Sentence examples for were to mean from inspiring English sources

If OP12 of the resolution, properly interpreted, were to mean that a further Council decision was required before force was authorised, this would constrain the US just as much as the UK.

This is consistent with existing notions of community-based policing, and could even include an element of outreach to residents similar to that undertaken in the Sunni areas of Iraq — even if it were to mean taking the paradoxical turn of negotiating with gangs about security.

Now, if the declarations of Je Suis Charlie were to mean anything, papers like the Guardian ought to make amends and either republish the magazine's offending cartoons or do its own depictions of the prophet – just to prove that it could.

In such a case, S is enabled to fulfill a conversational maxim (by meaning something other than what she actually expresses) precisely by speaking in such a way that she would flout the maxim, blatantly violate it, if she were to mean what she says.

If the "Fountain of Youth" were to mean anything, I could only imagine that it would have to offer us more than a mere physical upgrade.

It's meant to mean 'dizzy'dizzy

It was meant to mean a snitch.

"What's meant to be is meant to be.

More were meant to follow.

We were meant to meet".

The postures were meant to be funny.