examples

One of his examples is a man who throws grains of millet so precisely that he can toss them through the eye of a needle every time.

The Middle Mind « So Many Books 2005

To the extent that it's possible to pick leaders that matter - such as your examples from the 20th century - they invariably make things worse.

Tolstoy, Hayek, and David Brooks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Yes, there have been countless examples from the rescue team and the Chilean government.

Luis Urzua: Chile's underground leader Jena McGregor 2010

Our class of six students brought in examples from fieldwork at hospitals and support groups in order to study personal feelings of weakness and fear, as they came up in the course of providing spiritual counseling to others.

Joshua Stanton: Pastoral Care: Crucial Learning We Often Overlook Joshua Stanton 2010

And if we think a bit harder, we might come up with examples from the Bible and Moses leading Egyptian slaves to freedom.

Thoughts on Annals of the Western Shore julieandrews 2009

The main examples he come up with, though, are Greenland and Easter Island.

What, Me Worry?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I haven't done a formal study or considered examples from the 19th century, but the modern examples that stand out in my mind (North and South Korea, East and West Germany) seem to support an institutional view.

Cowen, Clark, and Malthus, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I merely suggest that those people consider: first, the truly alarming way that the security situation in Mexico has degenerated since the last time immigration was an active issue (some examples from the last day here and here); and second, the truly insulting way that Democrats rammed through a decidedly unpopular health care bill through Congress*.

Graham torpedoes cap-and-trade bill rollout. | RedState 2010

I sometimes wonder whether the failure to give examples is deliberate.

Why Oh Why Can't Hayek Write Better?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Cosmology is full of examples from the distribution of chemical elements in the universe to cosmic background radiation (another prediction that TeVeS gets right) at long ranges or large scales flow from small scale phenomena.

Experiments in Non-Relativistic Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) 2010