McGraw, CTO at Cigital, said the report documents two or more real examples for each activity.

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Besides Hughes and Plath, famous examples of two or more close relatives committing suicide include Ernest Hemingway's family -- Hemingway's father, brother, sister and granddaughter, in addition to the famous novelist himself, killed themselves.

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That skyline also attests to Hong Kong's rapacious appetite for the new: Few examples of traditional Chinese or more recent colonial architecture stand outside of museums, while contemporary works by Norman Foster and I.

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In the former example, you can use anything from the Civil Rights Movement to The Scarlet Letter as evidence, while the latter likely begs more for examples from personal experience or abstract arguments.

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The pages on French red wine, for example, could have been left out or at least replaced with more interesting material, of which I will give two examples.

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And they fear zealous prosecutors could start monitoring pregnant women for more mundane examples of unsafe conduct: drinking alcohol, driving fast, or even standing on a ladder.

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And if you drink beer without hops in it, and there are one or two examples of beer that still exist, it's an awful lot more like wine.

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If they feel positive about you, if you personally endorse it without being dogmatic, and if you provide real-world examples or stories of how this process has been helpful in similar situations, people will be more likely to be interested in and open to your message.

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