The researchers' hypothesis was that the meaning of expressions has been hard-wired by evolution whereas the meaning of gestures is learnt and, at least to some extent, is arbitrary.
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Ms. SUSAN MEDAK (Director, Berkeley Repertory Theatre): There was none of that public self-analysis, none of that public scrutiny that we now go through over every major crisis that helps us, as a culture, define the meaning of an experience, to define the meaning of a tragedy.
Moreover, even within a single group, the meaning of a gesture could vary with context, almost as tone of voice can vary the meaning of a human's spoken word.
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The quality of the images and the meaning of the final result will be a topic of discussion when the final ENHANCE results are released at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology on March 30.
Leaving aside the issue of the meaning of entrance standards in a college dedicated to providing second chances for adult students, I gave you data showing that applications had risen this year and that rejections had risen even more rapidly.
Courts are rigorously literal in passing on questions of ambiguity in the questions and the response of witnesses under oath and generally give the accused the benefit of any doubt on possible interpretations of the questions and the meaning of the allegedly perjurious response.
Once upon a time, there was a heated discussion in the world of the Gods, about the meaning of the primordial sound, AUM, often described in Hindu theology, as the first and most fundamental sound created.
So are revelations about Britain's dysfunctional royal family and popular works by cosmologists and evolutionary biologists that purport to solve the mysteries of creation and of the meaning of life.
And here I mean the older, medical meaning of the word the transformation from soft tissue into the bone upon which all is built rather than the more recent derivative meaning of becoming inflexible, rigid and formulaic.
Well, in fact this is a very purposeful, planned and clever strategy on the part of the anti-fracking industry to try and control the discussion by controlling the meaning of the primary term used in referring to the topic.
If the Court's strict constructionists are to be intellectually honest in their interpretation of the meaning of "scheme" liability in StoneRidge next week, it would prove a revolutionary milestone in the saga of investor rights.
Whilst supporting the motion, Liberal Democrat AM William Powell was concerned that there was little awareness of the meaning of the ecosystems approach.
And the fact that there's no tonal variation actually means that you miss a lot of the meaning of the things that he says.
The BBC's legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said the High Court "meaning hearing" was held in front of a judge and involved both sides arguing over the meaning of the words in the tweet.
Does that not mean to you that, when confronted right at the outset with the phrase "sexual relations" that the president adopted and determined the common usage, well-understood definition of sexual relations that everybody in America recognizes as being the true meaning of sexual relations -- meaning sex of any kind?
The key is a filter that sits in front of the projector to block vertical regions of the screen, meaning that each one of your eyes sees a slightly different picture based on the angle at which it views the screen.
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Is this album good middle of the road, meaning something for everyone, or bad middle of the road, meaning dead armadillos?
The rise of young entrepreneurs is extending the meaning of the demographic dividend.
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Only the ones who judged me bad for reasons I could never understand, neither the reasons nor the meaning of bad.
When one comes across an unfamiliar word, it is customary to consult a dictionary for illumination of the meaning of the unfamiliar term.
He asserted that only the originalist position, as opposed to the view that the meaning of the Constitution may change over time, was legitimate.
In his Printz opinion, Thomas gently elided the fact that the meaning of the Second Amendment had, at that point, long been considered a closed issue.
Edwin Heathcote, author of the Meaning of Home, says that the volume housebuilders "try to squeeze in" as many units as they can into urban sites.
We are grateful for our veterans who are here, including some very special airmen who taught the nation the true meaning of service and honor and equality.
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In the aftermath of his ovation at the Sydney Writers' Festival, where he spoke publicly for the first time about his detention at Guantanamo, the argument over the meaning of David Hicks has flared again.
The first is the meaning of rights.
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If, at the other extreme, it assumed that people seek to satisfy their preferences (or some such formula), then it would be true merely by virtue of the meaning of the words and it would not tell you anything.
Last week, Apple received a favorable outcome when the ITC issued its claim construction order, siding with Apple's interpretations of two patents -- for those who aren't familiar, claim construction is the process by which the judge determines the meaning of specific terms in the claims, and it often has great influence on findings of infringement (or non-infringement).
The Secretary of State formally determined last year and again this year that the government of China has been engaging in systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom within the meaning of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA), 22 U.S.C. 6401 et seq.
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