Sentence examples for a painful example of from inspiring English sources

Is a painful example of the inconsistency of inspectors' judgments, which the watchdog recently owned up to.

He sees the job as an exercise in complete humiliation, and training a painful example of corporate humorlessness.

Zimbabwe, just to the north of us, is a painful example of such a country; Mugabe and Zanu-PF have been in power for 36 years.

(Charles Isherwood)20091119 'BYE BYE BIRobert Longbottombottom's color-coded revival of this 1960 musical satire is a painful example of misapplied talent.

Japan's recent experience offers a painful example of how a collapse in share or property prices can harm a banking system.Since pricking a financial bubble is a risky business, it is clearly better for central banks to step in early to prevent one developing.

"This is a painful example of the problem with the current law, which literally puts handcuffs on 16- and 17-year-olds as well as the judges in criminal court," said Steven Banks, chief lawyer at the Legal Aid Society, which represented the teenager.

You won't find a more painful example of a country (or parts of it) pulling the wool over its own eyes, however, than a story that emerged this week.

Eating disorders are just an unavoidable, painful example of the way lessons about what matters about the way we look can get applied to our every day.

Speaking to the Guardian earlier this month, Chris Gunness, the spokesman for UNRWA, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, described Sahlee's case as "a terrible and very painful example of the added vulnerabilities that Palestinians have.

And their 4-2 loss to the Phillies, which completed a three-game sweep to start a homestand that continues today with a doubleheader against the National League East-leading Atlanta Braves, was merely one more painful example of what the team has endured.

One painful example of this occurred at Beijing's Institute of Virology where a lab researcher was infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus in a sample that was improperly handled, resulting in the death of the researcher's mother and the infection of several others.