Meant in sentence

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Now what that really meant in terms of the Porter-Henderson framework was the collapse of certain kinds of economies of scale.

So I was raised to believe that championing women's rights meant doing everything we could to get women to the top.

That meant they were the most callous and the most aggressive of the entire prison population.

Three thousand very happy revelers, many of them teenagers, were crammed into a space meant for 1,000.

These few words meant a lot to me, and I didn't ask this question again.

By insisting that it be in the design, it meant you couldn't use much of the structural technology that had been developed for Roman arches.

May the ideals of one boy unite one nation behind one critical idea that we are one people, we are the people who were promised a government, a government that was promised to be dependent upon the people alone, the people, who, as Madison told us, meant not the rich more than the poor.

For me, becoming a city planner meant being able to truly change the city that I lived in and loved.

So that meant using one of our greatest assets: our transit system.

So by honesty, they meant a confession, and his confession would definitely not end up setting him free.

So now that their mission is accomplished, has that meant the demise of the screen fonts that I designed for coarser displays back then?

For me, going home meant returning to the work of writing because writing was my home, because I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing, which is to say that I loved writing more than I loved my own ego, which is ultimately to say that I loved writing more than I loved myself.

I assumed she meant community organizing along the lines of what President Obama did in Chicago.

She meant organizing somebody's closet.

Now I know there are people out there who will say that the election of Barack Obama meant that it was the end of racial discrimination for all eternity, right?

And that meant sometimes we got our phone disconnected, or our lights turned off, or we got evicted.

But it is also the international competition in laxity, the race to the bottom between the United States and the United Kingdom, the city of London, in particular, and the city of London won that race to the bottom, but it meant that all regulation in the West was completely degraded in this stupid competition to be who could have the weakest regulation.

And I thought she meant pity because he was so unevolved as to have done this terrible thing.

And so when it was time for me to actually finish up high school, I started thinking about what I wanted to do, and just like probably most students, had no idea what that meant or what I wanted to do.

But I really had no idea what that even meant.

But I had no idea what the context was or what that even, what it even meant to the people who heard it.

My inspiration for this work was a project meant to preserve our last chance for learning about the Holocaust from the survivors.

And for that, I started an exercise for myself which I call Sunday sketching, which meant, on a Sunday, I would take a random object I found around the house and try to see if that object could trigger an idea that had nothing to do with the original purpose of that item.

So these were not people who were isolated from our world, but nevertheless, for them, the gods and the spirits are still very much there, and when we were on the bus going back and forth to the various parts of the [ceremony], they prayed not just in a generic way but for the safety of the journey, and they meant it, and when they said to me that my mother, the bridegroom's [grandmother], was with us, they didn't mean it figuratively.

They meant, even though she was a dead person, they meant that she was still around.

What I want to convince you today is that all of us are walking around with an illusion, an illusion that history, our personal history, has just come to an end, that we have just recently become the people that we were always meant to be and will be for the rest of our lives.

It's mysterious because it's probably unfinished, he probably left it unfinished, and because it might be meant for a character in a play, but it might just be Keats' thinking about what his own writing, his handwriting, could do, and in it I hear, at least I hear, mortality, and I hear the power of older poetic techniques, and I have the feeling, you might have the feeling, of meeting even for an instant, almost becoming, someone else from long ago, someone quite memorable.

So here's the usage note: "Peruse has long meant 'to read thoroughly'...

But the thing is, the people around me, they didn't realize that I had no idea what all these abbreviated texts meant, like LOL, OMG, LMAO, until one day I was having a conversation with one of my friends via text, and I asked him to do something, and he responded back, "K."

For me, atoning meant going back into my community and working with at-risk youth who were on the same path, but also becoming at one with myself.

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