`` 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.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

When the end did come, and the schools were disbanded and abandoned, we felt and hoped that the machinery of psychological warfare would not be allowed to rust.

Drill a No. 50 hole, tap 2-56 and insert a roundhead 2-56 screw as you did on the first end.

In the end, Picasso and Braque plumped for the representational, and it would seem they did so deliberately.

In the end Hough's acidulous protest, which Parker called the `` now somewhat famous note on this ' Selden ' case '', did not go unheeded.

`` I wonder if they did eat each other at the end '', Owen mused.

In the end, I did the same old picture, the naked girl and the guy in the doorway, only I put a Lord Byron shirt on the guy, gave him a sword instead of a pistol, and painted in furniture from the stills of a costume movie.

Yet she did not hesitate and only turned slightly, her neck tall as she looked in his direction, and continued on her way toward the end of the camp.

But, in the end, we did.

Angola's war for independence did not end in a military victory for either side, but was suspended as a result of a coup in Portugal that replaced the Caetano regime.

The Council of Nicaea did not end the controversy, as many bishops of the Eastern provinces disputed the homoousios, the central term of the Nicene creed, as it had been used by Paul of Samosata, who had advocated a monarchianist Christology.

He next fought for the sovereignty of Provence against Raymond Berenger III, and not till September 1125 did the war end in an amicable agreement.

In France, Santo Daime won a court case allowing them to use the tea in early 2005 ; however, they were not allowed an exception for religious purposes, but rather for the simple reason that they did not perform chemical extractions to end up with pure DMT and harmala and the plants used were not scheduled.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

Telstra deployed a CDMA network, which did not suffer this limitation, and while the AMPS network was closed down at the end of 1999 in the major cities, the closure deadline was extended until the end of 2000 in rural areas to ease the transition to CDMA.

Emperors of Rome often met their end in this way, as did many of the Muslim Shia Imams hundreds of years later.

This oath however did not alleviate concerns regarding loyalty to Russia in time of crisis, especially since nearly 50 % of all military personnel were ethnically Russian at the end of 1992.

" The battle itself did not end the civil war but it was decisive and gave Caesar a much needed boost in legitimacy.

The Luftwaffe did end up with an air force consisting mainly of relatively short-range aircraft, but this does not prove that the German air force was solely interested in ’ tactical ’ bombing.

" The British did not know quite what to make of President Woodrow Wilson and his conviction ( before America's entrance into the war ) that the way to end hostilities was for both sides to accept " peace without victory.

Flowering plants ( angiosperms ) spread during this period, although they did not become predominant until the Campanian stage near the end of the epoch.

Although the FARC and ELN accepted participation in the peace process, they did not make explicit commitments to end the conflict.