It just means the practice of relentlessly twisting any subject into a pretzel-shaped win for your side and a loss for the other team, has lost its impact.
While few doubt an important opportunity is at hand, there is much less discussion of what consumerization means in practice.
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They will understand what walking means and, with a bit of practice, that might be enough to provide the necessary brain activity.
The exact details of what that agreement means in practice are still being hammered out (according to U.S. officials, these negotiations may take until November) but they are likely to include not only significant U.S. aid but also many thousands of American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan for years into the future as a guarantor of the country's stability.
To see what this means in practice, compare the outcome of the October 1974 election with what could happen this time.
The main appeal of using an energy beam to shoot things is that it travels at the speed of light, which means, in practice, that it will hit whatever it is aimed at.
It's the same as it ever was: mutualisation of all the eurozone's debts, which in practice means that the mighty German sovereign balance sheet would stand behind the enormous liabilities of the rest of the eurozone.
The growing practice of skipping opening statements means the committee no longer becomes a platform for a cause or coherent argument.
In practice, this means some sort of supply adjustment mechanism.
This means its advice is often out of sync with conventional medical practice.
In practice this means overcrowded classes and adjunct teachers instead of tenure-track professors.
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"The fact that unlawful exclusions are not recorded means that it can be extremely difficult to identify instances of this practice, " they said.
In practice, a combination of economics and geography means that much of its infrastructure is concentrated in a comparatively small number of places.
It also means that the volume of reductions that will actually be achieved in practice is much smaller, supposing any reduction at all will be achieved by the target date of 2008-12.
The bills "supposedly address real needs, but in practice are means by which bad actors (with lots of money and lawyers) can take sites down, " Craig Newmark, founder of the online classified-ad site Craigslist, wrote in a blog post Monday.
The reality that many Muslims around the world practice their faith without following the dictates of shariah simply means that some believe this code is separable from Islam.
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In practice, this means that UNESCO is working to protect a number of major sites and monuments.
And part of that means giving her a chance to put her carefully crafted advice into practice.
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire.
The practice known as cable bundling means you have to pay for tens of channels just to watch one: want to see Jon Stewart on Comedy Central?
According to the US constitution, tax legislation has to start in the House of Representatives - by standard practice, in the powerful Ways and Means Committee - rather than the Senate.
All of this means that, for an outsider who observes even some dubious parenting practice, it can be hard to tell whether a relationship is actually abusive, or whether you've simply caught a family on a bad day.
In practice, however, the ease of using oil for making gasoline means that oil is more valuable.
What this means in practice remains undefined, but it could signal a willingness to encourage the type of top down investment from EU level entities to finance growth through investment in infrastructure and in some cases, the renewable sector.
"Animal Practice" will be replaced by "Whitney" starting November 14, which means fans of the wacky veterinarian hospital comedy still get a three more episodes before its gone.
In practice that generally means dramatically reducing energy consumption through passive design measures and installing a small amount of on-site energy generation, often solar.
As an initial matter, we note that the record indicates it has become common practice for members of the domestic industry to import the subject merchandise from China as a means of supplementing their domestic production in the market place.
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In practice this means that biotech investing is less random, where learnings can actually be applied to evolution of the investment model over time.
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In practice, this means that all telephone, text, fax and email messages passing in and out of Sweden will be subject to monitoring without a court order or warrant once the legislation comes into effect in January 2009.
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