Sentence examples for this year referring from inspiring English sources

The financial magazine Dinero published a cartoon this year referring to the trade deal that showed President Obama's smiling face morphing into a middle-finger salute).

"Neither ETA nor Grapo maintains the degree of operational capability it once enjoyed," the American State Department reported this year, referring also to a smaller radical organization called the First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group.

Mourinho said Real and Barcelona could dominate this season but added, "I don't think the champion will reach 100 points and 120 goals this year," referring to Real's 100  points and 121 goals in 38 games last season, with the superb Barcelona a full 10 points back, and Valencia third with 61.

Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker says "there was a hint of a special divy at some point this year," referring to management's repeated mentions of flexibility to put cash to use through a dividend or "other opportunities".

"Despite their steady losses to pro-government forces, the scourge of ISIL continues to kill, maim and displace Iraqi civilians in the thousands and to cause untold suffering," Kubis said in a statement this year, referring to Islamic State by an acronym.

Even though nobody can quite define it, the word "normcore" was on everybody's lips this year, referring to the trend toward understated luxury that had us seeing pricey sweatpants on the menswear runways of New York and designer-label sneakers everywhere, from Chanel's spring 2014 catwalk collection to Alexander Wang's fall 2015 NY Fashion Week runway.

"We believe it was killed by the supreme leader," one of President Obama's aides said earlier this year, referring to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's most senior cleric.

For example, the cable dated earlier this year referring to the hacking attack on Google said: "A well-placed contact claims that the Chinese government coordinated the recent intrusions of Google systems.

"I just think it is a strategic mistake to take on big media where they are strongest," Jonah Peretti, the C.E.O. of Buzzfeed, wrote me in an email earlier this year, referring to her focus on stars, scripted shows and glossy content.

"He really is interested in having his kids grow up like we did, not like he did," said Craig Robinson, Mrs. Obama's brother, in an interview earlier this year, referring to Mr. Obama's absent father and long period of separation from his mother.

This likely tracks back to Obama's comments on Palin earlier this year, referring to her indirectly as a "pig with lipstick".