For many people, Goya's etchings even provide a pioneering example of tough, first-hand war reportage: plate 44 of the series, for instance, is entitled "I saw it".
For instance, in the Philippines, Visa is pioneering the use of prepaid cards for use following natural disasters, where normal infrastructure is disrupted, and electronic transfers offer more security and accountability than large cash infusions.
The acquisition could put a fresh face on the aging Internet company and provide it with a profitable revenue source or it could turn out to be another instance of the Web pioneer overpaying for a start-up and failing to nurture it, as was the case after Yahoo bought Flickr and GeoCities.
The Academy's pioneering postmodern quota system could represent another instance of Hollywood's leading the way in equality and civil rights.
Prejudice may also be at work; for instance, scientists who pioneered studies of asteroid and comet impacts complained about confronting a pervasive "giggle factor".
The presence at Columbia, for instance, of the electronic music pioneer (and resolute tonalist) Otto Luening and his partner-in-concrete Vladimir Ussachevsky served as a counterweight to the influence of junior colleagues like Charles Wuorinen.
It is the hope of the hardworking pioneers in the organic movement that the instance of Parkinson disease, cancer, and many environmentally related illnesses will diminish exponentially with the conversion of acreage to organic cultivation.
Olivia Laing's To the River (Canongate) is a fine instance of the new school of landscape-writing pioneered by Robert Macfarlane, vividly charting a slice of Sussex.
In the frequentist approach, pioneered by Philip Resnik [ 23], the relative frequency of encountering an instance of a term in a text corpus, or database is used to quantify the information content of the term.
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Dutch company Floow2, for instance, are pioneering this approach in healthcare.
