Sentences with phrase «little meaning in»

William K. Zinsser's Book, «On Writing Well» gives great examples of how American Business English is basically inflated with fat words containing very little meaning in order to make the person seem smarter.

But how do we explain these abstract connecting words, when they have little meaning in themselves?

«We all need ways to find meaning in our lives,» offered a young man who had previously seemed to find very little meaning in the discussion.

Outside of prevalence in some order, though, the term «existence» can have very little meaning in an ordinal metaphysics.

The AI tends to be a little meaner in Quick Race than in Championship, but single players will find it useful mainly for practicing courses as they won't have lost time from mistakes in previous stages.

Not exact matches

In the past episode I called Michael «mean,» because I thought he was being a little bit rough on the entrepreneur.

Chances are that name means a little more to you if you were a tween in the «90s, which is exactly the point.

Critics find this arrangement invasive and creepy; every uptick in profits for Google means a little less privacy for the rest of us.

Such a liquid market, in which buyers were comfortably in the driver's seat — with bidding wars the norm and house inspections regularly waived all in the name of FOMO (fear of missing out)-- meant there was very little possibility of anyone with any sense allowing their home to go into default.

We'll figure he means type 2 diabetes, in which the body makes too little insulin or can't use it effectively.

As Andreessen explains, using this technique means that» [e] ach time you do something, you get to write it down and you get that little rush of endorphins that the mouse gets every time he presses the button in his cage and gets a food pellet.»

Since then, there's been very little in - migration to the region, meaning that genetically, the people are fairly homogenous.

Since Estonia had little means for attracting masses of immigrants to its icy Northern European landscape, it came up with a quirky idea — another of its firsts in the world: offering people virtual residency.

This image of what it means to be decisive may be appealing (who doesn't want a little clarity and surety in his or her life?)

The limits of tax cuts as a way of stimulating the economy are also obvious; as I reported in Why Growth May Still Leave 95 % of Americans Behind, rising income disparity means that tax cuts benefit the top 5 % and make relatively little difference to the bottom 95 %.

The missiles supposedly being readied for an assault on Guam are little more than a means to show off a new strategic capability, in this case the capacity to launch an accurate strike on a strategically important US target.

«I have already resumed my business by email and by other means, but it is anticipated that a little more time is needed for me to return to my regular work schedule,» Iwata said in the letter.

It may sound a little like something out of an episode of the «The Jetsons,» but the reality is the Federal Aviation Administration is required to implement regulations to integrate commercial drones into the national airspace by 2015, meaning flying robots are going to become a lot more common in the U.S.

Personally, I don't like eating first thing in the morning because it would mean losing out on a little sleep.

Now, parked in a 300 - square - foot office near the San Francisco Caltrain station, with four crazy guys in the suite next door creating one of the first «I - S - P's (nobody even knew what that meant back then), I made a little videoconferencing program with equally little hope of generating revenue.

This doesn't necessarily mean crushing an entire novel in a few hours, but put aside a little time to read, preferably 20 to 30 minutes.

«Development» and «evolution» — words of such importance to us — would have meant little in the timeless culture of Sumer, where everything that was — their city, their fields, their herds, their plows — had always been.»

Hyperloop gets around this major issue by only having a partial vacuum in the tubes (meaning they can leak a little).

He added that the legislation was meant to fix an «obvious market failure» that left connected device companies with little incentive to build with security in mind.

From little girls on the playground to women in the workplace, Sandberg said there is a gender bias that women «aren't meant to lead.»

Even if you don't have kids, getting older and having the desire for a little more convenience go hand in hand, which means that eventually at least some millennials are going to see the appeal of living in the suburbs.

As envisioned by Solar Roadways, the roads would heat themselves — meaning little to no work to maintain them in winter — and have lights that could replace street signs and warn drivers of impediments ahead.

In fact, given that these letters are being sent to tens of thousands of businesses, and they are all form letters, means that there is very little «proof» of wrongdoing anyway.

And when things go wrong between co-founders, as with most things in life, a little planning up front can mean the difference between a catastrophic vs. merely painful outcome.»

But for some poor little baby dino - bird, it meant catching its wing in some sticky goop that held it fast, squirming and scratching until it died.

What it really means: When investors fund a startup a little bit at a time instead of in a lump sum.

Click the little bell icon in the left margin near your name to shut yourself off completely, meaning whoever is trying to communicate with you via Slack will just have to wait.

Everyday when you go in and try to do something a little better means that everyday you are setting yourself up to fail in small ways.

Tom Drennen, a creative director based in Detroit, is launching an organization meant to inspire creatives to come together to reclaim their doodles and submit them to Doodlegooder, which will deliver them to children who need a little joy.

I mean we could go into it, but it's a little bit soon to go into it but fortunately, somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction, it would have been as bad as it was, it would have been much worse.

The agreement calls for the agent to be compensated even in sales closed by the seller, but that fee is not stipulated, meaning it theoretically could amount to as little as a penny.

The agency warned last fall that there's little evidence to support kratom's use as a «natural» pain relief alternative, and in February, it issued a public health advisory saying that kratom compounds — ostensibly meant to replace addictive opioid products — are actually opioid products themselves.

They have nice memory foam in the ear - cups, and while we would have liked to see a little more foam in the headband, that's not a deal - breaker by any means.

So if you know, as a woman, that it's going to be a little tougher for you that means you'll have a thicker skin going in there and you have to be ready for a little bit more rejection than your male counterparts.

Earning even a small amount of income in your retirement years means you don't have to rely 100 percent on your savings to fund your lifestyle, and that in turn means you may be able to retire with a little less in the bank.

As to the increase in numbers, a little reflection should persuade even those Jews who, like Professor Namier, think of numbers as dangerous («to a nation rooted in its own soil... they mean strength and security, but for us, outside Palestine, they have always constituted a danger») that the danger here is more apparent than real.

As Gawker's Trotter points out in his own article this week, Hogan's lawsuit and the media company's resulting bankruptcy mean that there would likely be little financial compensation available for any plaintiffs suing Gawker Media.

But just because Unilever now has experience creating an idea and taking it to market in a little over a year doesn't mean it will start randomly launching brands, Seal said.

It may be too little too late, but we can assure you this was not meant in any kind of malicious way.

Here are 12 common passive - aggressive text phrases and the true meaning behind them so you'll know how to proceed a little better and in a more productive manner when you next see them.

More than just your standard definition, the emoji pages not only explain what an emoji means, but also dig a little deeper to explain where the emoji comes from and who uses it, as well as examples of the emoji in use.

This corrected only to go back up to 13.4 x in 2013 and then reverted back to 4x — a little bit below the historical mean.

The Guaranteed Income Supplement was meant to be in place only long enough to help the people who reached 65 before the full Canada Pension Plan pensions became available and who would have little or nothing other than Old Age Security, and perhaps a reduced Canada Pension Plan pension, to live on.

And I don't mean just a little bit better, I mean a lot better,» Trump said in his prepared remarks.

Experts say the Dow's record high means relatively little in the grand scheme of things.