`` What did you mean by that rattlesnake gag??

What did it mean??

He probably didn't mean to write it this way, or maybe he did.

Yet even that explosion did not mean much.

This did not mean that married students could not enroll in other `` mixed '' sections, and some of them, largely because of scheduling difficulties, did.

If we did not mean to say this, why should we be so relieved on finding that the suffering had not occurred??

On the other hand significant facts may be concealed -- she may mean I or everybody, as it did with the tense and irritable woman mentioned before, may refer to a specific person.

Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism was a dead issue.

this was not virtue as we understand the word today, and it did not mean an abandonment of the belief in magic manipulation.

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

Swift presents the dire state of Ireland and shows that mere population itself, in Ireland ’ s case, did not always mean greater wealth and economy.

Though the team did not win, the urn containing the ashes was sent ( could mean presented ) to him just before leaving Melbourne .”

Not only did this mean that Ford enjoyed much larger demand, but the resulting larger demand also allowed further economies of scale to be exploited, further depressing unit price, which tapped yet another portion of the demand curve.

Carnegie's criticism of British society did not mean dislike ; on the contrary, one of Carnegie's ambitions was to act as a catalyst for a close association between the English-speaking peoples.

During World War II and for many years afterward, Capp worked tirelessly going to hospitals to entertain patients, especially to cheer recent amputees and explain to them that the loss of a limb did not mean an end to a happy and productive life.

This does not mean that the episcopate, in the sense of the holder of the order or office of bishop, must have developed only later, or have been plural, because in each church the college or presbyter-overseers ( also called " presbyter-bishops ") did not exercise an independent supreme power ; it was subject to the Apostles or to their delegates.

Berlin quotes a series of scholars who suggest that the author of Esther did not mean for the book to be considered as a historical writing, but intentionally wrote it to be a historical novella.

" Thou canst not say I did it ", for example, can mean that Macbeth is not the man who actually killed Banquo, or it can mean that Duncan, who was asleep when Macbeth killed him, cannot claim to have seen his killer.

However, this did not mean that the Polish army chose to attack tanks with horse cavalry.

Unfortunately, the parabolas did not meet smoothly at the mean motion, but met with a discontinuity or jump.

The designation of Dragoon Guards did not mean that these regiments ( the former 2nd to 8th Horse ) had become Household Troops, but simply that they had been given a more dignified designation to compensate for the loss of pay and prestige.

Clemence's 1948 proposal did not adopt a correction of this kind in terms of mean solar time: instead, the same numbers were used as in Newcomb's original uncorrected formula ( 1 ), but now in a reverse sense, to define the time and time scale implicitly, based on the real position of the Sun:

However, these associations changed over time, and they did not necessarily mean that the god associated with a place had originated there.

Cuyp was one of the first Dutch painters to appreciate this new leap forward in style and while his own Both-inspired phase was quite short ( limited to the mid 1640s ) he did, more than any other contemporary Dutch artist, maximize the full chromatic scale for sunsets and sunrises.

Strategies based on maneuver have the inherent danger of the attacking force overextending its supply lines, and can be defeated by a determined foe who is willing and able to sacrifice territory for time in which to regroup and rearm, as the Soviets did on the Eastern Front ( as opposed to, for example, the Dutch who had no territory to sacrifice ).

However, Ian Hacking noted that traditional Dutch book arguments did not specify Bayesian updating: they left open the possibility that non-Bayesian updating rules could avoid Dutch books.

That single, " Guitar Blues ", was fairly progressive, including as it did, a clarinet solo by Nashville dance band musician Dutch McMillan with Owen Bradley on piano.

Some congregations and members in the Dutch Reformed Church did not agree with the merger and have separated.

When the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) was founded in 1602, some traders in Amsterdam did not agree with its monopolistic politics.

From the beginning the Emperor had refused to accept the will of Charles II, and he did not wait for England and the Dutch Republic to begin hostilities.

Called " factories " ( because the " factor ," i. e., a person acting as a mercantile agent did business from there ), these posts operated in the manner of the Dutch fur trading operations in New Netherland.

Any person could develop and use a coat of arms if they wished to do so, provided they did not usurp someone else's arms, and historically, this right was enshrined in Roman Dutch law.

She also bought more than 400 works by Dutch artist Bart van der Leck, but his popularity did not take off like van Gogh's.

Likewise Dutch did not get the ' ij ' and ' IJ ' letters, because Dutch speakers had become used to typing these as two letters instead.

# Lead Medium-( attributed to the " Little Dutch Masters ") This medium was the same as the one used by Rubens, but did not include beeswax.

Only in 1544 did a version of the standard Greek text become available, edited by the Dutch humanist Arnoldus Arlenius.

Great Britain and the Dutch East Indies government did likewise.

Dutch ambassador Isaac Titsingh did not refuse to kowtow during the course of his 1794-1795 mission to the Imperial Court of Emperor Qianlong.

The Philippine and Algerian teams also left the Games, as did some members of the Dutch and Norwegian teams.

The Dutch East India Company did not, however, actually employ the Swedish botanist and physician Carl Peter Thunberg ( 1743 – 1828 ), who arrived in Japan in 1775.

In 1522 the first ships from Europe arrived, and by 1866 Sumba belonged to the Dutch East Indies, although the island did not come under real Dutch administration until the twentieth century.

In 1984, SURALCO, a subsidiary of Alcoa, formed a joint venture with the ( at that time ) Royal Dutch Shell-owned Billiton Company, which did not process the bauxite it mined in Suriname.

The Dutch first arrived in 1605, but did not effectively rule Sumbawa until the early 20th century.

In 1680, the Dutch naturalist Anton van Leeuwenhoek first microscopically observed yeast, but at the time did not consider them to be living organisms but rather globular structures.