Sentence examples for cautionary role from inspiring English sources

In the recently opened Holocaust museum in Skokie, Ill., bullying also plays a cautionary role.

It remains to be seen how effectively the gifted athlete delivers on his probation vow to become a cautionary role model for urban youngsters involved in the booming subculture of street-corner dogfighting.

Realism also performs a useful cautionary role.

Although the plight of severely injured retired players is generally well known, they do not serve as cautionary role models.

But for American states devising cap-and-trade programmes of their own, it has been as much a cautionary tale as a role model.The new initiatives championed by Mrs Merkel might just add to the embarrassment.

Mr. Spade, who is no longer boyishly slim and here sports a goatee and ghastly leather jackets, is wisely set up as more of a cautionary tale than a role model.

There was always a channelling-Howard Beale quality to Olbermann's signature "Special Comment" segments, tightly scripted verbal assaults performed as stream-of-consciousness erudition, and one suspected that Olbermann perceived the crazed Beale less as a cautionary figure than as a role model.

Instead, his Texas experiment is now a cautionary tale on the critical role of transmission to wind development.

I refuse to assume the role of the cautionary Granny in fear of the future, but I do encourage a broader perspective.

Smokers, as portrayed in today's ad breaks, tend to cut a pretty disgusting figure, cautionary tales rather than aspirational role-models.

But in the '70s, she seemed less a role model than a cautionary tale.