Sentence examples for understood to mean a from inspiring English sources
He says the term doesn't have any proper meaning, though it's broadly understood to mean a town where local authorities don't make an effort to enforce federal immigration laws or hold undocumented immigrants in jail at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICEE).
Next comes a descriptive term, which describes an attribute of a product, and last come names that are generic, or widely understood to mean a category of products.
In the film, "plastics" is understood to mean a cheap, sterile, ugly, and meaningless way of life, boring almost by definition — the embodiment of everything about the values of the older generation that seems repugnant to young Benjamin.
She said: "'Right to die' – in fact no such right exists – is generally understood to mean a claimed right to euthanasia or assisted suicide without penal consequences for doctors or other third parties involved.
Some specialized in lower parts, and the term "mezzo-soprano" — now understood to mean a singer having a range of about two octaves, starting on the G or the A below middle C — was entering circulation.
Historian Roger Eatwell concurred: "If a revolution is understood to mean a significant shift in class relations, including a redistribution of income and wealth, there was no Nazi revolution".
Lauber is examining whether the £1.35m was a "disloyal payment" made by Blatter "at the expense of Fifa," which is understood to mean an alleged breach of Blatter's fiduciary duties to act in the best interests of his employer.
Adaptation is generally understood to mean an adjustment in social-ecological systems in response to environmental changes and their impacts.
The odd choice of order of the commitment is understood to mean that a commitment to action must precede a full comprehension of the terms.
It was widely understood to mean keeping a record of the websites that you visit.
By "bad faith," the amendment has always been understood to mean that a defendant could be compensated if the prosecution behaved unethically even when its case was legitimate.
