One mini-society where the same lessons apply, it seems, is Hollywood itself.

And its lessons apply, pointedly, to the current state of the Western world.

But the basic lesson of the surge applies to Afghanistan as well.

How do the "lessons of 9/11" apply to the mayor's effort to establish an emergency command structure?

A simple lesson he applies daily, even when it rankles others.

Some experts, however, questioned how much the lessons of the shuttle-Mir program would apply to the new space station.

I realized that the lessons applied equally to interactions with adults.

And, he warned, you can't assume that lessons learned in one foreign experience will apply to others.

Still, there is a dispute about whether that lesson applies to the United States.

The store learned a lesson that executives think will apply to clothes.