It is generally agreed that the pestilence he describes signifies the Third Reich.
The "gains" you describe signify the onset of the gentrification process, which leaves out those people who are most in need.
Life was lived on the street, in public, and each storefront was painted a different, vivid color — "emergency colors," as he described them, signifying "We are here".
Inverse relationship noted between fibre diameter and tensile strength in the described mutant signifies its economic value in commerce.
The sequence limits of one of these sorting domains overlaps with one of the functional assignments described here, signifying a potential dual role for the conserved residues contained therein.
Abelard describes this as signifying what the sentence says, calling what is said by the sentence its dictum (plural dicta).
They described how this signified a change in their relationships with neighbourhood and neighbours.
A cluster of concepts describing the self signified (1) the subjective experience of the individual as fundamental to well-being and (2) the importance of one's ability, confidence and desire to live in accordance with one's own values and beliefs in moving towards the fulfilment of one's goals and ambitions (figure 1).
The emotive language used to describe the disease signifies, as they suggest, 'the stigma, bleakness and hopelessness associated with cancer' (Chattoo et al, 2002, p 12).
In fact, as far back as 2001, the linguist David Crystal asked rhetorically: "How many people are actually 'laughing out loud' when they send LOL?" (If anyone can find older such expressions of scepticism, do let us know!) As the linguist John McWhorter now describes LOL: "What began as signifying laughter morphed into easing tension and creating a sense of equality".
