Sentence examples for understood to signify from inspiring English sources
("Fitting" here is often understood to signify a particular kind of moral fittingness, in keeping with the idea that intrinsic value is a particular kind of moral value. The underlying point is that those who value for its own sake that which is intrinsically good thereby evince a kind of moral sensitivity).
In anticipation, Newton indicates how to reconcile this with scripture by observing that, if usage determines the meanings of words, then in ordinary discourse (including the Bible) the terms 'time'spaceace'placeand'motion'motion' are properly understood to signify the relative quantities; only in specialized and mathematical contexts do they denote the absolute quantities.
Finding that an act was justified is commonly understood to signify moral approval of the act.
A woman being photographed aspired to a standardised look that signified an ideal refinement of "feminine" traits, as conveyed through beauty; and beauty was understood to be a distancing from the ordinary; as photographed, it projected something enigmatic, dreamy, inaccessible.
Ilse nodded to signify that she understood, but she squinted in a way that made it clear that what I was saying was all very abstract to her. "Do you mind telling me what they were?" She was still nodding.
With the development of gender, the reproductive subject (now understood in terms of heterosexual gender role) is taken to signify gender identity (as the very ground for biological sex) (187 88).
If the methylation status of LINE-1 and ALU elements is to be used to signify global methylcytosine content, it is important to understand what these elements represent and why they are methylated in nondiseased tissues.
Noncompliance is often taken to signify a lack of patient motivation, but it often clearly reflects a simple failure to understand directions.
"It has to signify a new era".
Was that supposed to SIGNIFY something?
The events seemed to signify a small thaw between North Korea and Washington.
