The circumstances and the aftermath — Joyce's apology, Galarraga's grace — made the game a lasting example of sportsmanship and a model for dealing with failure and disappointment.
This case was a fitting last example of a legacy of compassion, commitment, and unparalleled legal and technical genius.
The last example of a Democratic appointee drifting right is Justice Byron White, who was nominated by President John F. Kennedy.
Not the first, nor the last, example of a victim or victim's family getting to the end of the line with no redress.
Begum isn't the first — and won't be the last — example of a case like this, but she is the first to have attracted such widespread attention.
To some people it may be the kind of trivia that would give Lord Reith a coronary - were he not dead already - but it is essentially a perfect use of the medium and the first, and possibly last, example of a piece of interactive television really working.
The Shredded Wheat packet used to do something similar when it illustrated the company's smart new plant in Welwyn Garden City; it may have been British packaging's last example of a common Victorian pride in the place of manufacture, the factory.
Johnson's track record may be that of a loyal Blairite, but he is a rare example, and perhaps the last example, of a leading politician who was born into the working class – perhaps even what we would now call the underclass – and stayed in it or close to it, first as a postal worker, then as a full-time official for the postal (later communication) workers' union.
A last example of a flexibility-oriented offering are giftcards.
A last example of a distinction concerns the sophisma 'The white can be black' (this is an awkward translation of the sentence 'Album potest esse nigrum'): the sentence can be taken to mean 'The thing that is white can be black', which is true; or it can be interpreted as 'It can be the case that the white thing is black' (at the same time, that is), in which case it is false.
The last example of a GOP nominee running as an unreserved conservative occurred in 1964.
