Sentence examples for fair example from inspiring English sources

But that wasn't really a fair example.

Reports of funds embezzled and assets spirited away are still frequent but the government has been setting a fair example.

Otherwise she was not impressed, calling the book a, "fair example of the myopic Western attitudes that helped create the problem it describes".

Soon, no one will remember my eccentricity – A fair example, fitting "Oh Dearie me today" (The catchphrase of a childhood landlady) To the tune of "Lady Be Good".

This, it is often forgotten, preceded Tom Sawyer by seven years, offered a model for many later stories of small-town bad boys, and is a fair example of the second-class classic.

Obama is assigned "Sister Carrie," by Theodore Dreiser, set in his own Chicago, but about the sort of American he doesn't know: "She was a fair example of the middle American class — two generations removed from the emigrant.

The dialogue about giving up smoking and the telephone conversation between the mother and son are fair examples of the first method.

Yesterday, BBC News ran an article based on a wider survey it had done about "anti-social" commuting habits (fair examples: cutting your nails, eating a packet of prawns on the bus).

Earlier this week, BBC News ran an article based on a wider survey it had done about "anti-social" commuting habits (fair examples: clipping your nails, eating a packet of shrimp on the bus).

Is it fair, for example, to demand the same of poor pupils and rich ones?

The targets of his outrage are wrong, too: the agricultural area at a state fair, for example.