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2718 examples of Meant in a sentence

First, free movement has meant that good players from small leagues improve much more than they would had they stayed home.
The gullible Sancho Panza was meant to adopt the revolution’s deceptive dogma as entitlement to wage a brutal war against all.
Freer lending meant that people were freer to bid up prices of homes to ridiculous levels.
Usually, such a vision provides a scenario for the future that is meant to encourage change, though it may also portray the status quo – or the past – as attractive, thereby encouraging resistance to change.
On anti-trust issues, the size and attractiveness of the European market has meant that American firms seeking to merge have had to gain approval from the European Commission as well as the US Justice Department.
To be sure, this risk was more acute when a larger number of emerging-economy currencies were pegged to the US dollar, which meant that a significant shift in the dollar’s value would weaken other countries’ balance-of-payments position and erode their international reserves, thereby undermining their creditworthiness.
Don’t get me wrong: None of this is meant to suggest that the US can deal effectively with the world’s problems on its own.
The difficulty of repossession (where did the borrower park the car?) and sale (the used-car market is still in its infancy) meant that most of these bad loans had to be written off.
Investment, particularly in energy, flowed in, as Westen companies hoped that oil and gas deposits in neighboring Azerbaijan meant that there must be some in Georgia, too.
This trend exposes candidate countries' real economies to precisely the risk of a capital flow reversal and currency crisis that early Euro adoption was meant to eliminate.
Corruption, in the widest sense of the word, is the glue that holds the “system” together, that ensures that moneyed and powerful interests are free from rules that are meant to hold them in check.
The CIA’s Silicon Valley venture-capital operation, In-Q-Tel is meant to ensure that the interests of America’s national security apparatus are implanted in technology startups.
And that has meant less interest in an honest resolution of the crisis than in avoiding the appearance of being lenient toward Greece.
Its position as an assembly platform for the world’s products meant that it imported most of the highest value-added elements of those goods.
This meant that some 30 million Chinese starved to death in 1958-1961, in a famine very similar to that in the Soviet Union.
Moreover, NATO enlargement has meant that Europe itself has still not emerged from the Cold War.
Loss of control of the Senate also meant that Klaus’s hope to replace Havel as president diminished.
What was meant to be a moment of celebration has turned into one of criticism.
The controls are meant to be temporary, and the vast majority of other borders remain open.
But, as humane as this policy is meant to be, it is largely responsible for the mass unemployment from which Europe suffers.
But what is meant by unacceptable varies greatly from country to country.
He meant the authors of truly seminal ideas, like his own notion that from time to time capitalism must be saved by state intervention to manage aggregate demand.
Purpose, in his view, meant putting the greater good ahead of one’s own interests.
For someone like Hillary Clinton, assuming her conversion was real, it could have meant announcing she would no longer take a dime from Wall Street or would not sign another trade agreement if elected.
Slow GDP growth has meant slow employment growth.
The deal was meant to reintegrate Iran into the international order, thereby encouraging it to play a more responsible regional role.
He was right that business as usual meant certain death for Nokia; he was wrong to choose Microsoft as the company’s life raft.
Sanders has stuck to his populist economic message with great discipline, and this has inevitably meant that many other issues get little, if any, attention.
In a 2013 survey by the Pew Research Center, 73% of American Jews said that “remembering the Holocaust” was essential to what being Jewish meant to them, compared with 43% for whom “caring about Israel” was essential.
Moreover, it meant that Nigeria was allocated more international aid than it merited – aid that could have gone to needier countries.
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