Independent diagnostics companies, for example, have made hospitals considerable savings.
Other examples – the first pocket calculator and the Spitfire, for example – have made design history.
Many leaders — Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy, for example — have made clear that they do not.
Such a provision might, for example, have made the raiders on Halifax Bank of Scotland go homeward tae think again.
Some of his colleagues at the top of the Labour party have been making noises about tactical voting: Lord Adonis and Peter Hain, for example, have made overtures to Liberal Democrat voters.
The French and the Germans, for example, have made it clear that they would like the EU to do more to develop a pan-European "industrial policy".
But he added that the Israeli siege, the temptations of violent death, and Hezbollah's example have made it difficult for Palestinians to recognize the advantages of unheroic compromise.
Israeli film-makers, for example, have made dozens of frank, fearless and questioning movies about their own region's history and politics – most recently, the remarkable agent-handler docudrama The Green Prince.
He should not, for example, have made the mistake of calling a former colony "uncivilised", nor allowed Britain to be drawn into Mr Mugabe's quarrel with white farmers over land reform.
Larger companies, the big pharmaceutical firms are a good example, have made very significant cutbacks in their hiring numbers this year and into 2003.
