Sentence examples for an unmistakable reference to from inspiring English sources

The remark was an unmistakable reference to this ship.

Commentators called it Morsi's "night of power" – an unmistakable reference to the Qur'an.

(That last bit, about "families who've benefitted" when fleeing persecution, was an unmistakable reference to Cruz and Marco Rubio).

British officials were reluctant to question sleep deprivation, hooding, and waterboarding for "fear of damaging liaison relationships" – an unmistakable reference to the CIA.

In Los Angeles, the door on the minimalist white cube might have been an unmistakable reference to the inaccessibility of the formal art world.

At a fund-raising luncheon in Miami for Representative Bill McCollum, a Republican who is running for the Senate in Florida, Mr. Bush made what Mr. McCollum's aides said was an unmistakable reference to the lawmaker's vote to impeach.

And in a striking, unmistakable reference to the scandals of recent years, he drew a thunderous ovation by promising, "I will work for you every day and I will never let you down".

In an indirect but unmistakable reference to his predecessor, Mr. Paterson quoted Robert F. Kennedy as saying, "No matter how talented an individual may be, no matter how much energy he might posses, regardless of how much integrity and honesty he or she may have, if that person is alone, they can accomplish very little".

Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, presiding over the trial in the challenge to California's Proposition 8, expressed similar concern, making oblique but unmistakable reference to Roe v. Wade in a question to Theodore B. Olson as the trial neared its conclusion in June 2010.

In an apparent reference to China, Pyongyang's ally, which has resisted the expansion of sanctions, Russel also said the planned rocket launch "would be an unmistakable slap in the face" to those who have backed "patience and dialogue" with the North rather than sanctions.

Mr. Bo's name was not mentioned in the Xinhua report, but the phrase used to describe the person Mr. Wang told about the Heywood murder — "the Chongqing party committee's main person responsible at the time" — is an unmistakable reference.