Sentence examples for for a second means from inspiring English sources

Shaw suffered from a condition known as hyperemesis gravidarum, which, if we can just strip the mystery out of the medical profession for a second, means "vomiting a lot because you are pregnant".

Terrorists still – for a fleeting fraction of a second – mean Lockerbie, rather than any more recent horrors.

"But this does not for a second mean they do not have rights, of course they have rights and of course it is our responsibility and the responsibility of the whole of the civilised world to uphold those rights.

What Republicans can't understand is that being critical of your mother or your country doesn't for a second mean that you love them any less.

"Every woman who walks through the world knows there are two roads: a wide, triumphal route for the men, and a second mean little alley for women," she bitterly reflects.

A student referendum provides a third means for an RSO to obtain funding.

At the end of 2015, Thomas signed a one-year contract extension at Sky, with an option for a second, which means much depends on the next few weeks.

For Faye Milbourne, training for a second career meant realizing, "I don't need the attaboys and the kudos I needed when I was a career person," she said.

Katya turned to me and said, "Are we in heaven?" I answered, "I don't know," and for a second I meant it.

But he can also be temperamental, controlling, capricious, volatile and, in the words of Edward I. Koch, a former Democratic mayor who supported Mr. Giuliani in his successful bid for a second term, "mean-spirited".

The Duke researchers — Jonathan Wai, Megan Cacchio, Martha Putallaz and Matthew C. Makel — focused on the extreme right tail of the distribution curve: people ranking in the top 0.01 percent of the general population, which for a seventh grader means scoring above 700 on the SAT math test.