Many have used Twitter to pay homage to Rickman by "raising their wands" in reference to a scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when Hogwarts students point their wands to the sky to honour the recently-deceased Dumbledore.
St. Louis Rams players raise their arms in reference to events in Ferguson, Missouri, as they walk onto the field before an NFL football game against the Oakland Raiders in St . Louis Nov. 30, 2014.
There is nothing here about the new landscape since 9/11, beyond a dropped-in reference to Donald Rumsfeld which raises a laugh.
Like Ms. Scott, this character was raised as "half-Mennonite" (in reference to the austere religious sect that people tend to confuse with the Amish) in Kansas.
As queer activist and educator Jonathan Reed said in this Ravishly piece in reference to raising feminist sons, You think the offhand comment about that female politician went unnoticed?
Back in the studio, Paxman wraps up by asking candidates how to raise the tone of this campaign (in reference to Ken's letter yesterday).
In reference to raising glasses in the video, Rebeca Ford from The Hollywood Reporter commented "the singer can also be seen raising a [glass] to her audience, probably thanking them for their support with her own personal 'cheers.'" "Cheers (Drink to That)" was included on the set list of the Loud Tour (2011).
Both these questions are raised repeatedly throughout this collection of reminiscences; in reference to the former, the writer and composer James McBride asks: "If you only have one solo to pay, then play the one solo.
Stemming from the old African proverb, "It takes a whole village to raise a child," this phrase was popularly coined in reference to busy moms needing all hands on deck to navigate the chaos of child-rearing.
The raised marble water tank is called al Hawd al-Kawthar, in reference to the "Tank of Abundance" promised to Muhammad.
