Examples
- petitions from shopkeepers to allow small convenience local food shop to trade in their full range of goods from early until late on seven days a week
- local newspapers promoting, pushing and heavily supporting a given politician
- Online services for the implementation of moral purchasing or MeatballWiki to improve virtual community and especially wiki governance
- an association trying to make the public aware of an issue (see example below)
The expression is also often used by politicians officially starting to campaign as a candidate for a specific election. A similar meaning is given in sports, with the official start of a sport season (e.g. in France, Roland Garros Tournament).
The expression is sometimes used in games, in particular role gaming.
Read more about this topic: Open Campaign
Famous quotes containing the word examples:
“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)