Sentence examples for referred not from inspiring English sources

The title referred not only to his age.

The arrest warrant referred not just to blood diamonds from Angola.

"It" referred not to bootlegging entire performances but to having borrowed bits of other recordings to solve technical problems.

Only last week we referred, not for the first time, to Zac Goldsmith as the Tory MP for "Richmond".

Photo-realist painters created highly illusionistic images that referred not to nature but to the reproduced image.

The word was an invention of the French Revolution, and it referred not to those who hate freedom, nor to non-state actors, nor of course to "Islamofascism".

So the Guardian seemed guilty of sloppy usage when it referred not to "marines" but "soldiers" – a distinction jealously patrolled by both wings of the military.

It referred not to anything tangible but to an image: an image of vast national strength and of unwavering determination to use that strength in world affairs.

He earned a school nickname, "Rooster", that referred not just to a tuft of unruly hair, but his outspoken conservative opinions and beliefs.

The different classifications, Mr Shayler pointed out, referred not to the protection of "national security" but to "the interests of the nation".

Perhaps Romney was misinterpreting Obama — some liberals argued, in vain, that the crucial "that" referred not to the business itself but to the "unbelievable American system".