Referring

One is you're referring to another member of the legislature, another one is a broader entity, although if you use the word government essentially you're referring to the entire cabinet.

He said he was referring to racist comments made by a single speaker at a Sunday Trump rally, while Trump accused Biden of referring to all those who support him.

It can be a noun referring to a meeting or a group of people or a verb referring to a discussion or decision-making activity.

It’s possible that Mike’s referring to something that’s happening with Tayshia’s season, but it’s also possible that he’s referring to something going on in the news.

Letter points out actual language in subpoenas referring to both proposed legislation, and language from House vote referring directly to Trump subpoenas.

She know that I'm not referring to her child, she knows I was referring to her.

In fact, your interpretation is even weirder because there are two uses of "they" in that quote and you interpret one as referring to the speaker and one as referring to the other side.

It was not clear which countries Trump was referring to, though he was most likely referring to member states of the NATO alliance, a favorite target of the president.

For example, "seven chairs" and "some furniture" could refer to exactly the same objects, with "seven chairs" referring to them as a collection of individual objects but with "some furniture" referring to them as a single undifferentiated unit.

However, Czesław Lejewski criticizes this belief for reducing the matter to empirical discovery when it seems we should have a formal distinction between referring and non-referring terms or elements of our domain.

In referring to "men in severalty", Bell is referring to corporate kin groups such as lineages which, in having paid brideprice, retain a right in a woman's offspring even if her husband (a lineage member) deceases ( Levirate marriage ).

It is also probably significant that the placenames referring to this god are often found close to placenames referring to another deity: Njörðr in Sweden and Freyr in Norway.

One common explanation contrasts "movement in stillness" referring to energetic visualization of qi circulation in qigong and zuochan "seated meditation", versus "stillness in movement" referring to a state of meditative calm in taijiquan forms.

Since becoming a loanword in English, Taliban, besides a plural noun referring to the group, has also been used as a singular noun referring to an individual.

The OED records the first usage of gung-ho in 1942 (referring to Evans Carlson 's Marines) and of kung-fu in 1966 (referring to Bruce Lee 's movies).

This upgrade program produced missiles known as the GEM/T and the GEM/C, the "T" designator referring to "TBM", and the "C" designator referring to cruise missiles.

To further avoid ambiguity, the convention is to capitalize the word Moon when referring to Earth's natural satellite, but not when referring to other natural satellites.

Weighted reference counting In weighted reference counting, we assign each reference a weight, and each object tracks not the number of references referring to it, but the total weight of the references referring to it.

With the emergence of digital filmmaking a distinction between special effects and visual effects has grown, with the latter referring to digital post-production while "special effects" referring to mechanical and optical effects.

Abrams was referring to the news that President likely avoid jail time under the deal’s terms wherein Hunter will plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges, and admit to the facts of a felony gun charge against him.