Sentence examples for put it means from inspiring English sources

Federalism, as Justice Louis Brandeis put it, means "that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country".

That act of legalization, as Kiselyov aptly put it, means any number of people or factions could have murdered Nemtsov.

Simply put, it means that political parties would not be able to spend money to support their own candidates.

Simply put, it means a series of connections, and in the context of discussions this week, generally refers to the relationships between water, energy and food.

But a few hundred euros more than in the past, many migration experts say, doesn't add up to staying put – it means more people can afford to leave.

Simply put, it means that up-to-date maps of social infrastructure used by nearly a billion people around the globe can be created using crowdsourcing tools, partnering with volunteer mappers using GPS enabled phones and other devices.

Others, including this magazine's Book Bench blog, wondered if it was just a clever trap — a misdirection, as a spy might put it — meant to expose the staleness of the genre.

He said that being "really, really strong in the head," as he put it, meant he was not thinking "about other things like the wind, people in the box".

He also refused to answer my question of whether the RSS was meant only for Hindus -- because Hindu, as he put it, meant "nothing".

That's what "optimising the group's business portfolio", as chairman Martin Scicluna puts it, means.

As Oakeshott put it: "It means what they lend with one hand they can take away with the other".