• The narrative, concocted by the screenwriter John Logan, is not meant to be taken literally.

    NEWYORKER: The Aviator

  • It meant an attacking role for captain John Terry as Chelsea switched to a three-man defence.

    BBC: Chelsea 1-1 Rosenborg

  • Dujardin, with a pencil mustache, looks a little like John Gilbert, but his cavorting star is meant to be a Fairbanks equivalent.

    NEWYORKER: The Artists

  • In Delphine's case, that meant starting her career working with John Galliano on his own brand, before moving up the ladder at Dior, which Galliano also designed.

    WSJ: The Arnault Legacy

  • It meant nothing to me, but Mr John was adamant that his years of research showed the music was having a measurable effect, making the brain more efficient, its connections faster.

    BBC: The Mozart Effect: Boost or bust?

  • The head of the Food Standards Agency, Sir John Krebs, said a loophole under existing rules meant beef was exempt from strict controls if the animal was killed on a farm or at an unlicensed abattoir for the farmer's personal consumption.

    BBC: Renewed British mad cow disease warning

  • John wasn't sure what "chapter seven" meant.

    NPR: 'Arson' by Nick Lysohir

  • John Low, chief executive of CAF, said tough economic times meant the public had less money to donate to charities.

    BBC: Charities 'fear closure' due to cuts and donation fall

  • The Times' John Markoff said the ClearType announcement was the centerpiece of Gates' speech, meant to show Microsoft as an innovator instead of a company that borrows ideas from others.

    CNN: Transfer interrupted!

  • There are millions of people whom John Lewis will never meet who are better and bigger because of what that day meant.

    CNN: Transcript: Clinton On Anniversary Of March On Washington

  • At the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton submits the latest copy of a U.S.-drafted resolution meant to punish North Korea for its reported nuclear test.

    NPR: U.S. Submits New U.N. Punishments for N. Korea

  • This didn't seem to bother his dad, in fact John thought it seemed like his dad wanted to have a "division bankruptcy" whatever that meant.

    NPR: 'Arson' by Nick Lysohir

  • John L. Mikesell, an Indiana University public finance professor, says that since the sales tax is meant to tax personal consumption, it should be imposed on services bought by consumers and not on those purchased by businesses.

    FORBES: Who says massages aren't essential?

  • Pagels then shows that Revelation, far from being meant as a hallucinatory prophecy, is actually a coded account of events that were happening at the time John was writing.

    NEWYORKER: The Big Reveal

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