Sentence examples for meaning fails from inspiring English sources

For Leader it is a matter of "basics" that meaning fails when the function of the father has not occupied its proper place.

Humanists ask what meaning is, how it is produced and communicated, and how meaning fails.

But $3.2 billion was lost due to de-listing — meaning failed products that were pulled from shelves, or products pulled by manufacturers even though some consumers may have preferred the product — for a net negative of $500 million.

Art as they say, adds to the opacity of the world, troubling its all too credulous servants, all the way to the grave, in a violent dance, perhaps lively and ferocious, whose meanings fail to surface.

Ali counters that the Bureau's "plain meaning" approach fails to consider the context of 2680(c) in addition to the language of the statute.

He also said the union's tax proposal--25proposal--25proposal--25% million or 133% of the average--was slim and disappointing in that only the Detroit Tigers, based on 1994 calculations, would have been taxed at about $640,000, meaning it fails to produce the desired deterrent to salary growth.

Question: how does a noun meaning "receptacle for liquid" and later "mechanized cavalry" come to be a verb meaning "to fail spectacularly"?

One of her jumps -- the triple flip -- received a downgrade, meaning she failed to complete enough of the rotation.

Instead he claimed dubiously, "to get a banana" is a slang term meaning to fail a test.

And they choose books that are too easy for them, meaning they fail to move on to tougher material, it is claimed.

Ms. Johnson was referring to the indictment, which accuses Officer Conway of causing physical injury by criminal negligence, meaning he failed to perceive a substantial risk that the injury would have occurred.