Sentence examples for making a passing reference to from inspiring English sources

Despite dismissing suggestions that the announcement was designed to attract favourable publicity in the run-up to the conference, Pickles conceded: "I may be making a passing reference to this on my speech on Monday".

W. James was certainly familiar with Bell's work, although only making a passing reference to him in his 1884 article (p. 191).

And while Mr. Levy said that he had recommended the changes to the other trustees of the construction authority, one of the trustees, Charles A. Stillman, said in an interview that Mr. Levy had made only "a passing reference" to having considered the idea in a conversation with him.

Just when you conclude that his tongue is firmly in his cheek, he drops a passing reference to the family cat, Small Animal.

The president had discussed making some passing reference to his personal problems and his effort to recover from them at Thursday's event, but he decided late Wednesday night to avoid the subject.

Mr. Obama largely left it to others to mark the history explicitly, making only passing reference to his own barrier-breaking role in his 18-minute Inaugural Address, noting how improbable it might seem that "a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath".

You make only passing reference to the trade center's destruction on 9/11, none whatsoever to the 1993 bombing, and mention neither the memorial there for the nearly 3,000 dead on 9/11 nor its requisite security.

Boyle was modest enough to make only passing reference to his own triumph, "Slumdog Millionaire," which won him the Oscars for Best Film and Best Direction, in 2009; and nobody will have begrudged him the quick nod to "Trainspotting" (1996), his earlier and more scabrous hit.

The Unite leader made passing reference to globalisation and deplored – rightly so – ignorant misreporting of the Grangemouth refinery dispute.

He's also only made passing reference to cutting the largesse of the defense budget, which currently consumes a whopping 54% of discretionary spending.

He made only a passing reference to Al Qaeda.