Sentence examples for that meant dropping from inspiring English sources

As budget chairman he had argued that to get the budget to balance, he needed to have Medicare savings go into force earlier, even if that meant dropping the pledge to shield those 55 and over.

In Libya, that meant dropping bombs from the safety of the sky and leaving it worse than it was before.

That meant dropping to 140.5 pounds from 162 in five weeks.

Her main promise to voters is that she will not make any radical changes before next year's parliamentary elections.In foreign policy that means dropping the confrontational approach to Russia favoured by Mr Tusk and Radek Sikorski, his foreign minister.

On the Armenian side, that means dropping all preconditions, including demands that Turkey accept that there was an Armenian genocide in 1915.

That means dropping the ban on women serving in combat and repealing the insulting "don't ask, don't tell" law that has marginalized gays.

That means dropping the illusion that politics is about no more than efficient management of the economy: it's about nothing less than competing visions of the good society.

A student who wanders out of Andrew's range, and into Pittsburgh itself, is seamlessly switched to the city's mobile-phone network.Though that means dropping the transmission rate to 19.2 kilobits a second, with a noticeable fall-off in performance, the link between the user and his university is not actually broken.

That means dropping its current prejudice against research that aims to advance hydrocarbon-related technologies.

And that means dropping as many listening limits as it can.

"Believe me they'll be working hard to rectify this and if that means dropping one or two people then so be it.