Defective surveying of the original route of the L & MR caused by the hostility of some of the affected landowners meant that Stephenson encountered difficulty during Parliamentary scrutiny of the original bill, especially under cross-examination by Edward Hall Alderson.

Thus, political or military control of an oasis has in many cases meant control of trade on a particular route.

The union was valuable to England from a security standpoint, since it meant that Scotland lost the possibility to choose a different monarch on her death, reducing the chance of a European power using Scotland as a route to invading England.

The United States intervention against communist forces in Indochina during a conflict commonly referred to in the United States as the Vietnam War meant that Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia had to go through a prolonged and protracted war in their route to independence.

The highway is also meant to be an evacuation route in case of a disaster, where the eastbound lanes ( as well as the eastbound lanes on Interstate 195 ) would be reversed all the way to the New Jersey Turnpike.

It marked the entrance to the Wythes Estate in Bickley, but its narrow archway meant that double-decker buses were not able to be used on the route.

The route remained intact, becoming part of an engineering feat meant for the safety of drivers.

When he landed in New York in the June 1915, though it was ostensibly meant to be a simple port of call en route to Cuba to buy molasses for a friend of his — the director of a sugar refinery — the city snapped him up and the stay became prolonged.

The walk was not meant to be taken as the route of a corpse road but the possibility of bad weather and difficult conditions make it an appropriate club song.

The main route between Lincoln and York was Ermine Street which meant crossing the Humber Estuary in boats.

The opening of the new tramway along the Embankment meant it was decided to link up with this route instead and the station was never built.

Bobbitt contends that the Framers of the Constitution believed that statutory authorization was the route by which the United States would be committed to war, and that ' declaration ' was meant for only total wars, as shown by the history of the Quasi-War with France ( 1798 – 1800 ).

The linking of the GN & SR and B & PCR routes meant that the section of the GN & SR south of Holborn became a branch from the main route.

In the new company, the disadvantages of the Midland ’ s route were clear — its steeper gradients and greater length meant it could not compete on speed from London to Glasgow, especially as Midland route trains had to make more stops to serve major cities in the Midlands and Yorkshire.

Stu breaks his leg en route and convinces the others to go on without him as they promised, telling them that God will provide for him if that's what's meant to happen.

The gradual construction of the M6 from Rugby ( where it met the M1 to London ) to Carlisle in 1970, where it terminated on the A74, meant that the route from Glasgow to London was entirely dual carriageway.

Unlike the coastal Tōkaidō, the Nakasendō traveled inland, hence its name, which can be translated as " central mountain route " ( as opposed to the Tōkaidō, which roughly meant " eastern sea route ").

The M272 was meant to go from Junction 5 through Portswood to the centre of Southampton, joining with an extended M271 ( that would have followed a similar route to today's A33 ).

This also meant that the loads carried by the panel could not be redistributed to other adjacent panels, because there was no route for the forces to follow.

Both George and Robert Stephenson were prepared to go to great lengths to avoid steep gradients that would tax the locomotives of the day, even if this meant choosing a circuitous route that added on extra miles.

It was this later route that formed part of the " Varsity Line " from Oxford to Cambridge, and legend has it that the station was so called because the then isolation of the area meant that the only obvious name was that of the local landowner.

The absorption of the Canadian Northern Railway into the Canadian National Railways meant the loss of many CNoR facilities, as the Canadian Northern route through Port Arthur was downgraded by the new CNR.

Apart from a visit by the French Parmentier brothers in 1529, for much of the 16th century the only Europeans to visit the islands were Portuguese ; British and Dutch ships began arriving at the turn of the century and the island of Ndzwani became a major supply point on the route to the East.

The Portuguese explorer, Fernão do Pó, seeking a route to India, is credited with having discovered the island of Bioko in 1471.

In the 16th century, the Portuguese broke the monopoly of the Arabs and Italians of trade between Asia and Europe by the discovery of the sea route to India around the Cape of Good Hope.

In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain, found a sea route into the Pacific Ocean.

* 1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.

The first European fleet, four Portuguese ships from Malacca, arrived in 1513 when the Portuguese were looking for a route for spices.

By this time the Portuguese Empire had already lost its interest on the spice trade sea route because of the decreasing profitability of that business.

The Guangzhou-Macau-Nagasaki route was particularly profitable because the Portuguese acted as middlemen, shipping Chinese silks to Japan and Japanese silver to China, pocketing huge markups in the process.

From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts became regular ports of call on the new route to the east.

* 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode ( previously known as Calicut ), India.

Portuguese expansion into the Indian Ocean in the early 16th century following Vasco da Gama's route of exploration saw them battle the Ottomans up the coast of the Persian Gulf.

Both came via Tete in Mozambique to Mwata Kazembe's capital to try to get the chief's agreement to a Portuguese trade route between their territories of Mozambique and Angola.

* May 20 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut ( now Kozhikode ), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa, thus discovering the maritime route to India.

The knowledge of wind patterns and currents, the trade winds and the oceanic gyres in the Atlantic, and the determination of latitude led to the discovery of the best ocean route back from Africa: crossing the Central Atlantic to the latitude of the Azores, using the permanent favorable winds and currents that spin clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere because of atmospheric circulation and the effect of Coriolis, facilitating the way to Lisbon and thus enabling the Portuguese venturing increasingly farther from shore, the maneuver that became known as the " volta do mar " ().

He was succeeded in 1495 by Manuel I, who was named " the Great " or " the Fortunate ," because in his reign the sea route to India was discovered and a Portuguese Empire founded.

From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts became regular ports of call on the new route to the east.

While the Portuguese ( and, subsequently, other Europeans ) were entering China from its southern coast, by the sea route, the question arose as to whether it happens to be the same country as Cathay which Marco had reached by the overland route.

Unlike Christopher Columbus, who thought he had reached the East Indies, the Portuguese, most notably Vasco da Gama, had already reached India via the Indian Ocean route when they reached Brazil.

On 7 May 1487, two Portuguese envoys, Pêro da Covilhã and Afonso de Paiva, were sent traveling secretly overland to gather information on a possible sea route to India, but also to inquire about Prester John.

The Portuguese explorations were his main priority in government, pushing south the known coast of Africa with the purpose of discovering the maritime route to India and breaking into the spice trade.

It was in some part the preciousness of these spices that led to the Portuguese efforts to find a sea route to China during the age of discovery and consequently to the Portuguese colonial occupation of that country, as well as the European discovery and colonisation of the Americas.