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How to use the word means in a Sentence? Page #8

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If you look at how those chain businesses are able to sell at these low rates, that's basically due to economies of scale, they're able to buy more products and consequently ask for a better rate from their suppliers. Now, your small mom-and-pop stores are not going to be able to enjoy that advantage, which means they are looking at their costs going much higher.

Barsali Bhattacharyya

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re proud of the recognition we receive because it means we’re doing well at what we want to do – take care of the great folks who come to visit our park year after year.

Dolly Parton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If every abortion is a murder, that means that Dr. Oz considers every woman who had to choose an abortion is a killer, think about that.

John Fetterman

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1 year ago

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently those who live under the dominion of Puritanism become exceedingly desirous of power. Now love of power does far more harm than love of drink or any of the other vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous people love of power camouflages itself as love of doing good, but this makes very little difference to its social effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

Bertrand Russell

added by Normando
1 year ago

The adoption of laws and regulations related to the national nuclear force policy is a remarkable event as it's our declaration that we legally acquired war deterrence as a means of national defense.

Kim Jong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The rioters burned tires, hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails and explosive devices at the forces, who responded with riot dispersal means.

The IDF

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1 year ago

For many people, drug and alcohol problems begin as self-medication for other mental health symptoms. Half of people with a substance use disorder have another mental illness at some point, and vice-versa, fragmented and hard-to-access mental health care means that these conditions and addiction often go untreated.

Nora Volkow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you get your own thread on Kiwi Farms it means there are enough people who are interested in engaging in a long-term harassment campaign against you, the first thing that Kiwi Farms users did when my thread opened was find the obituary for my dead father and use it to find his memorialized Facebook page.

Clara Sorrenti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are.

Ayn Rand

added by Normando
1 year ago

But none of this is going to be just turning on a switch. It requires focus, it requires intention, it requires an investment over a period of time, which means, in the short point, is that you’re not going to see the benefit of it overnight — because the problems didn’t occur overnight.

Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Vladislav Avayev job was to deal with private banking, that means dealing with VIP clients. Vladislav Avayev was in charge of very large amounts of money. So, did Vladislav Avayev kill Vladislav Avayev ? I don't think so. I think Vladislav Avayev knew something and that Vladislav Avayev posed some sort of risk.

Igor Volobuev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It means that many workers are in work and they are in a good position to ask for [ a pay ] increase. They can not be easily replaced [ at a macro level ].

Manuela Galetto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is paid for and far more by the amount of deficit reduction that we’re already on track for this year, like I said, we’re on track for $1.7 trillion in deficit reduction this year.That means, practically speaking, compared to the previous year, 1.7 trillion more dollars are coming into the Treasury than are going out.And we’re using a portion of that — a very small portion of it — to provide relief to middle-class families, consistent with the president’s plan.

Bharat Ramamurti

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Being invested in kids programming, especially live-action, means being all in, you can't just have a couple of shows and hope that suffices. It requires a multi-year plan.

Julia Alexander

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Children deserve robust advocacy, not compromises that cost their very lives. Our pre-born children are living and distinct members of the human family. They are little Americans, and they deserve equal protection under the law guaranteed to them by our Constitution. That means ending the unjust and violent killing of abortion.

Lila Rose

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That means the fears of recession are that much greater in other countries.

Andy Lipow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

( Sleep loss) radically alters how we are as social, emotional beings, which you could argue is the very essence of human interaction and what it means to live a fulfilling, meaningful human existence.

Ben Simon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This means getting rates well into restrictive territory, and quickly, should signs of more embedded inflation emerge, we think Bank Rate of 6-7 % will be required to bring inflation dynamics under control. For now though, we continue to think evidence for such effects are limited with increases in unemployment still more likely to allow the MPC to pause around the turn of the year.

Benjamin Nabarro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In not focusing on the weight, that means we can really focus on some really healthy behaviors which is much more sustainable.

Jeanette Thompson-Wessen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What the Supreme Court said is the decision should be made in the states. So as the decision is made in the state, we have the perfect opportunity for a lot of debate and discussion. Instead, it seems like people have gone to their corners and decided what this means. So I think that, you know, it remains to be seen who benefits, who, who loses.

Linda Upmeyer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Well, it looks like it's over, it means everything. It means freedom.

Salman Rushdie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is Starbucks yet again attempting to distract attention away from their unprecedented anti-union campaign, ultimately, this is Starbucks' latest attempt to manipulate the legal process for their own means and prevent workers from exercising their fundamental right to organize.

Workers United

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The department does not take such a decision lightly, where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken.

Merrick Garland

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1 year ago

Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear or favor.

Merrick Garland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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