Sentence examples for earliest meaning from inspiring English sources

In its earliest meaning in private cult, the genius of the Roman housefather and the iuno, or juno, of the housemother were worshiped.

Weiner said Monday during a conference call that the appeal was not expected to be concluded until November at the earliest, meaning Rodriguez can almost certainly play the rest of the season.

Vedomosti, a daily newspaper, reported on Thursday that Mr. Putin has postponed a series of foreign trips — to Turkey, Bulgaria, India and Turkmenistan — until late November at the earliest, meaning that his December travel schedule will be jam-packed.

There are similar populations in Europe, such as the csikos on the Hungarian plain, or puszta, the Andalusian horsemen in the cattle-raising zone whose flamboyant behaviour probably gave the earliest meaning of the word "flamenco", and the various Cossack communities of the south Russian and Ukrainian plains.

While the Senate moved toward a vote on legislation to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, the House was not going to consider any deal until Tuesday afternoon at the earliest, meaning that a combination of tax increases and spending cuts would go into effect as 2013 began.

This confirms the evidence that the meaning 'rice plant' is secondary and very probably identifies the noun's earliest meaning as 'dehusked rice grains out of the mortar'.

However, in Vedic Sanskrit, the word or means "mother", and this early meaning of the word is the basis for the translation "three mothers".

Accordingly, retaining the term logical in roughly its same earlier meaning, the new name "logical empiricism" was coined.

The funding process favors schools that apply for projects early, meaning affluent districts with more seasoned administrators could muscle out poorer ones.

Since then, every successive year has pushed access to the net earlier and earlier, meaning that what was novel to the previous one becomes commonplace for successors.

The company portrays its borrowers as young people exercising free choice, and says 84% pay their loans off on time or early, meaning 16% fall into arrears.