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

He had a feeling that the girl meant trouble.

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.

He found a jar of preserved tomatoes and one of eggs that they had meant to save.

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.

Every woman has had the experience of saying no when she meant yes, and saying yes when she meant no.

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.

He had not meant to shout.

The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.

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.

When a cowhand said that a man had `` good cow sense '', he meant to pay 'im a high compliment.

Whoever it was had meant to shut him up in here, had followed him and waited till the courthouse and square were deserted.

Their demand against the Calvinist Orthodoxy for intellectual liberty had never meant that they would follow `` free inquiry '' to the extreme of proclaiming Christianity a `` natural '' religion.

The two little bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out, by the opposite door handle which she would be clutching, whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so much store time on the pot.

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.

Because the clocks had been on average well above sea level, this meant that TAI slowed down, by about 10 < sup >− 12 </ sup >.

Puebloan tradition holds that the ancestors had achieved great spiritual power and control over natural forces, and used their power in ways that caused nature to change, and caused changes that were never meant to occur.

This collapse of rain-fed agriculture in the Upper Country meant the loss to southern Mesopotamia of the agrarian subsidies which had kept the Akkadian Empire solvent.

His long military career in these fronts meant he had acquired the military experience needed to operate in the newly reached and vastly unexplored Indian Ocean.

This is most likely due to their size, which meant they were less able to adapt during the aftermath of the extinction event.

In order to adapt it to real situations, which at the time meant the use of polarised light and single-channel polarisers, they had to interpret '−' as meaning " non-detection in the '+' channel ", i. e. either '−' or nothing.

A willingness to adapt, and move from one industry to another meant that Godalming continued to thrive.

The 5-speed automatic gearbox had what Mitsubishi called " fuzzy logic ", which meant that the car would learn what the driver's driving characteristics were like and would adapt the gear change timings and kick down reactions accordingly.

It is important to mention that this work was serialized because this meant that during the writing process, Washington was able to hear critiques and requests from his audience and could more easily adapt his paper to his diverse audience.

Madeley's natural ability to adapt to a different role on a frequent basis meant that he was often in the side chosen by manager Don Revie at the expense of a ' specialist ' in that position, though the majority of the time there was a player either injured or suspended whom Madeley would replace, mainly in defence although, having become a regular in the team from 1966, Madeley was in attacking positions when Leeds won their first major honours under Revie.

The curriculum is meant to give students a strong knowledge in different social and economic sciences fields and working methods that enable them to be flexible and adapt themselves no matter what field they decide to work in.

This long-running pattern of tenaciously investing in technical innovation and complete end-to-end system design and manufacture created technically excellent computers, but meant that Apricot was slow to adapt as the worldwide market grew and changed.

The curriculum is meant to give students a strong knowledge in different social sciences fields ( Political Science, Public Law, Economics, History, International Relations, Sociology ) and working methods that enable them to be flexible and adapt themselves no matter what field they decide to work in.

:" A more fruitful way of distinguishing between ideology and religion is to adapt Søren Kierkegaard's view that the essence of a religion is not the persuasion of the truth of the doctrine, but a leap of faith to accept a view which is inherently absurd .... Fascism ’ s essential syncretism meant that it was possible to find forms, which overtly married ideology and religion – for example, in the Iron Guard, or among a limited number of Italian and German clerics ( though most failed to see the radicalism at the core of fascism ).

His upbringing with a succession of tutors meant that he had not learnt to mix, and so he did not easily adapt to life in an officers ’ mess.

Since the game is meant to be adapted to a group's tastes, the importance of this and the preceding storyline is largely a matter of personal preference.

The adjective ( philologos ) meant " fond of discussion or argument, talkative ", in Hellenistic Greek also implying an excessive (" sophistic ") preference of argument over the love of true wisdom,

No definition or examples were provided for " other sexual deviation ", but the general category of sexual deviation was meant to describe the sexual preference of individuals that was " directed primarily toward objects other than people of opposite sex, toward sexual acts not usually associated with coitus, or toward coitus performed under bizarre circumstances, as in necrophilia, pedophilia, sexual sadism, and fetishism.

The goal of evangelizing the world according to this model meant that very few Catholics, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists or Hindus were attracted to it, " even though the last three had a pronounced cultural and religious preference for abstinence ".

In August 1958, number 72009 was tested on the Eastern Region, being based at Stratford MPD, though a preference for the Britannias meant that this sojourn was short-lived, lasting only a month.

Initially the car enjoyed popularity, given the archaic age of the GAZ-24-10 it replaced, but the economic hardships of the 1990s meant that soon its reputation would be broken by the poor quality of assembly and corrosion problems, and the older 3102, still produced on the special conveyor was soon given preference after it was made available to the public following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

All of these devices are meant to be plugged into an ADB, PS / 2, or USB port for transferring the written text into a computer's word processing document for further editing ( such as indentation and font preference ) or printing if so desired.

The emergence of John O ' Shea and Brian Kerr's preference for Kenny Cunningham meant that Dunne's chances with Ireland were extremely limited during their unsuccessful attempt to qualify for UEFA Euro 2004.

However, some scientists prefer Gya because it uses the SI prefix giga-and thus avoids confusion over whether the short-scale ( American ) billion ( 10 < SUP > 9 </ SUP >) or long-scale ( former British ) billion ( 10 < SUP > 12 </ SUP >) is meant, as well as avoiding preference for one of the two definitions of billion over the other.

The pitch was soft, which would have favoured the bowling of Tate, but Wisden reported that while this offered some justification for dropping Hirst, " it meant playing a bowler pure and simple in preference to a first-rate all-round man, and the result proved anything but happy.

Impartiality to him meant an unwillingness to generalize and to search for a synthesis.

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.

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!!

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??

That is, if he marks as most correct a reading not meant for him, the total experimental score falls.

`` Range delivery '' meant that the buyer, after examinin' the seller's ranch records and considerin' his rep'tation for truthfulness, paid for what the seller claimed to own, then rode out and tried to find it.

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.

but I do not believe that these examples are meant to be used as justification for our own crimes.

The Congolese were clamoring for their independence, even though most were unsure what it meant ; ;

Thus some provinces contained tribes which detested each other, and to them independence meant an opportunity for war.

Mercer stammered, not knowing what B'dikkat meant, and the two-nosed man answered for him, `` I think he has a nice baby head, but it isn't big enough for you to take yet ''.

She meant him well, but was in no condition for articulate speech.

This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.

Recently however, funding of projects such as the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research and Near Earth Asteroid Tracking projects has meant that most comets are now discovered by automated systems, long before it is possible for amateurs to see them.

In law, it is generally meant to state specifically and in detail what one did and for what reason, often in relation to commission of a crime.

Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government.