Sentence examples for means that first from inspiring English sources

In the context of partisan gerrymandering, that means that First Amendment concerns arise where an apportionment has the purpose and effect of burdening a group of voters' representational rights".

It means that first films such as McQueen's Hunger or Arnold's Red Road display a startling creative maturity that gives their makers a real shot at a long and durable career.

While this is no doubt a reflection of the strict supply of interest-only mortgages, it also means that first time buyers are possibly getting help from the Bank of Mum and Dad and we are seeing some of the effects of Help to Buy filtering though into the numbers.

A prolonged period of ultra-low interest rates means that first time buyers have to put aside a far smaller proportion of their income to service mortgages than they normally would: 28% in the first year of a home loan against a 50-year average of 50%.

The food vs. fuel issue means that first generation biofuels appear unsustainable.

This means that, first, research in systemic typology is sensitive to the metafunctional diversity in language (see Fig. 3).

It doesn't mean that second trials are never granted.

This means that first-time customers need not hesitate when buying their bottles from Waters Crest Winery, in Cutchogue, which opened in October.

The foot-friendly floor of a beach break also means that first-time surfers can often walk their boards past the breakers instead of wasting time and energy paddling.

This means that first-time buyers who would otherwise qualify for a mortgage but can't raise the deposit will now only need to raise 5% of the purchase price upfront (plus all the other incidental costs of buying).

Or, as Niall Ferguson writes, "The average career of a Wall Street CEO is just over 25 years, which means that first-hand memories at the top of the US banking system do not extend back beyond 1983.