[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure. Norman Tebbit
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. Kurt Cobain
So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country. Robert McChesney
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. Iain Duncan Smith
It's a classic case of misplaced accounting priorities, valuing depreciable capital assets a thousand times more highly than the fruits of actual labor-but that's the nature of the government organization. Charles Stross