• Fans took Guan's long and narrow panels as a reference to traditional Chinese scrolls.

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  • Many saw it as a reference to the 1993 race when, despite the PM's misgivings, Anwar's "Vision Team" swept the polls.

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  • On a side note, I like your articles, very smart and insightful (sometimes I use them as a reference to my blog brazilianbubble.com).

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  • The term siamese twins was coined as a reference to Eng and Chang Bunker, who achieved international fame following their birth in what was then Siam in 1811.

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  • Because some took it as a reference to slavery.

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  • Mr Sharon's comments were seen as a reference to his Foreign Minister Shimon Peres who has been holding talks with the Palestinian Parliament Speaker Ahmed Queira about the framework for a possible peace deal.

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  • Some saw this as a reference to allegations that a few of MAN's employees had paid bribes to win contracts, and that by leaving Mr Samuelsson would allow a clean break with the past.

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  • The meeting was held to discuss and prepare a programme module and its activities, as a reference to ASPNet's schools to further plan and deliver its own programmes and activities at the school level in order to cultivate a sense of peace among students.

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  • The whole device, together with a second electrode (known as a reference) to complete the circuit, is then mounted on a stick.

    ECONOMIST: Medical diagnostics

  • Others will read the comment as a simple reference to the effect that any poor-performing franchise in a top media market has on its respective league.

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  • The term "foreigners" was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled reference to the chairman of Premier League side Mathare United, Bob Munro, who is a Canadian national.

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  • It is still known there as Hindustan Unilever, a reference to the decades its local subsidiary spent as an essentially independent company before its fuller integration into the global firm in recent years.

    ECONOMIST: Consumer goods

  • Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, cautioned civilian authorities against pursuing revenge, in what was widely interpreted as a thinly veiled reference to Mr. Musharraf's treatment since he returned to Pakistan in March.

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  • One fundamental flaw I've always noted in the 'science' of human resources management is, is any applicant going to give as a reference someone who's going to have anything bad to say about them?

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  • Several videos purporting to be from Gangster Disciple members in several states -- including Georgia, North Carolina and Florida -- appeared on YouTube late last year demanding that Ross pay a fee to them for his use of the Star of David, which they claim as a gang symbol, and a reference to one of their founders in his music and marketing.

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  • It can be as simple as trying to justify Fitzgerald's reference to a pink suit in The Great Gatsby.

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  • The THE list is intended less as a tool for would be undergraduates trying to decide where to go to school than as a reference for governments and university leaders.

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  • During his ceremony speech Markowitz referred to Ratner as "Cousin Brucie, " a reference to the famed, Brooklyn-born radio DJ.

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  • We've been following start-up Music Gremlin for some time now, from its ambitious beginnings as a software company through its transition to a reference device designer and finally into a self-branding manufacturer, so we were more than a little disappointed to learn that lukewarm reviews of the recently-launched MG-1000 DAP indicate that it contains no small number of bugs and frustrating restrictions.

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  • Mr Robb said the laurel leaf was chosen as a basis for the design to reference Falkirk's rich Roman heritage, he also said the leaf's role as a victory symbol was particularly apt, given the local community's success in regenerating the area's woodland.

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  • Wi-Fi--known among techies as 802.11, a reference to its underlying technology standard--is an alternative means of Internet access.

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  • Money should be used for a proper economic purpose and not treated as a commodity on which a return can be made by reference to time.

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  • For those who work from home, the 40-hour workweek is going to be a highly salient reference, and accordingly they are likely to adopt this as a reasonable commitment to work.

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  • We had to go to court as a reference point but the administration has now been rubber-stamped.

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  • Not only has his life been turned upside down by Ashcroft's reference to him as a "person of interest, " but his girlfriend's life and apartment have also been upset, Hatfill said.

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  • In an 81-page ruling, published online by the news site Torrentfreak, the judge noted that much of the evidence against founder Kim Dotcom and his associates was "contained on their computer equipment which was seized as a result of the activities of January 2012" - a reference to evidence gathered from search warrants executed in nine countries that month.

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  • They are believed to use the position of the sun as a reference point and can compensate for its movement across the sky when calculating the route they need to return home.

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  • Mr Trimble said it was too early to tell what had caused the outbreak in a direct reference to a suggestion from Mr Campbell's predecessor as regional development minister that it had been caused by a human rather than an animal.

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  • He used the reference to gain work as a locum in Leicester and the Isle of Wight.

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  • In 1948, The Physician's Desk Reference, which serves as a bible to doctors and pharmacists, was only as thick as a thumb.

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