Sentence examples for take referring from inspiring English sources

Antonis Samaras, head of New Democracy, said, "They are asking for more recession than the country can take," referring to Greece's creditors in the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

Colombe Pringle, editor in chief of Point de Vue, has a slightly different take, referring to the recent abdication of Pope Benedict.

For the first class, Parini turned to Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," referring to those famous "two roads diverged in a wood": Believe me, if you're a teenager, you're always in the damned woods.

"It'd be amazing if Kevin Reilly showed up," Samberg joked between takes, referring to the networks' chairman of entertainment.

A cross-comparative approach was taken, referring back and forth between the raw data, the codes and the emerging themes throughout the process of analysis, in order to confirm and validate conclusions drawn.

Backstage, Mr. Davies said, some have taken to referring to "Spuren" as "Two Notes, One Opera".

Still, some students have taken to referring to Explore as "the prison school".

Readers have taken to referring to it as "the sidebar of shame"; Clarke calls it "the right rail of genius".

Republicans have taken to referring to a "broken Congress" and appear in no hurry to help repair it.

Flaine came to be ritually associated with sink-estate flats, and the annual Where to Ski and Snowboard guide took to referring to it as "Phlegm".

But his presence has become so spectral that some Democrats have taken to referring to him as "the man who isn't there".