Sentence examples for cautionary history from inspiring English sources

The British experience during World War I is a cautionary history cited often in Iraq these days.

This low-blow tactic is ever tempting to someone or other in public life, which makes Congress's release this week of some of the more odious McCarthy archives a welcome renewal of cautionary history.

If this constellation of circumstances is what allowed Savile to operate as he did, then any rerun would be unlikely, and the report could safely be treated as a cautionary history book.

It was deployed as a cautionary account in political speeches during the 18th century, and a chapbook entitled The History of Wat Tyler and Jack Strawe proved popular during the Jacobite risings and American War of Independence.

The tragic climax of Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War" -- the catastrophic Athenian expedition to Sicily -- is just such a cautionary chronicle of hubris-laden comeuppance.

Here's their cautionary story.

"Our story is more cautionary than the history of the last 10 years," she said.

There are no shortage of cautionary lessons from history about potential outcomes, from Russia to Mexico to Argentina to Cuba.

Their story is a cautionary tale about judging history, or a people, any people, in black and white.

As a champion of the legislative branch, he found cautionary tales in those histories.

The Universal Pictures documentary is a broad social history - a cautionary tale about the puritanical streak that continues to define American conservatism.