Sentence examples for was a point of reference from inspiring English sources

I didn't agree with everything he said, but he was a point of reference".

In fact, the war was a point of reference for almost every aspect of the anarchists' case, according to "Death in the Haymarket" (Pantheon; $26.95), a fast-paced new account by James Green, a labor historian.

This was a point of reference by Lochinvar cattle owners who had better knowledge of the disease than those in other areas.

How so? "Hitchcock," he writes, "was a point of reference in the discovery of a tone that would let the audience laugh at things that were once beyond laughter because of cruelty or sexual exploitation".

Penang General Hospital, with a capacity of 1,107 beds, is a point-of-reference tertiary health care facility in the Northern Region of Malaysia.

That, amid the myriad issues of the Blunt affair, is a point of reference worth recalling.

"What risks being lost is a point of reference of European civilization," said Mr. Clementi.

Why, she asks, should whiteness even be a point of reference for a black self-image?

Sweden has long been a point of reference in British politics.

This was partly to reach into the Latino market, Mr. Samels said: "Whether in Cuba or Nicaragua or Costa Rica or Mexico, Castro is a point of reference".

That is why Singapore, which has been a point of reference for China's reformers since the 1980s, has emerged again among some of Mr. Xi's advisers.