Sentence examples for the very means from inspiring English sources

"Their innate indolence renders them inattentive to the very means of subsistence".

There was Oladiran Bolaji, a man burdened by the very means of his relief.

Progressive educators hold that, in early childhood, play is not a distraction from learning but the very means of learning itself.

Indeed, to affect them he would have to act through large organizations himself and to use, to some extent, the very means used by those he seeks to control.

What was striking about Havel's life and career is that its contradictions seemed to be the very means by which his life and work hung together with great consistency.

This has not only been the fastest development of a particular technology in human history, its raw material has been the very means by which there is human history - our given nature.

"Since the Democratic convention, the Bush people have been trying to become the very mean-spirited Republicans they have been trying to run away from".

And the very mean Marcus Rob Bartlettt) is dead-on to people who have worked with such obsessed, abusive and fading producers, and as harrowingly real a universal metaphor for the arrogance of power in the insecure and the tyrannical.

Every time I don't LOSE it on the very MEAN and UNHELPFUL man at my local post office, a short girl gets a clear view of the stage at crowded concert I keep it together for you guys.

Robert and John dish an actress in the company, very mean-spiritedly.

Speaking on Commonwealth Nights, Joyce said: "The sounds very mean doesn't it!