He has also fired the imagination of young urban blacks who saw him as a role-model.
Now operating under their own label, Paracadute Records, OK Go has served as a role-model for aspiring musicians questioning the traditional goal of a major label contract.
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Hollywood isn't entirely off our role-model radar, though, as a few celebrities have made the list fully equipped with a positive attitude and a scandal-free rap sheet.
Bopara is the role-model for the next generation - a boy who scrambled 10 team-mates together from his inner London state school to enter a Capital Kids competition run by the Lord's Taverners, which they won.
Lastly, Fritz said that many perpetrators of such crimes don't have fathers -- and, in some cases, any adult male role model -- in their lives.
He's the role model -- unbreakable, devoted, patriotic, charismatic.
"She has ample time to develop her public persona and become a fully-fledged role model if needs be, " she said.
Mr Dell may be an inspiration, but he is too unique to be the paint-by-numbers role model the world had hoped to make him.
Claire Charness, Canada: My role model is ex-Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
The great role model for higher-education-driven growth has been California.
He did seem a role model of self-discipline and hard work, however, saying he improved by challenging better players, swearing off junk food for all but a few days a years and cross-training.
Leon's high-speed finish provides cancer survivors with an athletic role model only weeks after the defrocking of Austin's more-famous cancer-battling competitor, Lance Armstrong.
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Mr. HUTCHINSON: Well, he hasn't been projected, certainly, as a role model in the African-American community.
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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Germany did not become a role model by being hard-headed.
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Beyond the archipelago, her ability to overcome force without resorting to violence made her a role model for an ever-lengthening line of women leaders--Violeta Chamorro, Benazir Bhutto, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Khaleda Zia, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Aung San Suu Kyi--who, like her, were thrust into public life by the violent fates that befell husbands and fathers.
"Rudisha is my role model, " said 18-year-old Nijel Amos of Botswana, who took silver.
He was a larger-than-life personality, courageous role model and pioneer for people battling the debilitating effects of diabetes.
But the small but growing company -- Pettis said he's looking to hire 50 people -- is already becoming a role model for other startups.
Is there - do you have a role model or template for a person who's put together the kind of message that you feel does appeal across all these lines that is unifying?
It also enhances self-esteem and is a marvelous role model for the family.
The combined forces of the Software-as-a-Service deployment model, the role of Salesforce.com as the master data aggregator and integration point, buying habits of marketing departments and cooperative efforts among vendors have created a situation in which IT plays almost no role in supporting the use of marketing technologies.
Not an admirable role model but one that millions of movie-goers would like to emulate.
For many senior managers in Chinese high-tech companies, Jobs is a role model.
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Your TV role model for dresses is the classy 60-something law firm senior partner on the TV series "The Good Wife, " who is portrayed by actress Christine Baranski.
Greenwald explained that countries must have a good tourism infrastructure to make the list, but the non-profit also uses the list to promote some under-visited places that can be a role model for other countries in their region.
Almost everyone could stand to get more exercise and eat a more-healthy diet, and the healthy-weight partner can help by being a role model.
"Any war-torn country should look to Bosnia as a role model, " says Nancy Barry, president of Women's World Banking in New York.
Putin's role model isn't Stalin but Peter the Great (1672--1725), whose portrait hangs in his office.
The second critical role for health care should be to model the transition to a post-fossil fuel economy.
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