Sentence examples for become an early example from inspiring English sources

When, not much later, Rome was sacked by the Goths, she was taken hostage and is said to have become an early example of what we call now the Stockholm syndrome, falling in love with one of her barbarian kidnappers and going into battle by his side.

This became an early example of fights that attracted the attention and criticism of boxing analysts, particularly those in New York.

An early adopter running the latest edition of iOS 7 or Android KitKit, for example, may be more likely to become an early adopter of a new app versus someone still rocking their iPhone 3GS with iOS 5.0.

Worry has become an early riser.

You want to become an early riser.

Larry Hama relates the genesis of the commercials: Between the toy line, comic books, commercials and subsequent cartoon series, Hasbro's marketing plan was highly successful and eventually became an industry standard, an early example of a practice that would years later be described by Jenkins as a "transmedia narrative".

Arrested in 2003, Mr. Khodorkovsky became an early and vivid example of the policies of Vladimir V. Putin — then Russia's president and now its prime minister — to consolidate control of the petroleum industry and crack down on opposition parties Mr. Khodorkovsky had been funding.

The acts Russo described became commonplace in the news post-9/11 and he would prove to be an early example of what also became commonplace in our century: a whistleblower who found himself on the wrong side of the law and so was prosecuted for releasing the secret truth about the acts of our government.

It was an early example of what became a lifetime of left-wing activism and an outspokenness that he said hobbled his career as an entertainer, getting him blacklisted from TV networks.

The latter also mentioned Tzara's use of chance in writing poetry as an early example of what became the cut-up technique, adopted by Brion Gysin and Burroughs himself.

And so, many experts say Jackson Heights is merely an early example of what will become an increasingly common occurrence: the disappearance of neighborhood hospitals in New York City, especially outside Manhattan.