concrete illustration

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A concrete illustration may bring out the philosophy underlying farm schemes better than abstract problems.

From The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Hunt, Thomas Forsyth

As a concrete illustration, consider the case of a body projected vertically upwards with great velocity from the surface of the earth.

From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by Weir, James

And our series of forms described in the second, third, and fourth chapters is merely a concrete illustration showing how this sequence may have been evolved.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

A concrete illustration of the impracticability of scientific forestry under existing conditions is afforded by the experimental forest in Franklin County established under an act of 1898.

From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress

Let us take a concrete illustration of this.

From Determinism or Free-Will? by Cohen, Chapman