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meant and Enemy
After threatening to go on hunger strike he was released, on January 5, but his name remained on the " key figures list " of the Enemy Alien Control Unit, which meant he was placed under surveillance.
" The Enemy " is never named but is clearly meant to be taken as the Communist Soviet Union, given their approach through Alaska, pseudo-Slavic accents, " People's Army " proclamations, and use of Soviet fighter aircraft ( Yak-17s and MiG-15s ) and bombers ( Tu-4, a clone of the American B-29 Superfortress ).

meant and sighted
This meant that a belt-fed machine-gun such as the Maschinengewehr 08 sighted along that diagonal line had easy targets to enfilade when attacking troops were blocked from advancing by the wire and then massed together in a line.
This served to heighten his crew's suspicions, but meant Paulie had to abide by the letter of the law of Tony's orders, since no wire was physically sighted, Paulie could not eliminate Pussy.

meant and ...
Although officially classified as a torpedo boat in 1898 by the US Navy, the, a long all steel vessel displacing 165 tons, was described by her commander, LT. John C. Fremont, as "... a compact mass of machinery not meant to keep the sea nor to live in ... as five sevenths of the ship are taken up by machinery and fuel, whilst the remaining two sevenths, fore and aft, are the crew's quarters ; officers forward and the men placed aft.
... Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by " truth ".
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 ".
I never meant to ... forbid or suppress, by sovereign decree, ground rent and interest on capital.
Murray Bookchin has put it this way " what of the syndicalist ideal of " collectivized " self-managed enterprises that are coordinated by like occupations on a national level and coordinated geographically by " collectives " on a local level ?... Here, the traditional socialist criticism of this syndicalist form of economic management is not without its point: the corporate or private capitalist, " worker-controlled " or not "” ironically, a technique in the repertoire of industrial management that is coming very much into vogue today as " workplace democracy " and " employee ownership " and constitutes no threat whatever to private property and capitalism ... In any case, " economic democracy " has not simply meant " workplace democracy " and " employee ownership.
There were two exceptions to this: if they were at a Country Club ( a place where various sports were played ) and if they were at a holiday resort / hotel ... which meant that with the exception of the resort / hotel staff, they were not seen by the general populace.
The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pop's " earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience ... since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, ABBA, etc.
He warded off the evil hour that seemed approaching, he infused vigour into our arms, he taught the nation to speak again as England used to speak to foreign powers ... Pitt, on entering upon administration, had found the nation at the lowest ebb in point of power and reputation ... France, who meant to be feared, was feared heartily ... They were willing to trust that France would be so good as to ruin us by inches.
And since the profit motive and the propensity to save were considered of paramount importance for the economic progress of all classes, this meant in particular that taxation should as little as possible interfere with the net earnings of business ... As regards indirect taxes, the principle of least interference was interpreted by Gladstone to mean that taxation should be concentrated on a few important articles, leaving the rest free ... Last, but not least, we have the principle of the balanced budget.
" This declaration was meant to scotch any Whig interpretation that parliament had given him the kingdom ... convince the Tories that he was no usurper.
The rabbis taught a " quite literally ... down-to-earth " view of the eternalness of God: That " God is eternal but it is not given to man to explore the full meaning of this idea ," and so " one cannot, therefore, expect to find in the rabbinic literature anything like a detailed examination of what is meant by divine eternity.
However, the structural changes associated with the later stages of industrial capitalism, including " increased centralization of production ... declining wages ... expanding ... labor pool ... intensifying competition, and ... he loss of competence and independence experienced by skilled labor " meant that " a critique that referred to all work as slavery and avoided demands for wage concessions in favor of supporting the creation of the producerist republic ( by diverting strike funds towards funding ... co-operatives, for example ) was far less compelling than one that identified the specific conditions of slavery as low wages ..." Thus, " wage slavery " was gradually replaced by the more pragmatic term " wage work " towards the end of the 19th century.
" It has meant domination through ideology or discourse ...
The band soon came up with the name " Cake "; rather than referring to the foodstuff, the name is meant to be " like when something insidiously becomes a part of your life ... mean it more as something that cakes onto your shoe and is just sort of there until you get rid of it ".
It never meant juvenile delinquents, it meant characters of a special spirituality who didn't gang up but were solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization ...
I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with " Beat "... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific ... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the " avatar " of all this.

meant and Then
Then she turned back to Wilson and smiled, and he wasn't quite sure what she meant by it.
Then Chris Broad scored three hundreds in successive Tests and bowling successes from Graham Dilley and Gladstone Small meant England won the series 2 – 1.
* " Weg nach unten " (" The way down ") describes a depressed person digging himself into the earth ; what appears to be metaphorical at first is in the end revealed to be meant literally: " Dann kommt Licht und ein Känguruh, und ich weiß ich bin zu weit " (" Then there's light and a kangaroo, and I know I've gone too far ")
Then, in 1968, the Red Guard purges meant to restore doctrinal orthodoxy to China had provoked civil war in parts of the country, which Mao resolved with the People's Liberation Army suppressing the pertinent cohorts of the Red Guard ; the excesses of the Red Guard and of the Cultural Revolution declined.
Then in 925 Theophylact of Tusculum and Alberic I of Spoleto also died ; this meant that within the course of a year, three of Pope John ’ s key supporters had died, leaving John dangerously exposed to the ambitions of Theophylact ’ s daughter, Marozia, who, it was said, resented John ’ s alleged affair with her mother Theodora.
Then the earl made a slip of the tongue, and these were the words he spoke: “ Then are we full old when these fires are burnt out .” But he meant so to have spoken, that they would then be full warmed.
Then, the Council put forth some highly controversial opinions in a decision related to the International Criminal Court, in Decision 98 – 408 DC, declaring that the sitting President of the Republic could be tried criminally only by the High Court of Justice, a special court organized by Parliament and originally meant for cases of high treason.
Then theoretically it may not be clear which category is meant.
Then in 1961 he was invited to play at the Half Note Club in New York ; a new transatlantic Musicians ' Union agreement meant that, in exchange, Zoot Sims played at Ronnie Scott's.
Then he spent his fortnight being " Very idle at Shrewsbury " which meant starting his " D " notebook on the transmutation sequence and his " M " notebook on the evolutionary basis of moral and social behaviour, filling sixty pages with notes and anecdotes from his father about experiences with patients.
Then Quendryda asked what all this ringing meant and was told how her brother's body was brought in procession into the abbey.
It was apparently meant to capitalise upon the group's ( and likely Gabriel's ) surging popularity in the U. S., as suggested by the timing of its release ( closely on the heels of Invisible Touch ) and its liner notes which document the band's early history, up to … And Then There Were Three …, which was not familiar to most of the group's American audience.
Then, Carolyn is seen sitting on the stoop narrating a letter that Troy imagines is meant for her, encouraging her from beyond on how she can't believe that she's 10 now and how she's proud of the way she's growing up.
Then, with Lions skipper Robin Thompson injured ahead of the third Test in Pretoria, Morgan was made captain and duly inspired his team and controlled the game to ensure a 9-6 win that meant the series could not be lost.

meant and at
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.
Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.
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.
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!!
It was an awkward hour, but I didn't have to punch any time clock, and it only meant that sometimes I had to stay a couple of hours later at the drawing board to finish up a job.
Alexios gathered the money by plundering imperial tombs at the church of the Holy Apostles, though Henry's death in September 1197 meant the gold was never despatched.
This meant that although ROM applications ran at the same speed, there was a substantial speed decrease on applications running from RAM.
In this reign of a weak Emperor dominated by court politics, a major theme was the ambivalence felt by prominent individuals and the court parties that formed and regrouped round them towards barbarians, which in Constantinople at this period meant Goths.
While the 320 pixel modes theoretically enable the 7800 to create games at higher resolution than the 256 pixel wide graphics found in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System, the intense processing demands of MARIA typically meant that programmers created their games using the lower 160 pixel modes.
The Trinity had been recognized at the Council of Nicea in 325, but debate about exactly what it meant continued.
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.
The Mirage 2000s are meant to be in service until at least 2015, when the Brazilian Air Force foresee the ( postponed ) F-X entering in service.
Borland CEO Del Yocam explained at the time that the new name, Inprise, was meant to evoke " integrating the enterprise ".
The concept of the overlordship of the whole of Britain was at least recognised in the period, whatever was meant by the term.
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.
At the same time, he was doing his National Service with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Shrewsbury, where Busby had advised him to apply as it meant he could still play for United at the weekend.
" It is commonly supposed that by jactus lapidum, Fitzstephen meant the game of bowls, but though it is possible that round stones may sometimes have been employed in an early variety of the game-and there is a record of iron bowls being used, though at a much later date, on festive occasions at Nairn ,-nevertheless the inference seems unwarranted.
Also, the narrowness of the field meant that Boudica could put forth only as many troops as the Romans could at a given time.
In 1924, Arthur Eddington showed that the singularity disappeared after a change of coordinates ( see Eddington – Finkelstein coordinates ), although it took until 1933 for Georges Lemaître to realize that this meant the singularity at the Schwarzschild radius was an unphysical coordinate singularity.
This could have been meant as a reaction against death metal bands, who at that time had begun to use brightly-colored album artwork.
Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

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