striking instance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstrikingandinstance
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striking
adjective
uk/ˈstraɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈstraɪ.kɪŋ/
very unusual or easily noticed, and therefore attracting a lot ...
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instance
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.stəns/us/ˈɪn.stəns/
a particular situation, event, or fact, especially an example of something that ...
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(Definition ofstrikingandinstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Apposition is astrikinginstanceof a category that cannot be elucidated in that way.
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Electrical plant is astrikinginstance.
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It is astrikinginstancebut far from unique.
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One verystrikinginstanceof that came to my notice.
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Perhaps the moststrikinginstanceof this is the word 'tradition' itself; as an integral part of the most recent laws, it remains legally undefined.
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I can give even a morestrikinginstance—that of raw cotton.
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Recently, we have had a verystrikinginstanceof this discrimination.
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That always impressed me as astrikinginstanceof what f may call administrative legislation.
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It is astrikinginstanceof the fact that armaments depend upon policy.
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Could you have a morestrikinginstanceof the unifying power of a common commercial policy and common fiscal interest?
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An even morestrikinginstanceoccurred with regard to the right of the industry to manufacture plant.
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My noble friend quoted one verystrikinginstanceof how far they have gone in foreign countries.
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It seems to me to be a moststrikinginstanceand warning of the evils of too hurried legislation.
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I do not think there has ever been a morestrikinginstanceof municipal agreement on a subject than is provided by this case.
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Could there ever have been a morestrikinginstanceof disparity between the magnitude of a problem and the proposal for palliating it?
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The two deputations which lie was good enough to bring to me only a few days ago were astrikinginstanceof that.
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The fact is that this long-drawn-out disarmament episode is the moststrikinginstanceyou can find of the unbalancing of defence policy and foreign policy.
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Out of those profits, taxation took £450,000—surely astrikinginstanceof the truth of what shipowners are saying upon that particular subject.
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I have mentioned the case of rickets and now let me take a still morestrikinginstance—insulin, which, however, is not yet a cure.
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But we have, in this country, in the speed law a much morestrikinginstanceof a law which exists and which nobody thinks of obeying.
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I think the moststrikinginstanceis the case of anti-vivisection, which seems to have been charitable in 1895 but had ceased to be so by 1947.
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In any case, it is astrikinginstanceof these enormous profits being earned, with nothing to set off against them in the way of advantage to the consumer.
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I do not know a morestrikinginstanceof the comparative rate of increase of a civilized over a savage people.
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They form indeed astrikinginstanceof the folly of the artist who selects a story which can not be actualized without hurting the finer instincts of human nature.
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