Sentence examples for meaning person from inspiring English sources

Which means that sending fake letters to hound people is a real crime, meaning person or persons unknown could go to jail – an admission that new CEO Tessa Cook sidestepped with all the grace of a woman caught wearing her shoplifting with the tags still on.

The word "cheerleader" is so laden with potential cultural meaning, it feels more like a theoretical concept than a noun usually meaning "person who leads cheers".

Now if I take ecstasy, I forget what happened, I don't worry about the future, my heart opens and suddenly, if indeed you are a well meaning person, I will intuit that, and maybe for the first time since I've been traumatized, I will form a connection with you that I feel safe in".

Evidence of this ethnic and linguistic pride can be seen in the preference of many indigenous Australians for the use of such self-designations as Koori (also spelled Koorie, meaning "person") rather than the terms Aborigine and Aboriginal, which were imposed upon them (see Researcher's Note: Aborigines and self-designation).

The company previously launched a few months prior as "Geisha," which the team chose because of its more literal meaning "person of arts," but realized soon that the term could have negative connotations which some offended users.

The name "orangutan" (also written orang-utan, orang utan, orangutang, and ourang-outang) is derived from the Malay and Indonesian words orang meaning "person" and hutan meaning "forest", thus "person of the forest".

The Nguni saying, 'Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu', meaning 'a person is a person through other people', aptly expresses this notion of the priority of community and interdependence [ 13].

The intelligent person (al-'âqil)—here simply meaning a person with full rational capacity realizes that all the features of the building, its height, its length, its form, etc., are actualized possibilities and could be different.

For example, one friend might also be a boss, meaning the person had to adapt their behaviour with the person depending on the nature of their encounter.

Commutation neither forgives the crime nor wipes clean the person's record but it is an "executive reduction in penalty," meaning the person is released early from custody.

A total of 66,657 people put themselves forward, meaning one person in 98 got a job.