Sentence examples for adopted means from inspiring English sources

Pugach, whose real first name is obscured by those two initials and whose last name (perhaps adopted) means "scarecrow," claims to have trademarked a certain beard: the type with no sideburns that covers just the chin and the patch above the upper lip.

Overall, the most widely adopted means of cutting labour costs has been to lay off temporary employees.

A general and well adopted means of improving the optical properties of the Qdots is passivation of its surface with a shell material.

The fact that, in the end, only a paltry few amendments were adopted means that the two weeks of committee hearings leading up to Tuesday during which the committee heard opposition from the Canadian Bar Association, all 13 of Canada's privacy commissioners, several former prime ministers, a gaggle of former Supreme Court justices and a host of others were ultimately an exercise in futility.

The UN report includes some shocking moments of dramatic irony -- like when the panel of experts still wonders whether the automobile will be an adopted means of transportation in African and Asian cities. Comparing the UN report to where we are today in understanding cities is heartening in some regards.

For the identification step, the societal perspective adopted means that costs to both public health care providers (Commonwealth, State and Territory governments) and private sector (clients/participants, their family/carers) were included, as well as costs to sectors other than health (for example, education and infrastructure).

"Mama, what does adopted mean?" my daughter asked me one day last year, to my great surprise.

"The secret dealings and multiple personas that Monis adopted mean that we will never know how many others there were or may have been," Ierace said.

But I knew that being adopted meant I had come to my mom through other means of origin beyond her belly, which did not leverage the same physical access to her body that those who came from it did.

The gravitational field generated by the ocean density contrast (relative to an adopted mean Earth's density) represents a significant amount of the gravitational signal to be modeled and subsequently removed from observed gravity data.

21 Our review adopted mean reduction in LDL cholesterol concentration from baseline as the primary outcome of interest for two important reasons.