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Its rough estimates are meant to draw the attention of world leaders.

The five suggestions the author gives at the end of the passage are meant to encourage people to seek harmony with the natural world.

"Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed (着迷) with calendars and what happened to them," says Patihis.

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on 开始 it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

In the second experiment meant to pit the mice's hunger against their fear, hungry mice were placed in a cage that had certain "fox-scented" areas and other places that smelled safer but also had food.

More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.

Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any — the type I could have found on my own — I had to start from scratch.

My first year of medical school counted as my senior year, which meant I had to take three to four labs a week to get all my sciences in.

This meant of course that Doris had to tell Bass whether it was a flashing light or whether it was a steady light.

He meant that we gain personal identity as we communicate with others.

That meant they were eating 90 grams of protein a day.

The area's ship building tradition, partly established by the Vikings, also meant that sophisticated carpentry was a major aspect of the local culture.

To cognitive researchers like piaget, adulthood meant the beginning of an occupation.

To her, it meant moving confidently around the court room, using convincing body language, and projecting her voice so it could be heard from the judge's bench to the back door.

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.

But we're never meant to let go of the part of us that knows we can have more.

For most of the last century, the car represented what it meant to be American—going forward at high speed to find new worlds.

He was an international grandmaster, which meant I wound be learning from one of the game's best.

His presence meant that I had an unexpected teaching assistant in class whose creativity would infect other students.

I picked up the stem cells in providence, rhode island, and was meant to fly to Washington then back to London.

It had been possiblebut not easyto buy single copies of newspapers before 1830, but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer's office to purchase a copy.

It meant a happy and loving family.

It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single copies on the street.

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this job was no game for him: he meant business.

That meant beating out Miller king, who was the best player at our school.

That routine meant dad was home early to spend the evening with mum and me.

The friends who introduced me to camping thought that it meant to be a pioneer.

These innovative solutions are meant to support better organizational performance.

This meant, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, dragging his heavy instrument case across the campus to the pitying looks of the non-musicians he had left behind.

Tina stern received rides from Wilson for all her four years in college, and the trips meant much more to her than just free transportation.

True to a gorilla's unaggressive nature, the huge animal meant me no real harm.

Every time we fail at something, we can choose to look for the lesson we're meant to learn.

From the earliest days of the Renaissance, the writing of history meant recounting the exemplary lives of great men.

In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms.

This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework.