• For years, Outlook and Exchange were what we meant when we talked about online collaboration.

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  • This is what I meant when I talked about mortgages being sold back to Wall Street.

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  • He knew what it meant when Americans in uniform went to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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  • On the drive back to camp, I ask Christensen what he meant when he told us that sometimes you have to run.

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  • It is what is commonly meant when people talk about "squatter's rights".

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  • There has been tremendous speculation over the past week as to what Romney really meant when he made his now infamous 47% comment.

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  • And when he ran for election, is that what he meant when he said he supported Presidents abiding by the War Powers Act?

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  • What I meant when I was 26 is quite different than what I mean now when, you know, I had no idea it would.

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  • It's what Michael Howard meant when he said that "prison works".

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  • The second main sort of political comment has been interpretation: explaining what it meant when, say, Lord Mandelson returned to government or James Purnell resigned from it.

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  • Some members of Congress took to the floor to denounce him, while others asked what it meant when a lifelong hawk was ready to advocate such a policy.

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  • It is playing chicken, and we don't think that that's what congressional leaders meant when they reassured the President and they reassured the public that the debt ceiling would be raised.

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  • For instance, he said, RoboEarth could help a robot understand what is meant when it is asked to set the table and what objects are required for that task to be completed.

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  • June 5, 1995 (8k zip) -- The district attorneys office has clarified what Deputy District Attorney Chris Darden meant when he said he was ashamed to be part of the Simpson case.

    CNN: June transcripts arranged by date.

  • That is what Mr Draghi meant when he talked of the OMT programme as backstop against the "tail risks" hanging over the euro system - the extreme scenarios, like the whole thing blowing apart.

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  • In a strange twist of fate, I was able to see what the vision of John Noel and the words we had captured on film really meant when you are talking to the person on the other end of the phone.

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  • Christian theologians still argue over what Saint Paul meant when he told the people of Corinth that for men to have long hair was shameful, while for women, flowing tresses were something glorious (although they should keep them covered, perhaps to avoid tempting wayward angels).

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  • Vallas showed he meant business when he threw out the custodians in defiance of the building trades union.

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  • The insurance meant that when the loans went bad, the bank could ask the government agency to cover their losses.

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  • Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, apparently meant it when, late last year, he said he was not interested.

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  • It also meant that when the FDA finally did approve Provenge in 2010, it did so without a public meeting vetting that big clinical trial.

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  • Control of the pipelines meant that when Gazprom turned off the gas (as it did in 2009 in a dispute over trans-shipments through Ukraine), buyers had nowhere to turn for alternatives.

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  • This meant that when they did launch to customers, they already had hundreds of drivers signed up - so when you clicked to request a taxi there was a fair chance of getting one.

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  • This meant that when panic selling by some troubled institutions to raise capital drove the value of mortgage related securities to virtually zero, all institutions had to change their books to reflect this minimal market value of the securities.

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  • Our tester had winter snow tires, thankfully, given that there was plenty of snow to drive in, and that meant that when we were on dry pavement there was less traction than you'd get from a grippier summer tire.

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  • The controversy over Klaus's re-election meant that when Petr Necas, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrat party (ODS), was attempting to form a government after the 2010 parliamentary elections, several of his prospective coalition partners made their cooperation conditional on the new government making reform of the presidential election system part of its programme.

    BBC: Q&A: Czech presidential election

  • Even if a PEP slips through the system, there are systems in place which are meant to spot when something goes awry.

    BBC: Analysis

  • He said the widespread distribution of commercially-produced food meant that, when a dangerous bug broke out, a large number of people became infected very quickly.

    BBC: Man dies from 'fast food bug'

  • It meant that even when they had identified the source of attacks against their systems they were powerless to do anything short of taking military action.

    FORBES: Pace of US Cyber-Preparedness Accelerating

  • That is the way it was meant to be when the German constitution was written after the war, with the Americans having a strong hand on the pen.

    BBC: Constitutional issues could stop Merkel buckling

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