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She gave me a meaningful look.
He regards women as disposable pleasures rather than as meaningful pursuits.
I learnt to live a more meaningful life.
My signature is meaningful, majestic and inimitable.
I wanted to say something meaningful.
Welcome to a new and more meaningful reality.
Take the judgments of one person about others and get a meaningful picture of his own character.
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It may be hard. but my life now feels more meaningful than ever.
But I want to use my respite for one meaningful act.
Everything seems so good, so meaningful.
I think it's time I had the opportunity. to start living some kind of meaningful existence.
If knew that our resistance was meaningful.
I never saw anything so meaningful.
You're all obviously too lazy and too warped to do anything meaningful with your life, so you prey upon the sexual fantasies of others.
But unfortunately, we haven't received any meaningful responses.
Try something more meaningful.
But, Miles, meaningful relationships between men and women don't last.
How are we to have a meaningful family relationship. when he's on the verge of killing you half the time?
Independence Day is very meaningful to me.
What a meaningful miracle!
Oh, it was a meaningful relationship.
You prepare the ground with meaningful looks.
You know, he loves his children very much, but he has no meaningful contact with them.
Everything seems so good, so meaningful. Everything is true.
Everything must be desperately important and meaningful. -. and goodness knows what.
You must be on the brink of some meaningful discovery.
Takes time to establish a meaningful relationship.
What's meaningful about his death?
His death isn't meaningful! It is.
I thought you were against the office approach to psychiatry and that you felt only the clinic atmosphere produced meaningful results.
Everything must be desperately important and meaningful.
Because elsewhere, there are meaningful deaths?
Perhaps it's not meaningful to you.
You tell me about a meaningful relationship. I tell you to stuff it.
But I wanted it to be for something meaningful, something...lasting.
But if you go away, and I'd have a child from you, my life would be meaningful.
That wouldn't be quite so meaningful, except today she came on to me and that lady is about to come into a great deal of money.
I want to have deep, meaningful sex with her.
I think this is a very meaningful activity.
My analyst said it's a need to feel as if I'm playing a meaningful role in life.
News and current affairs
Governments talk far too much about setting a relatively high carbon tax on emissions, while focusing far too little on ensuring a meaningful increase in research and development to bring about necessary breakthroughs.
Wouldn't life be easier if a common market, currency, foreign policy, army, and a few other things were run on a Europe-wide basis, with the rest left to more meaningful local units?
While the US Federal Reserve Board's first round of quantitative easing was effective in ending a wrenching crisis, the second round has done little to sustain meaningful recovery in the labor market and the real economy.
Droughts and heat waves are a harbinger of our future, carbon cuts are needed now more than ever, and yet meaningful policies have not been enacted.
Given the long lead time between project preparation and the first benefits of emissions reductions, project developers have only a few years to act before carbon payments cease to make a meaningful contribution to project finance in the current context.
The more meaningful message is how these shocks box the rest of us into an even tighter corner.
But such goals are meaningful only if a fragile state's partners are ready to accept the lead from a capital like Juba rather than from their own headquarters.
More meaningful is the respect that comes from incubating insights, rather than the products of past discoveries.
This does not mean that we are not working on how European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) can offer a meaningful contribution.
For meaningful burden-sharing to work, however, eurozone leaders must stop dreaming that the single currency can survive another 20 or 30 years without much greater political union.
Nor are emerging markets yet large enough to play a meaningful role in the balance of total global demand.
In any meaningful international comparison, China's per capita stock of physical capital is still 8-10 times lower than in advanced countries like the United States and Japan.
The government has failed to take any meaningful action, and the problem is getting worse.
Neither side trusts the other, so social wars have replaced meaningful political progress.
And America's unwillingness to take meaningful steps to reduce its ballooning fiscal deficit further undermines the effectiveness of its foreign policy.
Since other countries' economies and jobs are also at stake, they owe it to their citizens to press the US to deliver meaningful financial reforms.
Unlike the token gestures of reform offered by previous rulers, Sein's actions appeared substantive and meaningful.
Bank league tables have been with us for a while, and now tend to be based on capital strength, rather than asset volume, which is an improvement of sorts, but still not very meaningful.
The problem is that it remains a departure without any meaningful destination.
The West had better hope that the Iranian narrative proves true, because the political space for any meaningful diplomatic agreement - both the desire for a deal and the room to achieve it - is created at home.
Almost inevitably, at international summits from Kyoto to Copenhagen, governments failed to take any meaningful action on global warming.
It is equally clear that Asian states are not yet ready to assume the more meaningful leadership in global affairs that will be necessary to ensure that this tectonic shift can make the world more stable and secure than it has been.
Until this structure emerges, let us hope that America can lead wisely and that other countries, particularly Asia's new powers, will assume more meaningful responsibilities in managing global crises.
Elections are meaningful only if they are perceived to be free and fair, which requires independent referees.
The answer can't be found in the specific policy proposals of Republicans or Democrats, which have evolved so much over the years that they defy meaningful generalization.