In 2008 — in what appeared to be an oblique reference to Forbes — Kerr reflected " Looking back, there was a sacking of one guy that was harsh.

Although a criticism of the foreign policy of the United States, the song's final stanza also delivers a harsh criticism on communism by making reference to the mass murder of pacifist Buddhist monks in the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution and the USSR's Invasion of Afghanistan.

Another reference (" the Cushite reference ") to a wife of Moses occurs at Numbers 12, in the story of Aaron's and Miriam's harsh criticism of Moses ' marriage to a Cushite or Kushite woman, probably of ancestry from Kush, aka Nubia, in northeast Africa.

" Gass, in reference to the harsh and disquieting nature of The Tunnel said " I don't think anything is sacred and therefore I am prepared to extol or make fun of anything.

Chaminade University of Honolulu's team name is the " Silverswords ," a reference to a Hawaiian plant prized for its beauty and ability to withstand harsh conditions.

In reference to himself, Celan, and Moscovici, Chiva later recalled: " For us, people on the Left, but who had fled communism, the first period in Paris, in a capital where the intellectual environments were developing under full-scale Stalinist enthusiasm, was very harsh.

In his Logical Investigations, Husserl mentions Frege only twice, once in a footnote to point out that he had retracted three pages of his criticism of Frege's The Foundations of Arithmetic, and again to question Frege's use of the word Bedeutung to designate " reference " rather than " meaning " ( sense ).

Davis attracted criticism for a Garfield strip in which the last panel appeared to be a negative reference to Veterans Day that appeared in newspapers on November 11, 2010.

In his criticism of Gnosticism, Irenaeus made reference to a Gnostic gospel which portrayed Judas in a positive light, as having acted in accordance with Jesus ' instructions.

Several perspectives or branches of such academic dictionary research have been distinguished: ' dictionary criticism ' ( or evaluating the quality of one or more dictionaries, e. g. by means of reviews ( see Nielsen 2009 )), ' dictionary history ' ( or tracing the traditions of a type of dictionary or of lexicography in a particular country or language ), ' dictionary typology ' ( or classifying the various genres of reference works, such as dictionary versus encyclopedia, monolingual versus bilingual dictionary, general versus technical or pedagogical dictionary ), ' dictionary structure ' ( or formatting the various ways in which the information is presented in a dictionary ), ' dictionary use ' ( or observing the reference acts and skills of dictionary users ), and ' dictionary IT ' ( or applying computer aids to the process of dictionary compilation ).

The social panic approach is justified by the language used – we talk of the battle against terrorism or the war on drugs ..." The Economist magazine has become increasingly vocal in its criticism of such regulation, particularly with reference to countering terrorist financing, referring to it as a " costly failure ", although concedes that the rules to combat money laundering are more effective.

His Exec, John Matheson, would make reference to the gist of the Prime Directive as a criticism some might apply to this act.

" Foucault explores theory, criticism, and psychology with reference to the texts of Raymond Roussel, one of the fathers of experimental writing.

Older reference works tend to favour the spelling " Caractacus ", but modern scholars agree, based on historical linguistics and source criticism, that the original Brythonic form was * Caratācos, pronounced, which gives the attested names Caradog in Welsh, Karadeg in Breton and Carthach in Irish.

The danger is that ' such criticism tends to be reductive, explaining away the ambiguities of works of literature by reference to established psychoanalytic doctrine ; and very little of this work retains much influence today '.

The lack of criticism may be a simple oversight ( e. g., a reference to common sense ) or an application of a double standard.

With its multiple realities and specific reference to the reader ’ s world, it explores the impact fiction has on reality, reality on fiction and the reader ’ s role in between ; as such, it is well suited for drawing attention to social or political criticism.

With many paradoxes, with many criticisms which are below contempt, and many indecent displays of personal animosity — especially in his reference to Etienne Dolet, over whose death he gloated with brutal malignity — it yet contains acute criticism based on the Poetics of Aristotle, imperator noster ; omnium bonarum artium dictator perpetuus, an influential treatise in the history of literary criticism.

At the same time, there may be ' transitions ... to delusions ' from ideas of reference: whereas ' abortive ideas of reference, in the beginning of their development or, in Schizotypal personalities, continuously, may remain subject to the patient's criticism ... under adverse circumstances, by minimal economic shifts, however, reality testing may be lost and daydreams of this kind turn into delusions '.

Husserl had reacted strongly to Gottlob Frege's criticism of his first work on the philosophy of arithmetic and was investigating the sense of mathematical and other structures, which Frege had distinguished from empirical reference.

For this reason, journalists and commentators often apply the word disparagingly to politicians and their positions, such as the Village Voices reference to a perceived change in Rudy Giuliani's position (" Rudy Adopts New Shtick ") or Slate. com's subtitle for a criticism of presidential candidate Mitt Romney's presentation of his Mormonism (" Mitt Romney's Clumsy Mormon Shtick ").

This criticism touched a patriotic nerve with the antiquary John Leland, who responded first in an unpublished tract, written perhaps in 1536, the Codrus sive Laus et Defensio Gallofridi Arturii contra Polydorum Vergilium (" Codrus ", a reference to Vergil, was a type-name drawn from Juvenal for an offensive hack-poet ); and then in a longer published treatment, the Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britannia ( 1544 ).

The analogy between biology and literary theory provided the frame of reference for genre studies and genre criticism.

Spade attempts to explain himself to Brigid O ' Shaughnessy with the Flitcraft parable, in which Hammett makes an oblique reference to the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, but O ' Shaughnessy has no idea what he is getting at.

The name of the tradition is a reference both to Alex Sanders and to the ancient occult library of Alexandria, which was one of the first libraries in the world.

Snake Sanders is based on Whitesnake vocalist David Coverdale, Jake Badlands is named for Jake E. Lee, guitarist for a band called Badlands, and Cyberhawk is most likely a reference to the cover art for the Judas Priest album Screaming for Vengeance.

“ In these projections ,” writes Kathleen MacQueen, “ the artist alternates between symbolic, iconic, and indexical images – the principal relations an image can have to its subject, according to the writings of Charles Sanders Peirce – that is, predicated on a cultural reference, a physical resemblance, or a physical relation respectively.

The Colonel is also often a shorthand reference to Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC, who was an honorary Kentucky colonel.

In another passage, a perhaps similar reference is made in dialogue between Hoshino and Colonel Sanders.

" This is a reference to Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

I said, `` Wait wait '' to Charlie and he grinned, digging the reference.

The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first but also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was " fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits ".

In reference to the death of Lani Morris, she said that perhaps Morris was " not coming from a place of integrity and did not have the right motivation ".

There is a reference to Diana in Much Ado About Nothing where Hero is said to seem like ' Dian in her orb ', in terms of her chastity.

That said, many individualists are willing to use " we " in reference to government or society as a convenient shorthand as long as the fact that these entities are composed of individuals is kept in mind.

The reference stated that Jabir said, " The Prophet ... returned from one of his battles, and thereupon told us, ' You have arrived with an excellent arrival, you have come from the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad — the striving of a servant ( of Allah ) against his desires ( holy war ).

The back-formed verb to lase is frequently used in the field, meaning " to produce laser light ," especially in reference to the gain medium of a laser ; when a laser is operating it is said to be " lasing.

This German version is said to be " over 60, 000 times as powerful as Britain's great pre-war joke ", a reference to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his speech concerning the Munich Agreement.

One biographer said, " The dictionary was no mere reference book to her ; she read it as a priest his breviary – over and over, page by page, with utter absorption.

In the struggles between Parliament and the monarch, Parliament often made reference to the Fundamental Laws of England, which were at times said to embody natural law principles since time immemorial and set limits on the power of the monarchy.

As a source of reference the Tetrabiblos is said to have " enjoyed almost the authority of a Bible among the astrological writers of a thousand years or more ".

Any linear-chain heteropolymer can be said to have a " primary structure " by analogy to the usage of the term for proteins, but this usage is rare compared to the extremely common usage in reference to proteins.

Earlier references such as a reference to an actual seal from his vineyard are said not to prove he sold wine just fermented his grapes for his own use.

Gossage said that Smith " wants choirboys and not winning players " and that Smith " just listens to what Mom says ," a reference to Padres owner Kroc, Smith's mother-in-law.

The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements ; in technical language it may be said to be ' time plus space ', or ' space plus time ': and in this sense it has, or at least involves a reference to, four dimensions.

The short document known as the Teaching of the Apostles or Didache, which may be the earliest Christian document outside of the New Testament to speak of the Eucharist, says, " Let no one eat or drink of the Eucharist with you except those who have been baptized in the Name of the Lord ," for it was in reference to this that the Lord said, " Do not give that which is holy to dogs.

# With reference to the ' rule of faith ', it may be said that Tertullian is constantly using this expression, and by it means now the authoritative tradition handed down in the Church, now the Scriptures themselves, and, perhaps, a definite doctrinal formula.

In Harmelin, Justice Scalia, joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist, said " the Eighth Amendment contains no proportionality guarantee ," and that " what was ' cruel and unusual ' under the Eighth Amendment was to be determined without reference to the particular offense.

The title is said to be a reference to the Biblical devil, Beelzebub.

then passes a reference to its element back to said algorithm for analysis.

The earliest known reference to the term spamdexing is by Eric Convey in his article " Porn sneaks way back on Web ," The Boston Herald, May 22, 1996, where he said:

Jesus starts his statement with " you have heard it said " which means that he was clarifying a misconception, as opposed to " it is written " which would be a reference to scripture.

The Vedas provide the earliest reference of, though by the name of Śyena, where this mighty bird is said to have brought nectar to earth from heaven.

The more familiar term, Ascomycetes, is still loosely used, e. g. at fungal forays it is often said of a fungus, such as Peziza, " It is an ascomycete, not a basidiomycete " in reference to their sexual reproductive mode.

According to Nevill ( citing the historian Sir Edward Creasy ), what Wellington said, while passing an Eton cricket match many decades later, was, " There grows the stuff that won Waterloo ", a remark Nevill construes as a reference to " the manly character induced by games and sport " amongst English youth generally, not a comment about Eton specifically.