Sentence examples for a serious mean from inspiring English sources

Charles Clarke, David Blunkett – even mild John Hutton had a serious mean streak.

Despite the undeniable cuteness of ruby-throated hummingbirds (only the male has the red throat), Mr. Story reports that they pack a serious mean streak.

Clearly this point-scoring theatre is outmoded as a serious means of problem-solving in the 21st century.

Most ranches are run as a lifestyle, not as a serious means of production, a source of taxes or a source of jobs.

In The Art of War, often attributed to Sunzi (5th century bce) but most likely composed early in China's Warring States period (475 221 bce), war is treated as a serious means to serious ends, in which it is understood that shrewd strategists might target not an enemy's forces but intangible objects the foremost of these being the opponent's strategy.

You can't get on it without smiling!" These are not the sort of comments people volunteer about their washing machines or even, in most cases, their cars.But will the enthusiasm of these early adopters, and the new sales outlets Segway is creating, be enough to transform it from a fancy toy to a serious means of transport?

The founder says it's "Comedy as a serious means for getting thoughts and ideas out".

The sensitivities involved in becoming associated with a serious subject mean that there is a fine line — often hard to find — between commemoration and exploitation or between taking a stand and taking advantage.

- GoGirl Finance "To me, a serious relationship means having an actual conversation about monogamy -- you aren't going to date other people, and you are going to put time and effort into cultivating your romantic relationship with this one person".

If it did, that would have forged a perception of Spectacles as a serious device meant to be painstakingly reviewed instead of casually played with as they should be.

Making a false mayday call can be punishable by law, and in many countries is punishable under criminal law because it is a serious action meant to protect lives, not throw emergency services into chaos.