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cite as in:  cited from the President's speech

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  • She cited the EPA report to make her point.
  • Sources are cited in the endnotes.
    cited = listed
  • The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.   (source)
    cite = quote
  • Halliday referred to this show several times in Anorak's Almanac, citing it as one of his childhood favorites.   (source)
    citing = mentioning
  • The citation goes on to say that the best time to dig wild potatoes "is in the spring as soon as the ground thaws…."   (source)
    citation = words quoted (in this case, from a book)
  • Chang cited a 1933 speech by a Japanese general: "Every single bullet must be charged with the Imperial Way, and the end of every bayonet must have National Virtue burnt into it."   (source)
    cited = quoted
  • She cites — it's right here — First Kings, chapter twenty-two — the passage in which God deceives King Ahab.   (source)
    cites = mentions a written source as evidence
  • The problem was so significant in Illinois that in 2003, Governor George Ryan, a Republican, citing the unreliability of capital punishment, commuted the death sentences of all 167 people on death row.   (source)
    citing = mentioning (to make a point)
  • Seiler, citing Lawton's concealment of evidence, said Lawton had been guilty of "prosecutorial misconduct of the highest order."   (source)
  • He elaborated without encouragement, citing the advantages of Devon's physical hardening program and of a high school diploma when he did in good time reach basic training.   (source)
    citing = mentioning (things to make a point)
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  • And 'The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.'   (source)
    cite = quote
  • I also cited an old report we had studied about the standardized testing in the public schools.   (source)
    cited = mentioned (to make a point)
  • School officials also cited the presence of the Arkansas National Guard as another reason.   (source)
    cited = mentioned
  • Before long I could recognize the masters' paintings, name the works themselves, cite the artists' names and their styles.   (source)
    cite = list
  • The Official sees the twist of my lips and launches into a list of examples, of ways I've broken with the Society's rules in the past two months—and she doesn't even know the worst of them—but she doesn't cite a single example from all the years before.   (source)
  • When asked to explain his decision, the president cited the United Kingdom's role in the UN's economic sanctions against the United States.   (source)
    cited = mentioned (to make a point)
  • Subsequent investigations by Forbes and the Wall Street Journal cited IBP as a prime example of how a mainstream corporation could be infiltrated by the mob.   (source)
    cited = mentioned
  • But as would be officially cited, the cause of Adam's crushed tibial plateau was a slip on the stadium stairs while bearing the full weight of his kit and body armor.   (source)
    cited = listed
  • Nevertheless, the ancient Egyptian refused to wear wool until after the Alexandrian conquest, obviously citing its itchiness in warm climates.   (source)
    citing = mentioning (to make a point)
  • In particular he cited the Treaty's provision permitting America's armed vessels to cruise in search of suspected slavers.   (source)
    cited = mentioned (to make a point)
  • They proved it by citing Francisco d'Anconia's past achievements.   (source)
    citing = listing (to make a point)
  • These detrimental impacts are visible today as polar bears lose their habitat of sea ice, the sex of sea turtle eggs is skewed, whales have less krill to feed on, and coral reefs are bleached, to cite just a few examples.   (source)
    cite = list
  • "One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments," said the Assistant Predestinator citing a piece of homely hypnopaedic wisdom.   (source)
    citing = quoting
  • What I saw in him—as evidently as the indestructible ramparts of Old Ticonderoga, already cited as the most appropriate simile—was the features of stubborn and ponderous endurance, which might well have amounted to obstinacy in his earlier days; of integrity, that, like most of his other endowments, lay in a somewhat heavy mass, and was just as unmalleable or unmanageable as a ton of iron ore; and of benevolence which, fiercely as he led the bayonets on at Chippewa or Fort Erie, I take…   (source)
    cited = mentioned
  • Petersen's store cut back on deliveries, citing fuel and labor shortages.†   (source)
  • He'd seen it more than any other film, always citing the nods to Hitchcock, the many witty homages—though he'd never made clear his love of Hitchcock in the first place.†   (source)
  • A short obituary runs in the town paper, citing the names of Ashima and Gogol and Sonia, mentioning that the children had been educated at the local schools.†   (source)
  • On the flip side, if someone in class asks if it's possible that the character under discussion might be a Christ figure, citing three or four similarities, I'll say something like, "Works for me."†   (source)
  • He had a resident give the injections in their place, and on August 27, 1963, the three doctors wrote a resignation letter citing unethical research practices.†   (source)
  • There was a comment piece in the Sunday Times about police incompetence that referred briefly to the case, an unnamed source at the Crown Prosecution Service citing it as "one of a number of cases in which the police have made a hasty arrest on the basis of flimsy or flawed evidence."†   (source)
  • The trick was to cut them before they died, then let them dry in a pottery pitcher, so you could keep them as a permanent floral arrangement, that is, until someone like Art threw them out, citing that they were already dead.†   (source)
  • It was hopeless because though Dr. Jones agreed to elaborate, the prosecution was entitled to object-and did, citing the fact that Kansas law allowed nothing more than a yes or no reply to the pertinent question.†   (source)
  • Citing privacy reasons, though, she wouldn't tell much, only that Whitney had been brought in by ambulance that morning and left a few hours earlier.†   (source)
  • Several people began to object, but Bellagrog brushed the protests aside, citing Hag Law as though it were a spell, an immutable custom beyond all question or resistance.†   (source)
  • With the same vitality he had once brought to the courtrooms of Massachusetts and the floor of Congress, he championed the right of American fishermen, citing articles from treaties past and explaining in detail the migratory patterns of the cod, not to say the temperament of seafaring New Englanders.†   (source)
  • Fourteen years later, in 1997, citing the continuing "fierce interest in language usage," the magazine returned to the fray with "The War That Never Ends," an article by writer Mark Halpern, blasting Nunberg and other descriptivist grammarians, who "suppose that language is an entity with its own laws of development, or natural destiny, and that prescriptivist grammarians are trying to interfere with the course of that natural destiny."†   (source)
  • He wrote a report citing disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and illegal possession of a weapon.†   (source)
  • By citing a great moral purpose, Britain was able to generate American industrial aid to defeat the Germans.†   (source)
  • The people of the small community had even launched a campaign to draw newcomers, citing Lonelywood as the "Home of the Halfling Hero," and as the only place with shade trees within a hundred miles.†   (source)
  • When I suggested that your platoon leader might be killed, I was by no means citing the ultimate in military disaster.†   (source)
  • His father questioned the validity of his interpretation of the passage in Gittin by citing a commentary on the passage that disagreed with his interpretation, and Danny said it was difficult to understand this commentary—he did not say the commentary was wrong, he said it was difficult to understand it—because a parallel passage in Nedarim clearly confirmed his own interpretation.†   (source)
  • My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking.†   (source)
  • So with caution and restraint and citing the letter as a source, I wrote a rather jocular account of The Ten in my history, carefully stating that no one knew for sure whether The Ten existed or not, but that the rumor of its existence had always had a powerful hold on the imagination of the Corps and the alumni.†   (source)
  • They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand.   (source)
    citing = quoting (to make a point)
  • The court cited two reasons for setting aside the conviction.   (source)
    cited = listed (to make a point)
  • To his great surprise, page after page of references appeared, all citing this exact question.   (source)
    citing = mentioning (to make a point)
  • The media was not interested in the story, citing "innocence fatigue."   (source)
    citing = mentioning
  • Officials insisted that they give one, so they cited poor track condition.   (source)
  • Cite the Treaty of 1795, Pickney's Treaty on sea commerce.   (source)
    cite = mention (to make a point)
  • He has cited certain passages repeatedly.   (source)
    cited = mentioned (to make a point)
  • He cited the decision of the Antelope case and pointed to passages of the Treaty of 1819.   (source)
  • War, which is to say misplaced sexual energy, which we consider to be a larger factor than the economic, racial, and religious causes often cited.   (source)
    cited = listed
  • It cited the "patent inconsistency" of Corporal Anderson's two statements about the bullet hole and denounced Lawton's attempt to cover it up.   (source)
    cited = mentioned (to make a point)
  • I even cited about a half-dozen cases.   (source)
    cited = listed (to make a point)
  • In fact, there was no case law cited in the entire order: Ralph Meyers took the stand before this Court, swore to tell the truth and proceeded to recant most, if not all, of the relevant portions of his testimony at trial.   (source)
    cited = mentioned (to make a point)
  • P.S. Note well that the Treaty of 1819, which the government will certainly cite throughout its case, contains barbs that can be used against their position as well.   (source)
    cite = mention (to make a point)
  • He planned to cite any outburst from that group as an action in contempt of the court and have the offending person or persons dismissed for the remainder of the trial.   (source)
    cite = charge (with breaking the law)
  • They looked for the portions of the treaty cited in the letter, staying up until nearly sunrise to incorporate it into their defense.   (source)
    cited = mentioned
  • He was a competent lawyer, excelling in cases where firm legal precedent had been set and could be cited.   (source)
    cited = mentioned (to make a point)
  • Accordingly, Articles 8 through 10 were cited by Holabird as the passages most pertinent to the case.   (source)
    cited = mentioned
  • In addition, he cited the case of the Antelope, a slaveship bearing the flag of a Spanish colony, La Plata, that had been taken by the U.S. Coast Guard off the coast of Florida.   (source)
    cited = mentioned (to make a point)
  • However, added to the documentation found on board the Amistad were the several formal letters of protest written by Calderon and Argaiz that cited specific passages in the treaties.   (source)
    cited = listed (to make a point)
  • "But every one belongs to every one else," he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb.   (source)
    citing = quoting
  • I'd sent them, along with the text of Sorrento's memo, citing an anonymous source for both.†   (source)
  • Until he backed out, citing the "great opportunity" of the ecology conference.†   (source)
  • Are you honestly citing Julie Teller as the basis for your expertise on love?†   (source)
  • When Salem went inside, citing exhaustion, Alan took it as his cue, too.†   (source)
  • Howard declined, citing a most unlikely reason: "We do not care to commercialize Seabiscuit."†   (source)
  • There was not the money to repair it: the insurance company was balking, citing the mysterious circumstances surrounding the arson.†   (source)
  • Diplomacy, he was fond of saying, is the art of persuasion; and war—never citing his sources—is simply diplomacy continued through other means ....He spoke of Detroit in affectionate generalities: Coonsville, MoTown, Sin City.†   (source)
  • They gave it willingly, citing dates, conversations, scenes.†   (source)
  • For decades a long correspondence took place between Grandpa and the War Department; in letter after letter Grandpa would recount events and conversations (always dictating these long accounts to others); he would name persons long dead, citing their ages and descriptions, reconstructing battles in which he had fought, naming towns, rivers, creeks, roads, cities, villages, citing the names and numbers of regiments and companies with which he had fought, giving the exact day and the exact hour of the day of certain occurrences, and send it all to the War Department in Washington.†   (source)
  • To be sure, just as Herr Settembrini had put it so graphically, the comforts on an ocean liner allowed one only superficially to forget the real situation and its dangers, and there was, if he might be permitted to add a comment of his own, even a kind of frivolous provocation about that perfect comfort, somewhat like what the ancients called hubris (in his desire to please, he was even citing the classics)—"I am the king of Babylon," and that sort of thing—in a word, sacrilege.†   (source)
  • From magnetism little by little Rodolphe had come to affinities, and while the president was citing Cincinnatus and his plough, Diocletian, planting his cabbages, and the Emperors of China inaugurating the year by the sowing of seed, the young man was explaining to the young woman that these irresistible attractions find their cause in some previous state of existence.†   (source)
  • Tell the judges, then, who is their improver; for you must know, as you have taken the pains to discover their corrupter, and are citing and accusing me before them.†   (source)
  • In citing these cases, in which the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments have not been kept totally separate and distinct, I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several State governments.†   (source)
  • Being subjects either of an absolute or limited monarchy, they have endeavored to heighten the advantages, or palliate the evils of those forms, by placing in comparison the vices and defects of the republican, and by citing as specimens of the latter the turbulent democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy.†   (source)
  • Morse quit, citing he refused to work with a nonprofessional.   (source)
    citing = saying
  • I suggest you cite your differences of opinion with the Holy See and establish yourself as your own Christian organization.   (source)
    cite = list
  • ...Henry citing himself authority for incest…   (source)
    citing = listing
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cite as in:  cited for valor

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  • She was cited for her outstanding achievements at the school.
  • According to the citation: "With complete disregard for his own safety, Private Pausch leaped from a covered position and commenced treating the wounded men while shells continued to fall in the immediate vicinity."   (source)
    citation = written commendation (statement of praise)
  • Owen had been especially moving when he'd read the award citation for the Silver Star medal to the next of kin.   (source)
    citation = public commendation (statement of praise)
  • If I was head of the class on Graduation Day and made a speech and won the Ne Plus Ultra Scholastic Achievement Citation, then we would both have come out on top, we would be even, that was all.   (source)
  • The citation reads, For heroic achievement…. in combat operations against the enemy as an assault team member, [Adam Brown] displayed great battlefield courage while conducting multiple direct action missions against enemy leadership targets.   (source)
  • I read his citation over and over and was so proud of him and his life-saving actions on Iwo Jima.   (source)
  • I expected gratitude and a citation of honor.   (source)
    citation = public commendation (written praise)
  • He had never understood those people, especially after they awarded him a citation for doing minimal work for them in affairs they should have been able to cope with themselves.   (source)
    citation = public commendation (written statement of praise)
  • Mr. Poole was in the Pacific, you know, purple heart and various other citations.   (source)
    citations = public commendations (statements of praise)
  • As a senior lieutenant in the Navy medical corps he had performed brave and extraordinary feats of surgical skill while undergoing kamikaze attacks aboard a doomed flattop off the Philippines; the exploit won him the Navy Cross—a citation not too often achieved by a medical officer...   (source)
    citation = public commendation (statement of praise)
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  • …and now he also emerging from the same holocaust in which she had suffered, with nothing to face what the future held for the South but his bare hands and the sword which he at least had never surrendered and the citation for valor from his defeated Commander-in-Chief.   (source)
    citation = written commendation (statement of praise)
  • Then, buried in the stack, we found a citation issued in 1945, when my father was in the army.   (source)
    citation = public commendation (written statement of praise)
  • Everywhere, there were mementos—playbills from opera houses and concert halls; newspaper clippings of people singing; and framed citations and medals hung on ribbons, suggesting golden-throat awards of an almost athletic order of recognition.   (source)
    citations = public commendations (statements of praise)
  • The citation for "heroic achievement" came from the commanding general of the 75th Infantry Division.   (source)
    citation = public commendation (written statement of praise)
  • ...he brought home with him a citation for valor in Lee's own hand...   (source)
    citation = written commendation (statement of praise)
  • Yes, hunt, fish, win citations for bravery, you name it.   (source)
    citations = public commendations (statements of praise)
  • "If you got a medal," he said, "your citation read that you did something 'above and beyond the call of duty.'"   (source)
    citation = public commendation (statement of praise)
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cite as in:  cited for speeding

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  • Should you fail to appear at a probation meeting, you may be cited to appear before a Judge to explain your absence.
    cited = charged with breaking the law
  • Of course, thinks Connor, it could backfire on them, and the cops could cite them for jaywalking.   (source)
    cite = charge (with breaking the law)
  • Obviously, when you talk to your grandfather, you will tell him that he will be cited if he mentions this to anyone else.   (source)
    cited = charged (with breaking the law)
  • Federal inspectors cited the plant for "inhumane slaughter" and halted production there for one week, an extremely rare penalty imposed for the mistreatment of cattle.   (source)
  • Or be cited for contempt of this court.   (source)
  • A traffic hovercraft dipped low, blasted out the standard order to proceed or be cited.   (source)
    cited = charged with violating the law
  • The health department will give us a citation.   (source)
    citation = an official charge (of having broken the law)
  • Once more, sir, and you will be cited for contempt.   (source)
    cited = charged (with breaking the law)
  • No. Bram already has too many citations from the care center.   (source)
    citations = official charges (of breaking rules)
  • There are minor citations issued from time to time, like when Bram is late.   (source)
    citations = official charges (of having broken rules)
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  • It's not as though they cited you or anything.   (source)
    cited = charged with breaking the law
  • They'll cite me for losing it.   (source)
    cite = charge (with breaking the law)
  • "This may result in some sanctions for you at work," one of the Officials says to my father, in a tone so mean I wonder if she will get cited herself.   (source)
    cited = charged (with breaking rules)
  • I hope he doesn't get cited.   (source)
    cited = charged (with breaking the rules)
  • The company that had supplied the USDA with the taco meat — Northern States Beef, a subsidiary of ConAgra — had in the previous eighteen months been cited for 171 "critical" food safety violations at its facilities.   (source)
    cited = charged with breaking the law
  • "I'm sure that a citation of the highest order will be issued, with the next error resulting in a complete Infraction."   (source)
    citation = an official charge (of breaking rules)
  • They'd never caused any trouble before, so they got off without an Infraction. Just a citation.   (source)
    citation = official charge (of breaking a rule)
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  • I almost cited the date of the actual blog entry before I realized it would make me sound like even more of a cyber-stalking super-creep.†   (source)
  • The progression of citations, which had spanned over two thousand years, did not continue much further.†   (source)
  • Others cite religious faith and the hold that social conservatism has on evangelicals in that region.†   (source)
  • CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, had just come into effect, and the window on the trading of captured wild animals had slammed shut.†   (source)
  • Beneath the peninsular fort of La Cite, across the river from the old city, there are rooms of bandages, rooms of ammunition, even an underground hospital, or so it is believed.†   (source)
  • Farmers are quick to cite the weather, their luck, the turning tides of prices and government regulations, but among themselves these excuses fall away.†   (source)
  • When they divorced, Bud packed up his awards, the framed "Man of the Year" citations, the sporting trophies.†   (source)
  • The building, which still stands [needs citation], is the only structure in Agloe, which continues to appear on many maps and is traditionally recorded as having a population of zero.†   (source)
  • For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.†   (source)
  • The 1997 National Research Council study cited is entitled "The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration."†   (source)
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  • For 1991, police cited these statistics: 100,000 gang members, 800 gangs, nearly 600 young people killed.†   (source)
  • Colonel Fedmahn Kassad was tall-almost tall enough to look the two-meter Her Masteen in the eye-and dressed in FORCE black with no rank insignia or citations showing.†   (source)
  • Ashima and Ashoke can both cite examples of cousins who were not officially named until they were registered, at six or seven, in school.†   (source)
  • I will admit that not every one of the citations is all that familiar, but enough of them are.†   (source)
  • It isn't clear if Ma remembers him from Juilliard, even though Mr. Ayers now cites several specific performances that have stuck with him over the years.†   (source)
  • Global warming was the most commonly cited theory: the sun's radiation interfering with the birds natural navigation system.†   (source)
  • Charles T. Root, editor of the New York Dry Goods Reporter and no relation to Burnham's dead partner, published an editorial on Thursday, August 10, 1893, in which he cited the ridicule and hostility that New York editors had expressed ever since Chicago won the right to build the exposition.†   (source)
  • My citation read: The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star medal to Hull Maintenance Technician First Class Howard E. Wasdin, United States Navy, for service set forth in the following citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against a hostile force during operation UNOSOM II in Mogadishu, Somalia on 3 & 4 October 1993.†   (source)
  • Hallorann unrolled the electric window and opened his mouth at the cop, who was flipping up pages in his citation book.†   (source)
  • After years of disbelief and argument from other scientists, Hayflick's paper on cell limits became one of the most widely cited in his field.†   (source)
  • I'd thought all planes had doors separating the cockpit from the passenger area, but not the Citation.†   (source)
  • American and British admiralty courts routinely cite each other's rulings.†   (source)
  • There was a well-cited fable in China, which Teacher Xiao repeated to us many times: A poor Chinese scholar, on his way to the capital to attend the emperor's annual scholars' competition, suddenly ran out of money.†   (source)
  • You can look at the three-ring binder from CosaNostra Pizza University, cross-reference the citation for window, chute, dispatcher's, and it will give you all the procedures for that window-and it should never be opened.†   (source)
  • She was cited as an example because of the devotion that she lavished on Dona Ester and because of the way she had raised her only brother when their mother became ill and their father died, leaving them in dire poverty.†   (source)
  • I came to attention, and Lieutenant Drexler read out my citation.†   (source)
  • In justifying his soccer ban in Clarkston, Mayor Swaney had cited an argument public officials commonly deployed against the sport: the grass defense.†   (source)
  • He cited this case frequently as why we needed to "get going" and help these people.†   (source)
  • I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests, but comes close to being the personification itself, of what the Hayes Society terms 'dignity in keeping with his position'.†   (source)
  • I threw away diplomas, certificates, awards and citations.†   (source)
  • Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that one reason religion is blamed is that it is often cited by the oppressors.†   (source)
  • They claim I'm an unfit mother, cite drug abuse and several instances of observed "unstable behavior.†   (source)
  • Prior to the Clutter mystery, the four cases cited were the sum of Dewey's experience with murder, and measured against the case confronting him, were as squalls preceding a hurricane.†   (source)
  • If I were going to really try to define the gift of love in tangible terms, I would have to cite as an example what my Uncle Red did for me and what he gave me during this last year.†   (source)
  • When she cites Jesus as the source of her federal educational grants, Cedric starts to chuckle, shaking his head.†   (source)
  • The Big Nurse came sliding out of the station, smiling, and asked McMurphy how he intended to get all ten of us in one car, and he asked could he maybe borrow a staff car and drive a load himself, and the nurse cited a rule forbidding this, just like everyone knew she would.†   (source)
  • St. Clair tells me we're walking to the Ile de la Cite, the Island of the City, and it's the oldest district in all of Paris.†   (source)
  • None of the papers cited a single sentence from the short text.†   (source)
  • And then he cited out wetly, 'It's me, boys!†   (source)
  • The Harvard "Consensus Statement," an argument for worldwide treatment, which 140 of the faculty signed, cited the project in Cange.†   (source)
  • Another crime-drop explanation is often cited in tandem with imprisonment: the increased use of capital punishment.†   (source)
  • Don't you want to earn more unit citations and more oak leaf clusters for your Air Medal?†   (source)
  • In Cite Soleil, where people live in huts the size of outhouses with sewage creeping between their toes, a boy with a distended belly sits with the flies.†   (source)
  • I stood, armed with Father Michael's citation.†   (source)
  • Innumerable case studies were cited.†   (source)
  • This is an order I just signed lifting the contempt citation.†   (source)
  • She cited places and dates when she had met Salander, and she gave such a precise account of how it came about that she had moved to Lundagatan that Bublanski and Modig both strongly felt that such a bizarre story had to be true.†   (source)
  • James Callender was sometimes cited as a prime example of this type, apart from the fact that Callender was a Scot.†   (source)
  • In a book called Trauma and Recovery, I was cited in the first half.†   (source)
  • If it took any more than that, she'd be ready for a tranq room and a parking citation wouldn't bother her in the least.†   (source)
  • Small crosses spread out from the gateway cites, indicating smaller collection centers.†   (source)
  • We are at Stanford University, where several of the scholars we have cited are based, on one of the most beautiful campuses in America.†   (source)
  • I took my Bible from our little crate bookcase, and bringing it over to the light, looked up the passage Grandma had cited.†   (source)
  • Even when cited merely as a rhetorical device, the armed struggle was a sign that we were actively fighting the enemy.†   (source)
  • Not living on eighteen hundred calories a day, I take it, which is the subject of that order he cited.†   (source)
  • These confirming open-source citations are printed in the Confirming Sources list at the end of this book.†   (source)
  • Some have cited it as proof that God did not create the universe, but, at a distance, swimming smoothly through the water, it's as graceful as a prima ballerina.†   (source)
  • Wilkinson cited his desire to enlist but noted that an "immigration technicality" had derailed both his education and military career.†   (source)
  • Cites Muscular Control†   (source)
  • Details: the cool quiet he found in Place Dauphin on the Ile de la Cite, where there were pigeons and old-fashioned lampposts and chestnut trees.†   (source)
  • The use of a warhammer in such a challenge was unprecedented, but none complained or cited rules.†   (source)
  • I then indicated that other commentaries had offered different explanations, and I cited them by heart because they were not found in the Talmud edition the class used.†   (source)
  • Now, you'll either deal with this like a professional, or I'll cite you for contempt and throw you in jail:' "Where are they holding him?"†   (source)
  • His request is not accepted, although he cites his poor health, and he serves until the end of the war.†   (source)
  • Numerous examples on this subject could be cited.†   (source)
  • I'm serious, Ujo, they'd better be there in no more than three days or I'm going to cite failure of contract...Because I can he.†   (source)
  • These regional and state contrasts fit with the data cited earlier showing a greater degree of ideological commitment among soldiers from slaveholding than from nonslaveholding families, for a higher percentage of families in the Deep South owned slaves than in the upper South.†   (source)
  • Mostly, as with the chandelier, he cited impracticalities, but when he needed to he was not averse to bringing up the issue of taste.†   (source)
  • She discovered that she missed her patients, the inhabitants of the cites, the citizens of the other France.†   (source)
  • [ cited cases and gave illustrative examples from the past†   (source)
  • He'll get himself a citation for this.†   (source)
  • Some prophecy, perhaps, had been making the rounds of the cites and shanty towns and had found confirmation in the dreams of various people.†   (source)
  • He sailed a plastic model of the carrier Wasp—the old Wasp cited by Churchill for stinging twice in the Mediterranean and then herself stung to death by torpedoes—to the far corner of the desk.†   (source)
  • No cause was cited for the fracas.†   (source)
  • He moves around the room, reading Bud's citations.†   (source)
  • So, my dears, have you ever flown in a Citation XLS before?†   (source)
  • The 2000 World Bank study cited is "The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programs on Poverty."†   (source)
  • Charles cited the Kudirka story again and said this was a critical matter.†   (source)
  • Amir looked more nauseated than I'd felt aboard the Cessna Citation.†   (source)
  • The cardinal and the citations are now our artwork.†   (source)
  • Small confession: not only had I never flown in a Citation XLS, I had never flown in an airplane.†   (source)
  • Borgsjö cited family reasons as the explanation for his unexpected resignation.†   (source)
  • I begged your Agents for aid, but they had no more antidote and cited 'other priorities.'†   (source)
  • Natalie told her, truthfully, that she was spoken of fondly in the cites of Aubervilliers.†   (source)
  • He presented the unit with a Presidential Unit Citation, in recognition of our achievement.†   (source)
  • Barbara opens her Bible to a verse Long cites in Kings.†   (source)
  • You're on the verge of a contempt citation.†   (source)
  • The evidence can be seen by measuring the same indicators of societal progress cited above.†   (source)
  • The first one received many media citations: aging of the population.†   (source)
  • The growth of the population could be gauged by the growth of the rubbish heaps in the cites.†   (source)
  • To me the rubbish hills and the tires were features of the cites and shanty towns.†   (source)
  • Visitors were encouraged, from the cites and shanty towns, from the surrounding villages.†   (source)
  • A 'reliable hospital source' was cited, and Paul wondered if perhaps the source had not been Annie Wilkes herself.†   (source)
  • Later I would receive the Navy Commendation Medal, which read: The Secretary of the Navy takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Commendation Medal to Hull Technician First Class Howard E. Wasdin, United States Navy, for services set forth in the following citation: For professional achievement and superior performance of his duties while serving as air operations specialist for SEAL Team Two Foxtrot Platoon while deployed to the Red Sea in support of Operation Desert Storm from 17 January to 28 February 1991.†   (source)
  • MESSAGE DURATION 39 SECONDS WITH 2 REPEATS IDENTICAL CONTENT MADE AT 091000Z AND 092000Z XX 475 5-ELEMENT CIPHER GROUPS XX SIGNAL COVERAGE AS FOLLOWS: NORTHERN FLEET AREA BALTIC FLEET AREA AND MED SQUADRON AREA XX NOTE FAR EAST FLEET NOT REPEAT NOT AFFECTED BY THIS BROADCAST XX NUMEROUS ACKNOWLEDGMENT SIGNALS EMANATED FROM ADDRESSES IN AREAS CITED ABOVE XX ORIGIN AND TRAFFIC ANALYSIS TO FOLLOW XX NOT COMPLETED AT THIS TIME XX BEGINNING AT 100000Z NSA MONITOR STATIONS [DELETED] [DELETED] AND [DELETED] RECORDED INCREASED HF AND VHF TRAFFIC AT REDFLEET BASES POLYARNYY SEVEROMORSK PECHENGA TALLINN KRONSTADT AND EASTERN MED AREA XX ADDITIONAL HF AND VHF TRAFFIC FROM REDFLEET ASSETS AT SEA X†   (source)
  • Beginning with the Bible, the citations proceeded right through the works of the Greeks and Romans onto the likes of Shakespeare, Milton, and Goethe.†   (source)
  • Ironically, in his decision, the judge cited the HeLa cell line as a precedent for what happened with the Mo cell line.†   (source)
  • Soccer team rosters, citations at the end of journals, introductions at faculty meetings—always they seem to her some vestige of the prison lists that never contained her father's name.†   (source)
  • Even when my father was a young man, there were so many lakes and pothole ponds in Zebulon County that the idea of building a swimming pool would have been ludicrous, but now every town of any size either had built one or wanted to, and the county newspapers cited these and the three table-flat nine-hole golf courses as "some of Zebulon County's numerous recreational facilities."†   (source)
  • S-S-So I th-th-think we have to say that the fuh-fuh-facts in the c-case Mr. D-D-D-Dorsky cites are ren-ren-rendered obsolete by the ruh-recent duh-duhdecision handed down inin-in ...†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure LeBlanc manages a small laboratory at the Museum of Natural History in Paris and has contributed in significant ways to the study and literature of mollusks: a monograph on the evolutionary rationale for the folds in West African cancellate nutmeg shells; an often-cited paper on the sexual dimorphism of Caribbean volutes.†   (source)
  • But following the quote from "The Grand Inquisitor," there was a second citation from The Brothers Karamazov from a scene the Count had all but forgotten.†   (source)
  • "The only part of the story I can never figure out until the end," the officer said, finding the right page in his citation book, "is the driver's-license number of the offending motorist/storyteller and his registration informationSo be a nice guy.†   (source)
  • What had prompted the citation, and the writing of the letter, for that matter, was the fact that on the fourteenth of April, Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet laureate of the Revolution, had shot himself through the heart with a prop revolver.†   (source)
  • Because these five officers accumulated seventeen citations, from the Terran Medal to the Wounded Lion.†   (source)
  • The estimates most often cited are based on a census conducted by the Belgians near the end of colonization.†   (source)
  • Twelve were just signatures, fifty-six cited his intelligence, twenty-five said they wished they'd known him better, eleven said it was fun to have him in English class, seven included the words "pupillary sphincter," and a stunning seventeen ended, "Stay Cool!"†   (source)
  • The bones of Jesus hadn't been broken at his crucifixion, an unusual detail that had been foretold by the prophet Isaiah and often cited by Christians as one piece of evidence that Jesus was the Messiah.†   (source)
  • You can examine the word with a click, tracing its origins, development, earliest known use, its passage between languages, and you can summon the word in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Arabic, in a thousand languages and dialects living and dead, and locate literary citations, and follow the word through the tunneled underworld of its ancestral roots.†   (source)
  • Legal Maxim Cited†   (source)
  • Though Hamilton did not go so far as to call Adams insane, he cited his "ungovernable temper" as evidence of a man out of control.†   (source)
  • But he was also an anthropologist in training, schooled in the importance of the kinds of cultural beliefs that the professionals cited.†   (source)
  • One report cited in Buchanan's book warned that sickly immigrants "would endanger children in school and at the movies, anyone standing in range of a rogue cough or sneeze, or patrons of fast-food restaurants whose food might be prepared by an 'invader.'†   (source)
  • The author of the study, Dara Kay Cohen, cites evidence from Haiti, Iraq, and Rwanda to suggest that female participation in Sierra Leone's sexual violence was not an anomaly.†   (source)
  • I cited many occasions when the ANC and the CP had differed on policy and the ANC had prevailed, but this did not seem to impress them.†   (source)
  • Framed documents commemorating milestones in his career gleamed against the walnut walls of his office: a college diploma, a map of River Valley Farm, agricultural awards, an ornate certificate bearing the signatures of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, which cited his services to the Federal Farm Credit Board.†   (source)
  • He cited the case from the seventies of a violent girl who had been a frequent focus of attention in the media, and who thirty years later was still in a secure psychiatric institution.†   (source)
  • I read aloud a thought unit that consisted of a citation from the Mishnah—the Mishnah is the written text of rabbinic oral law; in form and content it is for the most part terse and clipped, a vast collection of laws upon which are based almost all the rabbinic discussions which, together with the Mishnah, compose the Talmud.†   (source)
  • Cited for bravery in action four times.†   (source)
  • To Washington he cited the "indiscretion of a printer"; to Adams he said John Quincy was the cause of the trouble, and that he himself was innocent of ever even thinking of Adams in the first place.†   (source)
  • I cited our long relationship and underlined the many matters that united our two organizations rather than divided us.†   (source)
  • I had this time been able to retain hold of the chain of the argument—probably because there was no tension now—and so when Reb Saunders cited and explained a passage that seemed to contradict a point that had just been made by Danny, I suddenly found myself on the field of combat, offering an interpretation of the passage in support of Danny.†   (source)
  • It only added to the air of dystopian misery that hung like a gray shroud over the looming concrete towers of the cites.†   (source)
  • With Mr. Taylor, it's either a marathon metaphor or a citation from Scripture, and Cedric has heard the race routine many times before.†   (source)
  • He cited first the forensic psychiatric report by Dr. Jesper H. Löderman that had been compiled at the time of her eighteenth birthday, and second, a report which, in accordance with a decision by the district court at a preliminary hearing, had been written by Dr. Peter Teleborian.†   (source)
  • The most oft-cited story was that an American consular official with connections to the CIA had tipped off the authorities.†   (source)
  • The admissions numbers-measurable proof of specialness-are cited at intimate nighttime dorm meetings and in a grand speech by the admissions director at a class meeting on the green.†   (source)
  • Recounting Adams's career, he cited Adams's defense of the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre, his break with his old friend Jonathan Sewall, the crucial role he had played at Philadelphia in 1776 and Jefferson's line "he moved his hearers from their seats."†   (source)
  • The study of real-estate agents cited above also includes data that reveals how agents convey information through the for-sale ads they write.†   (source)
  • As they shot through the canyons of the cites in a blur, Natalie wrapped her arms around Jalal Nasser's waist and held on for her life.†   (source)
  • Not only because of the great heroes I have already cited, but because of the courage of the ordinary men and women of my country.†   (source)
  • She had intended to take the entire day off from work, but a pandemic of strep throat in the cites had compelled her to spend the morning at the clinic.†   (source)
  • But everyone here, including some former students, knew of Clarence's famously elliptical queries, his winding citations of Scripture, his penchant for answering a simple question with a more complex one.†   (source)
  • There were frequent citations in Latin, Greek, and French, extended use of Swift, Franklin, Dr. Price, Machiavelli, Guicciardini's Historia d'Italia, Mon-tesquieu, Plato, Milton, and Hume, in addition to scattered mentions of Aristotle, Thucydides, Hobbes, La Rochefoucauld, and Rousseau, as well as Joseph Priestley, whom Adams had lately come to know in London.†   (source)
  • Of the 281 wrestlers covered in the data cited above, they identified 29 crooked wrestlers and 11 who were said to be incorruptible.†   (source)
  • She was a respected member of the community, a healer who cared for the residents of the cites and spoke to them in their native language, though with a distinct Palestinian accent.†   (source)
  • "This is not just a superstition or a myth," he said, and then cited evidence from astronomers that at that time in history there was a comet that followed the path outlined in the Bible.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't only the number of police that changed in the 1990s; consider the most commonly cited crime-drop explanation of all: innovative policing strategies.†   (source)
  • But behind the avenue soared the giant gray slabs of the cites, the public housing estates that warehoused the poor and the foreign born, mainly from Africa and the former French colonies of the Maghreb.†   (source)
  • Here, ranked by frequency of mention, are the crime-drop explanations cited in articles published from 1991 to 2001 in the ten largest-circulation papers in the LexisNexis database:†   (source)
  • Coupled with the above-cited leniency in the other half of the criminal justice system, the courtrooms, this decrease in policing created a strong positive incentive for criminals.†   (source)
  • Just as the earlier-cited studies show that family structure has little impact on a child's personality, it does not seem to affect his academic abilities either, at least in the early years.†   (source)
  • The economist Isaac Ehrlich, in an oft-cited 1975 paper, put forth an estimate that is generally considered optimistic: executing 1 criminal translates into 7 fewer homicides that the criminal might have committed.†   (source)
  • Think back to the study cited at the beginning of this book, which measured the difference between the sale prices of homes that belonged to real-estate agents themselves and the houses they sold for their clients.†   (source)
  • Fryer cites the recollections of a young Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, known then as Lew Alcindor, who had just entered the fourth grade in a new school and discovered that he was a better reader than even the seventh graders: "When the kids found this out, I became a target....It was my first time away from home, my first experience in an all-black situation, and I found myself being punished for everything I'd ever been taught was right.†   (source)
  • The shanty towns and cites (with the maize plantings between houses) were bigger; there were buses, even a railway train with old-fashioned open coaches; there were factories.†   (source)
  • A race riot in the capital in the 1930s—that ought to have been a strong story: gun talk in the European cafés and clubs, hysteria and terror in the African cites.†   (source)
  • Those mounds of rubbish, though constantly flattened by rain, grew month by month into increasingly solid little hills, and the hills literally became as high as the box-like concrete houses of the cites.†   (source)
  • The cites filled up, and new ones were built, though nothing that was done could cope with the movement of people from the villages; we never lost the squatters and campers in our central streets and squares.†   (source)
  • There were the cites and the squatters' settlements (some of them I was driving into for the first time) with their hills of rubbish, their corrugated dusty lanes, and a lot of old tires lying in the dust.†   (source)
  • Even the African cites were inhabited only in corners, and in decay elsewhere, with many of the low, box-like concrete houses in pale blue or pale green abandoned, hung with quick-growing, quick-dying tropical vines, mattings of brown and green.†   (source)
  • That was how it was with us, as the town came to life again, as the steamers started to come up again from the capital, once a week, then twice a week, as people began coming back from the villages to the cites in the town, as trade grew and my business, which had stood for so long at zero, climbed (to use Nazruddin's scale of ten) back up to two, and even gave me glimpses of four.†   (source)
  • Other people who have overcome the odds cite the same sorts of interventions.†   (source)
  • Wounded Germans in the tunnels below the fort of La Cite sleep.†   (source)
  • He may cite grand causes and ideology, but it's really just his ego.†   (source)
  • I could cite one of the many laws of contexts and contrasts.†   (source)
  • But if you're going to cite regulations and clam up, I'll advise you to lose that unfortunate smirk.†   (source)
  • To prove their points, they cite the turbulent democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy.†   (source)
  • Feminist scholars like Wadud cite a barrage of reasons to argue that this is a mistranslation.†   (source)
  • Most of the books didn't even cite Freud in their bibliographies.†   (source)
  • Then he led Gabriel across the Pont Notre-Dame, to the lie de la Cite.†   (source)
  • People began coming back to the town; the cite yards filled up.†   (source)
  • Q. Miss Snell, this body is empowered to cite you for contempt if you refuse to answer on any other grounds than Constitutional ones.†   (source)
  • That's not a reason not to cite Homer, by the way, only a caution that not everyone will get the message.†   (source)
  • He refused, for example, to cite the "local organization" that was going to take over, or to explain why no one on the council had heard about the program that only they could authorize.†   (source)
  • I could cite a dozen studies suggesting that Mamaw's home offered me not just a short-term haven but also hope for a better life.†   (source)
  • But out here in Saint-Malo, the dune grass grows long and blue; German sailors still run drills in the harbor; gunners still stockpile ammunition in the tunnels beneath the fort at La Cite.†   (source)
  • The fortress at La Cite, sir.†   (source)
  • The Fort of La Cite†   (source)
  • But I was also living in a state of quiet separation from all the things he might cite as the solid stuff of home and work and responsible reality.†   (source)
  • These were some he liked to cite at fund-raisers for his yet to be built clinic: an average life expectancy of about thirty-nine years; one in five deaths caused by waterborne diseases or lack of sanitation; severe malnutrition for 54 percent of children under five; for women, a one-in-nine lifetime risk of dying during childbirth; and fewer than three hundred doctors to serve a population of about seven million.†   (source)
  • The eyes of the city are fastened to me as I shoot across the Seine and onto the Ile de la Cite, but this time, I don't care.†   (source)
  • They crossed the river at Cite.†   (source)
  • They argue instead for a legalize-and-regulate model based on empowerment of sex workers, and they cite a success: the Sonagachi Project.†   (source)
  • You cite extensively the report that your doctoral candidate Jesper Löderman put together when Lisbeth Salander was about to turn eighteen.†   (source)
  • They have been forced to act as any Churchill, Stalin, or Roosevelt: Semiramis from Nineveh, who shaped the Assyrian Empire, and Boudicca, who led one of the bloodiest English revolts against the Roman forces of occupation, to cite just two.†   (source)
  • Now, as the crime-drop experts (the former crime doomsayers) spun their theories to the media, how many times did they cite legalized abortion as a cause?†   (source)
  • Dick started to cite its preeminence in the Revolutionary War, but this quickly led to a staggering amount of new material.†   (source)
  • "I do not mean to belabor this point of language, your honor," I continued, "but I would like to cite a precedent case for the benefit of the court.†   (source)
  • We drove out of the bumpy cite lane to the levelled red main road, where the buildings were freshly painted for the President's visit—each building done in one colour (walls, window frames, doors), and each building a different colour from its neighbour.†   (source)
  • But since becoming a state trustee he had (like other trustees) picked up a number of new women, and he lived with one of them in one of the little back houses in a cite yard—bare red ground intersected with shallow black drains all down one side, scraped-up earth and rubbish pushed to the edge, mango and other trees scattered about, cassava and maize and clumps of banana between the houses.†   (source)
  • He had to sign the proposition for the citation.†   (source)
  • The committee reported proslavery resolutions, presently adopted, which praised the beneficent effects of white civilization upon African natives, cited the wretchedness of emancipated Negroes as proof of the folly of freedom, and denounced abolitionists.†   (source)
  • Should he wish to prove whether all might have been cited for every section of the monomyth, he need only turn to some of the source volumes enumerated in the bibliography and ramble through a few of the multitude of tales.†   (source)
  • Those were the days they all shared when everything looked lost and each man retained now, better than any citation or decoration, the knowledge of just how he would act when everything looked lost.†   (source)
  • As a contemporary instance he cites, rather significantly, the Dreyfus case, over which the whole world grew violently excited for no sufficient reason.†   (source)
  • Not that this old lover the Commissioner doesn't deserve citation for having no alarm and dying undisgusted, without last minute revision of lifetime habits.†   (source)
  • What kind of citation you going to get?†   (source)
  • The leading lady and many members were cited.†   (source)
  • History, and here cited without comment.†   (source)
  • Some are cited who faint at the smell of burnt hartshorn, of new bread—†   (source)
  • Many other instances might be cited in addition to these.†   (source)
  • As for France, we have just cited its figures.†   (source)
  • He cited various anecdotes about thieves who had suddenly become honest.†   (source)
  • He displayed his erudition, cited pell-mell cantharides, upas, the manchineel, vipers.†   (source)
  • I have cited my authorities in the notes, and anyone may refer to them.†   (source)
  • And he cited Mount Everest, which had thus far responded to human curiosity with an icy refusal and appeared to want to remain in that state of cold reserve.†   (source)
  • He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.†   (source)
  • How often had that string of excellences made her young heart ache in church of late years, and how strange that he should have cited them now.†   (source)
  • And, as it happened, I had preserved the name of Balbec, which Legrandin had cited to us, as that of a sea-side place in the very midst of "that funereal coast, famed for the number of its wrecks, swathed, for six months in the year, in a shroud of fog and flying foam from the waves.†   (source)
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  • He found one last success on the track, this time with the great Noor, winner of the Santa Anita Handicap and conqueror of Triple Crown winner Citation.   (source)
    citation = a horse's name
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