Sentence examples for its means on from inspiring English sources

Reagan speeded up the break-up of the Soviet Union by forcing it to spend beyond its means on weaponry to defend against perceived, but actually unreal, threats such as the Star Wars programme.In much the same way, Google is throwing up many cheap-but-flashy initiatives that force Microsoft to spend huge sums in order to contain perceived, but probably illusory, market threats.

It consists of approaching the gradient by its means on a co-volume in the form of a diamond constructed around the side e.

Of course, any such biographical explanation is a cheat: the reader cannot be expected to supply these facts; the poem means what it means, on its own.

On that note, Goal 17 of the proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focuses on its means of implementation, and establishes targets for each of the proposed categories.

The criterion in Eq. (1) is chosen being guided by the Chebyshev's inequality which states that at least 75%% values of any distribution will stay within 2 σ around its mean on both sides [40].

A current account deficit represents, essentially, a nation living beyond its means: taking on debt in order to finance spending.

Auf means "on" or "upon".

Any particular human desire, even a desire that is not a desire for perseverance in being or its means, must on Spinoza's view be related to perseverance in being in some way (by IIIp6 and IIIp9s).

QUESTION FROM GUEST: Why did Obama use the false premise of the government "living within its means…" which, on the face of it, deeply confuses macroeconomics with microeconomics.

'The initial value of the solution is one half of its mean value on the whole interval ([c,d])'; 'The final value of the solution has integer part 4'.

BBC economics editor Robert Peston said that the coalition parties and Labour feared that an independent Scotland in a currency union could "live dangerously beyond its means and borrow on a scale that degraded sterling".