Sentence examples for agreed meant from inspiring English sources

The fact that two competing groups had agreed meant that astronomers had to take the news seriously.

The implicit social treaty to which the Mormons in Utah agreed meant giving up their claims to autonomy and the practices that their countrymen found most distasteful (notably, polygamy), in exchange for recognition of their primacy in Utah and a readiness in the rest of the country to tolerate their faith.

END agreed, means not.

The fact that updating sanctions requires consensus (a condition often only present at the time sanctions are originally agreed) means that on each anniversary the most the European Union is likely to do is renew existing regimes.

"Pays as agreed" means you pay the balance in full each month.

The European principle that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed means that we will unlikely see the end of economic uncertainty until March 2019 at the earliest.

Respondents most frequently agreed with disclosure of major benefits (98.0% agreed/ strongly agreed, mean (SD) score 1.21 0.53)), followed closely by procedure's name (97.9% agreed/ strongly agreed, mean score 1.23 (0.49)), and lead practitioner's name and title (97.5% agreed/ strongly agreed, mean score 1.27 (0.54)).

They least frequently agreed with disclosure of assistant/trainee's name (50.5% agreed/ strongly agreed, mean score 2.63 (1.41)) followed by available alternatives worldwide (55.0% agreed/ strongly agreed, mean score 2.37 (1.35)), and lead practitioner's training place (61.4% agreed/ strongly agreed, mean score 2.33 (1.44)).

Respondents most frequently agreed with disclosure of procedure's name (93.3% agreed/ strongly agreed, mean score 1.57 (0.84)), followed by procedure's simple description (84.2% agreed/ strongly agreed, mean score 1.90 (1.06)), and lead practitioner's name and title (79.5% agreed/ strongly agreed, mean score 2.00 (1.18)).

They least frequently agreed with disclosure of lead practitioner's training place (13.9% agreed/strongly agreed, mean score 3.87 (1.13)) followed by lead practitioner's years of experience (15.7% agreed/strongly agreed, mean score 3.81 (1.22)) and available alternatives worldwide (16.3% agreed/ strongly agreed, mean score 3.78 (1.22)).

These responses would be hard to interpret if researchers could not distinguish whether a response of "strongly agree" meant a participant expected little relief from pain, but better coping, or significant relief from pain.