Mr Putin's recent visit to France, where officials discussed a wide range of business deals, became a concrete illustration of Mr Medvedev's statements.

And where concrete illustration fails, she pelts us into submission with statistics.

The architect is the concrete illustration of a cosmic paradox.

This article gives two concrete illustrations of the central limit theorem.

This neighborhood is giving me a splendid concrete illustration of the pitiful social blindness which it is so difficult yet so necessary to remove.

This game uses abstract numbers and figures in the map view and saves the concrete illustrations of soldiers only when they lock horns on the battlefield or in an urban setting.

The beginning and ending of the sentence follow the original meaning fairly closely, but in the middle the concrete illustrations--race, battle, bread--dissolve into the vague phrase "success or failure in competitive activities."

To give you a concrete illustration, I will use two examples: as is increasingly being recognised, the biofuel policy and its promotion are causing price increases and, thus, more famine.

This is an absolutely concrete illustration of these contradictions.

Through it, he gave a concrete illustration of his maxim: "Speak softly, but carry a big stick."