Sentence examples for example served as from inspiring English sources

The Babylonian example served as a sort of wake-up call to the Greeks.

The Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard, for example, served as deputy secretary of defense in the Nixon administration.

He did not use that term, but his example served as the model for a host of succeeding studies, so named.

Bob DeCotiis, for example, served as counsel to Gov. Jim Florio more than two decades ago, just as his son Michael served as counsel years later to Gov. Jim McGreevey.

This doesn't mean you need to be the primary lecturer for a course; Jacquelyn, for example, served as a teaching assistant, assisting with grading, giving guest lectures, and helping create course content.

The recent flooding and mass evacuation in the Oroville Dam region in northern California, for example, served as a reminder of how investments in natural infrastructure such as floodplains and groundwater basins could have mitigated the impact of that event.

Phospholipids with certain head groups can alter the surface chemistry of a bilayer and can, for example, serve as signals as well as "anchors" for other molecules in the membranes of cells.

"Pushing Hands," for example, serves as a sort of template for what comes later.

A carefully presented numerical example serves as a detailed illustration of the development approach.

If nothing else, their example serves as a reminder of just how unhelpful the Book of Genesis can be, especially to pregnant women.

But as the series prepares for the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim this weekend, the German example serves as the best illustration of how truly international the series is.