Under most circumstances, a sponsoring department such as the Treasury refers the possible withdrawal of an honour to the committee, which consists of the head of the civil service, Sir Bob Kerslake, the Treasury solicitor, the Home Office permanent secretary and the permanent secretary of the Scottish executive.
The truth of these propositions demand the truth of all or some relevant singular propositions of the type just mentioned; the demonstrative pronoun is then taken to refer the possible beings even though they do not exist.
He was not referring to the possible breaking of rules, but to the method used.
"I think there are a lot of political implications," he said, referring to the possible reaction by other governments.
"I can't live with another military regime in Guatemala," he said, referring to the possible election of Mr. Pérez Molina.
"There are concerns that this might happen," said a senior United States official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, referring to the possible delivery of the S-300.
While, thus referring to the possible perfection of the spring balance with the qualifying particle "if," they justly remark that the pendulum is the most delicate of all instruments for the measurement of force.
In the S.E.C. filing, the carrier said that "in order to successfully restructure the company, alternative restructuring scenarios in the context of a judicial reorganization also must be considered," referring to the possible need to seek bankruptcy protection.
The affected sentence, referring to the possible negative effects of publicity on cast members of the HBO series "Family Bonds," should read, "That concern was echoed by Mr. Cantor, who has become embedded with this family; he and his crew eat dinner with them as often as three or four times a week".
Referring to the possible capture of terrorists in Afghanistan, Mr. Ashcroft said, "Are we supposed to read them the Miranda rights, hire a flamboyant defense lawyer, bring them back to the United States to create a new cable network of Osama TV or what have you, provide a worldwide platform from which propaganda can be developed?" It was wasted sarcasm.
