Sentence examples for pointed example from inspiring English sources

The number was the most pointed example of Ms. Lemper's restless iconoclasm.

The most pointed example of such independence was the refusal of most Latin American nations to support the American-led war in Iraq.

The delay in Mr. Srinivasan's nomination is a pointed example of the broken appointment process and the enormous harm caused by the Senate's inability to do its job.

The plan to limit card fees, championed by Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, offered a particularly pointed example of how unfriendly the atmosphere on Capitol Hill has become for banks and their lobbyists this year.

Skip to next paragraph Editorial Series New York State Government The Bruno case is a pointed example of one of the oldest sayings in Albany: It's not what's illegal there that's scandalous, it's what's legal.

One wonders how relevant the "end of men" hypothesis will sound to the women so disproportionately affected by the austerity that grips Europe and beyond – or to take a more pointed example, one of those girls in Rochdale, whose miserable fate speaks of realities long unchanged – and what happens when you're at the wrong side of not just gender but class.

Historically, and the President drew pointed examples from Lincoln to FDR, this has invoked a role for government.

Mr. Obama, in an exchange Friday with Representative Tom Price, Republican of Georgia, said he had considered many Republican ideas and pointed, by example, to a proposal to allow insurance companies to sell policies across state lines.

MR: Some of Lost Soul's titles are pretty pointed, for example "I'll Replace You With Machines," "Overnight Failure," and "I've Taken Enough S**t From You This Year".

Many pointed to examples like the wind-down of Seinfeld (1990-1998), coneidered ofe of TV's more disappointing denouements.

Of course some pointed to examples of species in which observations showed the Darwin-Bateman sex roles were reversed, but perhaps surprisingly it was not until two papers published in 2007 and 2012 that researchers showed Bateman's conclusions were based on flawed experimental and statistical methods.