While this was OK for Europe, it meant that GSM could not cover large, sparsely populated rural areas of Australia cost effectively.

This meant the idea of one early large scale offensive could not bring about a knockout blow.

Another important factor behind Costa Rica's poverty was the lack of a significant indigenous population available for forced labor, which meant that most of the Costa Rican settlers had to work on their own land, preventing the establishment of large haciendas.

The high eustatic sea level and warm climate of the Cretaceous meant a large area of the continents was covered by warm shallow seas.

Until the 1990s, child-sized double basses were not widely available, and the large size of the bass meant that children were not able to start playing the instrument until their hand size and height would allow them to play a 3 / 4-size model ( the most commonly available size ).

That meant that people had accumulated large paper assets, and that official prices and wages did not reflect reality, as the black market dominated the economy and more than half of all transactions were taking place unofficially.

In Cumberland, " hoozer " meant anything unusually large, such as a hill.

Pei's first proposed design included a large glass pyramid that would fill the interior with sunlight, meant to represent the optimism and hope that Kennedy's administration had symbolized for so many in the US.

Several out-of-place elements were included in the game, such as credit cards, a wizard turning player character Pit into an eggplant, and a large, moving nose that was meant to resemble composer Tanaka.

" This meant that artisans would manage the tools required for their own work while, in large scale enterprises, this meant replacing wage labour by workers ' co-operatives.

To change the preceding factors for orbital launch vehicles, proposed methods have included mass-producing simple rockets in large quantities or on large scale, or developing reusable rockets meant to fly very frequently to amortize their up-front expense over many payloads, or

In the autumn of 1945, Škoda ( along with all large manufacturers ) became part of the planned economy, which meant it was separated from the parent Škoda company.

The sometimes efficient and often large government of the Empire meant that educated citizens were a must.

The 1973 oil crisis meant that large displacement special edition homologation cars of all makes were suddenly sitting unsold.

The beat of the large drums usually meant that the army was marching into battle.

There are essentially three types of usage for wiki software: public-facing wikis with a potentially large community of readers and editors, private enterprise wikis for data management by corporations and other organizations, and personal wikis, meant to be used by a single person to manage notes, and usually run on a desktop.

With competition from the railways having taken a large share of traffic in the second half of the 19th century, improvements in roads and vehicle technology in the early part of the 20th century meant that the lorry was also becoming a threat to the canals.

The petrochemical and silver compounds necessary for the creation of film stock meant from the start that 35 mm filmmaking was to be an expensive hobby with a high barrier to entry for the public at large.

The end of the 18th century saw the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, and the presence of iron ore, limestone and large coal deposits in south-east Wales meant that this area soon saw the establishment of ironworks and coal mines, notably the Cyfarthfa Ironworks and the Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil.

The eventual provision of competing fast ferry services by large hovercraft ( the SR. N4 ) meant that the age of the car-carrying airliner that commenced with the Bristol Freighter concluded with the Carvair.

The film score of the original release of Metropolis was composed by Gottfried Huppertz and it was meant to be performed by large orchestras to accompany the film during production.

However, the large increases in pay given to manual workers in local government in September 1969 ( such as street sweepers and dustmen ) subsequently set off a spiral of wage demands in industry, which meant that the improvement in the relative position of the local government manual worker was not sustained.

" While we know this island today as Vancouver Island the English explorer had not intentionally meant to name such a large body of land solely after himself.

The rapid pace of change in the ironclad period meant that many ships were obsolete as soon as they were complete, and that naval tactics were in a state of flux.

The powerful monsoons also meant ships could easily sail west early in the season, then wait a few months and return eastwards.

A treaty with Japan in 1902 meant that ships could be withdrawn from East Asia, while the Entente with France in 1904 meant that Britain could concentrate on guarding Channel waters, including the French coast, while France would protect British interests in the Mediterranean.

Most U-boats, the most powerful arm of the, were meant for destroying ships, not supporting an invasion.

On its journey from New Zealand to the Antarctic, Terra Nova was trapped in pack ice for 20 days, far longer than other ships had experienced, which meant a late-season arrival and less time for preparatory work before the Antarctic winter.

The formation of the Grand Alliance and outbreak of war against France in 1689 meant that for several years ships from Asia avoided the island for fear of being attacked by French men-of-war.

In short, the entire Athenian fleet must be dispatched to Artemisium ; in order to do this, every able-bodied Athenian male would be required to man the ships ; and this in turn meant that the Athenians must prepare to abandon Athens.

These facts made it impractical to use Preece's system on either ships, boats, or ordinary islands ( ones much smaller than Great Britain or Greenland ), and the relatively short distances that a practical Preece system could span meant that it had few advantages over underwater telegraph cables.

In the 15th century however, new European developments in seafaring technologies meant that ships were better equipped to deal with the problem of tidal currents, and could begin traversing the Atlantic ocean.

Attacking Arctic convoys meant the risk that the ships of the fleet might be sunk or damaged in the ensuring engagements, while the role of a fleet in being required the continual existence of these ships.

The long voyage, combined with a lack of opportunity for maintenance, meant Russian ships were heavily fouled, significantly reducing their speed.

The embargo was a financial disaster for the Americans because the British were still able to export goods to America: initial loopholes overlooked smuggling by coastal vessels from Canada, whaling ships and privateers from overseas ; and widespread disregard of the law meant enforcement was difficult.

The new company started out with used ships which weren't particularly well-fitted for the role they were meant for, but that was about to change when in 1961 Silja took delivery of the new, the first purpose-built car-passenger ferry in the northern Baltic Sea.

The much larger ships that could navigate the Kiel Canal meant that, although situated inland, Rendsburg became a seaport and a dockyard.

Logically it follows, at the same moment in which the line ahead became definitively the order for battle, there was established the distinction between the ships ' of the line ', alone destined for a place therein, and the lighter ships meant for other uses.

The name in French meant " seamark ", a tall structure of wood built as a guide for ships.

Also, the fact that an appreciable number of ships had to be detached to maintain naval superiority in the North Sea, meant that the already overstretched Royal Navy was even more strained after 1781.

In fact, this proved to be a tactical advantage, as it meant some Allied ships were not yet at anchor and could therefore manoeuvre more swiftly.

The dredging of the River Clyde and other navigation improvements, allowing ships to sail directly to the centre of Glasgow, meant Eglinton's dream that, " Ardrossan would be to Glasgow what Liverpool is to Manchester.

The French also captured a Danube flotilla and built additional patrol ships, which meant that they were, by the end of June, in almost complete control of the river, allowing Napoleon to write in the Army Bulletin of 2 July that " the Danube no longer exists for the French army ".

The use of sailing ships meant that bigger vessels could be employed, but in reality these boats were even more at the bidding of the weather.

In the U. S. A., the Jones Act ( which places restrictions on the ships that can be used for moving domestic cargoes ) has meant that merchant shipbuilding has continued, but such protection has failed to penalise shipbuilding inefficiencies.