The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.

Some scholars have suggested that Amos ’ s reference to Edom is symbolic of all nations who were once enemies of Israel and not meant to literally mean Edomites in the flesh.

The submarine threat meant that many destroyers spent their time on anti-submarine patrol ; once Germany adopted unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917, destroyers were called on to escort merchant convoys.

Copilot William Rataczak informed Cooper that the aircraft's range was limited to approximately under the specified flight configuration, which meant they would have to refuel once again before entering Mexico.

Electronic music was once associated almost exclusively with Western art music but from the late 1960s on the availability of affordable music technology meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the popular domain.

The exercise was meant to determine whether a running horse ever had all four legs lifted off the ground at once.

Recalling the day of their marriage, he once said, " As we didn't know much about marriage, for us it meant only wearing new clothes, eating sweets and playing with relatives.

The harsh conditions and terrain of the Arabian peninsula meant a near-constant state of conflict between the local tribes, but once a year they would declare a truce and converge upon Mecca in an annual pilgrimage.

These were precisely the ' urban ills ' Modernism was meant to ' solve ', but more often than not, the types of ' comprehensive ', ' one size fits all ' approaches to planning made things worse., and residents began to show interest in becoming involved in decisions which had once been solely entrusted to professionals of the built environment.

The death of Pope John XIV meant that Boniface was the only remaining pope, and so he once again took a hold of the papal throne.

The word poll is an English word that once meant " head "-and still does, in some specialised contexts-hence the name poll tax for a per-person tax.

Anyone who knows him can describe his piercing nature and precise ways of expression through his own simple words of what Lev Davidovich Landau once meant:

After the " Castle Party " concert in Poland meant to promote Psyche's releases there, Psyche made a small tour once again through Germany and appeared in various venues.

Paramount in his strategy was fast movement, even if it meant pushing his horses at a killing pace, which he did more than once.

Ottoman control over Serbia meant that the once abolished Serbian patriarchate ( 1459 ) was reestablished in 1557-thus providing the continuation of Serbian cultural traditions within the empire.

When it won the League Cup once more in 2008, it meant that it had won a major trophy in each of the last six decades – an achievement only matched by Manchester United.

The New York Knicks were the # 7 seed, which meant that that the Heat would once again battle with their fiercest rival from the year before.

The imperial mandate made it " obvious that the relentless emperor meant to settle once and for all the issue of Rome's acceptance of the Trullan decrees ".

The word bezique once meant " correspondence " or " association ".

A 23rd-placed finish in 1950 – 51 meant that the club had to apply for re-election to the league once more, but again teams in the First and Second Divisions unanimously voted for Watford to stay in the league.

Though once Tuurngaq simply meant " helping spirit ", it has, with Christianisation, taken on the meaning of demon in the Christian belief system.

In post-war years attention turned to attempts by the Soviet Union and the Comintern to surreptitiously support revolutionary activities within Britain, and MI5's expertise combined with the early incompetence of the Soviets meant the bureau was successful once more in correctly identifying and closely monitoring these activities.

While solemn vows once meant those taken in what was called a religious order, " today, in order to know when a vow is solemn it will be necessary to refer to the proper law of the institutes of consecrated life.

The band felt " overjoyed " that they could, once again, contribute to the Children in Need campaign, feeling that it meant a lot to them to be involved and feeling privileged to be able to help ; they also commented that it was nice for British school children to be involved in raising money for charity.

" The traps are disposable and are meant to be discarded once full.

He meant to say more, but he never got the chance.

Within the computer industry, a joke got started that the acronym AXP meant " Almost eXactly PRISM ".

It is from this fanciful etymological musing that Thomas Malory got the notion that Excalibur meant " cut steel " ("' the name of it ,' said the lady, ' is Excalibur, that is as moche to say, as Cut stele.

Word of his nasty tone got to the King of France, which prompted a most conciliatory letter from Salutati, assuring the King that he meant no harm and that Florence would always be a friend to France.

John Ashley, who had just made The Eye Creatures ( 1965 ) for Buchanan, says he was meant to play the lead role but got busy on another project and Tommy Kirk stepped in instead.

In " Bitch Named Nina " he raps, " and we hold court like Mason Perry, oops I meant Perry Mason, the weed got me dyslexic ".

: combination of factors, including litigations against the record company and increasing animosity between Wilson and the rest of the band, meant that in May 1967 Wilson pulled the plug on the record ... Love had already dismissed " Good Vibrations " as " avant-garde shit " and objected to the way Wilson, Parks and a group of highly skilled session musicians were creating music way beyond his understanding ... By March 1967, the bad feeling got too much for Parks and, having no desire to break up The Beach Boys, he walked out.

The logistics of the time meant that it would have been risky or impossible to launch an invasion in August or September 1682 ( a three month campaign would have got the Ottomans to Vienna just as winter set in ).

Pahaquarry Township had been created on March 14, 1825, and got its name from the word " Pahaquarra ", which was a derivation of the Indian word Pahaqualong, which meant " termination of two mountains " and described the mountain or mountainous area that was the area's southern border.

I ’ ve got to let it go with that because if it ’ s meant to be, it ’ s meant to happen .”

Most importantly, Brazil lifted the Jules Rimet World Cup trophy for the third time first nation to do so, which meant they got to keep it.

According to Medak, the project got started one night that he and O ' Toole were returning from the theatre, which " meant stopping at every pub between Soho and Hampstead, and it didn't matter if it was after closing hour because he would knock on the door and just say ' Peter's here ,' and every door opened for him "; Later on, at O ' Toole's apartment, the deeply inebriated actor phoned his manager and said, " I'm with the crazy Hungarian and I know I'm drunk but I give you 24 hours to set this movie up.

In 2003, Charles Geisst, a Glass-Steagall supporter, told Frontline the Federal Reserve Board ’ s Section 20 orders meant the Federal Reserve “ got rid of the Glass-Steagall Act .” Former Federal Reserve Board Vice-Chairman Alan Blinder agreed the 1996 action increasing “ bank-ineligible ” revenue limits was “ tacit repeal ” of Glass-Steagall, but argued “ that the market had practically repealed Glass-Steagall, anyway .”

When Satō became prime minister in 1965, Tanaka was slated to become the LDP's new secretary general, but the emergence of the Black Mist Scandal, where Tanaka was accused of shady land deals in Tokyo, meant that Takeo Fukuda got the job instead.

It meant moving his family to Memphis and separation from his close friend John Wesley McKinnie and No. 638 as well, but Jones saw the move as a good one, and had bid for and got the job.

It later got ballot status in 13 other states, but in most of those, the election laws and small organization meant that it was unable to retain ballot status after 1968.

This meant that if the player got the puzzle wrong, then he or she had to restart from the very beginning of the game.

He was publicly critical of the decision by NASA to send a scientist — Schmitt — to the Moon, a decision that meant that original lunar module pilot, Joe Engle, never got to walk on the Moon.

Their relatively light weight meant that the M50s could also go where tanks got bogged down.

It was with Hines in the Grand Terrace that soon-to-be Bebop saxophone giant Charlie Parker got his first professional job, until he was fired for his " time-keeping " — by which Hines meant Parker's inability to show up on time despite Parker resorting to sleeping under the Grand Terrace stage in his attempts to do so.

But he got onto the grid for the next round at the TI Circuit in Aida, Japan, as his experience of the track from his touring car days meant he was the only driver in the race who had driven at the venue before.

We discovered it at the head of a column of odds and ends in the Picayune, the first day ; heard twenty people use it the second ; inquired what it meant the third ; adopted it and got facility in swinging it the fourth.

The Kangaroos ' loss to France meant it was Australia's superior points differential ( on the back of their pointsfest in the opening game against New Zealand ) alone that got them into the final with the undefeated Great Britain team.