Sentence examples for whom he mentioned from inspiring English sources

— but also featured him rumbling about wanting to best a whole host of peers, whom he mentioned by name.

He was known to many leading men of his time, including the Roman statesman Cicero, who studied under him in 78 77 and whom he mentioned as a friend.

Perhaps his friendship with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi – whom he mentioned in his national security address in the context of Islam apparently needing a "religious revolution" – is rubbing off.

Amid his condemnation of Cruz and Trump, neither of whom he mentioned by name, Kasich reiterated his plea that America avoid the "low road to the White House", namely the ugly rhetoric and character assassinations which have characterized the Republican primary season so far.

By drawing on Thoreau, whom he mentions several times elsewhere in his work, Lowell is also staking his own claim to a place among the ancestors.

The poet Saʿdī (died 1292) was a contemporary in Shīrāz of the Salghurid atabeg Abū Bakr ibn Saʿd ibn Zangī (reigned 1231 60), whom he mentions by name in his Būstān ("The Orchard"), a book of ethics in verse.

They wanted him to go to university but couldn't afford to send him, and he wanted to join the military because his late brother, whom he mentions often, was in the Army.

To the Editor: While I am grateful for the keen attention Jonathan Lethem pays Natasha Wimmer's translation of "2666," I am dismayed that he all but erases its translator — whom he mentions, in passing, only once — and her work.

Mr. Rankin draws from John le Carré and Graham Greene, both of whom he mentions in the book's 2003 introduction, as well as perhaps from Alfred Hitchcock, in ways that are schematic but effective.

Aristotle, whom he mentions, emphasized bodily activity, but each activity required an accompanying activity of the mind if it was to have any value in the building of an individual's character.

"My wife", or "M", whom he mentions constantly throughout our interview, is the journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup (they also have a four-year-old daughter, Molly), and through her A-list connections, McCue has come to know a comically dazzling clutch of uber-celebrities.