Sentence examples for means bending from inspiring English sources

Flexibility, in this case, means bending to the will of fishermen who want to keep vacuuming up depleted fish populations before they have a chance to recover.

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It's an almost issueless documentary form, and there is something to be said for it, when so many documentaries have a sexed-up quirky story to tell which sometimes means bending the facts or restaging the events.

The players are a walking laboratory for the Alternative Golf Association, also called Flogton ("not golf" spelled backward), which wants to increase participation in the game, even if it means bending or breaking some rules.

The most important concern for a firm is making a profit, even if it means bending or breaking the rules.

That smaller cockpit means bending over a bit more to fix a baby seat in the back; it also means your tall friends will have to draw straws for who gets stuck in the backseat.

The word chikungunya is derived from the Makonde language in southeastern Tanzania and means "bent down or become contorted," which indicates the classic posture the patient adopts because of severe joint pain.

Making television has always meant bending to the money — and TV history has taught us to be cool with any compromise.

"Bringing science to Buddhist monks does not mean bending the belief system," he insists, "they are parallel, there is no attempt to harmonize the two".

Squeezed between European powers, they learnt the art of survival faced with the world's Goliaths, even if it meant bending their backs.

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