Sentence examples for warning examples from inspiring English sources

4 For it is an excellent thing to be able to use the ignorant mistakes of others as warning examples for the correction of error, and, when we confront the varied vicissitudes of life, instead of having to investigate what is being done now, to be able to imitate the successes which have been achieved in the past.

"China's anti-graft campaign has moved beyond setting warning examples to deter others," said a 2014 year-end report from state press agency Xinhua.

This kind of "joke" hints at the deep-seated racism that can be seen in tweets from explicitly pro-Gamergate accounts towards Jubbal (content warning: examples here and here).

This kind of "joke" hints at the deep-seated racism that can be seen in tweets from explicitly pro-Gamergate accounts towards Mr Jubbal (content warning: examples here and here).

Other than recommendations in the foreword, the book also contained a short chapter with descriptions of fictitious housewives that served as warning examples about neglecting housework in favor of beautification, reading, religion, or doing the chores of the servants.

There is a warning example.

Rather, he proposed to "hang myself in public as a warning example for all anti-Semites on this earth".

This is mentioned in all four of the Gospels and has been used for centuries as a warning example by antigambling crusaders.

As it is, Streisand - as an actress, as her own impresario, as a figure in the culture - is something of a joke, a warning example of self-infatuation.

It is not for nothing, Alec says, that Evelyn's most sentimental book, "Brideshead Revisited" (1945), was written the year after Arthur's death: "The warning example was now removed".

In his mind, there was no contradiction between "I will jump into my grave laughing," appropriate for the end of the war, and "I am ready to hang myself in public as a warning example for all anti-Semites on this earth," which now, under vastly different circumstances, fulfilled exactly the same function — that of giving him a lift.