For someone who had no religious convictions, he nevertheless exhibited those qualities many regard as truly Christian, not least in his refusal to pass instant judgment on others.
They aspire not to disclose the timeless, but to discern the transient, to clasp the texture of experience — a passing moment, an instant's glimpse, a sensation as compressed and meticulously evoked as a haiku.
It helped, even amid the turmoil on the streets and in the hotels, that the police, security officials and civilians were communicating electronically, by text message and Twitter and by voice on cellphones, passing on instant news, appraisals and on-scene reports.
Passing up instant gratification in favor of long term benefits.
It was nice that the N.B.A.'s ludicrously long regular season threw in a reason to watch its most tortured portion for awhile — it was no Linsanity, but still — and now it has passed into instant history.
After a visiting reporter has passed an instant background check -- primarily using the name, Social Security number and date of birth to check against criminal records -- it is up to lower-level White House press aides to decide whether a particular news organization can have access to the briefing room.
The sophisticated solutions consist of a series of mathematical models of track conditions which are matched with information from the sensors and then use artificial intelligence decision-making – a process in which Salford is a leading developer – to pass on instant information.
If I were buying a new rifle or shotgun, I could go to Arkansas, pick out the models I wanted at a gun store, pass an instant background check, and drive them back.
Even though the original logics for stit do not involve time explicitly, their semantics is based on branching time models, where every agent's set of choices at a given time instant is represented by a partition of the bunch of all histories passing through that instant.
The film's plot device of a long period of subjective time passing in an instant has been explored by several authors.
