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

The following year the BBC's Controller of Programmes, Cecil McGivern who had initially feared that viewers would not accept such an unusual name for the leading character —noted in reference to the impending launch of the rival ITV network that: "Had competitive television been in existence then, we would have killed it every Saturday night while [The Quatermass Experiment] lasted.

In a reference to the impending change of leadership in Washington, Art Sasse, a spokesman for PacifiCorp, said: "It's a flexible framework that recognizes that the administration is going to be passing the baton.

In apparent reference to the impending Rio-Chinalco deal, Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said Thursday that the country may amend its foreign ownership laws to treat convertible bonds as similar to equity.

It is not clear whether these intercepted messages, which were spoken in Arabic, were a reference to the impending attacks.

That's a reference to the impending Dec. 31 expiration of the tax cuts of President George W. Bush, and to the start of billions of dollars of across-the-board spending reductions passed in last year's deal to raise the debt ceiling.

The "tip of the iceberg" quote attributed to me was in reference to my belief that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York missed an early warning signal of the impending global credit crisis.

opening reference to the war in Yugoslavia.

Still, "The Main Enemy" makes but glancing reference to the controversy over whether Robert Gates, the acting director of central intelligence, suppressed evidence of the impending collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1980's, as some of his own analysts later testified in congressional hearings.

In the petition to Sotomayor, Glossip's lawyers warn their client "will suffer the most irreparable injury known to the law" if no relief is granted -- a reference to his impending death and a riff on the legal standard that courts observe when weighing other kinds of 11th-hour requests.

They are no less vociferous in their opposition to the impending bulldozers than their elders.

The Communications Workers of America has come out in strong opposition to the impending deal.