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n. 例子；榜样
vt. 作为…的例子；为…做出榜样
vi. 举例

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I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example, he says.

For example, mobile robots have been programmed to keep a comfortable distance from humans.

For example, if a robot does chores around the house, you wouldn't want it to put the pet cat in the oven to make dinner for the hungry children.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

Werbach gives the example of several Disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.

More fast food restaurants are likely to follow McDonald's example.

It sets a bad example for other industries.

For example, some drink manufacturers have cut the amount of sugar in their beverages.

For example, having salt on the outside, but none on the inside, reduces the salt content without changing the taste.

Last week, for example, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced plans to stop mail delivery on Saturdays, a move he says could save three billion dollars annually.

Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to winter time starting on October 26.

For example: a meeting from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. , research from 10 a.m.to noon.

Few startups happen in Miami, for example, because although it's full of rich people, it has few nerds.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example.

For clues to the book's future, let's look at some examples of technological change and see what happened to the old technology.

It is the most prominent example of a huge new "sharing economy", in which people rent beds, cars, boats and other assets directly from each other, co-ordinated via the internet.

The same may happen with the sharing economy, which also provides new opportunities for enterprise, Some people have bought cars solely to rent them out, for example

Will room-renters be subject to hotel taxes, for example?

J) The sharing economy is the latest example of the internet's value to consumers

a good example of the mainstream products

Kodak is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately failed

Half a century later GM is a typical example of poor management.

There are many examples of the vast harm that is caused when individuals forget or ignore the effect their dishonesty can have.

In both of the examples above, speakers from two different cultures have the same gesture, physically, but its meaning differs sharply.

Worth the well wasn't like for example.

Proverbs, sometimes called sayings, are examples of folk wisdom.

He can't find good examples to illustrate his point.

Well, out of that, they have to buy some small personal things, but I wouldn't expect them to save to buy their own socks, for example.

If he has ambitious goals and is willing to put in long hours, everyone in his unit will follow his example

"I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example," he says.

A quantitative- based one, for example, is unlikely to be sent home, where one could ask their older brothers and sisters to help.

According to a German professor, the soreness comes from straining your muscles in an uncommon way, for example, jumping on a bicycle for a ride, because you haven't ridden in a long time.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rath

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school d

Few startups happen in Miami, for example, because although it's full of rich people, it has few nerds.

For example, 10 bacteria or less of an especially deadly strain of bacteria can cause severe illness and death in people with compromised immune systems.

For example, consumers could use appliances in a more efficient way by adjusting the time of cooking to the type of food.

For example, it doesn't have dozens of different endings for its nouns, adjectives and verbs, not like Latin, Russian and German for example.

For example, Karen Hayes, a life coach in Toronto, conducts knitting therapy programs, including Knit to Quit to help smokers give up the habit, and Knit to Heal for people coping with health crises, like a cancer diagnosis or serious illness of a family

For example, over the centuries, they have simulated dialogues in a number of ways.

For example, people in high school, they text message a lot.

For example, she would say, you'll get a spot on your tongue if you tell a lie; if you eat stale bread, your hair will curl.

For example, sleep duration has declined from some eight hours in the 1950s to seven in recent years.

For example, there’s a problem that needs to be addressed immediately, resulting in a dispute over who should be the one to fix it.

For example, we have quartz crystal clocks and watches accurate to within one minute a year.

Hops, for example, which give many a modern beer its bitter flavor, are a relatively recent addition to the beverage.

One example of Al is driverless cars.

Other animals adapt, for example, by staying active in winter.

Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to" winter time" starting on October 26.

So, for example, my sister's birthday is December 9th and her golden birthday would have been the year she turned nine years old.

Some of these may change order according to the specific situation or your own preferences; for example, a handwritten note might seem more personal than voice-mail.

Some of these may change order according to the specific situation or your own preferences; for example, a handwritten note might seem more personal than voice-mail.

Studies have explored evidence that dietary changes can slow inflammation, for example, or make the body inhospitable to cancer cells.

The AlphaGo program's victory is an example of how smart computers have become.

The article cites the global giant Procter and Gamble as an example, saying a real innovative company should develop an innovation culture and use it as a primary tool for success.

There's no better example of this than killer whales.

Today's psychology texts, for example, ask: "How much of your personality do you think you inherited?"

Werbach gives the example of several disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

For example, the United Arab Emirates has endorsed an ambitious target to draw 24% of its primary energy consumption from renewable sources by 2021.

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

Another example is reading aloud, which studies have shown gives children bigger vocabularies and better reading comprehension in school.

Perhaps the best example of boom growth and bust decline is the Grand Banks fishery.

For example, only one boy said he would like to be president when he grows up.

Examples show that both rich and poor countries exploited the environment for economic progress.

But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling ( ' , 大量消耗) transport.

And the World Resources Institute ( ' , WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.

A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic example being climate change.

Take the evolution of the smart home, for example.

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

In the paper, he and his colleagues used the example of cystic fibrosis, which is underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry because it is thought of as a white disease.

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes ( ' , 基因组 ) of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

Fitbit, for example, released its first smartwatch Monday, selling with a clear purpose – to improve your fitness – and promoting it as a tool, not a toy.

The video camera that one single mother bought for a special occasion, for example, is not much fun now.

One Chicago woman, for example, discovered that daily lunches with coworkers cost her 2,000 dollars a year.

Canadian scientists have found a worrisome new example of the power that birds have to spread stuff around.

The University of Tennessee in Knoxville offers one example of this dilemma.

Studies have shown, for example, that two drugs are about equally effective in treating macular degeneration, an eye disease.

Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.

In practical terms, the new guidelines being develop could result in doctors choosing one drug over another for cost reasons or even deciding that a particular treatment — at the end of life, for example — is too expensive.

If, for example, building codes included green construction guidelines, most developers would be too lazy to challenge them.

( ' , Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent)Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.

However,while talking is largely subconscious and rapid, writing is deliberate and slow, Over time,writers took advantage of this and started crafting long-winded sentences such as this one:The whole engagement lasted above 12 hours, till the gradual retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and……" No one talks like that casually — or should

Examples like meat and silly are cited to show

Late-stage developing nations that are currently industrialising rapidly, for example China, which will experience declining rates of population growth, coupled with increasing affluence (富裕）and age profile.

While schools emphasize its usefulness-online research in class and instant polling of students, for example - a big part of the attraction is, undoubtedly, that the iPhone is cool and a hit with students.

A prime example Schweitzer and his colleagues cite is the 2004 collapse of energy-trading giant Enron, where managers used financial incentives to motivate salesmen to meet specific revenue goals.

What does Maurice Schweitzer want to show by citing the example of Enron

Washington and Lee University is cited as an example to show that the gap of graduation rates between whites and minorities can be closed.

Perhaps the best examples are the five scientific papers Einstein wrote in his "miracle year" of 1905.

Obama is but a rare example of black's excellence

The example of Rembrandt's painting suggests that a distinction should be made between effort and accomplishment

People from broken homes and North American Indians are two examples.

Proverbs, sometimes called sayings, are examples of folk wisdom.

A few psychology journals have created incentives to increase interest in reproducible science—for example,by affixing an ‘open-data' badge to articles that clearly state where data are available.

A person, for example, who is allergic to cats would probably never become an animal doctor.

Algorithms that were right 95% of the time when they were dealing with a 13,000-image database, for example, were accurate about 70% of the time when confronted with 1 million images.

An example of these is work sharing with government subsidies.

And actually, you can easily download this Jacket and change the word to something else, for example, your name or your sweetheart's name.

And now, for the lighter side of the news, Europe is setting an example for the rest of the world, when it comes to food waste.

B2B commerce, for example, didn't move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn't mean it won't do so over the next few decades.

For example, 25% of the working people interviewed described themselves as very happy at work.

For example, a team at Tohoku University in Japan has studied materials that can store large amounts of heat.

For example, Aspirin is seldom thought of as dangerous, but there are many reports of accidental poisoning of young children who take too many Aspirin pills as well as the possible development of Reye's syndrome in children with the flu.

For example, dolphins, as well as other marine animals, shut down one hemisphere of the brain when they go to sleep.

For example, in one chapter she exposes a myth that I've heard taught by university physics professors.

For example, in the case of young people's drinking, one of the things that I've identified is that drinking for people, say, between the ages of 18 and 24, is all about the social activity.

For example, in the United States, a family can be considered poor if their income is less than 50% of the national average family income.

For example, let's say you love pizza affective component; however, you have high cholesterol and understand knowledge component that eating may be bad for your health.

For example, many Jews have been troubled by Shakespeare's depiction of Shylock.

For example, my wife can be very harsh.

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; It has been downloaded 5,700 times.

For example, one study found healthy adults assigned to a high-fat diet for five days showed impaired attention, memory, and mood compared with a low-fat diet control group.

For example, the 250,000 people who live on Vanuatu's 80 islands speak 110 different languages.

For example, the Swedish jeans company Nudie Jeans offers free repair at twenty of their shops.

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El nio weather phenomenon in decades.

For example, there is the image of the bridge into the sea taken at the Normandy D-Day landing site.

For example, they may have access to drinking water, but not clean safe drinking water.

For example, we can change how often we receive the distracting notifications that trigger our urge to check.

For example, when information is uploaded to a repository,a digital object identifier is assigned.

For example, when you own something, you feel it as more valuable than when you don't own it.

For example, years when people spent more time with friends were better years for well-being and followed by better years.

He points to a classic 2004 study in which psychologists at Dartmouth College and Harvard University used functional MRI to track brain activity in 17 young men as they listened to descriptions of people while concentrating on either socially relevant cue

In 2001, for example, the Environmental Protection Agenc restricted the type and amount of lead that could be present in paint and soil to homes and child-care facilities after concerns were raised about lead poisoning.

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

Perhaps the most dramatic example of the negative consequences of poor communication between scientists and the public is the issue of climate change, where a variety of factors, not the least of which is a breakdown in the transmission of fundamental cli

Physicians who have been on the job for several hours, for example, are more likely to prescribe antibiotics to patients when it's unwise to do so.

Rarely has there been a better example of the power of attitude, one of our most powerful psychological tools.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository 库, and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has o

Such wariness is well founded: statistics show, for example, that a teenage driver with a same-age passenger in the car is at higher risk of a fatal crash than an adolescent driving alone or with an adult.

Take, for example, people who are learning to play basketball or the piano.

That way, the researchers can see if the self identified verbal learners really learned better when the information was just spoken aloud, for example.

Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent.

That's why, for example, may say they believe in the benefits of recycling or exercise, but don't behave in line with their views, because it takes awareness, effort and courage to go beyond merely stating that you believe something is a good idea.

The bird Clark's nutcracker, for example, hides up to 100, 000 seeds per year, up to 30 kilometers away from the seed source, and has a very close symbiotic(共生的) relationship with several pine species, most 32 notably the whitebark pine.

The latest iPhone 6s, for example, has a dual-core processor and fits nicely into your pocket.

The partnership benefits both sides by allowing unconventional partners for example, two companies from two different industries to work together on a specific aspect of the value chain, like, in this example, an engine firm with an accessory one.

The same held true for people who used products that implied they were short on time: In one experiment, for example, customers of the grocery-delivery service Peapod were seen as of higher status than people who shopped at grocery stores that were equall

Their approach is flexible enough that in principle other important quality-of-life changes could be incorporated—for example, decreases in total emissions of pollutants and declines in crime rate.

They hope to reduce both the number of components needed in a construction job and their weight一by replacing solid supports with hollow tubes, for example.

They just ask for one questionnaire to be sent out, for example, so the time you spend on an ad-hoc project tends to be fairly short.

tim Joseph's grass-fed program is only one example of how American farming practice is changing.

When I faced difficult work, like thinking through an article idea or editing the same draft for the hundredth time, for example, a more sinister screen would draw me in.

While there is still much progress to be made, other countries could learn a thing or two from the example set by France and Italy.

An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college.

An example for parents' expectations of their children.

Au pair in Stamford, Conn, for example, has got increasing numbers of request for Chinese Au pairs from zero to around 4, 000 since 2004.

Captions will usually tell you where the data came from for example, a scientific study of 400 African elephants from 1980 to 2005.

For example, "bridge" might stand for "meet" and "out" might stand for "me".

For example, a sociologist may read news of crime as a social problem, rather than for its immediate reward.

For example, children may change soccer and basketball rules to suit their needs and their environment e.

For example, evolutionary psychology is being used by literary scholars to explain the long-lasting themes and plot devices in fiction.

For example, if you love animals, volunteer at an animal shelter.

For example, just one of his cantaloupes filled the entire house with its sweet smell, and the taste was even sweeter.

For example, on Christmas morning, children are excited about playing with their new toys.

For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships.

For example, Russian, French, and Spanish persons may use silence to show agreement between parties about the topic under discussion.

For example, she received the 2007 Brick Award recognizing the efforts of young people to change the world.

For example, snowmen were a phenomenon in the middle ages, built with great skill and thought.

For example, stores place fruits and vegetables in the first section.

For example, the backhand skills in tennis could be learned and improved over time by playing matches or by creating fun practice situations.

For example, the first letters of "my elephant eats too many eels" spell out the hidden message "meet me".

For example, the moment you get on the airplane, start adjusting your biological clock to the destination's time.

For example, the number 7 would flash on one side of the screen and the other end would have 9 and 8.

For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad.

For example, think of an adjustable desk lamp.

For example, when I'm writing a textbook, it has become second nature to check a dozen definitions of a key term, which helps me dig into the core and understand its meaning.

For example, you may want to be a pilot but can't become one because your eyesight is not good enough.

Hannah is one of many examples of young people who are making a difference in the world.

Here I will stress some smarter and more creative examples of climate adaptation.

However, here are some examples: being cut off in traffic, a deadline approaching, experiencing physical pain, and much more.

If a basketball star is, for example, trying to gain a high personal point total, he may take a shot himself when it would be better to pass the ball to a teammate, affecting the team's performance.

If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen they would be rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the numbers—17 in this example.

In india, for example, most people traditionally eat with their hands.

In Julius Caesar, for example, Cassius's sly provocation of Brutus to take up arms against Caesar was the basis for a discussion of methods of team building and grass roots organising.

In this article, you need to back up general statements with specific examples.

In yet another example, a fascination with the new has led people to believe that the recent changes in the technologies of communications and transportation are so revolutionary that now we live in a "borderless world".

It is a classic example in architecture textbooks.

It's much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand in line during the after-work rush.

Lainey is an example of an unwilling reader.

New York City, for example, is near a large harbour at the mouth of the Hudson River.

Now, years later, this river is one of the most outstanding examples of environmental cleanup.

Take filling up the kitchen sink as an example.

The author explains the role of food in celebrations by using examples.

The example of asian-American parents implies that parents should help children realize the importance of schooling.

The most hopeful data shared in the report shows clear evidence of parents serving as examples and important guides for their kids when it comes to reading.

The presenter will use examples from his first on-line class to explain how any teacher can begin teaching on-line with teo.

The white-naped crane is a typical example.

Their workshop on Henry Ⅴ, for example, includes a helpful explanation of Henry's winning strategy at the battle of agincourt.

They believe, for example, that their employees need constant supervision if they are to work effectively, or that decisions must be imposed from above without consultation.

This example should act as an inspiration for all cities.

Two-thirds believe more families will follow the example of obama's family.

When considering a merger, for example, they have traditionally used size to determine when to step in.

You might represent each letter with a number, for example, let's number the letters of the alphabet, in order, from 1 to 26.

Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

For example, British anthropologists Grafton Elliot Smith and W.

The FASB and IASB have been exactly that, cleaning up rules on stock options and pensions, for example, against hostility form special interests.

Last April, for example the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for “inventions” that are obvious.

If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant,for example from the initial influential prove resistant,for example the cascade of change won’t propagate very far or affect many people.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000—more than 40 percent of retail sales.

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

Johnson & Johnson, for example, has created BabyCenter, a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products.

Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of example of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze sets out to make cigarettes uncool.

When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium, for example.

Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.

For example, the Long Now Foundation has its flagship project a medical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can’t be knocked off.

His compositions demand the performer to show courage, for example in the use of dynamics.

Some archaeological sites have always been easily observable-for example, the Parthenon in Athens, Greece; the pyramids of Giza in Egypt; and the megaliths of Stonehenge in southern England.

While Europe’s monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.

Peretti gives the example of Netflix discontinuing its DVD-mailing service to focus on streaming.

Mullett, it was built from 1871 to 1888 to house the growing staffs of the State, War, and Navy Departments, and is considered one of the best examples of French Second Empire architecture in the country.

A calm, rule-following child might respond better to a different sort of parenting than, for example, a younger sibling.

About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good.

And in that, once more, we need to look to the example of our children, to whom happiness is not a goal but a natural byproduct of the way they live.

At Boston College, for example, you would have to complete an extra year were you to switch to the nursing school from another department.

Attempts have been made to curb this tendency, for example, by trying to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the assessment of an applicant's papers.

But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can't be knocked off.

For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon "revolutionize the very concept of money itself", only to reverse itself several years later.

For example, even in dense forest, you should be able to spot gaps in the tree line due to roads, train tracks, and other paths people carve through the woods.

For example, he theorised that a judge fearful of appearing too soft on crime might be more likely to send someone to prison if he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day.

For example, heavier women are less likely to develop calcium deficiency than thin women.

For example, it is unclear whether the sequencing of a whole genome violates the patents of individual genes within it.

For example, lighting was always changed on a Sunday.

For example, many collegiate and professional football players qualify as obese, though their percentage body fat is low.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000— more than 40 percent of retail sales.

For example,the Long Now Foundation has as its flagship project a mechanical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.

If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant, for example, the cascade of change won't propagate very far or affect many people.

In a 2014 study, for example, Malti looked at 244 children.

In Scotland, for example, wind turbines provide enough electricity to power 95 percent of homes.

In some states, for example, jury duty was limited to persons of supposedly superior intelligence, education, and moral character.

Jealousy and anger, for example, may have evolved to alert us to important inequalities.

Johnson and Johnson, for example, has created BabyCenter, a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products.

Justice Antonin Scalia, for example, appeared at political events.

Last April, for example, the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for "inventions" that are obvious.

One their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very little of us.

Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms. Simmons, once again very popular on campus.

Some archaeological sites have always been easily observable-for example, the Parthenon in Athens, Greece; the pyramids of giza in Egypt; and the megaliths of Stonehenge in southern England.

The apartments in the elegant towers mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller-two-bedroom units under 1, 000 square feet-than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.

The coming use of autonomous vehicles, for example, poses thorny ethical questions.

The FASB and IASB have been exactly that, cleaning up rules on stock options and pensions, for example, against hostility from special interests.

The jury is also said to be the best surviving example of direct rather than representative democracy.

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitt

Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowners or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.

When women do break through to the summit of corporate power—as, for example, Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.

While Europe's monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for some time to come, it is the British royals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.