But said with true meaning, real meaning would be a major step forward for us.
Is this album good middle of the road, meaning something for everyone, or bad middle of the road, meaning dead armadillos?
It may be forgotten that it arises from mutual agreements and understandings over centuries and that it only has meaning if people accept its meaning.
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But he says the slightly unusual thing about literally is its meaning has not evolved slowly, with a slight shift, but the precise meaning has been reversed.
Even if you share genetic information that has no or limited meaning today, that information could have greater meaning in the future as new discoveries are made.
If we take away so much of its meaning, then we must add something else -- other layers of meaning that deliver a deeper and more complex message.
Many television plays these days, even soaps, tend to leave the viewer a bit puzzled, indeed uneasy, about what the meaning was, if indeed there was a meaning.
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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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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Was I (without meaning to) going to annoy well-meaning executives who spend much of their careers mentoring, influencing and driving change in organizations without labeling their work as CSR?
The problem is, once you consider due process, you have to give it some meaning--and the meaning you choose will cast a long shadow over what the term means everywhere else.
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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.
Savage grew up in Worcester, about 45 minutes from Boston, and the meaning of the marathon, the Red Sox game and all the other celebrations associated with Patriots' Day have special meaning to him.
"But from the early 19th century it gained another meaning - to give emphasis - for example instead of literally hundreds of people meaning hundreds of people, it could have referred to 80 or 90, " he says.
Specifically, 51 percent of parents did not understand that a child in the 10th percentile for height (meaning they are shorter than most of their peers) and 90th percentile for weight (meaning they weigh more than most of their peers) was overweight.
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.
Meaning he can't move anything except for one of his eyeballs and both of his eyelids.
St Ali imports and roasts their own beans, meaning you will almost always find something interesting there.
Either some meaning has been lost in translation or the owners are trying to out-baffle English-speaking tourists.
The plans often make available "preferred provider" networks, meaning doctors willing to offer discounted rates to participants.
Almost nine out of 10 said they had found a deeper sense of meaning or purpose in life.
What you contribute to an HSA reduces your taxable salary, meaning thousands in tax savings for high-income folks.
And then the issue will be put before the United Nations Security Council for possible action, meaning sanctions.
That however can hardly be a source of surprise when we increasingly ignore the true meaning of Christmas.
To have accepted that offer would have been to forgo hatred as consolation and meaning.
Brits was shown a yellow card, meaning he had to leave the pitch for 10 minutes.
But the difference - it has assumed a pejorative meaning, just like the proverbial...
At heart, he's lost and searching for meaning in his well-appointed but empty life.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) was not notified, meaning administration was not legally binding.
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Brubeck's words about jazz and democracy take on even more meaning with the recent presidential election.
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