Sentence examples for meant the study from inspiring English sources

For it meant the study of a foreign language is no longer compulsory at schools past age 14.

Ever since English grammars began appearing in the late 1500s, for example, they were formed on the Latin model (the very word grammar originally meant the study of Latin).

It meant the study of the values of the letters and of accentuation and prosody and, in this sense, was an abstract intellectual discipline; and it also meant the skill of literacy and thus embraced applied pedagogy.

The approach meant the study went slowly: it took time to get buy-in from all levels of the hospital, and it was technically complex to analyze the hectic, messy environment of the ICU while using only silhouette data.

By 'anthropology' Kant meant the study of human beings from the point of view of their (psychologically-controlled) behaviour, especially their behaviour toward one another, and of the things revealed in behaviour such as character.

The small sample size meant the study was underpowered to determine differences in length of mechanical ventilation, ICU stay and hospital stay.

By Science we mean the study of nature itself thus physics, biology, chemistry, and neuroscience.

For us, this means the study of communication draws its theoretical strength and methodological rigor from the social sciences.

"Dianetics", a word derived from Latin, means the study of knowledge.

Epidemiology literally means "the study of what is upon the people".

The term "ecology," which comes from the Greek "oikos," and literally means the study of home or habitation, was coined in 1869 by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.