Darwin had one example while on the Beagle that showed that, even in 1832, he was looking for a natural causal understanding of the adaptations of organisms (see Eldredge, 2009a for details of Darwin's encounter with, and thoughts about, this impressive snake species).
I have one example I always use.
"In science, you can't be systematic about something when you only have one example.
The Yankees have one example in their starting rotation — staff ace C.C. Sabathia, whose remarkable talent has not come at the expense of his durability.
We have already had one example of what can happen if there is no semi-independent body to check the actions of the education department.
"We're searching for something that we can't really define because we only have one example of a biosphere, our own," he told me over the phone.
In those twenty years we've seen the positive impact that even a few years under the Contract had, one example being the success of welfare reform (often wrongly credited as a policy innovation of the Clintons).
One CI described a situation where a student tried to search for "more knowledge" about phantom limb pain: "I have one example related to my student.
If one had to make one example only of Kafka's continuing "relevance" to the contemporary world, one couldn't do much better than "In the Penal Colony".
Some A.I.G. employees, to take one example, had to have understood what their credit derivative division in London was doing.
