Mama knew this doll was meant to help Mrs. Coolidge overcome her grief by turning her eyes to the future.

Following a request by the government of Guinea-Bissau, Angola sent there a contingent of about 300 troops meant to help putting an end to the political-military unrest in that country, and to reorganize the local military forces.

Unfortunately, they were blown back to Aeolia, where Aeolus refused to provide any further help, because he believed that their short and unsuccessful voyage meant that the Gods did not favour them.

" The vow of brahmacarya is meant to help one completely abstain from sex indulgence in work, words, and mind – at all times, under all circumstances and in all places.

And being a citizen often meant being subject to the city's law in addition to having power in some instances to help choose officials.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

He called into question the usefulness of such theories to the wider left movement saying he " never understood how deconstruction was meant to help the working class.

The PSLs, which ranged in cost from $ 250 to $ 4, 000, were meant to help repay the $ 200 million it cost the city of Oakland and Alameda County to expand Overstock. com Coliseum.

Again, these dates are meant as a tool to help understand the types of procedure in use, not as a rigid boundary where one system stopped and another began.

The Standard Days Method is promoted in conjunction with a product called CycleBeads, a ring of colored beads which are meant to help the user keep track of her fertile and non-fertile days.

( The color of the rays is to help distinguish the rays, and is not meant to indicate any color dependence.

This meant that the other subjects ( including Philosophy ) existed primarily to help with theological thought.

It was meant to help deal with the high levels of inflation experienced under the sucre.

The Vietnam Era Veterans ' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended,, was meant to try and help the veterans overcome this.

This State Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun ( 1787 ) of Marie Antoinette and her children Marie Thérèse, Louis Charles ( on her lap ), and Louis Joseph, was meant to help her reputation by depicting her as a mother and in simple, yet stately attire.

This is meant to help a practitioner conserve both energy and time ; two crucial components in a physical confrontation.

The wall was called Mauer-muur and was meant to help defend the city.

The split in the Radical party over Boulangism weakened his hand, and its collapse meant that moderate Republicans did not need his help.

Many early tomb paintings were meant to protect the dead or help their souls get to paradise.

The entire construction of the Riverworld ecology was meant to help further this process of moral contemplation.

A second was to help the American people understand what nuclear energy and its possible applications to war meant.

Tilting trains are meant to help reduce the effects of centrifugal force on the human body, but they can still cause nausea as they do not reduce the Coriolis effect on balancing systems.

Cox, Sam Garth Jr., and Barney Sissom created GIASISCO Corporation, which was meant to help expand the town from 400 acres to 950.

He testified that he'd meant to go to sleep in Jackson's room, had found the door " kind of locked, so pushed it, and it opened " and walked some ways into the room and stopped when he saw what Gavin and Michael were doing.

They won their final SPL game, a home match against Hearts 1 – 0 with a goal from Gavin Skelton, which meant they finished the season with 13 points, narrowly avoiding setting a record low points total for the SPL.

Eventually, he figured out that Racelle Gavin was their mother which meant he was their father.

Once on the road ( and especially if the passengers were all regulars and masculine ), the schedule meant nothing.

What I meant to say was that I started to start in on the dishes by gathering them all together in the kitchen sink.

Now Stalin made it clear that he meant to move Poland's western borders deep into Germany, back to the western Neisse-Oder River lines, taking not only East Prussia and all of Silesia but Pomerania and the tip of Brandenburg, back to and including Stettin.

The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

If you look at a reading meant for someone else, you will probably see that many of the items could be considered as applicable to you, even when you were not in the picture at all!!

The din was successful, too, for just before the moon disappeared, the frightened toad had begun to spit it out again, which meant good luck all around.

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

Rieux, as the narrator, describes what exile meant to them all:

Alfred meant his translation to be used and circulated it to all his bishops.

This meant it could provide a separate programmable character for all of the 1024 ( 64x16 ) or 2000 ( 80x25 ) characters on the screen.

Because grocery stores are not permitted to carry wine or liquor, the older law essentially meant that only beer and alcoholic malt beverages could be purchased at all on Sundays.

This meant that in discussing conflicts between kingdoms, the date would have to be given in the regnal years of all the kings involved.

In the subsequent battle of Frekastein ( probably one of the 300 hill forts of Södermanland, as stein meant " hill fort ") against Högni and Grammar, all the chieftains on Granmar's side are slain, including Bragi, except for Bragi's brother Dag.

In 1931 Lemaître went further and suggested that the evident expansion of the universe, if projected back in time, meant that the further in the past the smaller the universe was, until at some finite time in the past all the mass of the Universe was concentrated into a single point, a " primeval atom " where and when the fabric of time and space came into existence.

Some scholars have suggested that Amos ’ s reference to Edom is symbolic of all nations who were once enemies of Israel and not meant to literally mean Edomites in the flesh.

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

At those times, the expressions were all used interchangeably with " Christian Era ", and " vulgar " meant " not regal " rather than " crudely indecent ".

Each is meant to facilitate the contribution of specific resources-investment capital, knowledge, relationships, and so forth-towards a venture which will prove profitable to all contributors.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.