The name "Hyflux" comes from a technical term meaning the higher the "flux" of the membrane, the better its cleaning ability.
First he argued laches, the legal term meaning Lemelson had waited too long to press claims over his bar-code reader supposedly invented in the early 1950s.
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It has also promised "Maxwellisation" - a Whitehall term meaning people who are named in the report have the opportunity to object and request edits and amendments before publication.
Often the response to chuggers (a term meaning Charity Muggers, used to describe collectors who operate on the street, signing up shoppers for direct debit to a charity) varies between abuse and being ignored.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs argue the term has no meaning and hardly describes a movie that also features scripted moments such as a scene where Cohen tries to catch Pamela Anderson in a sack with the goal of making her his wife.
Wohlner, like many advisors, recommends buying insurance as insurance--meaning a term policy--rather than as an investment.
Short-term capital gains (meaning gains on assets held for less than a year) are taxed at ordinary income tax rates of up to 35%.
Net long-term capital losses from any rate category are first applied against the highest tax rate long-term capital gains (meaning, for example, gains from collectibles taxed at 28%).
Since this term is totally without meaning, she can then claim that the latest forest fire, the latest hurricane, the latest drought, flood, snow, cold snap, heat wave, or tornado were cause by man, and that scientist X said so.
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The meaning of that term is broad enough to create insecurity in even the best-dressed cyclists.
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The technique could be used to prevent fraud as well as provide a new meaning to the term 'paper trail'.
One bank branch has all of its counters coated in anti-bacterial chemicals (a new meaning for the term money laundering?).
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Bryant Park Project producer Ian Chillag explores an over- and misused term with a very precise meaning and few good examples.
The name stood for Lulz Security - in which "Lulz" is derived from the popular internet term "lol", meaning "laugh out loud".
Nearly half a century later, inventor, soccer nut, and barbecue fanatic Blake Carson has given the term a much more literal meaning.
The truth is that the plan gives new meaning to the term collateral damage, because shareholders of all incomes will share the pain.
And the search for the Holy Grail still stands up over time, even after The DaVinci Code changed the meaning of that term.
From his efforts was born the term studio glass meaning glass art rather than utilitarian objects a child of the 1960s that became a huge commercial success by the 1980s.
This ratio registers in the 92nd percentile of its annual range, meaning near-term options players have been more pessimistically aligned toward the security just 8% of the time during the last 52 weeks.
The company seems to be getting basics right by improving customer service and going forward, its pay-TV business success will depend upon how it enhances the user experience and gives the term TV Everywhere its true meaning.
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Even experienced traders who would agree that factors such as the size and type of the transaction, the market for the security, and the speed and certainty of execution, are all relevant, would disagree as to the exact meaning of the term.
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My second point is this: The mere fact that the lawyers in Jones felt the need to use a definition for "sexual relations" is, by itself standing alone, evidence to support the notion that at least they recognized that the precise meaning of the term can and does differ from person to person.
Critics of long-term-care insurance argue that many who need long-term care use it for less than 90 days, and that most policies have a 90-day deductible, meaning most owners of long-term care insurance will receive no benefits.
Literally meaning ignorance, the term was originally used to describe the benighted condition of Arabia prior to the advent of Islam.
When one comes across an unfamiliar word, it is customary to consult a dictionary for illumination of the meaning of the unfamiliar term.
That damages the long-term potential of the economy, meaning the government can rely even less on an eventual recovery to fix the hole in its finances.
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The OBR is now a bit gloomier about the longer-term capacity of the economy, meaning they think our potential output will be about 1.3% of GDP smaller than previously thought by 2017.
Well, in fact this is a very purposeful, planned and clever strategy on the part of the anti-fracking industry to try and control the discussion by controlling the meaning of the primary term used in referring to the topic.
Seasoning in the minor leagues is required first, meaning that a longer-term evaluation of a player's potential is needed.
Even if children are irksome now, they lend meaning to life in the long term.
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