Mr. Obama sprinkled his talk with references to his own absent father, who left him with his mother in Hawaii when he was 2 and visited him only once after that.
Those greetings — each ornamented with the heavy accents of each man's native land — between an old diamond dealer and a young newsstand vendor, proceeded through the normal rituals of street-side small talk, with references to the weather, the news and, if time allowed, some humorous personal anecdote.
Efforts to lard the commission's progress report on Turkey's EU membership talks with references to its dispute with Cyprus were led by the health commissioner (from Cyprus), backed by the environment commissioner (a Greek).
At other times, we talk about those same behaviors with reference to particular people in the context of their lives (e.g. Allen stayed calm during his figure-skating competition; Dan no longer takes pleasures in long country drives).
Like desire-based reasons theorists and unlike nonreductive realists, expressivists thus seek to render (justifying) reason talk intelligible by explicating it with reference to desires and other motivating states to which explanation by reference to someone's reasons appeals.
We've talked so much about delusion and denial, with reference to You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, and yet there he is, seemingly, deluding and denying.
This paper contributes to the study of the interactional functions of so-called formulations, while at the same time proposing an account for variability in phonetic design with reference to the observable interactional and sequential structure of talk.
Exons defined with reference to accession NM_022418.3.
According to The Aspen Times: Scalia opened his talk with a reference to the Holocaust, which happened to occur in a society that was, at the time, "the most advanced country in the world".
Scalia opened his talk with a reference to the Holocaust, which happened to occur in a society that was, at the time, "the most advanced country in the world".
