Sentence examples for persons addressed from inspiring English sources

They were deposited in tombs, not necessarily those of the persons addressed.

It consists of a great number of letters from a number of different persons, addressed to George Selwyn, during a period of thirty years; but from Selwyn's own hand there are in the whole two volumes only seven or eight letters, and the great number of them entirely relating to business.

In February 1859, a Navy board reported favorably on the Coston signal, stating that it was a better signal than any known to them and reiterating that "a good code of signals, plainly intelligible to the persons addressed, is absolutely necessary for the efficient conduct of a fleet".

Pascal Brice, the head of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons, addressed migrants in the early hours of Thursday, inviting them to board one of nine buses chartered to take them to shelters in and around Paris.

Note that non-polite forms of second persons addressed by the "imperative" are tu (singular you) and voi (plural you).

For example, in Malay, kita, which means "we," including the person addressed, is distinct from kami, a form for "we" that includes the speaker and a third person or persons but excludes the person addressed.

Both the person addressed and the author of the work are unknown, although at one time the apologist Justin Martyr was erroneously considered the author.

Race matters to a young person addressed by a stranger in a foreign language, which he does not understand because only English was spoken at home.

The most cogent arguments regarding the identity of the person addressed, those by Maynard Solomon, point to Antonie Brentano, a native Viennese, who was the wife of a Frankfurt merchant and sister-in-law to Beethoven familiar Bettina Brentano (see below).

While it seems the referent of 'you' must be a person addressed by the speaker, which of several possible addressees is referred to seems up to the speaker's intentions.

They see a young person addressing issues that adults are afraid to talk about.