Sentence examples for meant rather than from inspiring English sources

This last point was crucial to its success, as it meant rather than being a strictly Caribbean affair it spoke to London's ex-empire melting pot and everybody felt they could join in.

His notion of "social justification", it appears, simply amounted to the practice of "keeping the conversation going" (whatever this meant) rather than the classical project of pursuing "objective truth" or rationality (1979: 377).

My father's return to Costa Rica meant he had no intentions of ever returning to the United States ― it meant rather than popping up in my life every few years then disappearing, he was walking out of my life for good this time.

As a citizen, I mean, rather than as a journalist.

His style is to "think about what something means" rather than pump out a quick thought.

Law is now regarded as a means rather than an end, a tool for solving problems.

It had started to make value for money its mission, with audit a means rather than an end.

Both can be traced to a way of thinking that regards the world as a means, rather than an end.

Her final judgment, stated in different ways throughout the book, is that "it is how the story means, rather than what it means, that is the literary question".

A living Constitution proponent may, in practice, be trying to figure out what the Constitution actually means rather than what society now needs it to mean.

In urging that law schools become more practice-oriented, you assert that "law is now regarded as a means rather than an end, a tool for solving problems".