Just to show they meant business they sent Pai one of her daughter's fingers.
Such a red line, he insisted, was vital to show Tehran that the world meant business.
Vallas showed he meant business when he threw out the custodians in defiance of the building trades union.
Perhaps Marissa Mayer of Yahoo bought into the idea that face time means productivity because it seemed like a legitimate way to show she meant business.
One easily-translatable message - "I'm lovin' it" (which was dreamt up by the firm's German advertising agency) - would unite the entire McDonald's "system" and show the world it meant business.
We see the S1082 as a different beast -- it's an evolution of an existing design that's really meant for business users.
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The trend has meant big business in Germany, and according to Lola Paltinger, a designer of couture dirndls, Bavarian costumes have slowly become fashionable again largely because designers have put a modern twist on the traditional threads.
That meant not just business people but creative types like free-thinking artists and writers, too.
Still, Mr. Ho was upbeat on what the changes meant for foreign business in China.
For Mike, I soon discovered that meant changing the business operations much like we were reinventing our newsroom.
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Tell us about the situation and what the program meant to your business.
Travelocity said the downturn in business meant they had to take action.
He said eBay's commitment to focus on its core business meant the door was open for companies like Auctiondrop to tap into other markets.
In the past, spectrum scarcity meant that the business needed regulating.
It has also meant redefining the business: from offering a vast emporium of maintenance and repair products to providing e-commerce consulting and site maintenance to manufacturers of industrial supplies.
Which is why the weakness of the UK's disproportionately large consumer economy and the eurozone - Britain's largest export market, if regarded as a homogeneous whole - has meant growth in business investment has been significantly lower since the crash of 2008 than the government hoped (or, more precisely, than its Office for Budget Responsibility forecast).
For them, the disaster has meant a windfall of business and a world of headaches.
When people talked about uncertainty, what they really meant was that if business held back from investing, it would impede the recovery in the economy.
Unlike many internet-based businesses that have a marketing strategy to capture generic search traffic, my business is meant to be the basis for a unique brand.
This is a business that is meant to bring a product or service to a very large market.
To Krensavage, this meant that Par's business was for sale almost for free.
The statement said US economic sanctions and trade restrictions meant it could not do business with people living in certain nations.
Of course most of these women were unmarried and childless, and at the time "business attire" meant long skirts and sleeves plus hats and gloves.
The programs and resources available to small business owners and entrepreneurs by the U.S. Small Business Administration are meant to be applicable to a wide array of audiences, regardless of race, ethnicity, or cultural and language differences.
Google's ability to place small, targeted text advertisements next to internet-search results, and on other websites, meant that many of the business models thought to have been killed by the dotcom bust now rose from the grave.
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In the past, business as normal has meant choosing a favourite son to deliver a state or region.
It also exposed him to the world business and what it meant build up and run a company.
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