Sentence examples for were made an example of from inspiring English sources
While it's generally held that such systems were practised by other NFL teams, the Saints were made an example of, fined a league maximum of $500,000, stripped of draft picks and, to top it all, their talismanic head coach, Sean Payton, was suspended for the entire 2012 season.
The resulting forensic evidence led authorities to the pirate's lair where they were made an example of and publicly scolded.
Luton fans have felt they were made an example of when the Football Association docked 10 points from them for paying third-party agents and a further 20 points for failing to satisfy insolvency rules in 2008.
By contrast, of 393 men sentenced to death for falling asleep on sentry duty in all theatres in World War I, only two were executed (sentries were usually posted in pairs to keep one another awake; these two, who served in Mesopotamia, were made an example of because they were found sitting asleep together, suggesting that they had colluded).
We're being made an example of".
The Golden Venture's passengers were being made an example of in the United States, the lawyers argued, but they would also be made an example of in China.
"Mr Clifford is not to be made an example of following a number of failed prosecutions.
But because I was in a high-profile sport I was made an example of.
"It is obvious that he is being made an example of.
"I should be made an example of, and I am — I'm embarrassed," Pearl told SI.com.
