Sentence examples for the first instances of from inspiring English sources
The killings are considered one of the first instances of genocide in the 20th century.
It exemplifies one of the first instances of American creativity that was global in consequences".
The first instances of wrongdoing – very often nuisance or antisocial behaviour – must be dealt with effectively.
The sculpture unrepentantly lacked any aesthetic beauty and marked one of the first instances of purely conceptual art in China.
His company licensed the Chinese design, marking one of the first instances of Chinese coal technology's coming to America.
Pepper's acquisition of Freeh's firm is among the first instances of a law firm acquiring one of these groups outright.
These are not the first instances of daytime drama brand extensions, according to Lynn Leahey, editorial director of Soap Opera Digest.
Mr. Takeshima says the continuing investigations into Intel and Microsoft are the first instances of the agency's taking action against such big foreign companies.
It sparked "one of the first instances of public indignation about development in Tasmania's reserves," according to Greg Buckland, author of Tasmania's Wilderness Battles.
Activists posted images of huge craters that they alleged were the first instances of warplanes dropping bunker buster bombs – a claim the Guardian could not independently verify.
He considers Watchmen and Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns to be "the first instances... of [a] new kind of comic book... a first phase of development, the transition of the superhero from fantasy to literature".
