• Anyway, what is the meaning of an overall figure that makes no distinction between a dope-smoking student, a recidivist rapist and a financial trickster (white-collar crimes increased by almost 4%)?

    ECONOMIST: Crime in France

  • The personal questionnaires ask simple questions like what are you doing right now, who are you with, what is the meaning of this experience to you, and does it make you happy.

    FORBES: New Project Wants to Know What Gets You Happy and Make it Happen

  • What is the meaning of my life now?

    CNN: 2 would-be passengers feel relief, sadness: 'It could have been me'

  • Question: What is the meaning of life?

    NPR: How Siri, Google Now Respond To 5 Questions

  • "The basic idea of a hyperinstrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is, " Machover says.

    NPR: A Composer At The Edge Of Sound

  • What is the deeper meaning of this incident?

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A blow to anti-drug policy

  • And it is not too legalistic to point out that a president of the United States should not be convicted of perjury and removed from office over an argument -- a dispute about what is and what is not the commonly accepted meaning of words in his testimony.

    CNN

  • And so he says that whether Mr. Bennett's statement is false depends upon what the meaning of "is" is.

    CNN

  • What do you think is the meaning and role of Environmental Ethics in the 21st century and what can COMEST do to promote it?

    UNESCO: THEMES

  • But he says that the original meaning of the constitution is not what its authors expected the language they used in the document to do solely during their lifetime, but what they meant it to say.

    ECONOMIST: The politics of justice

  • This is the meaning of what is happening in Syria.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • It depends upon what the meaning of "is" is.

    CNN

  • As Plato said, it depends on what the meaning of the word is is.

    WSJ: Millions Will Say They Slept With Me

  • What if the true meaning of Rome is not justice but injustice, not civilization but institutionalized barbarism?

    NEWYORKER: The Empire Strikes Back

  • What the Gen Yers don't see, she says, is the meaning and value of gestures and other non-verbal skills that don't come through in a text message.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • While the exact meaning of that statement is unclear, an indication of what the general - and his boss, the Commander-in-Chief - have in mind might have been the subject of a report in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel Betrayed

  • The painful truth is that however we rationalize this sort of behavior, our Shariah-adherent enemies correctly perceive it as evidence of submission, which is the literal meaning of the word "Islam, " and what Shariah demands of everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The real reason they hate us

  • What may pass for meaning in the spot paintings is the sum of their associations in the history of abstraction.

    NEWYORKER: Spot On

  • People often use language without thinking about the literal meaning of what they are saying and without considering what the person on the receiving end is thinking.

    BBC: Is it acceptable to call someone 'babe'?

  • One can overstate the meaning of this but what seems notable to me is that, in contrast to the stagnation-era Soviet Union, the 2012 Russian Federation has health trends that, while still pretty bad, are mostly getting better: mortality is high but decreasing, the prevalence of many important diseases is high but decreasing, fertility is somewhat low but increasing, and population decline is decelerating rather than accelerating.

    FORBES: Connect

  • If I could have thought through the meaning of the moment in so many words, this is probably what I would have been thinking.

    NPR: Roth Rewrites History with a 'Plot Against America'

  • Even Bill Bratton himself said in 1998 that "zero tolerance is neither a phrase that I use nor one that captures the meaning of what happened in New York City".

    BBC: Could we tolerate zero tolerance?

  • Today there is still genuine disagreement among well-meaning people about what steps we should take to reduce the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • The average state score on the Voter Involvement Index was 24, meaning that on average only one in four voters is on top of what's going on in the election.

    CNN: latimes.com: Stereotype of tuned-out state takes a hit

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