Word: meant
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Communities became virtual communities; living with one another meant living in touch with one another; the American impulse to create civic associations that so impressed Tocqueville as the central feature of democracy now made its home in cyberspace, which imposed a new class system on the old. Over the disintegrated boundaries of time and space, chess players found fellow chess players, militia groups new members, religions converts, husbands wives, teenagers...
...others of value whose deaths recalled what was valuable. At Ella's death the radio played the songs she graced, like Cole Porter's In the Still of the Night, and for a while a voice filled the air that hit every note on the note, sang words that meant something and infused heartbreak with...
...election process for U.S. President has become far more direct and democratic in the past few decades than our founding fathers ever intended. The electoral college was meant to be a deliberative body of state legislature representatives who would carefully select the leader of the country. The electors were to be educated, informed citizens who understood the issues facing the government and could be trusted to select someone as important as the president of the United States...
Recently, a writer on this page who spoke of fostering religious dialogue on campus asked what a number of symbols meant, including the Christmas tree. On a campus where the trees have provoked controversy, the answer is important: Christmas trees have no religious significance...
These programs are defended because their mode of discrimination is meant to counteract a supposed greater evil. It is argued that anti-minority prejudice will never realistically be eliminated and so, from a pragmatic standpoint, the equally inequitable remedy should be tolerated. Even from a detached perspective, the logic of this reasoning seems questionable. Why should we sanction one injustice to fight another...