Sentence examples for a means when from inspiring English sources

Thus, supposing that the taxi driver has freely exercised his rational capacities in pursuing his line of work, we make permissible use of these capacities as a means when we behave in a way that he could, when exercising his rational capacities, consent to — for instance, by paying an agreed on price.

But one startling lesson of the show -- the several ingenious ends for which photography was a means when it was barely 30 years old -- holds true for many nations and periods.

And his theory has no implications about what, if anything, "if A, B" means when it occurs, unasserted, as a constituent in a longer sentence.

For Quine, what a person means when they speak is a matter of what it would be reasonable for others to interpret them as meaning.

But we suddenly realised (especially my generation) what a war means when you are not embedded.

It is difficult to say what a tree means when its branches are within one species, and Cavalli-Sforza says little about that question.

He knows what a woman means when she writes, "I want to join your empire!" And he appreciates the need people have to feed their children.

To a computer, understanding means when you ask it something, it can tell you a lot more about that thing.

And finally we had a word which means, when we're talking about rules, the same as break, to breach.

This is what Edward Ng, a renowned mathematician, means when he says "One man's signal is another man's noise".

Box is also including event-based triggers, which means when a certain event happens, a policy is put into effect.