Sentence examples for ben in reference to from inspiring English sources

Ben Bernanke is famously referred to as "Helicopter Ben" in reference to a speech he gave earlier this decade in which he argued that authorities could drop money from helicopters to solve liquidity crises if need be.

In reference to its carnivorous diet.

The drawing – published by Gazzetta dello Sport on the day of Italy's Euro 2012 meeting with England – shows Balotelli on top of Big Ben in a reference to King Kong on New York's Empire State Building.

The sequence where Homer races alongside the carriage in Central Park was a reference to a similar scene in the film Ben-Hur.

The episode's reference to Ben-Hur was named the 31st greatest film reference in the history of the show by Total Film's Nathan Ditum.

The whipping and spikes coming out of Nelson's racer are a reference to the chariot race in the film Ben-Hur.

Lichtenstein has added color, including all of the primary colors, while transforming the original and making reference to mechanical reproduction via Ben-Day dots.

opening reference to the war in Yugoslavia.

Geoffrey Chaucer makes reference to the Serjeants in the Canterbury Tales, writing: A serjeant of the law, ware and wise, That often hadde ben at the parvis, Ther was also, full rich of excellence.

If, as has been suggested, the reference in the Talmud to "a star which appears once in seventy years that makes the captains of the ships err" (see above) refers to Halley's Comet, it may be a reference to the 66 AD appearance, because this passage is attributed to the Rabbi Yehoshua ben Hananiah.

The earliest reference to this was made by the Toledan philosophic author Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen in his encyclopedia Midrash ha-Hokhmah (first half of the 13th century).