agency's considering limits on common, albeit unapproved, uses of cancer drugs.

Opponents of the plant say this is the first instance of a regulatory agency's rejecting a permit for that reason alone.

Here is the first instance in which proportion tells us that something is out of whack: The total mortgage market in the United States is roughly $10.4 trillion.