Sentence examples similar to nearly means from inspiring English sources

These poems conjure a massive mental errata slip made up of what they almost say and nearly mean.

As the Bagger's colleague Michael Cieply has noted, Tom Hooper, the director of "Les Misérables," was very nearly meant to be in six places at once this weekend, doing Q&As to promote his film.

The goal is to weaken political Islam, by nearly any means.

But a thriving student community of nearly 50,000 means Strasbourg is anything but stuffy.

The dissolution of inorganic samples nearly always means the preparation of an acidic aqueous solution from the test portion.

But the process nearly always means that the pupil gets only the propaganda the instructor approves of.

The councilman favors nearly all means of addressing the nation's energy problems, including offshore drilling, something Mr. Harrison opposes.

But Wal-Mart's size alone nearly always means big changes for any retail business it touches.

Grabbing the bull by the horns (9), for instance, nearly always means confronting a problem rather than an actual bull.

While the Muslim Brotherhood governed poorly, it would be a mistake to conclude from this that Islamists should now be weakened "by nearly any means," as Mr. Brooks writes.

This provides consumers with a powerful incentive to join the operator to which most of their friends belong which in Mexico nearly always means Telcel.