Sentence examples for in reference to the former from inspiring English sources

"He had a Jacqui Smith moment," Saunders said in reference to the former Labour home secretary.

"One time I think I got rolled by Newt and the House guys," he said in reference to the former speaker, Newt Gingrich.

Lawmakers thumped their desks as the house approved the bill and shouted "Hang Musharraf!" in reference to the former military leader.

"Rickiiieee" shrieked the crowd, in reference to the former character Bianca, safe in the knowledge that the Californian had absolutely no idea what was going on.

Feinstein called them the Panetta Review, in reference to the former C.I.A. director Leon Panetta, who left the agency in 2011.

Johnson said he explicitly wanted to distance the government's vision for Brexit from "some reactionary Faragiste concept", in reference to the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.

told HuffPost on Wednesday, in reference to the phrase former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) coined when he said he wanted to leave his successor with a clean barn.

The bank's 871-foot-high headquarters, one of the tallest buildings in the Southeast, is sometimes called the Taj McColl, in reference to the bank's former chief.

"Life on Cannery Row was curious and dear and outrageous," Steinbeck wrote in the essay "About Ed Ricketts," in a reference to the former fish-packing district and present-day tourist destination.

Candidates are encouraged to "Think Tina Fey," in a reference to the former "Saturday Night Live" head writer and comedian whose wry delivery of fake news headlines became famous on the "Weekend Update" skit.

SA: You use the word "worst" in your letter twice, both times in reference to the same anxiety: that your former friend "doesn't think of you at all". You've responded to this abandonment by allowing her to consume your thoughts.