Sentence examples for means began from inspiring English sources

His reputation as "a writer's writer" (whatever that means) began to build.

Parents, especially those of education and means, began to value their daughters' human capital as much as their sons'.

Mr. Means began his acting career in 1992 with "The Last of the Mohicans," Michael Mann's adaptation of the James Fenimore Cooper novel, in which he played Chingachgook opposite Daniel Day-Lewis Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe

Kvitova, who had never played tournaments outside the Czech Republic because of her family's limited financial means, began to see herself as a potentially world-class player only when she moved at age 16 to a tennis academy in Prostejov, Czech Republic.

After the Civil War, medical-school graduates who had the means began to go to Europe for postgraduate training, and especially to Germany, where medical schools were incorporated into universities and included experimental and clinical work, and where the scientific method was the norm.

Then, in the century and a half before World War II, several noteworthy efforts to encourage respect for nationals by international means began to shape what today is called the International Law of Human Rights (which for historical but no theoretically convincing reasons was treated separately from the International Law of State Responsibility for Injuries to Aliens).

The teacher's workday by no means begins at 8 and ends at 2 30.

The need to be forward-looking means beginning to ease up gradually on monetary stimulus by the end of this year.

That means beginning to do what I've always done and then undoing it — reefing the granny, in other words.

Giving the less advantaged a leg up means beginning with pre-school and includes retraining for the less skilled.

Herb adds, "We look for big holes we can fill," and sometimes that means beginning something new.