Sentence examples for the earliest instance of from inspiring English sources

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.

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 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".

For cases where there are multiple eruptions of the same magnitude that counts as either the smallest or the largest, the earliest instance of that magnitude is utilized.

Some of the earliest instances of live performance came from D.J.'s who played one alongside their turntables.

2) Of course, William A Wellman had very good reason for that closeup of the Hershey bar (1min 46sec) when Gary Cooper throws it on to the bed in Wings - one of the earliest instances of American product placement.

Ensisheim meteorite, meteorite whose descent from the sky onto a wheat field in Alsace (now part of France) in 1492 is one of the earliest instances of a meteorite fall on record.

One of the earliest instances of it, which was designed for the Guggenheim itself, was shocking enough to be canceled: an enormous piece that Daniel Buren proposed for a sculpture survey in 1971 so outraged other proponents of installation art like Donald Judd and Dan Flavin that they threatened to pull out.

It marked one of the earliest instances of Big Media butting heads with the online video phenomenon.