Simon Blake, chief executive of Brook, the sexual health charity for young people, agrees it could provide a context for having "meaningful conversations".

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"Our objective all along has been to re-launch meaningful final status negotiations in a context that offers the prospect of success, " Mr Mitchell said.

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Stories put facts into a meaningful, and therefore memorable, context.

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Developing countries among us will promptly undertake actions whose projected effects on emissions represent a meaningful deviation from business as usual in the midterm, in the context of sustainable development, supported by financing, technology, and capacity-building.

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In a competitive context, a range of studies suggests that these effects are meaningful only beyond certain distances.

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