Everything from seat assignments to the number of camera flashes that an attendee attracts on the red carpet is meant, in some way, to fix a person in his place.
I'm a compulsive re-drafter, and I'm pretty religious about the idea that in the end a story will find its final true form, and when it has found that form, that's what the story was meant (in some fated way) to be.
Nobody is mean in this movie.
The rule was meant, in part, to combat fraud, some immigration advocates said.
Daily Telegraph leader writer Tim Stanley said it was "madness" that wealthy pensioners received a free TV licence and a free bus pass, "so on a moral and ethical level, it ought to be means tested in some way".
"I think this was meant to be in some strange way".
This is meant literally, as in some heightened physical perception of the water around the body, and without it, in competitive swimming, nothing else much matters.
At the heart of the shift are 9/11 and the excesses of the George W. Bush administration, which are meant to echo, in some sense, Andrew's own indifference and bad luck.
A proposal published in 2006 was meant to create some clarity and consistency in the matter.
That acquisition was meant to add some technology in the form or proprietary hardware that could be used to make car sharing more easily accessible.
