To put it another way, it is in the work that the transcendental set of meanings achieves its presence.
Yet that night in Beirut, hearing his work read in Arabic, it occurred to me that Said, in death, had given that predicament a new meaning and achieved a solid mandate.
Last year, the number of students passing the exams — meaning they achieved a Level 3, with Level 4 the highest — skyrocketed, and a relative few, less than 5 percent, scored at Level 1, the lowest.
All interviews were digitally recorded, and sampling continued until saturation in meaning was achieved.
Consensus on meaning was achieved through discussion and vote.
It is, to put it mildly, unlikely that our normative theory of justified punishment will justify our existing penal institutions and practices: it is far more likely that such a theory will show our existing practices to be radically imperfect that legal punishment as it is now imposed is far from meaning or achieving what it should mean or achieve if it is to be adequately justified.
I wake up meaning to achieve it every day, and go to bed every night crushed by my inability to achieve it.
It wants to completely eliminate imaginary risks to its survival and is willing to do even stupid things that have no meaning to achieve that.
The Sunday Times quoted an "exam board insider" as saying that grade boundaries had been changed, meaning students achieving the same marks as previous years would not attain the same grades.
That may well be the true meaning of achieving the Chinese Dream for the country.
