It was settled, as long ago as the first Congress, at theinstance of Madison, then in the Senate, and by the deciding vote of John Adams, then Vice-President, that even where the advice and consent of the Senate was necessary to the appointment of an officer, the President had the absolute power to remove him without consulting the Senate.
(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
1713, [Matthew Hale], “Concerning the Distribution of the Laws ofEngland into Common Law, and Statute Law. And First, Concerning the Statute Law, or Acts of Parliament.”, inThe History of the Common Law of England:[…],[London]:[…]J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe,[…],→OCLC,page14:
The Statutes, or Acts of Parliament themſelves. Theſe ſeem, as if in the Time ofEdw[ard] I. they were drawn up into the Form of a Law in the firſtInſtance, and ſo aſſented to by both Houſes, and the King, as may appear by the very Obſervation of the Contexture and Fabrick of the Statutes of thoſe Times.
sometimes we love those that are absent, saith Philostratus, and givesinstance in his friend Athenodorus, that loved a maid at Corinth whom he never saw[…]
One of a series of recurringoccasions,cases, essentially the same.
2006, Robert Spaemann,Persons: The Difference Between 'someone' and 'something', page115:
One's own death is an 'accidental' event, simply anotherinstance of the general rule that human beings die.
2010, Kenneth Anderson,How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol, page59:
If you choose to drink again the best way to avoid anotherinstance of withdrawal is to avoid drinking two days in a row.
2010 October 11, Mark King, “Homeowners warned to be vigilant as identity and registration fraud rises”, inThe Guardian[2]:
The organisations claim fraudsters are targeting properties belonging to both individuals and companies, in someinstances using forged documents.
For example, when a team of five players enters the Sunken Templeinstance inWorld of Warcraft, they will battle many monsters, but they will not encounter other players even though several teams of players may be experiencing the Sunken Temple at the same time.
Beating a difficultinstance becomes second nature after running through it…a few times, with good leaders knowing exactly what to do and how to co-ordinate member actions.
2017, Masaki Kohanaet al., “A Topic Trend on P2P Based Social Media”, in Leonard Barolli, Makoto Takizawa, Tomoya Enokido, editors,Advances in Network-Based Information Systems: The 20th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2017),page1140:
To collect the messages, we select the mstdn.jp as the targetinstance. The mstdn.jp is one of the major Mastodoninstances that has 123,331 users and connects to the 2415 otherinstances at 26 Feb 2017.
2022, Derek Caelin, “Decentralized Networks vs The Trolls”, in Hoda Mahmoudi, Kate Seaman, Michael H. Allen, editors,Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity[6], page157:
In a poll I conducted on Mastodon, 42% of the 674 respondents said that they had reported something, whether it had been a spam account or hateful content, to theirinstance's moderator.
2023, Chris Minnick, Michael McCallister,Mastodon for Dummies[7], page14:
Every Mastodoninstance (neighborhood) has a code of conduct that you have to agree to before you join (move in).
The reason why so many fallacious opinions have passed into proverbs is owing to that carelessness which makes the individualinstance the general rule.
1858 December 8, “Meeting of the Farmers' Club.”, inThe New-York Times, volume VIII,number2252,→ISSN,→OCLC,page 3, column 1; republished asTransactions of the American Institute, of the City of New York, for the Year 1858.[8], Albany: C. Van Benthuysen,1859,page179:
Mr. BENSON estimated the amount of guano on Jarvis' Island at 5,000,000 tons, and on Baker's Island at no less. Heinstanced experiments to show that it was in no way inferior to the best Peruvian article. Another company had lately been formed to bring guano from still other islands lately discovered.
1901 April 12, “Veterinary Departmental Report for February, 1901”, inThe Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[9], volume 4, number 3, page87:
District Veterinary Surgeon Hutchinson's report from Newcastle is again worthy of notice, asinstancing the difficulty of suppression of contagious disease under thedisturbed conditions now existing in the northern part of the Colony.
The poems which I haveinstanced are concrete and relatively glaring examples of the intangible difference which the change of language made in Rilke's visions .
2010 April 1, Scott F. Andrews,The Guild Leader's Handbook: Strategies and Guidance from a Battle-Scarred MMO Veteran, No Starch Press,→ISBN, page124:
In these games, such as World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online, most significant PvP happens insideinstanced or player-capped areas.
2012 May 31, Ashok Kumar,Algorithmic and Architectural Gaming Design: Implementation and Development: Implementation and Development, IGI Global,→ISBN, page302:
This is an improvement compared to contemporary MMORPG which combine zoning andinstancing, whereas replication is currently not available for a combination with either of them. Zoning (Cai, Xavier, Turner, & Lee, 2002; Macedonia, Zyda,[…]
2021 May 24, Mark J. P. Wolf,Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, 2nd Edition[3 volumes], ABC-CLIO,→ISBN, page316:
Instanced encounters standard in today's MMORPGs, but the lack ofinstancing in early EverQuest meant that the guild (a team of players operating as a team) or group(s) of players who raced to and engaged a target first could claim the[…]
