object lesson

But it’s actually more like an object lesson, or a warning to those who insist that whatever else may go wrong, a stable and established liberal democracy cannot collapse into chaos, dictatorship or civil war.

Put it all together, and the Boeing story looks like an object lesson in what happens when management takes its eye off the ball — or more precisely, puts it eye on the wrong ball.

South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, is an object lesson in the conflict between two competing theories of how we should think about racism in America today.

His remarks were meant as an object lesson.

As the kids grew older, she said, the business became a source of pride, and an object lesson in loyalty, endurance.