Sentence examples for mean something as from inspiring English sources

In this case, getting close might mean something as off-limits as a visit with a detainee in Guantánamo Bay.

This can mean something as simple as allowing a slow reader an extra 15 minutes to do an examination.

To a child, peace may mean something as simple as having use of the remote control without a fight; to an adult, it could be freedom from abuse.

In the beginning, this could mean something as banal as seeing one's hand before one's face (meticulously 'mapped' on paper by Hiller, the ex-anthropologist).

"At primary level, full and proper access to the curriculum could mean something as simple as having the right table height or a comfortable seat.

I mean something as simple as the smell of laundry from the washing machine and I will suddenly be taken back into the life we had.

That means something, as do the ratings and the awards, including Asian Media awards, for the show and its creator and star Adil Ray.

Applying that standard to The A.P. would have opened the door to far broader regulation and could, in theory, have meant something as absurd as requiring newspapers to cover every press release or publish every letter to the editor.

During my patrols in Iraq, I thought that freedom for Iraqis meant something as basic as not being persecuted by their government or harassed by insurgent forces.

Nevertheless, it is incumbent upon us as African-Americans to make sure that President Obama earns our votes and is consistently reminded that being the first African-American president only means something as long as he is unafraid to acknowledge it through governance.

Times Square still meant something, as it always had, but now the meaning was "urban collapse".