Sentence examples for made passing reference to from inspiring English sources

Local news reports made passing reference to his job as both journalist and government translator.

But at each stop, he made passing reference to his problems with the Republican leadership in Congress.

(The Journal article that cited Francis also made passing reference to his "undeniable lapses in judgment and decency").

In his budget speech, Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, made passing reference to reviewing the whole system.

The same 1994 letter that dropped Kafka's name also made passing reference to Betty Lou, the Sesame Street muppet.

They all made passing reference to the ethical questions that have dogged the incumbent they hope to unseat, Democratic Senator Robert G. Torricelli.

Then comes an anticapitalist rant that makes passing reference to a number of contemporary films.

In her story, Sous Peine de Poursuites (Subject to Prosecution), Pia Petersen makes passing reference to this practice.

In a cunning pre-emptive strike, he also makes passing reference to the "caprice" of "literary critics".

And he makes passing reference to the Irgun's operations chief, whose daughter, Tzipi Livni, became foreign minister.

Interestingly, Jacobs's own book about urban planning, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), only makes passing reference to Moses, even if Moses did think those few remarks libellous.