Sentence examples for modern instance from inspiring English sources

The formula was displayed at its best in Their Wedding Journey (1872), A Modern Instance (1882), and The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885).

The anthrax-tainted letters addressed to members of Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks were the first modern instance of bioterrorism to rattle Capitol Hill.

POINTS OF ENTRY THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Intemperance: "A Modern Instance," the 1882 novel of divorce by William Dean Howells, contains the best scene of drunkenness in all of literature.

But, in the long history of colonial cruelties, his speeches against Hastings and the East India Company were perhaps the first modern instance where the sufferings inflicted upon an occupied people were held up in the capital of the empire and regarded as worthy of compassion, and punishment.

It was during this time, as well, that he wrote the New England novels that made his reputation, most notably "The Rise of Silas Lapham" and "A Modern Instance," mastering a realism at once wry and thoughtful, but perhaps hampered by politeness.

Wilson's own presidency, as the historian Jill Lepore pointed out last week in The New Yorker, can be interpreted as an attempt to put his theory into practice, and he too was unable to realize much of what he envisioned, though his two terms represent the first modern instance of the "imperial presidency".

These are modern instances of ancient puzzles, and Mr Press is wise not to pretend to be offering new wisdom.

But mighty Tate Modern, for instance, has only a solitary example of his work.

show at Tate Modern, for instance, the French-Norwegian artist Caroline Bergvall used a transducer that transforms the surface it is placed on into an output speaker.

Though she describes Yemen as the fount of many modern jihadists for instance, most of the 9/11 bombers came originally from the south-western part of Saudi Arabia that is historically and culturally part of greater Yemen she makes a convincing case that other forces are far more influential than religion in moulding the ambitions and psychology of the Yemenis.

The design is a little more sleek and modern, for instance, making these perhaps slightly less iconic (the QC 15 was always easy to spot as the hallmark of discerning travellers), and the hardshell travel case and folding method for stowage means that it takes up a lot less space than the previous model when packed away.