Word: referents
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Bloom did not hesitate to refer to current political events at times throughout his reading, at one point spontaneously including “our current president” into a part of the introduction he read from which mentioned those who “reject what they know of Marx, Darwin, and Freud...
Dedication, however, does not an LP make; the title can refer not only to lightweight protocol, but also to lightweight persona...
Searching the Democratic National Committee’s website turned up only 10 results for the term. Of those results, most refer to comments by Republicans. Indeed, 3 of the 10 dealt with Alabama Governor Bob Riley’s comment that a “very liberal Supreme Court” is responsible for the recent “degeneration” of the United States. I, for one, wasn’t aware that the United States was degenerating, especially in the time of Lawrence v. Texas, and its court-ordered legalization of sexual relations between consenting adults...
...people call us about how to get mace, we refer them to the police,” Marine said. “We don’t take a stance on mace either way, but I understand it’s very controversial because it is often used against the victim in assaults...
...concerns to exploit Iran's natural gas reserves. Saeed Laylaz, a reformist analyst in Tehran, says only an end to U.S. sanctions and admission to the World Trade Organization might tempt the regime - something the U.S. is unlikely to support. Without a breakthrough, it's likely the IAEA will refer Iran next month to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. Some diplomats are worried about what they call their nightmare scenario: an air strike by Israel against Iran's nuclear facilities, to which Washington would acquiesce, inflaming anti-U.S. feeling among Muslims. Says a British official: "There...