Sentence examples for of familiar reference from inspiring English sources

"If, as many contributors have said, people's concerns around immigration centre upon pace of change or loss of familiar reference points, you can see how emphasising the way in which immigrants have contributed to growth does not feed into the worries that people have".

Ofili took the familiar reference of a comforting Bob Marley song, and directed it at the collective grief, anger, and frustration gripping Britain's black community in the 1990s.

The approach of using real-world metaphors to give the user a familiar reference point can work well when treated with restraint and intelligence.

Direct adaptive control without the familiar reference models is considered.

(And how many nonbelievers were going to go see a movie called Heaven Is for Real in the first place?) For Evangelicals, this is a Christian story almost devoid of Christianity, instead filling the mouths of the faithful with secular disbelief and, at times, cynicism, while robbing their voices of what should be familiar references to the Gospels and an Evangelical way of life.

Most historical novels merely ransack the past for its atmosphere, its familiar references and its convenient repertory of stock villains.

Second, they render unintelligible many familiar references to duties in the absence of sanctions, for example, the duty of the highest courts to apply the law.

Along with the familiar references to poverty eradication and sustainable development, Nepad's founding documents talk of good governance and respect for human rights.

In common use is a set of three mutually orthogonal unit vectors (i.e., vectors of length 1) i, j, k directed along the axes of the familiar Cartesian reference frame (see Figure 3).

The present generation is equally fuzzy, or rather composed of familiar, off-the-rack styles and references.

Most of his images are leavened with humor and seasoned with a spicy mixture of familiar pop-culture and art-world references.