For instance, in an unprecedented case spearheaded by the former New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer and currently being considered by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, eight states and New York City have sued five of America's largest power companies, demanding that they cut carbon emissions.
These events are not unprecedented; a previous instance of spread of FMDV from Southeast Asia into China Yunnan Provincee) in 2006 involved the Asia 1 serotype.
("Stop being afraid of failure and start embracing it," the organizers of FailCon, an annual conference, implore, suggesting that, in the era of disruption, innovators face unprecedented challenges. For instance: maybe you made the wrong hires?) When an established company succeeds, that's only because it hasn't yet failed.
The strategy of indulging the future is very well equipped to deal with uncertain developments, as the designed system encapsulates the potential to anticipate and increase resilience when an unprecedented event occurs, for instance when the capacity, flexibility and agility of the urban system are increased, through creating spaces for temporary land use, or 'unused' open spaces.
In Europe, for instance, an unprecedented heat wave in the summer of 2003 killed more than 52,000 people and contributed to heightened wildfire activity and crop failure.
The jury cited the pending Time-AOL merger, for instance, as "an unprecedented marriage of distribution and content".
The Manisa case, for instance, caused an unprecedented outcry: the policemen would never have been tried, let alone retried, some years ago.
We are told several times, for instance, that an unprecedented surge of Muslim newcomers followed the 1965 relaxation in the immigration laws.
This is not an instance of the unprecedented melt in the Arctic occurring naturally and without manmade global warming.
