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.
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.
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.
The formula was displayed at its best in Their Wedding Journey (1872), A Modern Instance (1882), and The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885).
Books he wrote which writer discusses include: "A Foregone Conclusion," "A Modern Instance," "Indian Summer," "The Rise of Silas Lapham,""Their Wedding Journey," "A Chance Acquaintance," "Suburban Sketches," "Venetian Life," "A Boy's 'Town," "My Literary Passions," "The Landlord at Lion's Head," and "A Hazard of New Fortunes".
Once the principles of military surgery were relearned and applied to modern warfare, instances of death, deformity, and loss of limb were reduced to levels previously unattainable.
However, and despite the pervasive abundance of block-and-ash flow (BAF) deposits in the geological and modern record, instances of strongly welded BAF deposits are few.
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.
A problem with complexity \(17n\) can be handled in under a minute on modern computers, for every instance of size a billion.
There is no other recorded instance of a modern democracy systematically and wilfully shooting at people to blind them.
