Political science professor Elinor Ostrom has called the cleanup of Europe's Rhine, brought about by a multinational assortment of organizations and local governments, an example of successful commons management.
The Bush administration has cited Mr. Saakashvili's government as an example of democratic success in a region where that has been scarce.
The Bush administration has pointed to Georgia's pro-Western government as an example of the success of a foreign policy doctrine of fostering democracy abroad.
The Obama administration has held out Mr. Headley's cooperation with the government as an example of the ways in which the civilian criminal justice system can be an appropriate tool in handling terrorism-related cases.
The chief justice said that his branch of the government provided an example of doing much with few resources.
The employment survey forms part of the "key information sets", statistics championed by the government as an example of student consumer power.
Instead, Mr. Obama, who was still working with his speechwriters on Tuesday, will call for unity among Americans, while trying to hold up the lives of the victims, including their service to government, as an example to all Americans.
Kadeer was lauded by the Chinese government as an example of Uighur success and was appointed to influential organizations and committees, including the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the National People's Congress.
He cited the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS), which he championed when Labor was in government, as an example of serious, nation-changing reform, well argued, in "the Hawke-Keating tradition".
When I interviewed her shortly afterwards, she told me how she had walked 30 miles through jungle with her Tamil guides to evade government troops, an example of the effort she put into her work.
