Mr. Obama initiated it, applying two lessons drawn from his predecessors.
But no less significant were sobering lessons drawn from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
In these lines, lessons drawn from the 1990s explosion of brands like Phat Farm, Fubu, even Karl Kani are mixed with the lessons drawn from the '90s appropriation of Polo and Tommy Hilfiger.
The lessons drawn from research on charter school outcomes strongly caution against blindly jumping on the charter school bandwagon.
An anecdote about young surfers in Maui is followed by some management lessons drawn from the World of Warcraft, an online game involving swords and hobgoblins.
While the United States is offering lessons drawn from its own crisis in 2008, the Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, and other officials are treading carefully to avoid antagonizing Europeans who complain the United States has no business lecturing them.
The lessons drawn from the 1990s crises that limiting sovereign debt, borrowing in the local currency, floating the currency, and running small current-account deficits are not sufficient to avoid pain given a shift in global capital flows.
The department Chief Smith now leads and the city it serves are in the arduous stages of trying to integrate lessons drawn from the episode that brought infamy to Sanford 16 months ago.
If you are one of the autocrats who survived the annus horribilis of 2011, here are three lessons, drawn from some smart Russians and Russia-watchers, of what the unexpected Slavic protests this month could mean.
Throw in dollops of quantum physics, Shamanism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, tantric sex and lessons drawn from his personal experiences and the movies (even "Star Wars"), and the audience was enthralled.
She has spent hours studying newspaper clips from the 1964 campaign, an aide said, and lessons drawn from the Kennedy candidacy have shaped much of what she has done these last 15 months.
