Sentence examples for make a passing reference from inspiring English sources

The male-female workplace dynamic has been so thoroughly strip-mined that all you have to do these days is make a passing reference to it.

A couple of weeks ago he had the temerity to make a passing reference in his sermon at the Queen's diamond jubilee service in St Paul's cathedral to the greed of City bankers and people's unjustified fear of strangers and was immediately pounced upon by the Daily Mail – who else? – for hijacking the ceremony to make "a thinly veiled attack on a huge swath of the public".

Rare is the theorist who does not at least make a passing reference to utilitas socially defined or otherwise.

Trump did make a passing reference to "threats to [the] sovereignty" of Ukraine.

Neiman said the LAPD hopes that if the celebrities don't mention the closure directly, they can at least make a passing reference to themes they want to hit home — in other words "plan ahead, avoid the area or stay home". The celebrity Twitter campaign is one part of a larger effort by officials to alert the public to the 405 closure.

Items that make a passing reference to a UK database, for example, where a UK database has been searched as a part of a systematic review, will be excluded.

He also makes a passing reference to the shooting of Mr. Sterling.

Ahsan made a passing reference to the ongoing talks resuming this week.

She made a passing reference to climate change in her opening statement but that, by and large, was it.

During the conference call, Mr. Connors made a passing reference to "ongoing litigation," a reference to Microsoft's long-running antitrust battle with the Justice Department and several states.

In his memoir, Hebborn made a passing reference to a portrait for "a mafia boss", writing that he produced "preliminary studies closely watched by four silk-suited gunmen".