Sentence examples for worked meaning from inspiring English sources

Still: "We had an oversight model that could have worked" – meaning the Congressional and judicial oversight systems for the NSA – "But the overseers weren't interested in oversight – the Senate and House intelligence committees championed surveillance.

He added that its aim of acting as a confidence boost to banks worked, meaning that although in the early years it did not achieve any increase in lending, the scheme reduced the cost of borrowing for those companies.

These stones may be plain and natural, but some stone may be "worked", meaning it has been shaped for decorative or functional purposes.

The Menlo Park, California-based firm suggested one advantage it had over rival work communication tools was that people were already familiar with the way it worked, meaning firms could save on training costs.

This time, many of these wrecks failed to work, meaning thousands of voters had to resort to paper ballots, which then had to be counted by hand.

Turkey's policy until this month had been to treat Syrians as temporary guests, with no right to work, meaning refugees could only work illegally.

We talk a bit about money and he says he thinks materialism doesn't work, meaning it doesn't actually make anyone properly happy.

Without her, I could not work, meaning write, which I sometimes hate and sometimes love but in either case have to do, for reasons both economic and emotional.

But despite all the evidence we presented on his behalf, he was found fit to work, meaning he had to start job-hunting or face losing his benefits.

Love and work, Freud said, were the keys to life, but there have been those who found these words tinctured by a more than minimal Teutonic puritanism, with "love" meaning mostly marriage and "work" meaning really work.

The Steam Cloud will "just work," meaning any user changes to their game options will propagate to the Cloud by default.