Besides, Europe is about deal-making, about fudge and smudge, about warm exhortations meaning nothing precise.

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"We did not pay to play, " he says, meaning the contributions had nothing to do with Carret's New Mexico contract.

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But, in seven of the securities the trader wanted to cancel, an original message to trade the security was never sent, meaning in those cases there was nothing to cancel.

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Germany has no such restrictions, meaning German taxpayers are subsidizing Hollywood movies and getting nothing in return.

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Luke Moore levelled for the visitors before two goals apiece from former Derby strikers Marcus Tudgay and Robert Earnshaw put the game to bed, meaning Kris Commons' deflected free-kick was nothing more than a consolation.

BBC: Nigel Clough lashes out at Dean Leacock and Paul Green

What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message or meaning.

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Pleas for forgiveness, compromise and comfort surface in "Please" and "Anita, " among others, while the lush epic "With Nothing Much to Show of It" finds Barzelay looking for greater meaning, only to settle calmly for what's at hand.

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Not in the well-meaning ways that book's authors intended, of course, but Mr. Blagojevich is nothing if not entrepreneurial.

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