Sentence examples for figures meaning from inspiring English sources

All the new members of the body are older figures, meaning that under existing rules they should have to retire in five years' time, while Xi and Li carry on to another term.

Haddin top-edged Chris Woakes to point two balls after Smith reached three figures, meaning Henriques arrived to provide the late drama.

There are additional projects proposed in the state of Oregon that would increase these figures, meaning even more crude oil trains traveling through Spokane en route to Oregon.

But more encouragingly, the Saturday grosses were down only 5% from Friday figures, meaning that audiences are indeed spreading the word.

Most employers will prohibit overtime, he figured, meaning that workers will "not make any more money, but they will only work forty hours".

The capacity is 39,000, but on Tuesday and Wednesday attendance fell below this figure, meaning some who had bought tickets chose not to turn up.

In the House, more than a few members have an estimated net worth that is a negative figure, meaning their financial liabilities are greater than their assets.

The Senate will stick with the $1.047 trillion figure, meaning House and Senate spending bills will start out tens of billions of dollars apart. Senator Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said the budget deal spending levels should be more sacrosanct than a conventional nonbinding budget agreement since the debt limit figure is enshrined in law.

The 2040 projects are based on the $73 per kilowatt figure, meaning the findings are "actually on the conservative side," he added.

"If Cruz loses Iowa, Trump wins convincingly, I think all he will need at that point is to have a single current establishment figure, meaning a sitting governor or a sitting senator endorse him," conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer remarked last week on Fox News.

This creates a "regular" figure, meaning it has corresponding kinds of angles equal, and equal lengths of its corresponding sides and so on.