Sentence examples for past description from inspiring English sources

Amongst other things, Gillard's "sexism" speech cited Abbott's past description of abortion as "the easy way out" and his characterisation of Australian women as housewives who did the ironing.

Gillard cited Abbott's past description of abortion as "the easy way out"; his characterisation of Australian women as housewives who did the ironing; and his suggestion that men were better adapted than women to exercise authority and issue commands.

Class plays a part too: witness Pritchard's past description of himself as a "little council house lad", or Nadine Dorries's complaint that "policy is being run by two public school boys who don't know what it's like to go to the supermarket and have to put things back on the shelves because they can't afford it … What's worse, they don't care either".

The volatility of this issue can be seen in the current controversy in Massachusetts over the Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's past description of herself as of indigenous American descent, which prompted opponents to accuse her of using that status to gain special consideration in hiring and promotion decisions.

First, Harris aptly quoted Evelyn Waugh's own past description of the institution as the film industry's "continuous psalm of self-praise", proving of course that the inward-looking, self-congratulatory flavor of the Oscars is nothing new.

His past descriptions of some of his book readings sound like backstage scenes from Led Zeppelin's pomp.

In some of the sharpest exchanges of the hearing, Richard Ben-Veniste, a former Watergate prosecutor and one of the Democrats on the commission, prodded Ms. Rice to justify her past descriptions of the Aug. 6 report.

In fact, past descriptions of the theory imply both discrete and continuous mediation.

Past descriptions of detailed anatomical studies, which span over a century, have provided much insight into the architecture and processes that form a complex tubulo-alveolar gland.

Past descriptions of mechanisms of TKI resistance have been attributed to mutations in targeted kinases or compensatory activation of signaling pathways that circumvent the target.

The current study suggests a role for haptoglobin in adults with sepsis beyond its past descriptions as an acute-phase reactant.