Globalization has meant closer international integration, and that in turn has meant a greater need for collective action.

Insufficient investment has meant inadequate infrastructure.

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

However, proximity has also meant US meddling.

(In fact, chronically high unemployment has meant that they have been doing so for years.)

But lack of trade activism has also meant that we are not moving forward with trade liberalization.

Our partnership has meant that we are able to maximise our resources by avoiding duplication of work.

The huge subsidies have meant that the US has become the largest producer of ethanol in the world.

As rates of economic growth have declined, this has meant growing unemployment.

That meant avoiding a war with Israel.

This, and a lack of access to the sea, has meant that Bhutan has not been able to benefit from significant trading of its produce.

Legalising the provision of sexual services subject to strict conditions has meant that more information relevant to detecting trafficking in human beings has become available.

This long existing and accepted norm has certainly not meant that torture has been overcome. Instances of torture have always occurred despite efforts to eliminate them.

First, free movement has meant that good players from small leagues improve much more than they would had they stayed home.

Everywhere, this has meant massive pauperization of the least favored part of the population.

More importantly, American control has meant that throughout their history these institutions have been used as an adjunct of US foreign policy.

In the year since, Tymoshenko s government has consistently acted to preserve international stability, even if that meant taking political hits at home.

Traditional security s focus on external military threats to the state has meant that the majority of threats women face have been overlooked.

The problem is that President Bush meant it literally.

In too many instances, she noted, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Of course, if Medvedev actually meant what he says, he would be leading the opposition to the Russian state that Putin has built.

Israel s ongoing control of Gaza and its borders has meant that those farmers able to produce vegetables, fruit or flowers cannot export them.

That meant that those involved in preparation activities would also be covered.

By that he meant to suggest that nuclear disarmament does not exist.

Their success meant that IIT was soon mentioned alongside MIT.

Lack of technical support and supervision in the field has meant that midwives work alone most of the year, being visited on rare occasions.

I meant it.

Instability over the past 50 years has meant that donors' support for Haiti has not been consistently maintained owing to the difficulty of establishing effective development partnerships with successive governments.

The acquisition of spare parts for the equipment used by Cuba's Antidoping Laboratory has also been cut off, which has meant that on occasion the equipment has been deactivated, resulting in damage totalling 397,000.

Can you tell me where has it been taken from, and what is it meant for? Anybody?

Today, the clique that surrounds Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas embodies the bitter deception which the peace process that began with the Oslo agreement has meant for the Palestinians.

Lifting the ban has meant that prostitution is now officially recognised as employment, and that prostitutes therefore have the same rights and obligations as all other employed citizens.

That meant that progress already made could contribute to the achievement of the goal.

Thus, 9 11 has meant, directly or indirectly, a great shock, both psychologically and to our political systems.

The entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol in 2005 has meant the launch of much new work.

I am concerned that this combination of institutional and procedural hindrances has perpetuated and reinforced the climate of impunity the joint communiqué was meant to end.

This has meant that since the construction of the Auditorio de Tenerife in 2003, has popularized the term The Sydney of the Atlantic , to refer to the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

It would have meant accepting in 2012 what has been called redenomination risk economic newspeak for a eurozone breakup.

This has meant either a decline in asset prices quoted in dollars or in dollars quoted in other currencies.

But the recent worldwide increase in commodity prices has meant that the traditional regional powerhouses of Chile, Brazil, and Mexico have experienced economic booms of their own.

This has meant that I have always seen France as my second home. The streets of Paris are as familiar to me as the streets of Beirut.

It meant something to them.

The Iraq war also meant that America ignored the Israeli Palestinian peace process.

Smoke inhalation meant that their little bodies were carried lifeless from the building.

Moreover, growing inequality in most countries of the world has meant that money has gone from those who would spend it to those who are so well off that, try as they might, they can t spend it all.