In the earlier instance, both sides knew that failure to reach agreement would be far more costly to Warner Brothers than to Tony Bennett.
For the 800,000-plus homes and businesses that lost power for more than a week twice in just about two months — the earlier instance because of Tropical Storm Irene in August — the conclusions won't come as much of a surprise.
Whereas, in the earlier instance with the FBI, Apple had argued the agency was requesting extraordinary assistance by demanding it deliberately weaken iOS security — and that such a step posed a threat to the security of all iOS users.
(The story also provides one of the earlier instances of the cubicle, when the lawyer who employs Bartleby erects a "high green folding screen" to create some minor space for his clerk).
My friend Jack, mentioned in some of the earlier instances of these pieces, has a house on the road that becomes the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
If you come across an unclear word more than once, and you figure it out midway through a recording, the professional course of action is to fill it in in the earlier instances too.
It turns out to hold a fragment identical to the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible and, at nearly 2,000 years old, is the earliest instance of the text.
This is the earliest instance of the influence on Botticelli of contemporary Flemish landscape art, which is clearly visible in a number of his landscape settings.
It is said — by the Vuitton people, at least — to be the earliest instance of someone sticking his name on a manufactured product.
This salvation concerned three aspects of postmortem existence, as imagined by the ancient Egyptians, and, in the concept of Osiris, it involved the earliest instance of a saviour-god.
Robert P. Morgan's "20th-Century Music" (Norton, 1991) describes this score as "possibly the earliest instance of a completely graphic musical score... without conventional musical indications of any kind... not unlike a nonrepresentational painting that the performer is to interpret musically".
