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.

I meant him no harm.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

What they meant was that there was no evidence to show that the south and east coasts of Britain received Germanic settlers conspicuously earlier than some other parts of England.

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.

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.

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

It is worth mentioning that the Nepōhualtzintzin amounted to the rank from 10 to the 18 in floating point, which calculated stellar as well as infinitesimal amounts with absolute precision, meant that no round off was allowed, when translated into modern computer arithmetic.

The goal of clear concise communication is that the receiver ( s ) have no misunderstanding about what was meant to be conveyed.

The absence of a tax base meant that there was no way to pay off state and national debts from the war years except by requesting money from the states, which seldom arrived.

Because this system is based on automatic number identification ( not caller ID ) and meant for phone company technicians, the ANAC system works with unlisted numbers, numbers with caller ID blocking, and numbers with no outgoing calls allowed.

This meant that programs did not need to be modified for their new memory location but gave no execution speed benefits whatsoever.

This meant that he had no power or authority to celebrate an efficacious sacrament.

In one paragraph he wrote: " The laws of this country will of course, be introduced in South Wales, and there is one that I would wish to take place from the moment his Majesty's forces take possession of the country: That there can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves ", and he meant what he said.

This method meant the aircraft no longer had a search capability while supporting the launched Sparrow, effectively reducing situational awareness.

Since in a majority of constellations the brightest star is designated Alpha ( α ), many people wrongly assume that Bayer meant to put the stars exclusively in order of their brightness, but in his day there was no way to measure stellar brightness precisely.

The collapse of the old defensive system meant that they met no opposition, and the empire's resources were distracted and squandered in a series of civil wars.

Declining attendance meant that the club's payroll could no longer support a franchise stocked largely with veterans from other clubs.

The 6x86's and MII's old generation " 486 class " floating point unit combined with an integer section that was at best on-par with the newer P6 and K6 chips meant that Cyrix could no longer compete in performance.

In consequence the Bible came to be seen as authoritative on matters of faith and morals but no longer authoritative ( or meant to be ) on science.

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

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

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.

`` Mixed herd '' meant a herd of mixed sexes, while a `` straight steer herd '' was one composed entirely of steers, and when the cowman spoke of `` mixed cattle '', he meant cattle of various grades, ages, and sexes.

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.

Although Acorn were able to shrink substantially the same functionality as the BBC into just one chip, manufacturing problems meant that very few machines were available for the Christmas period — to the extent that some shops reported eight presales for every delivered machine.

Dylan meant that title, of course, and he means this one too, which doesn't make " Love and Theft " his minstrelsy album any more than Self Portraits dire " Minstrel Boy " was his minstrelsy song.

Deaths before that time meant that many parents, spouses and children were never told more than that it was secret work for the Foreign Office or one of the armed services.

In the subsequent battle of Frekastein ( probably one of the 300 hill forts of Södermanland, as stein meant " hill fort ") against Högni and Grammar, all the chieftains on Granmar's side are slain, including Bragi, except for Bragi's brother Dag.

The European corn borer, one of the primary insects Bt is meant to target, has been shown to be capable of developing resistance to the Bt protein.

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

A frequent method for this purpose is reiterating what one heard in one's own words and asking the other person if that really was what was meant.

In addition, the appetite for a continual supply of new music, carried over from the Baroque, meant that works had to be performable with, at best, one rehearsal.

In psychology, phenomenology largely has meant attempting to investigate consciousness using the method of introspection, which means looking into one's own mind and reporting what one observes.

" The vow of brahmacarya is meant to help one completely abstain from sex indulgence in work, words, and mind – at all times, under all circumstances and in all places.

To have held each office at the youngest possible age ( suo anno, " in his year ") was considered a great political success, since to miss out on a praetorship at 39 meant that one could not become consul at 42.

He called his approach towards Judaism " Positive-Historical ," which meant that one should have a positive attitude towards accepting Jewish law and tradition as normative, yet one should be open to developing the law in the same fashion that it has always historically developed.

The rise of citizenship was linked to the rise of republicanism, according to one account, since independent citizens meant that kings had less power.

Each cabal was usually dedicated to one very specific area of the game which meant the cabal had to meet very regularly, in the case of Half-Life the members had to meet four days a week, six hours a day for five months.

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

It was meant to insult him, and didn't quite succeed.

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.

Mama knew this doll was meant to help Mrs. Coolidge overcome her grief by turning her eyes to the future.

This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.

I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.

Of course it was not meant to be.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

It was meant to be my present ''.

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.

What I meant to say was that I started to start in on the dishes by gathering them all together in the kitchen sink.

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

Since Fogg's was a one-man, one-plane flying service, this meant that he would have to do both trips, flying alone 600 miles a day, under sub-freezing temperature conditions.

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??

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.

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.