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"This is a principal example of when you don't learn from people who have an understanding of the facts on the ground," said Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, the teachers' union.

The protracted patent battles are cited by many legal scholars and industry executives as a principal example of the failings of the United States patent system, which they say has limited technology innovation more than fostering it.

October 12, 1705 Nancy, France February 2, 1763 Lunéville, France Emmanuel Héré de Corny, (born Oct. 12, 1705, Nancy, Fr. died Feb. 2, 1763, Lunéville) French court architect to Stanisław Leszczyński, duke of Lorraine, best known for laying out the town centre of Nancy, a principal example of urban design in the 18th century.

Although autobiographical in nature, "The Open Boat" is a work of fiction; it is often considered a principal example of Naturalism, an offshoot of the Realist literary movement, in which scientific principles of objectivity and detachment are applied to the study of human characteristics.

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) provide a principal example of diphenic development.

Safinamide is a principal example of the class of compounds dubbed α-aminoamide (AAA) and has pharmacological properties relevant to the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

The significant difference between this position and radical skepticism is clear from the principal example of a mitgatedly skeptical 'opinion' that we have: the thesis that nothing can be known (see e.g. Cicero Ac. 2.148, Gellius Attic Nights 11.5.8, Galen On the Best Method for Teaching ch. 1).

The principal example of these is the scheme of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a seminal German philosopher, in his famous Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (1832).

The prosecution, conviction and jailing of Mr. Siegelman have become the principal example of what Democrats say was the politicization of the Justice Department during the Bush years.

The principal example of this kind of notation is the Chinese numeral system, three variants of which are shown in the figure.

"The Russian equity market would be worth several hundred billion dollars more if it weren't for the critical Western perception of Russia, and the Khodorkovsky case is the principal example of that perception," he said.