Sentence examples for means of substance from inspiring English sources

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A Union lieutenant pointed out that the residents of the counties affected by the order were forced to leave crops that they were soon to harvest, "their only means of substance during the approaching winter," and seek refuge "without money to buy food or pay rent going they know not whither".

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Both macrophages and neutrophils are drawn toward an area of infection or inflammation by means of substances given off by the bacteria and the infected tissue or by a chemical interaction between the bacteria and the complement system of blood serum proteins.

It may not be as extreme as this instance, but the greatest lessons in falling -- or the ones that mean anything of substance -- come from getting back up and analyzing what had just happened.

Outliers were defined as data points above the mean of each substance for more than three standard deviations.

"People don't understand that a Congressional investigation doesn't necessarily mean a problem of substance," Mr. Raffaelli said.

Early adolescence corresponds to the mean age of onset of substance use, sleep disorders, sustained violence, and suicide behaviors [ 3, 34, 35, 38, 45, 46].

Age (mean 18.2, SD 1.3, range 16 to 20), SOFAS score (mean 50.4, SD 12.9, range 20 to 86) and number of substance misuse problems (mean 2.3, SD 1.8, range 0 to 7) all had the characteristics of normally distributed variables, with no outlier observations, and mean, median and mode close in each case.

I mean, there was a lot of substance there".

ab Different superscripts indicate statistically significant differences between mean dietary practices by category of substance use.

Since giving up civil service status would mean sacrificing retirement benefits, many people simply try to hold out, even if it means they have little of substance to do or they feel they are not being used effectively.

And that which is capable of not being may possibly not be; and that which may possibly not be is perishable, either in the full sense, or in the precise sense in which it is said that it possibly may not be, i.e. in respect either of place or of quantity or quality; 'in the full sense' means 'in respect of substance'.

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