A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
Chester W. Nimitz

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
Buddy Holly

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
William Weld

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.
Jean M. Auel

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.
Joan Blades

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
Abbie Hoffman

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.
Gloria Steinem

I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.
David Kay

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.
Sarah McLachlan

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.
Russell Means

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
Emily Greene Balch

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
Frank Robinson

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
Mac Thornberry

Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only.
Howard Coble

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
Jessica Savitch

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.
John Astin

Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.
Julius Streicher

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
Albert Claude

Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.
Miranda Richardson

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
Andy Rooney