Sentence examples for uses meaning from inspiring English sources

The construction industry currently discards 20% of everything it uses, meaning that for every five houses built enough waste is generated to build one extra house.

After a drug is approved, doctors can prescribe it for "off-label" uses, meaning for patients or conditions not on the label.

All of these are tools that federal investigators say companies have used to exaggerate benefits, play down risks and promote off-label uses, meaning those the F.D.A. hasn't approved.

The oil group also wanted to raise £1.5bn for its own uses, meaning the total float would be worth £7.25bn, dwarfing the £5bn British Gas offer the year before.

It contains no protections for substantial non-infringing uses, meaning a manufacturer of an MP3 player could be liable for copyright infringement by a single user, even if 3 million other users committed no infringement at all.

This is just one of the gadgets he uses, meaning that what might once have been a disastrous harvest is not looking as bleak as it could have done, according to Mr Singh.

The warrant had already been used, meaning it had no value, but no one at ImClone disclosed that to the lenders.

The target for many is zero net energy use, meaning that a building makes as much energy as it uses over the course of a year.

Cigarettes and shisha are used in very different ways, and no studies have directly compared the health risks from cigarette smoking to waterpipe use, meaning a direct comparison of harms is difficult.

Both those sports facilities (naming rights flogged to Dr Pepper) are conveniently located where Hicks is involved in another proposed $1bn mixed-use (meaning some combination of retail, industrial and office) development.

Strength; it is also used meaning "function of".