Examples of historical, clown-like comedic performers have been the pantomimus in ancient Greece, the Lazzi of Commedia dell ' Arte, bouffons, court jesters, as well as the French mime tradition.

Examples might include the irreverent Bus Station Loonies, hardcore punk artists Propagandhi, New Wave performers such as Honey Bane and folk punk bands such as Blackbird Raum.

Examples of rituals identified by Confucius as important to cultivate a ruler's de include: sacrificial rites held at ancestral temples to express thankfulness and humility ; ceremonies of enfeoffment, toasting, and gift exchanges that bound nobility in complex hierarchical relationships of obligation and indebtedness ; and, acts of formal politeness and decorum ( i. e. bowing and yielding ) that identify the performers as morally well-cultivated.

Examples among the Egyptian monks of this submission to the commands of the superiors, exalted into a virtue by those who regarded the entire crushing of the individual will as a goal, are detailed by Cassian and others, e. g. a monk watering a dry stick, day after day, for months, or endeavoring to remove a huge rock immensely exceeding his powers.

Examples of the Chez Panisse phenomenon, chefs who embraced a new globalized cuisine, were celebrity chefs like Jeremiah Tower and Wolfgang Puck, both former colleagues at the restaurant.

Examples of purely Coptic literature are the works of Saint Anthony and Saint Pachomius, who only spoke Coptic, and the sermons and preachings of Saint Shenouda the Archmandrite, who chose to only write in Coptic.

Examples might include an organizational structure which is unclear and therefore makes it confusing to know who to communicate with.

Examples of this have been argued to include the keiretsu of post-war Japan, the print media in India, the chaebol of South Korea, and the powerful families who control much of the investment in Latin America.

Examples might be which spouse is more competent for a particular task or function ; which has better access to it ; or if they decide both are similarly competent and have comparable access, they might make the decision based on who prefers that function or task, or conversely, which of them dislikes it less than the other.

Examples of people earning a living in this way would be farmers who own their own land and related machinery, plumbers who own their own tools, software developers who own their own computer, etc.

Examples include swing era players such as Jimmy Blanton, who played with Duke Ellington, and Oscar Pettiford, who pioneered the instrument's use in bebop.

Examples include Commonwealth realms where the individual who acts as their respective monarch resides in the oldest realm, the United Kingdom, and so is represented in the others by an appointed governor-general ( unhyphenated in Canada as governor general ) and Andorra which is headed by two non-resident co-princes, one of which is also the President of France.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Gandalf of The Lord of the Rings, Dumbledore of Harry Potter series, Merlin of Arthurian Legends, Lasky's Ezylryb of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks ' Allanon of The Sword of Shannara, Eddings ' Belgarath and Polgara of The Belgariad, Feist's Macros the Black of the Riftwar Saga, Jordan's Moiraine of The Wheel of Time ( who at least starts out as this kind of character ), Goodkind's Zeddicus Zu ' l Zorander of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Thorn / Angaver, and Paolini's Brom and Oromis of The Inheritance Cycle.

Examples would include offering prizes to contestants who can make a half-court shot at a basketball game, or a hole-in-one at a golf tournament.

Examples of this type of man would be Giacomo Casanova and Don Juan, who were both reputed to have had many libertine affairs with women.

Examples of dead money include money contributed to the pot by players who have folded, a dead blind posted by a player returning to a game after missing blinds, or an odd chip left in the pot from a previous deal.

Examples of purely Coptic literature are the works of Abba Antonius and Abba Pachomius, who spoke only Coptic, and the sermons and preachings of Abba Shenouda, who chose to write only in Coptic.

Examples of such assurances are " the choice of godparents who will take sincere care of the child, or the support of the community ".

Examples include the case of Gerald Schatten who co-authored with Hwang Woo-Suk, the case of Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain named as guest author of papers fabricated by Malcolm Pearce, ( Chamberlain was exonerated from collusion in Pearce's deception )-and the coauthors with Jan Hendrik Schön at Bell Laboratories.

Examples include Shadowcat, Sabra and Magneto who are Jewish, Dust who is a devout Muslim, Nightcrawler who is a devout Catholic, and Neal Shaara / Thunderbird who is Hindu.

Examples include the book's introduction ( which explains why the four men went on a canoe trip instead of playing golf ) and epilogue.

Examples include Italy's win over the USSR in the semi-final of the 1968 European Championship ( the final, also drawn, went to a replay ).

Examples include Michael Eisner ( who was President & COO of Paramount Pictures while Diller was Chairman & CEO of Paramount Pictures, who went on to become Chairman & CEO of The Walt Disney Company ), Dawn Steel ( future head of Columbia Pictures and the first woman to run a movie studio, who worked under Diller at Paramount ), Jeffrey Katzenberg ( head of PDI / DreamWorks Animation, principal of DreamWorks SKG, former head of Walt Disney Studios, and a head of production of Paramount under Diller ), Garth Ancier, President of BBC America, and Don Simpson, who was President of Production at Paramount under Diller and Eisner, was also included – he later went on to run a production company based on the Disney lot with Jerry Bruckheimer.

Examples of stars who went through the star system include Cary Grant ( born Archie Leach ), Joan Crawford ( born Lucille Fay LeSueur ), and Rock Hudson ( born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr .)

Examples of assistive technology for visually impairment include the Canadian currency tactile feature, which a system of raised dots in one corner, based on Braille cells but not standard Braille.

Examples from the nineteenth century are the transposition of " Horatio Nelson " into " Honor est a Nilo " ( Latin = Honor is from the Nile ); and of " Florence Nightingale " into " Flit on, cheering angel ".

Examples include the U. S. M901 ITV ( Improved TOW Vehicle ) and the Norwegian NM142, both on an M113 chassis, several Soviet ATGM launchers based on the BRDM reconnaissance car, the British FV438 Swingfire and FV102 Striker and the German Raketenjagdpanzer series built on the chassis of the HS 30 and Marder IFV.

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

Examples of painting on stone, opaque and transparent.

Reprinted on pp. 92 – 119 in Bell, C. Gordon and Newell, Allen ( 1971 ), Computer Structures: Readings and Examples, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.

Examples include Opabinia, with five eyes and a snout like a vacuum cleaner hose and Hallucigenia, which was originally reconstructed upside down, walking on bilaterally symmetrical spines.

Examples include Oshii Mamoru ’ s 1984 animated film Beautiful Dreamer, which is based on an episode of Rumiko Takahashi's manga Urusei Yatsura ( 1978-1987 ) that depicts the baku as a tapir.

Examples include Howe, near Stromness, Gurness Broch in the north west of Mainland, Orkney, Midhowe on Rousay and Lingro near Kirkwall ( destroyed in the 1980s ).

Examples of such problems in electronic design automation ( EDA ) include formal equivalence checking, model checking, formal verification of pipelined microprocessors, automatic test pattern generation, routing of FPGAs, and so on.

Examples of genetic classification include methods based on the relative frequency of different air mass types or locations within synoptic weather disturbances.

Examples of species listed on Appendix II are the Great White Shark ( Carcharadon carcharias ), the American black bear ( Ursus americanus ), Hartmann's mountain zebra ( Equus hartmannae ), African grey parrot ( Psittacus erithacus ), green iguana ( Iguana iguana ), queen conch ( Strombus gigas ), Mertens ' Water Monitor ( Varanus mertensi ), bigleaf mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla ) and Lignum Vitae " ironwood " ( Guaiacum officinale ).

Examples of species listed on Appendix III and the countries that listed them are the two-toed sloth ( Choloepus hoffmanni ) by Costa Rica, African civet ( Civettictis civetta ) by Botswana, and the alligator snapping turtle ( Macrochelys temminckii ) by the USA.

Examples of narrow gauge systems are found in Japan, Switzerland, in the Brisbane ( Citytrain ) and Perth ( Transperth ) systems in Australia, in Sweden, and on the Genoa-Casella line in Italy.

Examples include Midhowe on Rousay and Unstan Chambered Cairn from the Orkney Mainland, both of which date from the mid 4th millennium BC and were probably in use over long periods of time.

Examples from elsewhere in Orkney are the Vinquoy cairn, found at an elevated location on the north end of the island of Eday and Quoyness on Sanday constructed about 2900 BC and which is surrounded by an arc of Bronze Age mounds.

Examples of Chalcolithic cultures in Europe include Vila Nova de São Pedro and Los Millares on the Iberian Peninsula.

Examples on radio are the BBC's Hordes of the Things and ElvenQuest.

Examples of formal words are " a ", " the ", " more than ", " over ", " under ", " two ", " group ", and so on.

Examples are nitrogen-fixing bacteria ( called rhizobia ) which live in root nodules on legume roots, single-celled algae inside reef-building corals, and bacterial endosymbionts that provide essential nutrients to about 10 – 15 % of insects.

Examples are the Regulation ( EC ) No. 338 / 97 on the implementation of CITES or the Directive 92 / 43 / EEC on Fauna-Flora-Habitat.