11.   Officials were also puzzled by the lack of religious references in the messages, which have instead taken on more of a nationalist tone.

12.   Players on this team almost never make religious references when discussing their own performance or a result on the field.

13.   Religious references are out.

14.   School officials told Niemeyer that he could not give the speech unless he toned down religious references.

15.   Some of her love ballads are saved from directness with religious references, making God the counselor.

16.   Such religious references were evident elsewhere all week, one of the more poignant early Saturday.

17.   The curriculum would feature textbooks and materials based on the philosophy of Hubbard, although it would not contain religious references, she said.

18.   The religious references took some in the audience by pleasant surprise, even though Clinton has made religion a recurring theme of his presidency.

19.   The result is fanatical sects that find religious references to justify their political or social ideals.

20.   Yet religious references seem to abound.