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The doctor desperately wanted the glory of saving the king— even if it meant deceiving his Godfather.
When people were looking at 10 percent of their neighborhoods dying in the space of seven days, there was a widespread consensus that this couldn't go on, that people weren't meant to live in cities of 2.5 million people.
The world that meant a lot to me, I saw it vanish in my face.
And again, technology meant that I could do the fastest abseil over 100 meters, and stop within a couple of feet of the ground without melting the rope with the friction, because of the alloys I used in the descender device.
Meant to be a way to incentivize invention, meant to be a way to orchestrate the dissemination of knowledge, they are increasingly being used by large companies to create thickets of patents to prevent innovation taking place.
Or to say, as Alan Greenspan did, "I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
This event meant a great deal to me personally.
To us, this meant reimagining the car around the needs of the consumer, simplifying nonessential features like interior fixtures and investing in performance-critical systems like suspension to create durable and affordable vehicles built for purpose.
Which meant that packets of data from subscribers going to YouTube stopped at the ISP, since they thought they were already there, and the ISP threw them away unopened because the point was to block it.
Pump water meant irrigation, a defense against hunger, which we were experiencing by that time.
So, at best, the image is meant to float away into abstraction and multiple truths and fantasy.
We believe that child needs a dad," but with no discussion at all about what that actually meant.
Growing up in North Philadelphia, I was surrounded by people in my family and friends who made photographs and used the family camera as a way of telling a story about life, about life of joy, about what it meant to become a family in North Philadelphia.
It's what those light and dark surrounds meant for your behavior in the past.
We have a huge vested interest in it, partly because it's education that's meant to take us into this future that we can't grasp.
And yet, we're meant to be educating them for it.
This habit of suppressing sound has meant that our relationship with sound has become largely unconscious.
And you can't isolate just the difficult feelings, so I lost access to the joy, the pleasure, the play, and I spent decades like that, with this his low-grade depression, thinking that this is what it meant to be a grown-up.
Even if you believe the number, just like the 73 million to one, that's not what it meant.
My predecessor meant that.
That meant he was instantly killed at the time of the Chinese invasion.
But I got sort of curious of what he meant with liberty, and liberty for whom.
And that meant that foreigners, as it said in the treaty, were allowed to trade freely in China.
It meant paying with opium for Chinese goods.
First of all, you know, for a long time computer games meant things like "Doom," where you're going around shooting things, very violent games, very fast, aimed at teenage boys.
The characters are meant to embody the 99 attributes of Allah: justice, wisdom, mercy, among others.
She is meant to have the power to look inside people and see the good and bad in everyone.
And typically that has meant retiring to the easy chair, or going down to Arizona to play golf.
That meant that they were able to perform, as long as they had labor they were able to go between proscenium, thrust, flat floor, arena, traverse, you name it.
And she knew that meant she would be cut.
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