Sentence examples for means appear from inspiring English sources

His ambitions are modest, and his means appear to be even more so, as he is shown going about his training in a sadly underequipped amateur boxing club.

The speaker's means appear fairly modest: he has no cellar, because the supply of "rich Canary wine" will need to be bought from the Mermaid – the local tavern, I presume.

It seems that he is trying to use the ends to justify the means — ignoring the fact that the means appear to be inadequate and are leading to ends that may be worse than where we started.

Thus, a small λ indicates that group means appear to differ.

Those items were deleted so that performance was analyzed for seven action questions and seven structure questions; the means appear in Fig. 2.

Because those who had viewed action gestures produced more speech, the proportions of action, structure, and other information units were analyzed by viewed gesture; the means appear in Fig. 11.

That means appearing on the "Tonight" show.

What any of it truly means appears to be a matter of not-very-sublime irrelevance.

Traditionally, auditioning for an orchestra means appearing alone onstage in a nerve-jangling performance before grizzled veteran musicians.

Finally, Washington politics has limited Mr. Obama's ability to try to break the logjam if that means appearing to distance himself from Israel.

Shunning social media means appearing not just out of touch — but irrelevant to a modern, digitally connected audience.