meaningful process

He said it was time to "bring some other perceptions, other tools, other approaches, in order to make this a meaningful process."

After undergoing a meaningful process of consolidation," as an analyst puts it, the No. 1 and 2 players will remain, and maybe a third."

Only then, the official said, can Mr. Arafat expect the United States to "move beyond that to help resume a meaningful process of negotiations."

Indeed, when I left there was no meaningful process in place to review and take appropriate action to either reject or on some level adopt these employee suggestions."

"But for a lot of my clients, it's not a meaningful process because there's the feeling that the O.C.C. is still a part of the police department."

"We started a meaningful process in Japan and we mean to follow up on it," said Robert C. Stempel, chairman of the General Motors Corporation.

This plan calls for an immediate ceasefire and lays out the principles necessary to create a framework to achieve reconciliation and national unity in Libya by a meaningful process.

This is a meaningful process for the further development of the Naturpark Erzgebirge/Vogtland, and it could also contribute to mitigating the whole problem of economic and social problems.

John Hume, the leader of the mainstream, predominantly Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party, notes that in the I.R.A. policy statement there is a promise to cooperate in a "meaningful process."

"It's hard not to conclude that this was so much about getting an end result and not having a meaningful process," said Andrew Wilder, head of the Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit, an independent research group here.