The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

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 ''.

This meant applying everything in human power to the realization of a cause.

" Unlike running WinCE, running DOS in near-standard specifications meant that everything from Lotus 1-2-3 to Zork worked as expected.

Other rabbinic scholars also note that Abraham was willing to do everything to spare his son, even if it meant going against the divine command: while it was God who ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son, it was an angel, a lesser being in the celestial hierarchy, that commanded him to stop.

" He regretted the decision to release no singles in retrospect, as " it meant the only judgement of our music was being made too much by critics opinions, which was ok and everything but there is nothing like the excitement of hearing on the radio.

The change of gauge at Gloucester meant that everything had to be transferred between trains, creating chaos.

The hacienda aimed for self-sufficiency in everything but luxuries meant for display, which were destined for the handful of people in the circle of the patrón.

The clinic was established with the goal of becoming everything the word " asylum " once meant: a shelter, a place of refuge, a sanctuary.

He did not gesture often but, when he did, it meant everything.

But she is the only member of Deptford society that Dunstan views as truly ‘ religious ’ in her attitude because she lives according to a light that arises from within ( which he contrasts with her husband ’ s ‘ deeply religious ’ attitude, which ‘ meant that he imposed religion as he understood it on everything he knew or encountered ’ ( 46 )).

Indeed, honor as represented by name and face meant everything to the soldiers.

Dantas asked what she meant about her book ; she was shy at first, but took him to her shack and showed him everything.

Fletcher sees the underlying meaning in everything, paying more attention to what is meant, rather than what is said.

Wendell Willkie, a Republican convert and fellow Hoosier, could attest that Watson's support, or lack thereof, meant everything in the state.

As he wrote in an autobiographical sketch, " there I learned early on what it meant to be poor and rich ... to have nothing and to have everything, to be happy with the happy people and to be sad with those who cried ".

The hypothesis applies to thoughts that have propositional content, and is not meant to describe everything that goes on in the mind.

Grayson attempts to brush this off, thinking Gordon meant only the forscenic assistance he had given, from which Gordon cuts him off, saying " I mean, thank you .... for everything.

Douglas has said in shoot interviews that he never told Flair that the heat was a work and that he meant everything that he said.

Although these trends laid the foundation for the development of capitalism in Spain and Europe as a whole, the total lack of regulation and pervasive corruption meant that small landowners often lost everything with a single stroke of misfortune.

During the glorious reign of Kapilendra deva, the first Suryavamsi Gajapati emperor, the boundary of the Kalinga empire ( Ancient Orissa ) stretched from river Ganges in North to Kaveri in South and from Amarkantak in West to Bay of Bengal ( Kalinga Sagara ) in east. This lake has disastering story regarding a quotation many people use it when they lost everything " Na kompa kolleru aiyindi " it meant that back in 50's many of the people of Telaprolu village head family's belongs to KAPU and REDDY's has invested and buyed lands near kolleru lake due to expansion of lake they lost all their properties its disastering period Reddy's of village laid them and provided support to them.

An X meant hold, an O meant extra, and Triple " O " meant plenty of everything.

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

It was meant to insult him, and didn't quite succeed.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

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

This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.

I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.

What they meant was that there was no evidence to show that the south and east coasts of Britain received Germanic settlers conspicuously earlier than some other parts of England.

Of course it was not meant to be.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

It was meant to be my present ''.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

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

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

Since Fogg's was a one-man, one-plane flying service, this meant that he would have to do both trips, flying alone 600 miles a day, under sub-freezing temperature conditions.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

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.

`` Mixed herd '' meant a herd of mixed sexes, while a `` straight steer herd '' was one composed entirely of steers, and when the cowman spoke of `` mixed cattle '', he meant cattle of various grades, ages, and sexes.

Again it was used as the title for the hoss wrangler, and when the order was given to go out and `` rustle the hosses '', it meant for 'im to go out and herd 'em in.