The secretary's terse reference to Israel's latest strike against suspected Palestinian terrorists marked the second time in two weeks that the United States felt compelled to criticize Israel, if only obliquely.
[a] is a terse reference to the esoteric mode of presentation.
Other than a terse reference to Best Buy buried in the legalese and a few mentions elsewhere deep in company documents, the big retailer has gone to great lengths to distance itself from Redline.
Further, Averroes adds explanations of aspects of Aristotle's text that are especially unclear or terse, and adds references to other works in the Aristotelian corpus to help explain particular texts.
But Dugdale's interests were primarily of an antiquarian and genealogical nature, not literary, and his textual comments about Shakespeare in Antiquities are notably terse: "One thing more, in reference to this antient Town is observable, that it gave birth and sepulture to our late famous Poet Will.
Atlas GIS has a loose-leaf reference manual that is clear but terse.
Allardyce performed a minor miracle to save Sunderland from relegation after succeeding Dick Advocaat last October but the Wearside club, in a terse statement which will interpreted as churlish, failed to reference his contribution, let alone thank him or offer their good wishes.
Here, the classic reference would be to The Mask of Anarchy, the terse and bitter and furious poem that he composed in Italy after hearing of the suppression of the Peterloo demonstrators in Manchester in August 1819.
Swift, however did not appear to be flattered by the reference, as her publicist sent the New York Times an extremely terse denial that she gave Kanye any blessing to write it.
If it's a long stretch between first and second references to someone — especially if other names have intervened — we should consider a terse reminder: "Ms. Jones, the Democratic strategist" or "Mr. Smith, the Goldman analyst".
