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We were really excited because it meant that this strategy helped make the exercise look easier, but the big question was, could this help make exercise actually better?
We were so excited by this, because this meant that a strategy that costs nothing, that is easy for people to use, regardless of whether they're in shape or struggling to get there, had a big effect.
Foster care is meant to be an immediate shelter of protection for kids who are at high risk.
Before we were meant to travel, my mom came home one day, and said, "We're going on a little holiday, a little trip."
But that meant that two years before the building was complete, it was already a part of the community, so that when the renderings looked exactly like the finished product, there were no surprises.
And I knew exactly what that meant.
And from that moment on there was nonstop chatter, How they loved "X Factor," how they had two factors, How that did not matter, distinctiveness made them better, By the end of the night they knew they were meant together.
And each performer got three minutes to perform and then random audience members would hold up scorecards, and they would end up with a numerical score, and what this meant is, it kind of broke down the barrier between performer and audience and encouraged the kind of connection with the listener.
The people who supported it were the Air Force, which meant that it was all secret.
He probably meant well.
My answer was very simple: If I had quit, that would have meant my kidnapper had won.
That meant that in 1998, the oldest among the group were only 14, and the youngest, just four.
That meant we could access all the information we wanted, when we wanted it, anytime, anywhere.
What that meant for me personally was that overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one, worldwide.
Kenya's poor are five times more likely to be shot dead by the police who are meant to protect them than by criminals.
That meant that people were taught to be smart cowards, stay out of trouble.
What that meant: that if you stayed out of trouble you're going to stay alive.
After quitting my job, I decided to organize my friends to speak about the violence in the country, to speak about the state of the nation, and June 1, 2009 was the day that we were meant to go to the stadium and try and get the president's attention.
There's nothing as powerful as that, knowing that I'm meant to do this, because you don't get scared, you just continue living your life.
In the interview, she talks with her daughter Lesley about joining a gang as a young man, and later in life transitioning into the woman she was always meant to be.
And then it occurred to me, of course, that none of my child sponsorships, none of the microloans, none of the traditional anti-poverty programs were going to stop Brutus, because they weren't meant to.
Because we have parents who raised us to understand that our bodies weren't meant for the backside of a bullet, but for flying kites and jumping rope, and laughing until our stomachs burst.
Now, the common law is the kind of law that English-speaking judges can make when they're not cabined in by statutes or constitutions, and a writ of habeus corpus is called the Great Writ, capital G, capital W, and it's meant to protect any of us who are detained against our will.
Which meant not about building programs to catch those who were on the fences of violence, but to reach out and to embrace those who were committing the acts of violence, the gang bangers, the drug dealers.
It's a very, as I explained at the beginning, very indulgent, very personal, how and why I made these pictures, and I leave it to you as the audience to interpret what these lessons have meant to me, what they could perhaps mean to you.
Twain meant it as a joke, of course, but he's right: There's something fascinating about science.
So Puck meant not only are we fools in the pejorative sense, but that we're easily fooled.
I pulled my hand back, and I had long, black sea urchin spines all the way through my gloves, which meant all the way through my hand.
That meant, at this time in the war, that the women who would be recruited to serve alongside Army Rangers and Navy SEALs, would be seeing the kind of combat experienced by less than five percent of the entire United States military.
And it really meant something to the child.
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