Sentence examples for unusual reference from inspiring English sources

For a generation that came of age in the late 1960s and early '70s, three unusual reference books were catalytic consciousness raisers.

At the conclusion of the performance, during the curtain call, Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays Aaron Burr, stepped forward and made an unusual reference to the Vice-President-elect's attendance.

To that point, Mr. Lafley made an unusual reference for a Procter chief executive: he named a competitor, praising Starbucks, which he said "shook up the coffee business by reinventing coffee and recreating the coffee experience".

In an unusual reference to intelligence, the British foreign secretary said Baghdadi's audio recording issued on Thursday calling for the defeat of the Iraqi forces fighting to liberate Mosul was "cruelly ironic since some of the intelligence we have suggests he had himself vacated the scene himself and is yet using internet media to encourage others to take part in violence".

The annual report shows the bank has devised an unusual "reference salary" of £1.2m that will be used to increase the maximum value of future long-term pay plans to over £5m compared with £4.5m in 2011, as well as his pension.

It was only in 1904, while writing Les origines de la statique that Duhem came across an unusual reference to a then-unknown medieval thinker, Jordanus de Nemore.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has been giving a long Anti-Obamacare speech since Tuesday, has brought a slew of unusual references to the Senate floor.

"A Selfie a Day Keeps the Doctor Away" is an ongoing Instagram series of self-portraits that combines society's technology-driven vanity with unusual references from advertising, culture, and art (@mikemellia).

Dick Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said the I.A.A.F. should expel the American federation if it failed to provide the information, and I.O.C. Director General Francois Carrard made an unusual, unsolicited reference to the case before the I.O.C. general assembly on Tuesday.

This suggests that the Zambia population is not unusual with reference to the worldwide distribution.

The ride's unusual name references the 1992 Paramount film "Wayne's World," whose characters often used the word "hurl".