Sentence examples for peculiar instance of from inspiring English sources

In short, who dares win will die but his genes are more likely to live on in the next generation.Dr Foellmer and Dr Fairbairn cite a peculiar instance of a male spider that died after mistakenly inserting his second pedipalp into the carcass of a mealworm.

In Sutton v Hutchinson [2005], he encountered one of the more peculiar instances of such activities: "The appellant is a lap dancer.

Example 3.2 shows another peculiar case of rankshift.

Among the BRICs, the peculiar case of Russia stands out.

Alice, ever antisocial, refuses to become another number, a mere instance of a peculiar species rather than a world unto herself.

The detail, however, must be essential to the kind of thing being studied and not peculiar to certain instances of it.

Some might even have concluded that the unknown woman's dour expression and cheap-looking pearls were yet another instance of Deakin's peculiar eye for the sadness of urban life.

While every instance of mass atrocities has peculiar dynamics that explain inaction, these are not justifications.

The conundrum of umpiring is neatly posed by the peculiar rule of the knee-to-shoulder strike zone, which Mr. Weber calls the sole instance of a playing area that is demarcated only in the minds of officials.

His insistence that he had lost that ball in the sun was an instance of the boy crying "Wolf!" It was scoffed at because of his pattern of peculiar pronouncements.

It seems peculiar, for instance, to sequester Tom Wesselmann's large-scale collage painting of a glass of milk, sandwich and pack of cigarettes; nothing about it demands a sustained, one-to-one engagement.