Sentences with phrase «mean anything except»

Accuracy doesn't mean anything except bonus points for shooting the bullseye, which is great considering how twitchy the experience was for me.

Sticking out his tongue didn't mean anything except that Willard was what he was: a rude and disagreeable child, according to Mother.

Not exact matches

You can't buy anything at Burning Man except coffee and ice, but that doesn't mean a trip to Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the wild arts festival, which begins August 28, is cheap.

Dan, just because they were called republicans at the time in no way means they had anything in common with modern day republicans (except the name obviously).

In the case of metaphysics, at least, Hartshorne's reliance and insistence on falsification appears to be a consequence of his view that the truth of metaphysical statements is a function of their meaning: «Metaphysical statements are not opposed to anything except wrong ways of talking.

In a sense, what it means to be a mainline Protestant, as opposed to a Catholic or an Anabaptist, is that one can not be excommunicated for anything (except, apparently, for joining the Klan).

But to be a modern Christian, they tell me, means forgetting that humans have emotions for anything except God.

The audience can hardly miss the meaning: no politician ever quite means what he says or ever does anything except for reasons of self - aggrandizement.

«No words mean or can say anything, except as one knows, with inexpressible and unsayable immediacy, what the words are pointing at or showing, independently of the words themselves.

As a Christian, I learned (from my husband) that the Bible says the marriage bed is undefiled (meaning you can do about anything except animals or extra partners), and that the command from God to be fruitful and multiply came BEFORE the Fall.

Last night's game means nothing except that the Celtics need to get healthy if they want to do anything in the playoffs.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

I finally jumped on the raw Apple Cider Vinegar trolley after 19 google searches brought me no such luck that my $ 0.69 bottle of cider vinegar did anything except burn going down and make a mean salad dressing.

Except for Grand Moff Tarkin, who was basically a bunch of Peter Cushing - shaped pixels, none of the major players were people we knew; most of them were characters we'd never heard of, the grunts and redshirts of the galactic war, and that meant anything could happen to them, and that the film didn't have to set aside a certain amount of space for enacting things we'd heard about but never seen dramatized.

But this feature adaptation has no narrative ties to the animated series, which means audiences of all ages can go into the movie without having to know anything except that this is another clever LEGO movie with a fantastic voice cast behind it.

«The opportunity to use random assignment - the lotteries - to study and compare two important models for school decentralization means that the students we compared were very similar in terms of family background, motivation, and anything else you might think of except for the likelihood of attending a charter or pilot school.»

The Dodge Durango is the quintessential, work - hard, play - hard, do - anything SUV — except when filling up a 13 - mpg vehicle means it's smarter to leave it parked in the driveway.

Media remains the focus throughout as Sony has also included dedicated Surround Sound technology for the speakers whilst built - in digital noise - cancelling means that when paired with Sony's own noise - cancelling headset you won't hear anything except what's playing on the tablet.

I never really won anything before (except a $ 25 raffle at a doll house fair) and I couldn't believe it when I saw my name — I guess this means I won't have much chance winning the HGTV Dreamhome sweepstakes that I've been signing up for everyday The strange thing is that I was seriously thinking about updating my covers lately.

I mean, I know it sounds wacky, but I once met a retailer who told me that he didn't do anything except corporate superheroes and licensed comics because he was burned by Brian Michael Bendis» Icon comics.

That simply means that there was not sufficient data to establish anything except that it was very low.

The hand - basin in the bathroom is exactly that and is not meant for anything else except basic ablutions.The shower is the place where the whole body can be washed in reasonable comfort.

I mean you couldn't do anything except isolate yourself further.

Which means you know nothing about anything except for studying materials that you are given in your classes, and taking tests on how well you've learned the materials given to you in your classes.

If I attempt to put myself in the position of a robot from Mars who doesn't know anything about the climate change debate except that it seems important to humans, I don't believe I could conclude that anyone was «taken to the cleaners» in this exchange (assuming a robot from Mars knows what that expression means:) I think I'd have to conclude that both participants were framing the issue in different ways and so there wasn't a meeting of minds, nor any change of the needle by either one on the attitudes of the other, nor likely much to help inform locals who were just as mystified by the debate as I was.

Tell you what, you stop using anything that comes from fossil fuels, that includes power, heating your home, driving or transit anywhere, no food except what you grow with no fertilizers, no clothing, no medical treatment, no plastics of any kinds (which means your computer).

Nonorganic products that are marketed as natural are often just as processed and / or laden with chemicals as any of the most mainstream products, yet that's the label that a lot of consumers are apparently looking for, and skipping over organic — even though «natural» doesn't mean anything, except that a company knows what people want to hear.I heard repeatedly that organic companies are losing product sales, sometimes even shelf space, to so - called «natural» products.

If economic market signals mean anything, no one should be building new generation except to replace retiring capacity units.

Distracted driving in any state means doing anything except keeping your eyes and attention on the road and your surroundings.

I am not aware of any recognized standards organization, except perhaps the Sedona Conference, proposing that the prefixes kilo, mega and giga mean anything other than multiples of 1,000.

That means that if my house burns down OR my storage unit gets broken into while I'm deployed, OR the moving company loses anything on the inventory the next time I'm moving (among many other disasters tht could hit), they're replacing all of my electronics, all of my china, all of my clothes, all of my furniture, all of everything except the irreplaceables like family photos.

Anything that's considered an «excepted benefit» under the ACA, which means it's not regulated by the healthcare reform law.

These tablets are identical to their non-kids edition counterparts except you get a 2 - year worry - free guarantee included, which means Amazon will replace these tablets if anything happens to them, no questions asked.

Here is a clause to assist you in making sure the seller does not remove anything that the buyer is expecting to receive on closing: «The seller represents and warrants that all existing flooring and floor coverings, drapery tracks, ceiling fans and fixtures, built - in appliances, bathroom mirror (s), heating - ventilating - air conditioning equipment, central vac and accessories and all other items secured by means of nails, screws, plumbing, wiring, ducting and related accessories that are now on the property are to be included in the purchase price except items which are leased or rented and those specifically listed herein and all shall be in working order and free from all liens and encumbrances on completion.»

I don't really know anything about fiddle leaf figs except that I want one and they need LOTS of light (which means it probably wouldn't be good in my house).