Sentence examples for understood as a reference from inspiring English sources

Then he offered a poignant valedictory that many present understood as a reference to the damage his career has taken from Abu Ghraib.

A complaint from the Children's Food Campaign has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority ASAA) which said the "great start" assertion was likely to be understood as a reference to the health benefits of the drink, but was not accompanied by any authorised health claims and therefore breached regulations.

As a result, traditional risk stratification models usually overestimate mortality among pregnant women, which may hinder analysis of the performance of care provided and interpretation of morbidity and mortality outcomes [ 3]. "Benchmarking" may be understood as a reference point against which comparisons can be made, regarding the performance between facilities and/or best practice.

For that reason an inertial frame has to be understood as a spatial reference frame together with some means of measuring time, so that uniform motions can be distinguished from accelerated motions.

Without a mention of anyone else by name, this could be understood as an oblique reference to the judgment of Bill Sheridan, the first-year defensive coordinator.

Heraclitus' description of Pythagoras as "the chief of the charlatans" (Fr. 81) and of his wisdom as "fraudulent art" (Fr. 129) is most easily understood as an unsympathetic reference to his miracles.

In other words, Equation 1 states that the frame of reference may be understood as a set of categories of experience.

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This challenge has recently been taken up in Clayman (2010), chapter 2. Clayman argues that the speaker is Timon himself, and that the lines serve a programmatic function at the opening of the poem; in light of parallel passages in other early Hellenistic poetry, the reference to truth is understood as an allusion to poetic verisimilitude rather than to anything philosophically problematic.

Most scholars, Shahîd and Stein included, understand this as a reference to Severus Alexander and Philip.

I understand this as a reference to a controversial passage, since removed, from an early version of the book in which Abramović describes her first meeting aboriginal Australians in the Outback, with whom she lived for a year learning, meditating, and generating new ideas for her work.