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• For that to happen, regulators will have to make an example of Clearview.
  — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
• His friends said the 18-year-old made a mistake, officials wanted to make an example of him and the panic that was created was overblown.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
• The 13-year sentence is longer than that and may point to aggravating factors or a decision by the court to make an example of a celebrity.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
• Nevertheless, Key took this as his chance to make an example of abolitionism once and for all.
  — Bennett Parten, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2021
• Beijing, in response, is attempting to make an example of them and send a message to the others: Our influence is not reversible.
  — Michael Johns Jr., National Review, 8 Sep. 2020
• For global investors, the key question is whether regulators will be content to make an example of Ant and Ma, or intend to go after other tech giants as well.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2021
• Tightening its grip on Hong Kong, China is determined to make an example of the prodemocracy media tycoon.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2023
• During the trial, the prosecutor (Michel Fau) exhorts the all-male jury to make an example of Madeleine for the world’s murderous females, who apparently are everywhere, ready to pounce.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• De Los Rios on Monday declined to address the specifics of the allegations other than to say that the prosecution is trying to make an example of the protesters and that police were the aggressors while seeking to suppress his free speech rights.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 26 Oct. 2020
• The Sokoto State government must immediately apprehend them and make an example of them.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 13 May 2022
• Legal analysts say the court will want to make an example of Bolsonaro to deter future politicians from alleging electoral fraud without evidence.
  — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• The union also argued that the league showed more grace to white players (using Roethlisberger as an example) while handing Watson, who is Black, an unprecedented punishment to make an example of him.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
• But the Balinese authorities appear ready to make an example of Russians and Ukrainians amid rising public debate over perceptions of their conduct.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• In choosing to make an example of Gary Lineker by suspending him for criticizing the British government’s asylum policy on Twitter, the network went up against a national treasure.
  — Steve Douglas, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2023
• The government of the United States is targeting, bullying, and trying to make an example of an organization the Biden Administration disagrees with.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 22 Sep. 2022
• Analysts are questioning whether the Chinese government can make an example of Evergrande while also avoiding a crash landing for housing prices that would ricochet through the economy.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• Advocates worry that the conservative government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to make an example of the family to deter other would-be migrants.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• Gordon’s prosecution had been initiated under the Buchanan administration, but Lincoln, determined to make an example of him, resisted all entreaties to spare Gordon’s life.
  — James Oakes, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024