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The President made only a glancing reference to any heartfelt contrition this afternoon.

Health insurance got merely a glancing reference.

Most interesting of all was a glancing reference to the strange jewelry vaguely associated with Innsmouth.

As routine as this exhortation seemed to be, it was a glancing reference to problems that Catholic priests say they are experiencing.

In 1998, he made a glancing reference to Mr. Kornheiser in his City Paper column.

Nowadays, incidentally, is sometime in the future, as a glancing reference to "the Wall Street Dive of Two Thousand and Five" suggests.

In front of an almost entirely Democratic crowd Saturday, Mrs. Clinton made a glancing reference to the current turmoil in the Middle East.

Mr. Pataki made a glancing reference to Medicaid, which pays for health care for the poor, saying he would continue to try to reduce the cost of the program.

The country's new leader, Petar T. Mladenov, made a glancing reference this week to this "complicated" problem as he outlined Communist promises of democratic change.

There is a glancing reference to the fable in the title of Alyse Gregory's feminist novel King Log and Lady Lea (1929).

Mr. Bush also made a glancing reference to the Enron Corporation bankruptcy case, saying that "to restore trust in our economy, corporate leaders must be held to the highest ethical standards."

In his interview with General Taguba, Colonel Jordan made a glancing reference to work as an intelligence analyst at the Department of Homeland Security, but he did not elaborate.

How long, ladies and gentlemen, will world statesmen omit even a glancing reference to Africa as they survey the world scene, despite the numerous resources that she has provided to today's modern role.

Althusser does not attempt such an argument but his sole example - a glancing reference to Foucault's studies of asylums and clinics - suggests that he might have some sympathy with it.

In a glancing reference to his popular-vote victory, Mr. Gore reached back in history to "many examples of contests as hotly debated, as fiercely fought, with their own challenges to the popular will."

She raised a few eyebrows when she added that they had been "thinking about everything that has happened since 1992," but Mr. Clinton raised more when he made a glancing reference to his impeachment.

In his remarks to reporters during a 50-minute telephone conversation, Mr. Walsh's voice was hoarse and cracked briefly at a glancing reference to his children as he read a statement about "this unwelcome diagnosis."

Gov. James E. McGreevey returned to the public stage on Wednesday, delivering prepared remarks at a bill-signing ceremony here, but made only a glancing reference to his impending departure from office.

And the movie does not give even a glancing reference to the scores of Hawaiian civilians killed in the attack, most of them by friendly fire as antiaircraft rounds missed their targets and landed in Honolulu.

They argued for line-drawing and military confrontation--a point John McCain made it clear he understood in a glancing reference to Acheson and Korea in his own answer to a foreign policy quesiton.

Cameron now expected a glancing reference to Exodus 32 and a figuring of Aaron the idolator as the rebel and troublemaker who seduced the honest Israelites with the golden calf of dangerous principles.

Lichfield's pamphlet is interesting to literary historians because it gives some biographical details on Nashe which would otherwise not be known, and makes a glancing reference to the rising Cambridge satirist, Joseph Hall.

Why, one wonders, is there no contribution from Mr. Carver, perhaps the most quintessentially Hopperesque writer to come along in recent years, and instead only a glancing reference to him in a poem by his wife, Tess Gallagher?

After a glancing reference to Spratt's last case, "The Crown v. Three Pigs," in which the murder victim, Mr. Wolff, "went to his casket unavenged and parboiled," Mr. Fforde is ready to go anywhere.

But despite the problems with the accusation, it became part of the background noise of the impeachment process in Congress, pushed by conservative House Republicans even after Mr. Starr made only a glancing reference to it in a supplement to his report.

President Bush made only a glancing mention of Vietnam's human rights record.

Einhard, a scholar at Charlemagne†s court and one of the king†s most important early biographers, provides only a glancing mention of Pepin.

Deep in Lucas's paper, there is a glancing mention of the role that human capital - the term economists use for the skills and knowledge that people possess - might play with respect to cities.

President Bush met his visitor for a half hour in the Oval Office, then made a statement with an oblique reference to the war and only a glancing mention of Vietnam's human rights and democratization record.

However, one of my disappointments about the resolution which finally emerged is that we only make a glancing mention of the word 'family' in paragraph 1, when we refer to the courage of those families that have been victims of child abuse in Belgium.