Sentence examples for example closer to from inspiring English sources

The Long-Term Capital Management hedge-fund crisis of 1998 is another example, closer to home.

But the presidential system in the United States is not ours and there is an example closer to home.

(For an example closer to the current financial crisis, Felix Salmon has a nice post on the way regulatory arbitrage has left a bunch of ordinary Germans holding worthless pieces of Lehman Brothers debt).

Indeed, as a new American administration ponders its options in Iraq, there is, perhaps, an example closer to home of the limits on Washington's success in supporting the exiled foes of a repressive regime hobbled by American sanctions -- not in Iraq, but in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Many have ordered the "chairman's set meal" at Mr Xi's bun shop, too.But perhaps Mr Xi was following an example closer to home: the 18th-century Qianlong emperor who, legend has it, kept close to the masses by donning commoners' garb and circulating incognito.

Now let's look at an example closer to home, the auto business.

An example close to my heart is the phrase "fair access to care services"(Facs).

I can cite the example closest to me, that of Russia.

This is one of the lowest rates in developed nations: in Japan, Korea, Finland, Germany and New Zealand for example, close to 100% of students take maths up to age 18.

One shrine in Lazio, for example, close to the border of Abruzzo, which attracts thousands of pilgrims a year, is in state of disarray, he said.

The German intelligence service – the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) – to name an example close to home, does exactly the same thing as the NSA abroad and it does so within a similar legal framework.