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How do I use anaphoric reference in a sentence?
Simple sentences
Perry is mistaken in thinking that Emmet's theory was constructed without reference to Newtonian physics.
This reference is valuable for my research.
With reference to the invoice No.56789 which was due last month, we have not yet received your remittance.
He made reference to my book.
I don't have a good reference book to hand.
It is virtually impossible to discuss the Thai Royal Family in English without offending native Thais: the special honorific forms of reference that exist in Thai simply have no counterparts in English.
At check-in, please show a picture identification and the document you gave for reference at reservation time.
A more convenient and detailed reference grammar, I have yet to meet.
A dictionary is a reference book.
This easter egg is a reference to one of the developer's previous games.
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What is that reference?
You spent most of your time in the study, moving to the conservatory and then to the library to place the pistol and to get a reference book.
So we cross-reference the two?
Did John D, Lee report to you at any time after this massacre what had been done at the massacre and if so, what did you reply to him in reference thereto?
He gave us the book. for reference purposes.
I thought after my swell reference about you, I deserved a drink.
I have reference to a mark on the ball.
Your reference to the Jews might have been more violent.
But mark them for future reference.
I'm entitled to a letter of reference.
Twenty-three pages compiled from a dozen reference books.
Based on reference books 20 years old.
Those are Professor Gurkakoff's reference books.
In a day or two, you'll talk to me about certain installations in the vicinity of both Balboa and Cristobal with particular reference to antiaircraft emplacements railway guns and ammunition dumps.
Because they were inaccurate and had a wrong reference point.
Ask the sergeant for a character reference. He knows me.
I'm sorry, but we must have one business reference.
Yes, I'm sure, so I'd rather you didn't say that I gave her husband as a reference.
The cook's letter of reference.
A reference to the Jewish people.
Reference to the father's police record may tend to undermine the child's parental respect.
And here, reference from the Duke de Polignac.
I make a nice living, too, chasing ghosts of the past, if you'll pardon the poetic reference.
And, in the meantime, you changed systems of reference.
What did you have reference to?
I heard this gentleman make a disparaging reference to Vichy.
For instance, I could find no reference to my wife's birthday in the in the society news.
I know that, but you haven't got any establishment. or terms of reference or anything - anything old-fashioned like that?
News and current affairs
The post-WWII period stands as a reference point in America's collective memory, but it was in all likelihood an aberration.
Not surprisingly, Chinese leadership was keen to avoid any reference to the last two centuries of struggle and humiliation, or to its problematic political agendas and thorny trade issues.
First, capital requirements should be set as a straightforward ratio of common equity to total assets, thereby abandoning all reference to banks' own risk-management models.
Germany and other governments called for the reference to the slowdown to be deleted.
Then we can define terrorism with reference to all these variables, but without making any one of them decisive.
In other words, above a low level of sufficiency, peoples' happiness levels are determined much less by their absolute income than by their income relative to some reference group.
This concept now appears in the toolbox of every economist, is taught in all classes on growth, and serves as a reference in all works on the macro economy.
Indeed, we can expect his new theoretical framework to become a reference point in a decade or two.
So the rules would have to be set with reference to each member state's cyclically adjusted fiscal position (for which the OECD already produces estimates).
Today, however, the EU is the last point of reference as far as prosperity is concerned.
Such a reference, it is said, would run afoul of the common European constitutional tradition of state neutrality in matters of religion.
But the opposite is true: a reference to God is both constitutionally permissible and politically imperative.
In between are states like Germany, whose constitutional preamble makes an explicit reference to God, or Ireland, where the preamble refers to the Holy Trinity.
The refusal to make a reference to God is based on the false argument that confuses secularism with neutrality or impartiality.
For the first time, precise reference is made to people liable to be a threat to US security.
In 2011, the National Research Council and the US Federal Judicial Center issued the 1,016-page third edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
Hollande's reference point seems to be the post-war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.
In other words, the invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent increase in the rhetoric of democracy in the Middle East, may have changed frames of reference about the status quo.
But are its terms of reference useful today, as the West faces the simultaneous challenges of the Islamic State in the Middle East and a revisionist Russia?
But soon Switzerland became a reference point for German leaders, and then an explicit and dangerous model.
And, sooner rather than later, it needs to define precisely, and with reference to understood and accepted principles, what its claims actually are.
If one takes the EU as one's term of reference, social solidarity between member states would appear to be not that different from social solidarity between American states.