But those who, like the prisoners at San Quentin, can sublimate their needs present a far more hopeful, inspiring and noble example.

Students would move into a housing project to provide services and a hopeful example for residents.

"Kansas provides a hopeful example," said Kevin R. Reitz, an expert in sentencing law at the University of Colorado.

The repeal of this discriminatory policy with broad, bipartisan support is also a hopeful example that Democrats and Republicans can still come together to get things done for our country.

He offered himself as a hopeful example of someone who had been hired after being diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Two hopeful examples are the latest draft of a new Army field manual that will be taught to officers at all levels beginning next year and a series of oral history interviews conducted with Iraqi and American officers involved in the disappointing efforts to establish and train Iraqi security forces.

While he cites hopeful examples from European social democratic practice, he largely ignores the fact that European social democracy is itself in deep crisis.

A historically black university here and the city's housing authority have proposed an unusual partnership in which graduate students in social work and education will move into one of the authority's public housing projects to provide both services and a hopeful example for low-income residents.

They said that even though Poland has been slow to privitize many state-owned industries, the Administration views Poland as the leader of Eastern European change and a hopeful example for its neighbors.