Sentence examples for does not mean exactly from inspiring English sources

However, the increase in the hydrolytic activity for pNP-β-d-glucopyranoside does not mean exactly the increase in the hydrolytic activity for ginsenoside Rd.

By accord with the golden section, he does not mean exactly equal to, which would conflict with the stated proportions.

Every step means something (unlike so much of contemporary ballet) even if it doesn't mean exactly what Pushkin wrote.

"A prince, therefore, must not fear being reproached for cruelty," he concludes, issuing one of the memorably black-hearted maxims that do not mean exactly what they say.

Admittedly, "growth" did not mean exactly the same thing in the Soviet context that it did in, say, the American one (average for the period 3.3% a year) or in the British one (average: 1.9%; have a stale crumpet).

But they do not mean exactly the same and certainly can't be used interchangeably.

I don't mean exactly the same taste as hers, but the same confidence and good instincts.

(By right I don't mean exactly like a real five-year-old, but a voice that has the ring of childhood yet can hold the attention of the adult reader).

There are two types of recalls -- voluntary and compulsory -- and they don't mean exactly what you might expect.

Some words don't mean exactly the same thing in our day as they did in Shakespeare's.

But that does not mean that suburbanites exactly appreciated paying up every April.