Sentence examples for major instances from inspiring English sources

By focusing on the managers who run hedge funds, the system has so far avoided any major instances of fraud.

In October last year the competition appeal tribunal overturned elements of the OFT's initial findings in relation to JJB but upheld the major instances of price-fixing.

The geologic structures documented in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah coal mines were commonly associated with major instances of ground failure.

The first major instances of rightwing populism would come in the 1930s – from the Catholic priest and radio host Father Charles Coughlin – and then, in the 1960s, with George Wallace's presidential campaigns.

The major instances of characters touching one another are occasions for bruising misinterpretation, and they are echoed in the (incomplete) accounts of why Tom has been suspended and what happened with Carver and the priest.

One of the first major instances of Internet of Things devices being used this way was a record-breaking attack on journalist Brian Krebs's website last month, as Krebs himself reported.

The case represents a major instance of money laundering that involves Iraq, Treasury Department officials said.

There was, it is true, one major instance of violence in the Confederation years: Shays Rebellionn in western Massachusetts in late 1786 and early 1787.

The movie was the first major instance in America of censorship under the Hays Code, which cracked down on racy Hollywood fare.

The report was welcomed by Western delegates who said it was the first major instance in which the commission has fully turned its attention to rights violations by the Soviet Union.

One of the consequences is a higher risk of drought, the last major instance of which occurred in 2011 (also a La Niña year), causing Tuvalu to introduce emergency water rationing.