For example, Gorbachev quickly became the party's de facto Second Secretary, even though Chernenko did not support him.

For example, Mikhail Gorbachev initially did not hold the presidency of the Soviet Union, that office being given as an honour to former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.

For example, Mikhail Gorbachev described perestroika as building a " new, humane and democratic socialism.

For others its was a reaction to the political events of the Soviet Union, at the apogee of what Mikhail Gorbachev later called the Era of Stagnation.

For all intents and purposes, Communist rule in the Soviet Union ended on August 24, when Gorbachev resigned as general secretary and ordered all party units in the government dissolved.

For example, a company owns $ 1000 of stock in another company that was originally purchased for $ 200.

For example, the Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly originally appeared only in the New York Star in 1948 and was not picked up for syndication until the following year.

For example, the Panzer III was originally designed with a 37 mm gun, but was mass produced with a 50 mm cannon.

For instance, the database might indicate that a car that was originally " red " might fade to " pink " in time, provided it was of some particular " make " with an inferior paint job.

For example, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children ( WISC ), originally developed in 1949, was updated in 1974, in 1991, and again in 2003.

For instance, the letter yu Ⱓ is thought to have perhaps originally had the sound / u /, but was displaced by the adoption of an ow ligature Ⱆ under the influence of later Cyrillic.

For the first time, the term " Kingdom ( Empire ) of the Germans " ( Regnum Teutonicorum ) was applied to a Frankish kingdom, although Teutonicorum at its founding originally meant something closer to " Realm of the Germanic peoples " or " Germanic Realm " than " realm of the Germans ".

For most of the 20th century, the definitive editions ( specifically At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, The Dunwich Horror and Others, and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions ) of his prose fiction were published by Arkham House, a publisher originally started with the intent of publishing the work of Lovecraft, but which has since published a considerable amount of other literature as well.

For example, in 1986, students from Mudd stole a memorial cannon from Fleming House at Caltech ( originally from the National Guard ) by dressing as maintenance people and carting it off on a flatbed truck for " cleaning.

For example, the sound ( the sh in shoe ) was originally represented with the letter ⟨ c ⟩ in English, but with the letter ⟨ x ⟩ in French.

For example, he said " I cannot get over the difficulty of the wine which is kept in the cellar for three or four years while constantly increasing in exchange value, or that of the oak tree, which perhaps originally had not 2 s. expended on it in the way of labour, and yet comes to be worth £ 100.

For the collectivization of the means of production, it was originally envisaged that workers will revolt and forcibly collectivize the means of production Once collectivization takes place, workers ' salaries would be determined in democratic organizations based on the amount of time they contributed to production.

For example, Life of the Party ( 1930 ) was originally produced as an all-color, all-talking musical comedy.

For instance, the multi-talented James Cagney had originally risen to fame as a stage singer and dancer, but his repeated casting in " tough guy " roles and gangster films gave him few chances to display these talents.

For example, during the earliest Sumerian period, the " en ", or high priest of male gods was originally a woman, that of female goddesses, a man.

For example, in the Myth real-time tactics series, originally created by Bungie Software, players use them to order battlefield units to face in a desired direction.

For tho'all nations count universally by tens ( originally occasioned by the number of digits on both hands ) yet 8 is a far more complete and commodious number ; since it is divisible into halves, quarters, and half quarters ( or units ) without a fraction, of which subdivision ten is uncapable ...." In a later treatise on Octave computation ( 1753 ) Jones concluded: " Arithmetic by Octaves seems most agreeable to the Nature of Things, and therefore may be called Natural Arithmetic in Opposition to that now in Use, by Decades ; which may be esteemed Artificial Arithmetic.

For example, the tune ' Austria ' ( originally Haydn's ' Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ') is associated today with the hymn ' Glorious things of thee are spoken ', just as ' New Britain ' an American folk melody, believed to be Scottish or Irish in origin ; has since the 1830s been associated with ' Amazing grace '.

For example, Guinness Extra Stout was originally called " Extra Superior Porter " and was only given the name Extra Stout in 1840.

For some reason, early writers of Chinese found it desirable to substitute for 气 a cognate character that originally meant to feed other people in a social context such as providing food for guests.

For example, the Radical Party of the Left in France or the ( originally Italian ) Transnational Radical Party, which exist today, are more focussed on republicanism than on simple liberalism.

For any given level of general performance, a RISC chip will typically have far fewer transistors dedicated to the core logic which originally allowed designers to increase the size of the register set and increase internal parallelism.

For example, the Vai syllabary originally had separate glyphs for syllables ending in a coda ( doŋ ), a long vowel ( soo ), or a diphthong ( bai ), though not enough glyphs to distinguish all CV combinations ( some distinctions were ignored ).

Spenser was a former State trooper assigned to the Suffolk County DA's Office ( although some novels state that he also worked out of the Middlesex County DA's Office, for example in Walking Shadow and the pilot episode of Spenser: For Hire said he was a Boston Police detective ), and regularly seeks help from ( or sometimes butts heads with ) Martin Quirk ( originally a lieutenant, later a captain ) of the Boston Police Department.

For if Serenissimus made the sign of the Cross with his right hand, and meant it, with his left he beckoned lewdly to any lady who happened to catch his eye.

For them the demos in democracy meant not the whole people, but the people as opposed to the elite.

For the defenders, this meant loss of control over the Horn and that they were effectively cut off from reinforcements by sea.

For Mexicans, " Chicano " meant having Mexican parents, but being born into U. S. soil.

For example, jīngjì ( 经济 ／ 經濟, keizai ), which in the original Chinese meant " the workings of the state ", was narrowed to " economy " in Japanese ; this narrowed definition was then re-imported into Chinese.

For example, he applies the word fides, which traditionally meant faithfulness towards one's political allies, to his relationship with Lesbia and reinterprets it as unconditional faithfulness in love.

For Africa this has meant fueling the already unprecedented urban growth phenomenon and increasing the challenges that go with it.

For Domitian, this meant that a significant part of his adolescence was spent in the absence of his near relatives.

For them " feudalism " meant seigneurial privileges and prerogatives.

For instance, placing the fan near your heart meant " I love you ", while opening a fan wide meant " Wait for me ".

For Nkrumah, nonalignment meant complete independence from the policies and alliances of both East and West and support for a worldwide union of so-called nonaligned nations as a counter to both East and West power blocs.

For a time, the military might of the Gall-Ghàidhils meant that Old Norse was prevalent in the Hebrides and, north of Ardnamurchan, the place names that existed prior to the 9th century have been all but obliterated.

Newton sought to remove the use of infinitesimals from his fluxional calculus, preferring to talk of velocities as in " For by the ultimate velocity is meant ... the ultimate ratio of evanescent quantities ".

For many years economical interplanetary travel meant using the Hohmann transfer orbit.

For example CP / M machines used many different floppy disk formats, which meant that one machine could not normally read disks from another CP / M machine, and Kermit was used as part of a process to enable the transfer of applications and data between CP / M machines and other machines with different operating systems.

For example, the phrase " I dreamt about blue angels last night " meant " I was visited by the police last night ".

Coke's preeminence extended across the ocean: " For the American revolutionary leaders, ' law ' meant Sir Edward Coke's custom and right reason.

For instance, markup languages are sometimes referred to as computer languages to emphasize that they are not meant to be used for programming.

For KTH, this meant that additional campuses around the Stockholm area were added.

For the most extreme, to be a Catholic now meant to believe more or less anything one wished to believe, or at least in the sense in which one personally interpreted it.

For example, ringing 4 bells on UPI wire-service machines meant an " Urgent " message ; 5 bells was a " Bulletin "; and 10 bells was a FLASH, used only for very important news.