Sentence examples for has meant committing from inspiring English sources

And in response to greater public scrutiny, that has meant committing a lot more money and resources to comply with a host of regulatory requirements.

"It would have meant committing myself to that role for at least three years.

In other words, the defendant could not have meant to commit a crime, because professionals said the transaction was appropriate.

According to news reports, Mr. Alvarez and his defense lawyers argued that he had had no intention of hurting others, and had meant to commit suicide, his despondency worsened by an addiction to methamphetamine.

"To possess Minna," Crews says, "could have meant, first, to commit symbolic incest with the mother of God; second, to 'kill' the father God by means of this ultimate sacrilege; and third, to nullify the authority both of Austria's established church and of its Vatican parent — thereby, in Freud's internal drama, freeing his people from two millennia of religious persecution".

Shifts towards political and financial investments in ART programmes and health systems strengthening have meant that many governments are now committing to the mainstreaming, integration, and decentralisation of HIV care [ 15].

In an interview Friday, Joe Trippi, a senior Edwards campaign adviser, said Mr. Edwards had meant to say that he was committed only to a proposal that his rival, Senator Barack Obama, had extended to the Republicans.

If the government had meant to legislate "that a person commits an act of terrorism where he unwittingly or accidentally does something which in fact endangers another person's life, I would have expected that, in view of the serious consequences of classifying a person as a terrorist, it would have spelt this out clearly," said Lord Dyson.

"Staying means committing suicide".

But there's one in particular that I'd like to discuss: the idea that "polyamory" means "committed couple who have casual partners on the side".

Mr. Edwards's campaign advisers said he had not meant to commit himself for the general election, but the discrepancy added fuel to a debate over why he had abruptly embraced public financing after long signaling that he would not.