Sentence examples for no prior instance from inspiring English sources

Private individuals have been convicted of spying for Cuba, but federal officials said they knew of no prior instance of the arrest of an American government official.

Later he described receiving a "Good Guy" award from the National Women's Political Caucus, noting that "...history reveals no prior instance of a tax lawyer held to be a "Good Guy," or even a "Decent Sort". No personal achievement escaped the wrath of his dry wit – and he had a thriving practice as a result of it.

Administration officials and experts in pardon law said they were not aware of a prior instance of a president's withdrawing a pardon after it was announced.

In each prior instance the establishment has won, and a core of frustrated voters sulk off to vent on radio and await the next election.

But a 5-4 Supremajority majority held that the district court hadn't allowed enough public comment before making its decision — despite the dissenters' argument that they could not find a single prior "instance in which this court has pre-emptively sought to micromanage district court proceedings as it does today".

Fortunately, if a future instance is very similar to a prior instance, studying history can suffice.

However, in remindings, learners need to retrieve the prior instance into working memory during presentation of the second item.

Research suggests that learners can succeed in new situations by applying generalized abstract knowledge (Gick & Holyoak, 1983) or by applying a specific prior instance (Ross, 1984).

Robert Califf, who served as FDA commissioner in the Obama administration, told Kaiser Health news that "he couldn't think of a prior instance in which American researchers did not set up an IRB abroad".

"You have had apparently 70 prior instances where you have not taken the steps available to you," Judge Orenstein said to Apple's lawyers during a hearing.

"At the time, this issue had not occurred in prior instances when properties had chosen to opt out of the Mitchell-Lama program, and so was not part of H.P.D.'s review," said the spokeswoman, Catie Marshall.