Sentence examples for making direct reference from inspiring English sources

As early as 2007, Obama's name started appearing in songs by socially conscious rappers such as Common and Talib Kweli, but it wasn't until the summer of 2008, when he emerged as the Democratic frontrunner, that Obama sparked a mini-industry of songs and mixtapes making direct reference to his candidacy.

Without making direct reference to the Chinese firm, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said: "The National Broadband Network is a huge infrastructure project and you would expect that as a government we would make all of the prudent decisions to make sure that that infrastructure project does what we want it to do and we've taken one of those decisions".

But as beautiful as Malek's speech was, it would be difficult to top his opening line which saw him looking at the audience in awe and making direct reference to the unreliable narrator he had just won an Emmy for portraying.

There were a number of papers which while not making direct reference to an underpinning theoretical framework reported data relating to the influence of cognitive systems on health behaviour, a key aspect of the SRM.

The comic often parodies and comments on the archetypes and clichés of anime, manga, dating sims, arcade and video games, occasionally making direct references to real-world works.

Gleiberman's piece makes direct reference to that rumour.

Only one group of drawings makes direct reference to the human form.

Her compositions also include architectural features that make direct reference to medieval art and show her expert draftsmanship.

He made direct reference in the speech to both al-Qa'ida and Daesh, the Arab name for Isis.

Indeed, Mr Obama made direct reference to the balancing act he has to perform when it comes to Israel and its behaviour when at war.

I'd guess that less than a sixth of the script's lines make direct reference to those candidates, and far less to the catastrophe called Sandy.