While so many people have second-class votes that do not count towards any result, millions are deprived of the means to make their voice heard. |
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In non-propeller-head speak, it means that instead of continually re-using IP addresses, they are simply used up until there are none left. |
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The double receiver means viewers can watch one digital channel while recording another. |
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These contrivances that I declare unto thee are legitimate means of kingcraft. They are not reckoned as methods fraught with deceit. |
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Five games on each day of the carnival means that there is non-stop action throughout the weekend. |
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This means I can finally get to use black beans and kidney beans in the recipes of choice. |
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The goal of this expedition was to navigate to the North Magnetic Pole by traditional means using a sextant and an astrocompass. |
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This means that they allow the analyst to code text while working at the computer and to retrieve the coded text. |
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Legalisation means that activities are made legal and are no longer regulated in any way. |
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It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. |
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However, wiping a computer's primary hard disk means it will no longer start as normal. |
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It means he can defend his own defence, with Nerlinger providing the buttress to protect the centre-backs. |
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That means a 35-year-old woman who quits her job to raise kids can't touch the money for 25 years. |
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That's merely a convention I decided upon as a means of differentiating humans from other races. |
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This means no tax is due on any income after the date of departure and a refund may be applied for. |
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All the research means very little when a large proportion of the population have decided that they like to smoke a bit of weed. |
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This means you can dynamically edit any shapes you draw and go to print at any time without rasterizing them. |
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So to neglect the problem means that we are vulnerable to asteroid collisions. |
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In much of England it is normal for families on average incomes to pay for private schooling, even if it means no money for anything else at all. |
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The second means whereby the position of these children was to be enhanced lay in improving the position of the father. |
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Marketers are deluding themselves if they think that adware is an effective means of reaching their target audience. |
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The French and Dutch left see today's EU project as a means used by their governments to privatise and delocalise the economy. |
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She still has powerful words of wisdom about the need to find peaceful means to resolve conflict. |
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He is not a big spinner of the ball anyway and this means he is totally reliant on the rough for any deviation. |
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Point out that this means they won't have to come up with the entire total cost at one time. |
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Book III examines methods of transporting objects by such means as sledges, the use of cranes, and looks at wine presses. |
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This means the two streams are often taught different subjects in the same room at the same time. |
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That propensity to be overwhelmed by external stimuli also means she is unable to drive. |
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The slides were sealed with a cover glass by means of a xylene-free mountant. |
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The equipment she uses means Nashashibi only has 28 seconds for each shot, filming mainly on 16 mm film on a wind-up Bolex camera. |
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Helsinki's habit of keeping a low profile means that its attractions have also stayed out of the limelight. |
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The people who taught me the most about what it means to be American are African Americans. |
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This basically means she squeezes your spots, whiteheads and blackheads alike. |
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When I think of the devil, I don't picture an evil force out to destroy us all by any means necessary. |
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A two-star rating means the hospital has performed well overall but has not achieved consistently high standards. |
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It also means that many cannot work long hours or travel long distances to find a job. |
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This means it is very bad for people with respiratory problems such as bronchitis and asthma. |
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The good aerodynamic design of the A6 and its smooth shape means a noticeable absence of wind noise. |
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This means nothing to me, because I'd not lift my eyes to find out what it was called. |
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The notice at the foot of the Grouse Mountain chair lift, warning that there are no easy routes from the top, means what it says. |
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Taking them off means feeling the floor, the temperature and slipperiness of the surface, the rhythm of jointing in the boards. |
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Now I'm happy to see a development occur whereby it means something more spiritual. |
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Dividend pay-outs and share buy-backs are by no means antithetical to business investment. |
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Lilah is not acquainted with her, which also means the readers have yet to meet her. |
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And this means that you have to live in a society where an 80-year-old grandmother can score heroin quicker than a tab of aspirin. |
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Keeping up with the Joneses here means having the biggest, juiciest tomatoes in your garden. |
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The end, which is to bring up well-behaved, considerate and law-abiding citizens, justifies the means a thousand-fold. |
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It's the thought that counts on Mother's Day, when a box of chocolates and a card means so much to most mums. |
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The association meets on Saturdays but the new funding means it could open on Sundays as well. |
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Throughout the world, paternity leave has been recognized as an important means of reconciling the professional and familial lives of workers. |
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While that might be overstating the case just a little, it is by no means totally fanciful. |
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Without marshalls, audaxes still need proof of ride completion and that means cards to be stamped plus information points. |
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This means that coffee should be packed in an airtight foil laminated bag with a one-way air valve to allow the bag to de-gas. |
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On the other hand, as team president, he has to consider trading those loyal players if it means strengthening his roster. |
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The only thing that's missing is perhaps a very solid idea of what it means to do a mathematical proof. |
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Before his guests arrived on the scene, Abraham used prophecy as means to speak with God. |
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It means you have to leave home and that requires a big sacrifice in terms of leaving your family behind. |
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This also means that the beam can be balanced since the piston does equal work on both motions. |
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It's actually a good thing because it means people cannot reach me in the evenings when all they have is a mobile phone number. |
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Mary has pulmonary atresia, a condition that means the heart and the main blood vessel to the lungs have failed to develop properly. |
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That means the price of land for suburban tract housing is heading ever upward. |
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On the other hand, it also means that many whites simply don't know the facts about race today. |
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This means that they can't resell the drug to other addicts, and use the cash to buy heroin. |
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In his after years, he never omitted an opportunity of urging young men to avail themselves of every means of education offered to them. |
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No plankton means no basking sharks or manta rays but it also means exceedingly good visibility. |
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The family's commitment to the environment means they have an organic vegetable garden along with a peep of chickens. |
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Which means that all of us who aren't prowling Manhattan's East Village for white labels will have the pleasure of the Princess' company. |
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Along with all the new action comes the inevitable falls and bumps, which means I'm back to having to watch him closely all the time again. |
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What this means is that several modern artists no longer wish to see themselves as minions or propagandists of a social mission. |
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As old as I am, anything positive as in a positive affirmation from my father means so much to me. |
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Unless lean muscle is built by exercise, weight gain means mostly more body fat. |
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It means Internet users can download vast amounts of information more quickly, making a number of audio-visual applications possible. |
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Gradually, over thousands of years, astragali were replaced by dice, and the latter became the most common means of generating random events. |
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Women are independent and resourceful, which means that true feminists should be ruralists, too. |
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This means that projections and, therefore birth rates, are not very reliable for Hispanics. |
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Officially, this means a doctorate in philosophy, specifically in aesthetics. |
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A decline in party discipline and of members' willingness to obey the whips, is one means of restoring influence to the backbenchers. |
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Assuming you're doing this in a gravity environment, more mass means more weight. |
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Fair play apparently means inviting them to attend their own roast and then dismissing them for the shallowness of their arguments. |
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This means education systems and economic structures that are attuned to, and can adapt to, global technological innovations. |
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You must repent of any callous attitude to the right use of the means God has purposed to accomplish his will. |
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An unforeseen and ill-timed coughing incident means a huge great glop of red wine leaves your glass and lands on the sofa cushions. |
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This means that organisms are not agglomerates but ecosystems of co-acting cells with a unique functional focus. |
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In effect, this means that if there is any difficulty in placing the shares, he and his associates will put up the money. |
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This word comes into the Middle English language from the Late Latin word Paganus, which means country dweller. |
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But in my book, beauty without smiles and charm means very little in an industry overrun by glitz and glitter. |
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Of course, this means that we must first have an appropriate table defined in our database. |
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And the technology and the means of making that a reality is close at hand. |
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It means that if you can press keys on a keyboard, you have what is required to create your very own webpage! |
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At times, he seems to be exhausting all possible means and angles to aestheticize action and violence. |
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It means that the airplane is essentially rebuilt from the ground up with new or reconditioned parts. |
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Nevertheless such success can by no means be treated as a racing certainty. |
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Along with the ephemeral sakura, springtime in Japan also means the arrival of particular seasonal foods. |
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That means they'll rearm and they may very well develop weapons of mass destruction, just as a deterrent. |
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The album is stuffed with queasy midtempo tracks and bizarre orchestration, but it's by no means impenetrable. |
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Local taxes and surcharges on luxuries like theatre tickets were also reintroduced as a means of subsidizing hospitals. |
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Since I am on the planning committee it means I have to reach before it starts. |
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In effect, this means the roadworks programme has been put on hold until after the April meeting. |
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They're blind to reality, and they're determined to hold onto their power by any means possible at this time. |
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That means consumers can expect rebates and cut-rate financing deals to continue and both companies will have to slow down their assembly lines. |
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Being addicted to a substance usually means you're dependent on it to some degree. |
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That means that the threads are snipped, minor repairs are done, buttons replaced, garments are odor-free. |
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That also means I never actually turned into a four-foot dragon, which is kind of a gyp. |
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Finally, a popular means of extracting funds tax efficiently is by way of a company buy-in of its own shares. |
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If you do not agree with it, by all means dismiss it from your consideration, but attend to me on the law. |
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The wicked mix of an acerbic tongue and a winning smile means holding grudges is nigh impossible. |
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It's an idealistic and moral endeavour, which apparently means that it's perceived as lunacy by some. |
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This means customers will be asked to leave their car keys at reception when they check in and their car will be parked for them. |
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The financial plight of the company means it is insolvent and has been losing rafts of money. |
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But they're all wildly different, which basically means bartenders everywhere are winging it. |
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Information will be given out either through audio or visual means in languages including Urdu, Mirpuri Punjabi, Bengali, Gujerati and Chinese. |
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Privatization without flotation on the stock market means either a management buy-out or sale by tender. |
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External lipid barriers spread by wiping provide a logical means of waterproofing when the skin doesn't do the job on its own. |
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This is to support the neck during shipment and to facilitate ignition by means of touch holes in the upper deflector plate. |
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If the individual does not speak out against untouchability, it means he is winking at its practice. |
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Compact guns are the rage right now, and generally that means both barrel and grip are shortened. |
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For professional huntsman Richard Emmott the Government's ban means his job and home are at stake. |
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An impending skills shortage in the trades means jobs are opening up to women. |
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If it means going from 200 to 205 for bench presses, then to 215 and 225, I'm gradually achieving the long-term goal of benching 300 pounds. |
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It's an hour before the peak of the king tide and the flood is intimidating but by no means terminal. |
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Perhaps no one who maintains the Civil War was a total war means it so literally. |
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This means more vehicles through the service bay and more profit for the dealer. |
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It means fighting against sexism and its manifestations in areas such as people's attitudes and opinions, advertising and the law, to name a few. |
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He went so far as to suggest that the smaller-than-expected shortfall means the population actually is rebounding. |
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We do not hold to the view that judicial independence means a licence to behave without restraint. |
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When cuneiform writing was first invented in ancient Sumer, the scribes scratched signs on the moist clay by means of a pointed instrument. |
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Where possible we tabulated results in terms of means and standard deviations for consultations and proportions for prescribing and referrals. |
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The present level of benefits means that most beneficiaries are living in poverty. |
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Perhaps that means she's still one of us, or perhaps it means she has genuine star quality. |
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Paying cash to avoid Vat means you have no documentation to fall back on should things go wrong. |
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Taoism may prolong your life for a while, but by means of its teaching one cannot escape death. |
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Things have reverted pretty much back to normal, or whatever normal means when Lindsey and I are involved. |
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Serving as a middleman means paying vendors for merchandise, and then receiving payment from customers. |
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This problem led the British to introduce the tank in 1916 as a means of rupturing the enemy's defense for exploitation by reserve forces. |
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The level of operational activity is higher and this means that we are spending more time away from our families and friends. |
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Never mind, I thought, that means all the footballers will be in post-match relaxation mode and might be out on the lash. |
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The latest ruling effectively means that his only remaining option in the matter is to move a civil court to seek damages. |
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The review means 70 positions will be lost, but as many of these are staffed on a job-share basis, about 150 people will lose their jobs. |
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This means that we can ignore a lot of jumps in functions and integrate them as if they were nice, smooth, continuous functions. |
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The motor fitness of judoists and karateka was evaluated by means of the Leuven Motor Test Battery. |
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Had those with the means not rushed to fill the void, who knows what would have been left. |
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The astrocompass functions by means of measured movement in three independent axes. |
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That means a bumper package of proteins, minerals and essential oils to revitalise the skin, promoting natural radiance. |
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It means an invisible join and allows me to line up all my rows for a really neat finish. |
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We are pleased that the school will be named after him as it means he will never be forgotten amongst those he helped. |
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One of the things I adore about my dissertation advisor is that his tactlessness means that he speaks the truth. |
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In this heartland of rice paddies and small towns, family means a lot and sympathy for the recently bereaved even more. |
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That means that taxes will be upped when the Government decides to up them, and Parliament can whistle in the wind. |
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What this actually means is that a couple have to be together longer to get their hands on half the whiteware. |
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I have a wife and one-year old baby that I have to provide for, and right now that means keeping my third-shift convenience store job. |
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The most efficient means is based exactly on the strokes of Chinese characters. |
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The easy availability of alcohol means that kids and teenagers are at risk of being weaned on to alcohol at an early stage. |
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At this time of year it's rutting season for the deer, which means that stags are particularly aggressive and could attack dogs. |
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This means that most types of event will generate an alert rather than a reactive response. |
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This is common in midland areas and generally means that a Forest Soils Test will be required. |
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It's only out in hardback at the moment, which means it is a little expensive. But it's worth the read. |
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It simply means that, like a lot of science, absolute and mechanical objectivity is an asymptote we must always approach without quite reaching. |
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This means having a train station in Shawfair town centre within easy walking distance of the whole population. |
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The release of the third movie means books in the series continue to spend more time with readers than on library shelves. |
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Success for a commercial artist often means pressure to repeat that success by trodding the same rutted path. |
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This is the age where the television performs the role of a baby-sitter, than a means of entertainment. |
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That means you need to construct places for them to eat, sleep, have fun and spend their money. |
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The move to Askham Grange, at Askham Richard, means her aged parents, who live near the Yorkshire coast, will now find it easier to visit her. |
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The growing shortage of care home places in the Forest means local pensioners who need long-term care often have to leave the area. |
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Which means America should be having a whopping big debate about how to respond to this not-so-brave new world we find ourselves living on. |
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This means a body of water with semi-diurnal tides, like the Atlantic Ocean, will have two high tides and two low tides in one day. |
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A bone scan falls under the category of nuclear medicine, which means that it uses tiny amounts of radioactive materials called tracers. |
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This system means that people who have two copies of the 'D' gene will be right-handed. |
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Speakers use their local accents as a means of affirming identity and loyalty to local groups. |
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It has agglomerated population, centralized means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. |
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For all of their conceptual and measurement problems, economic aggregate measures are the best means we have for understanding the economy. |
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It's not a ready-made audience, which means people listen because they want to. |
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The Web is an information-based medium wherein the message is conveyed by means of text, as well as graphics, sound and animation. |
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The spiralling cost of houses means that a home is a huge outlay in terms of borrowing and ready cash. |
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In the first three or four years, ballet means repeating several basic skills day after day. |
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The logic of imperialist conquest means that the next war of aggression is already well beyond the planning stage. |
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Their problems are more complicated than hunger or lack of shelter, and that means they need real live people helping them out. |
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Complementary therapies are being investigated, such as training in martial arts as a means of reducing aggressiveness in youth. |
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That means the status of strings in string theory in physics can become a philosophical topic by way of discussions of realism and nominalism. |
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All that means is, they're allied with Khrushchev instead of with the ghost of Stalin. |
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That means slicing what's needed from the lanes for moving traffic, from curbside parking, or from the sidewalk. |
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Once a means of social lubrication, alcohol has acquired a darker, more desperate nature. |
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That means that your payments won't touch the new charges until your original balance transfer has been paid off. |
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A motor vehicle headlight has a light source cooperating with optical means to produce a beam which is generally spread widthwise. |
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However, the effectiveness of these materials is reduced by rainfall, which means they have to be reapplied regularly. |
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This means that instead of tracking within high school, there are several types of high schools that differ in vocational and academic emphasis. |
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But to buy into his sinister conclusions means buying into his level of contempt for the present authority. |
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Staff vehicles enter at the rear of the building by means of a ramp that leads down to a subterranean car park. |
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The court's endorsement means kettling is fast becoming common practice at a wide range of protests. |
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The orientation of the valley means that you will find flat calm water for 200 to 300m offshore, even in a north-east gale. |
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Whether you start with seeds or transplants, planting in midsummer means heat is likely to stress young broccoli plants. |
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Dealers had different means of signalling their intentions to an auctioneer. |
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This was probably one of the best of its kind, but it was by no means atypical. |
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He chooses to do so not because he seeks to suffer or because God wills his death, but as the means to life for God's people. |
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The teams were chosen by means of a quiz with the individuals gaining the highest scores in each age group successfully making the team. |
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Playing for the worst team in the league means that journeymen sometimes get an unexpected trip to the midsummer classic. |
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The availability of the means of production has seemed to go alongside a compensatory reassertion of spectacular power. |
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Their small size means less work and expense and can only lead to a willingness to try new things. |
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It means burglars tend to avoid the area and it also reassures the residents, reducing fear of crime. |
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It is a bit more honest, I suppose, but means that there is no real magic in the air. |
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Pressure to move key workers quickly on to new developments means homes are not being adequately finished off. |
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Although by no means easy, it is easier to be increasingly open about your sexuality if you don't also have to be concerned with racism, sexism, and classism. |
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It means pushing every police department to send their cops out with body and dashboard cameras. |
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After all, more readers means a bigger audience for advertisements. |
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Both the vertical and horizontal stabilizers were fixed in position, trim being obtained by means of controllable tabs in the rudder and elevators. |
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Because they know what they have always desired, valued, wished for, and they find that these novelties are better means to their own ends than their old ways. |
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The communication between the two means you can never count them out, even though they begin the second half of the Chase in ninth place, 124 points behind Stewart. |
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Elections are the paramount means for influencing governmental action. |
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The library includes new technology which means children can borrow a book by putting their thumb on to a machine which recognises their individual thumbprints. |
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This means that any rise in pay would not count towards the pension. |
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The company's chief executive has been denied a visa, in a move that surely means the already delayed October 21 start of the trial will be put back still further. |
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This is a youth-based musical culture, which means young promoters and the attendant lack of experience, professionalism and even ethical judgement. |
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That means a new bend from the winning post to the 12-furlong start. |
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It means re-establishing park wardens, bus conductors and platform attendants who provide some community control, and giving people a degree of hope and a sense of community. |
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It means we can never again take part in a record attempt like this. |
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It means all 65,000 holders of aviation security cards will be rechecked. |
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It means anyone might be able to get airside, and very close to aircraft. |
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The problem is, even child labor officials aren't quite up to speed on what it means to protect kids from commodification. |
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The lack of nutrients in the white-sand soil means that plants cannot afford to be attacked by insects, because lost leaf tissue is difficult to replace. |
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Another quiet month I'm afraid, which means too much time spent on here. |
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What this means is that the maximum safe dose for ingested mercury is 0.1 microgram per kilogram of weight of the person ingesting the mercury per day. |
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Language is a means to communicate ideas and impressions, its development influenced by the environment, by physiological and psychological traits. |
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Which means there will be absolutely no place to stand when, as seems certain to happen, the air mattress is punctured and slowly collapses beneath me. |
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This means that the conclusions he reaches concerning cultural values attaching to old age are not in any way tested against records of actual practices. |
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The new vessel is almost two metres longer than their previous one and, coupled with a wider beam, means it is capable of being launched in more stormy conditions. |
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The light standard for vehicle windscreens means front windows must allow 75 per cent of light through, while side windows must admit 70 per cent. |
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No one has yet requested to have relatives re-interred at Gorton, Manchester General or Phillips Park cemeteries, which means all the others will be reburied at Bury. |
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The pilgrimage journey is the umbilical cord which connects them with a sacred place, and making the journey is a means of bodily enacting their spiritual identity. |
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Goldman Sachs is now a commercial bank, as is Morgan Stanley, which means both firms are protected by the Fed as Too Big To Fail. |
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However, this life is by no means in and of itself a guarantee of a life not worth living. |
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Kids are under enormous pressure to collect the whole set and it seems they will do so even if it means stealing them or holding someone up at knifepoint. |
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Damp almost certainly means midges, something often overlooked when a garden is planned in midwinter, so this is not the ideal spot for summer suppers under the stars. |
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It only covers personal e-mail accounts, which means it will still be legal for a company to send unsolicited commercial messages to corporate email addresses. |
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Come to think of it, I would also avoid acrylic for a bedspread, after all, all that work means heirloom and it should had been done in a much better yarn. |
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That means that you were the one that didn't tighten the lug nut down. |
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Take it from me, when Geoff says sturdy shoes, he means wellies. |
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It means that if a recidivist parolee is given a 10-year sentence by the court, for instance, he or she will actually have to serve a 15-year sentence. |
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Competitive means top-notch skillset, not a race to the bottom in wages. |
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This means your body is addicted to it and that is a lot harder to shake. |
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The mobile internet, touted as a means of always being in touch and thus of overcoming social alienation, will be likely to help atomise society even faster. |
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All these means of training can be put at the disposal of our customers, on-site or at any location the customer stipulates, including their overseas home airbases. |
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In my opinion, the word ahimsa means nonaggression and not nonviolence. |
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Hence its brazen efforts to reassert control, by any means necessary. |
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What all this means for Indonesia is that the right time has come for this country to play an active role once again and reassume its once-prominent role in this region. |
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She says that her experience in care left her with a will and a means to destroy herself quietly for many years both physically and psychologically. |
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To Bentham, who willed his own body to the University of London, it was perfectly just to put the bodies of paupers to scientific use as a means of repaying their public debt. |
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A wielding of language that speaks as a means to recapture and reanimate male power, it suggests a masculinity reasserting itself at the expense of women. |
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That means the road, installation of the turbine and getting it going. |
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Some will argue this means that he can't be bought by lobbyists. |
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This means not offering provocative remarks on a combustible topic like immigration, which is sure to make them enemies. |
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Maybe that means greater audience spread and fewer must-see shows. |
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His recommendation that riders use a chain lube which does not attract or hold dirt as a means of keeping the cassette clean certainly hits close to home for me. |
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It sports a slightly curious design, in that there's a button-down collar which buttons down invisibly, on the inside of the collar, by means of a tiny little loop of fabric. |
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But high population growth means that this is a contraction in real terms. |
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The pressure-drops through the engine are minimal, which means the fish avoid decompression sickness, or the bends, as they pass through the machine. |
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For example it may be easier to obtain aggravated damages in a case of unlawful means conspiracy than it would be in an action against each defendant separately. |
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The fact that the subject is taboo also means that a man who is traumatized by the experience may be retraumatized again and again, with each child born to him. |
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Thus it is that the growth of technical means tending to absolutism forbids the appearance of values and condemns to sterility our search for the ethical and the spiritual. |
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The burning heavy plastic caused acrid smoke which left a thick layer of soot on over everything in the room and means an awful lot of cleaning up. |
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Here, the overall inventive concept is said to be obvious, and the particular means used to delimit the boundaries of the claim is insufficiently described. |
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By formal essence Spinoza means the real and independent nature of God. |
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For reference, in 2009 alone 227,000 foreign nationals received a green card by means of marriage. |
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These means were calculated by adding the total patient satisfaction scores of all usual-care and intervention group members and dividing by the sample size. |
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All it really means is that there is a script running that loads a web page, reads the HTML looking for certain attributes, and then reacts based on those attributes. |
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Pepper, a phrase drawn from a quip by another contender, means a second round in the presidential election, to be held in June. |
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This means that they draw far less power and they can be used with small portable devices which have mostly been using monochrome low-resolution displays to conserve power. |
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This means that stores could track each customer's comings and goings. |
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Timber framing refers to a specific type of post and beam construction in which solid wood timbers are joined by means of traditional wooden joinery. |
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By means of a combiner filter the output hybrid signal is created. |
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While this style can exhort some blacks to great sacrifice against entrenched white supremacy, it often comes up short as a means of conveying the complexities of the world. |
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He says he used to spend 25 minutes a day straightening his kinky hair into a Mohawk before deciding one day that maybe punk means not caring about what you look like. |
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Having a secret ballot means that there will be no way to audit the results and we will have to trust a system that has known security weaknesses to tell us who won. |
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From its true emergence, algebra can be seen as a theory of equations solved by means of radicals, and of algebraic calculations on related expressions. |
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In terms of this law, public officials who exhibit a lifestyle above their official means are prosecuted unless they can prove legitimate possession of this wealth. |
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As a teenager growing up in New York, he had become involved with street gangs and used drug dealing as a means of funding his own heroin addiction. |
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Less wear and tear on the cars means fewer new car purchases. |
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This also means there aren't even more large vans driving around with three or four boxes rattling around in the back, which can only be a good thing. |
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The return to Greenwich Mean Time means more light in the morning, when farmers are up and about, but less in the evening, when most of us get our ration of daylight. |
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Hernandez was charged with explaining what it means to have an idea knocked off and loosed into the marketplace. |
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We speak of someone as in delicate health, for example, which means that he or she has to take precautions that ordinary healthy people can disregard. |
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A dot written under a vowel means that the word should be pronounced with a voice that starts low, drops a little bit lower, and is then cut off abruptly. |
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A new set of non-stick cookware is a boon for any housewife as it means a goodbye to all those grease-stained kadais and pans stuck with food deposits. |
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That's probably why we enjoy being told how bad things are, which means the bearers of good news like Mr Trichet and others are simply whistling in the wind. |
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I like this position as it means that, if required, you can easily engage or disengage the ratchet with the hand that is holding the rod while playing a fish. |
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Often it means only that a lucky formula was hit upon early in a career that was thereafter sustained by a ready audience. |
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It means working with governments to encourage greater transparency in financial flows so that investment becomes a ratchet for wider economic development. |
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That means you're ready for the Tobago Cays, four deserted islets where the snorkeling and diving are unsurpassed, and there's plenty of room for sailboarding. |
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This means you don't go looking for him, you ensconce with the family in the safe room, get the police on the phone, and make the intruder come looking for you. |
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That means gays who eschew both the leftover left and homophobic right must carry out an ongoing battle on two fronts, with no rest for the weary. |
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But when the hands come up, that means shut up with mindless jive. |
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Not until then however had I realized that good table manners not only means a good verbal and physical behaviour, but also involves reduction of waste to a minimum. |
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That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles. |
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Yet there appears to be no effective means to stem its activities. |
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Intrusion of the wheel wells means the pedals have had to be offset towards the centre of the car, putting the accelerator where you'd normally expect the brake pedal to be. |
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People who know about thermal lows and high pressure in cold air often jump to the conclusion that warm air means low pressure and cold air means high. |
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That means smear campaigns, dirty politics and lots and lots of fibs. |
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This was a period of Kushite rule, which means that Taharqa and his fellow rulers were from Nubia and drew their power-base from there. |
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Accordingly, the dean's office has been consulting with other graduate schools over the development of a fair means test. |
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The generalized power means include power means, certain Gini means, in particular the counter-harmonic means. |
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Kim Kye Gwan's promotion means he may supervise North Korea's Japan policy and report it to the leader as Kang did, observers said. |
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