And her father, the President, does not by any means give her his support.

Does that mean he hasn't given you his agreement in the negotiations?

By all means give your child a hand while it is growing up.

They also found donors listed who did not have the financial means to give that amount of money.

But when we came to the house I figured that if means gave importance to a man, this one must cut some figure.

In this second case, the mean gives you a poor understanding how many jelly beans most people have (10 or less).

He had the means to give a striking proof of his fidelity.

Then by all means give him the credit of it.

The harmonic mean, on the other hand, gives equal weight to each data point.