The modern Olympics are a model example of what the historians Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger have called invented traditions ritualized official or quasi-official events, often presented as revivals of ancient practices or in other ways designed to imply continuity with the distant past.
We think that Poland, because of its extraordinary success, both as a democracy and as a market-based economy, is a model and example for the region.
Union leaders have even held up the model as an example for other industries.
The OHSU model is an example of how to employ real world technologies which focus on collaboration.
For example, Model 4 can work well in an environment where all the users are on the same type of social software.
It would, for example, develop model benefits, rules for insurers and best practices for clinicians.
So, again, I want to thank you all here at Columbia Heights for setting such a wonderful model, such a great example.
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Industry observers point to April's 26% surge in sales of the outgoing Accord as an example of a model likely getting a boost from incentives.
For example, the model suggests that a drug called mebendazole, currently used to combat hookworms, also interacts with a group of proteins known as tubulins.
The verisimilitude of the model of Kara, for example, is impressive.
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For example, the model of social brainstorming, also referred to as ideagoras or idea management, you create an open online system to involve all the people that you may like to draw from a specific target population, provide some topics to structure discussion and then allow them to debate, rate and rank the best ideas.
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Even in Sweden, often held up as an example, the new model is not pristine.
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An example of a prohibitionist model is the recording industry shutting down file-sharing to reign in intellectual property.
And this is a great example, a great model of what can happen.
If the modeller believes that trade raises productivity and growth, for example, then the model's results will mechanically confirm this.
And, of course, I would hope he could be an example, a role model outside the game - in life - as well.
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The Federal Reserve, for example, uses a model of the economy in which housing wealth influences consumer spending to exactly the same degree that financial wealth does.
Title companies are one example of a business model positioned to capitalize on improving real estate conditions and have typically carried with them lower volatility than the stocks of homebuilders.
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For example, in this model individuals with Java or SQL Server skills might be placed in all three portions of the organization to contribute to the design, construction and operation of a specific system.
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There are many other examples of companies that have evolved their business model to reflect the emergence of the Age of Transparency: for example, Zappos, the online retailer, is also a model for a new way to build and run a business.
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Many in the oil industry have rejected the integrated model, with Conoco Phillips, for example, spinning off its downstream business.
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Companies like salesforce.com and the others discussed in his book will thrive, and the model will catch on by force of example.
Model Kathy Ireland is probably the best example of that.
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And they could not have a better example to learn from than model pro Alexander, who put his remarkable injury-free campaign down to his daily use of ice baths after training.
On the surface, the social-networking site would seem a perfect example of the old entrepreneurial model, with Mark Zuckerberg (setting aside the pesky question of whether he really invented the thing) as a sort of modern Alexander Graham Bell.
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While associations are known to form based on sight, smell, and other senses -- you may remember last year's baseball game through the taste of a hot dog today, for example -- their computer model shows that the young brain cells also link through time.
Another strong example of the user-curation model outside of the music industry is mobile apps.
How can the city claim to be a model of cultural cross-pollination, for example, when the rich and the poor live a freeway journey apart?
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