Barroso s statement was meant to be reassuring.

What precisely was meant by maintaining existing structures ?

The program was clearly meant to indoctrinate, not educate.

Barack Obama s election was meant to improve everything or so it was hoped.

Their success meant that IIT was soon mentioned alongside MIT.

But it was meant for others. Britain was not to be part of it.

Thirdly, public information was meant to serve the whole of humankind.

It has gone in your stomach. It was not meant for that.

The war was meant to demonstrate the strategic power of military might.

We knew it meant there was about to be a butter shortage.

While crude, he claimed, it was not meant as an actual threat.

It was the first time I realized what VE Day really meant .

But the Copenhagen climate summit was always meant to be a transitional step.

The very announcement of the Fund s creation was meant to deter speculative attack.

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was meant to provide stabilization and assistance.

However, she did state that she was unsure whether the show was meant for teenagers or not.

The exhibition was meant to be a way to have children think of doing ...

These constituted a unified package that was meant to be implemented in its entirety.

In the West of England this meant that Cornwall was the last Royalist stronghold.

This restriction, however, was never meant to restrict the free movement of civilian population.

The distinction was thus merely semantic, since the term equality also meant non discrimination.

However, it simply meant that an even greater effort was required in their countries.

Indeed, there was no Muslim scholarship at the time, so to read meant to read whatever was available.

Since this approach was new, it meant that new ways of working were being invented.

I meant it.

It was also proposed that States should be given greater flexibility in determining who was a victim and what was meant by reparation.

The people who supported it were the Air Force, which meant that it was all secret.

The Millennium Declaration was meant to be a compact between the world s rich and poor countries.

This meant that collective production was dissolved early in the reform process and private farming prevailed.

However, every women's NGO had a fundamentalist counterpart, which meant that progress was slow and difficult.

The concentration on six provinces was meant to model initiatives for decentralization and inter sectoral convergence.

A clear definition of what was meant by serious breaches was required, for if it were stated that a serious breach implied the flagrant or systematic violation of an obligation without defining what was meant by flagrant or systematic , that could give rise to differing interpretations.

The child read beautifully, it turned out, and was really very competent. So it actually meant something.

Sami didn't know what the word transgender meant until a transgender man was killed in his neighborhood.

But it was also meant to convey that Germany had grown up into a proper international power.

The deep secrecy of its political system meant that the flow of information was slow and cumbersome.

Never meant to be confined to the European continent, it was, like Christianity itself, a universalist aspiration.

He was defeated militarily, but his decision to go to Jerusalem meant that he would succeed politically.

Excessive focus on inflation meant that some central banks ignored what was happening to their financial markets.

Lest you say The Book that was sent before was meant only for two groups we were not aware of their teachings

Lest you say The Book that was sent before was meant only for two groups we were not aware of their teachings

It meant something to them.

But the collapse of the Soviet Union meant that there was no negotiated settlement of this new order.

France and Germany were joined at the hip economic cooperation was meant to lead to closer political union.

So if Mallam Haruna, my tough Mathematics teacher was scared and crying, that meant things were really bad.