Instance in sentence

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For instance, this is a bird's-eye view of the EPFL campus.

Imagine, horizontally you see the reconstructed map of a given year, and vertically, you see the document that served the reconstruction, paintings, for instance.

For instance, researchers have studied facial expression in people who are born blind, hypothesizing that if expressions are universal, they would be displayed in the same way as sighted people.

The fear expression, for instance, could directly improve survival in potentially dangerous situations by letting our eyes absorb more light and our lungs take in more air, preparing us to fight or flee.

But there's a great difference between an escalope and my wife, for instance.

But we can, for instance, imagine a dating website which, a bit like those loyalty points programs, uses seduction capital points that vary according to my age, my height/weight ratio, my degree, my salary, or the number of clicks on my profile.

We've never seen any evidence of even a single instance of specific harm, and because of that, I'm comfortable with the decisions that I made.

Left out, for instance, are the many cases that are resolved by guilty pleas, not trials.

In this case, 01010100 corresponds to the letter T. So, how can you know whether a given instance of this sequence is supposed to mean T or 84?

Each frame of this video, for instance, is made of hundreds of thousands of pixels.

It's actually a spectrum of disorders, a spectrum that ranges, for instance, from Justin, a 13-year-old boy who's not verbal, who can't speak, who communicates by using an iPad to touch pictures to communicate his thoughts and his concerns, a little boy who, when he gets upset, will start rocking, and eventually, when he's disturbed enough, will bang his head to the point that he can actually cut it open and require stitches.

You could imagine, for instance, Gabriel, with his social awkwardness, might be able to wear Google Glass with an earpiece in his ear, and have a coach be able to help him, be able to help think about conversations, conversation-starters, being able to even perhaps one day invite a girl out on a date.

For instance, five squared would be?

And it mentions, for instance, that cotton is very resistant to textile dye; about 60 percent washes off into wastewater.

For instance, simple cells came into being billions of years ago ... but perhaps the development of complex life needed a series of unlikely events.

And we're very good at this sort of thing because our ability to stereotype people is not some sort of arbitrary quirk of the mind, but rather it's a specific instance of a more general process, which is that we have experience with things and people in the world that fall into categories, and we can use our experience to make generalizations about novel instances of these categories.

For instance, in one study, people were given a list of facts about a crisis, and it was seen how much they would donate to solve this crisis, and another group was given no facts at all but they were told of an individual and given a name and given a face, and it turns out that they gave far more.

For instance, having fed on a nice pile of oats, the slime mold goes off to explore new territories in different directions simultaneously.

For instance, the central jail for political prisoners, which was established by the Russians, was taken over by the Stasi and used until the end of Communism.

For instance, did you know that taking your temperature can tell you a lot about the condition of your thyroid?

Insidiously, just the way that stop-and-frisk, for instance, became over time a bureaucratic numbers game.

Virally, in the way that the Tea Party, for instance, was able to take the "Don't Tread on Me" flag from the American Revolution, or how, on the other side, a band of activists could take a magazine headline, "Occupy Wall Street," and turn that into a global meme and movement.

There are some millennials, for instance, who think the whole business is just sordid.

And so, for instance, consider the ways that strategies for making cities more bike-friendly have spread so rapidly from Copenhagen to New York to Austin to Boston to Seattle.

So one thing that people ask me pretty frequently: Is this just an instance of humans driving other animals crazy?

For instance, there are some eco-extremists who think that it would be better for the planet, for Gaia, if there were far fewer humans.

For instance, I didn't know that the Spaniards invented the mop, but they were very proud so every Spaniard said "la frego."

And then, for instance, this other exhibition that was entitled Workspheres in 2001, where I asked different designers to come up with ideas for the new type of work styles that were happening in the world at that time.

Many of you might know that the Potato Chip Chair by Charles and Ray Eames comes exactly from that kind of instance: fiberglass was available for civilian use all of a sudden.

I wanted to show you, for instance, the work of Mathieu Lehanneur, which is quite fantastic.

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