Sentence examples for meant the idea from inspiring English sources

The leader of Barking and Dagenham council, Darren Rodwell, said: "London's ridiculously expensive property market has meant the idea of home ownership for most ordinary people is just a pipe-dream.

'My dear,' I apparently said, 'I meant the idea of billiard table green, not a billiard table.' " In other words it did not pay to follow this dictator literally.

The hassle of having to explode a nuclear bomb every time a beam was needed meant the idea never went anywhere, though it did spur research into high-powered chemical lasers and the sophisticated optics needed to aim and control them.The main appeal of using an energy beam to shoot things is that it travels at the speed of light, which means, in practice, that it will hit whatever it is aimed at.

If they meant the idea was to get cheap oil from the Middle East, today's news that oil prices have again spiked above $40 per barrel would have been a shock.

To be sure, if by 'pantheism' is meant the idea that God is everything, and if one reads Spinoza as saying that God is only Natura naturans, then Spinoza's God is not everything and consequently he is not a pantheist, at least in the ordinary sense.

The group's director, Nick Lowles, said the global network of counter-jihadist extremists meant the ideas that inspired Breivik were still being traded.

"I mean, the idea of raping an 8-year-old boy is so alien to me.

I mean, the idea that they have to be at center stage.

That means the idea of winning an Atlantic Coast Conference title is not out of the question.

"I mean, the idea that one person can represent 250 million people is absurd".

But that doesn't mean the idea of utopia is not useful.