It is disliked by many but it is the commission's task to be mean to a lot of people, be it member states (infringement procedures), undertakings (competition procedures) or the Council itself (withholding undesirable legislative initiatives).
To be single must mean to be lonely but far lonelier are those who fear being alone.
"You have to look at each patent on a case-by-case basis, and the fact that one case has been ruled to be too 'obvious' to enforce should not be generalised to mean all of Kodak's other patents are invalid, " said Ilya Kazi from the UK's Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys.
Local pastors say inducement could be taken to mean anything, including giving alms to the poor.
Children as young as 2 said that, in that case, it would be OK to drop your clothes, but not to be mean.
"I still think I could go to Beijing (for the 2008 Paralympics) and win, but for me to be there winning would mean I would have to be away from home for five or six months this year and next year, " she said.
Worldwatch seems to be using this to mean that this is the limit of all of the copper atoms available to us.
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To be honest, slow-motion recording at such a low price is going to mean you'll only be able to get pictures at dreadful resolutions.
Vitamin C and Vitamin E, were demonstrated in the overwhelming majority of papers to be able to increase mean life span by up to 30% or more and Coenzyme Q-10 doubled mean life expectancy in one paper, as mentioned above This writer has been taking megadoses of antioxidants ever since he has been 14 years old and today looks over 20 years younger than his 68 years.
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What future is in store for those who will be 20 years old in 2062 and what will it mean to be young in the future?
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The honoree's seeming indifference shouldn't be taken to mean he thinks the prize jury was wrong.
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But teachers say a high level of applications should not be taken to mean that the scheme is "popular".
In fact, TD Securities said, one potential catalyst for covering would be if remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should be construed to mean policy-makers were staying the course of quantitative easing.
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While there's a limited area as to where he may be, that doesn't necessarily mean his body will be easy to spot.
Gradual reversion to the mean seems to be carrying the day: in wealth, jobs and housing as well as share prices.
In OneNote, at least, the pen seems to be aware of what you mean to erase: after drawing an Engadget logo in blue ink, we started to erase it and after a few swipes, the whole thing disappeared from the screen.
Mr. PHILLIPS: Well, I - you know, to his credit, I mean, he - and I don't mean to be so disparaging of him as governor.
The point is that just because biometrics can be used to make systems extremely secure does not mean that the technology always has to be deployed in that way.
But while there has to be something "epic" about the scene, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be visually spectacular.
"I think that would be misleading to the public as all medicines are tested on animals - that does not mean they have to be tested on animals, " he said.
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Difficult though it is to be guided by reversion to the mean, there is something that sticks in the craw about devoting so much of a portfolio to the best-performing asset in recent history.
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Meagre wage increases (for those lucky enough to be in work) mean shoppers have little extra to spend.
We've been trying for weeks to get a straight answer from Mr. Enzi's office to this question: Since Web merchants would supposedly have to deal with one bureaucracy per state, does this mean they would be free to ignore letters from other bureaucracies?
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As we saw with Palm, which had ample cash on hand at the launch of its Palm Pre product, just because you bring a new product to market does not mean its going to be adopted.
Where bills are higher, such as in the South West, they appear to be less keen - although the small sample sizes in these areas mean that the data needs to be treated with caution.
Even if prejudice continues to persist in our society, the American creed of fairness was now supposed to mean that we ought to be judged not by our religion, gender, color, or country of origin but simply by the content of our individual characters.
So, Micheline, what does it mean to be fired or laid off under the UAW contract?
What does that mean to be part of an advisory team working with the Iraqi Police?
When it comes to social media, what does it mean to be active, anyway?
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