Sentence examples for technically mean from inspiring English sources

Since the European Union recognizes only one Cyprus, this would technically mean entry of the entire island, including the Turkish-Cypriot inhabited north.

Since the settlement in the civil case acknowledged claims of close to $500 million (less unspecified legal fees) a doubling of losses could technically mean a fine of close to $1 billion.

A new EU directive would involve a transfer of national powers to Brussels, European experts said last night, which would technically mean the Prime Minister was obliged to hold a referendum on the issue in the UK.

If I decided I was too nervous to work alone, I would not be allowed to have a friend over to work in a pair for safety: it would technically mean I was running a brothel.

While most analysts do not believe that the country will slide back into a recession — which would technically mean that the economy would start shrinking again — they acknowledge that with such low levels of hiring, the recovery is barely perceptible to many Americans.

And the games, well, they don't technically mean anything.

To clone, technically, means to copy.

While some of art fair's warm welcomes -- and hot night-life opportunities -- are extended to the public, others, including many of the house parties, are technically meant for V.I.P.'s only.

Under an EU agreement made last summer, the refugees are technically meant to be relocated to other countries in Europe – but so far the EU's members have failed to live up to their promise.

Punitive military action is technically meant to signal that the United States and its allies will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons, which is considered a war crime in violation of international treaties.

In January, five young Moroccan men auto-cremated (the more accurate term; "self-immolation" technically means any form of self-destruction) following a fifty-two-year-old pensioner in Jordan and an elderly woman in Bahrain.