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.

At the end of the 2003 NRL season, the retirement of Tallis from representative football meant that the Kangaroos captaincy was handed to Lockyer shortly before the 2003 Kangaroo tour.

" Yeah, I can understand from the Kangaroos ' point of view why you'd be annoyed with it ( the bow ), but I certainly meant no offence or to rub them up the wrong way, it was an impulse thing.

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.

At the first performances of Parsifal problems with the moving scenery during the transition from Scene one to Scene two in Act 1 meant that Wagner's existing orchestral interlude finished before Parsifal and Gurnemanz arrived at the Hall of the Grail.

These poor results meant that PSV finished last in their group, behind Liverpool, Atlético Madrid, and Marseille, respectively.

The club finished the 1990 – 91 season in 17th position, thus having to appear in the promotion / relegation playoffs against Real Murcia: on 19 June 1991, after a 0 – 0 away draw, a 5 – 2 home win meant the team managed to maintain its top level status.

The history was meant to have more volumes, but he never finished it.

A defeat to Arsenal away meant that the Potters finished 12th in their return to the top flight, with a total of 45 points.

In its finished form it represented a new kind of nature writing in that, although it presented technical information about bird biology and evolution, it did so in a way meant to be accessible to a general audience.

However, failing to win a single away game meant that their relegation battle was ultimately lost, and they finished bottom of the table on goal difference, bracketed together on 33 points with the two other relegated teams.

Montoya's retirement during the race also meant that Räikkönen finished 2nd in the championship, just two points behind Schumacher.

The following 1991 – 92 season finished with Blackpool in fourth place, missing out on automatic promotion by one point, which meant another play-offs experience.

Until then, while the tune had meant that the soldiers ' day of work was finished, it had little to none of the connotation or overtone of death with which it is so often associated today.

A fuel rig problem during his second stop meant that he finished the race in sixth, a place behind team mate Jenson Button.

* Display easels are meant for the display of finished works.

With the exception of the Australian Grand Prix where both Ferrari drivers had poor qualifying sessions, Berger featured in the top four in qualifying and races in all of the remaining Grands Prix but poor reliability and accidents meant that he only finished three races all year.

Robson's injury also meant that he missed several crucial late season games as United's title challenge slipped away and they finished fourth, with Liverpool becoming champions for the 15th time.

Such significant socio-political change meant that opera seria, so closely allied to the ruling class, was finished.

John Romero's Daikatana was meant to be finished within seven months of the founding of Ion Storm and was to use the Quake engine.

McDuffie argued that the 40 % tariff on cotton finished goods meant that “ the manufacturer actually invades your barns, and plunders you of 40 out of every 100 bales that you produce .” Mathematically incorrect, this argument still struck a nerve with his constituency.

A mix of mistimed substitutions by Ramsey and an inspired goalkeeping performance by Poland's Jan Tomaszewski, who made many crucial saves, meant that the match finished 1-1.

There was a period of revival for the team and some great results were achieved, but the poor start meant that Queen's finished bottom of the Third Division, and thus, bottom of Scottish football, for the first time in their history.

Aldershot Town's 3 – 0 victory over Lincoln City meant Barnet finished a point above Lincoln City and the relegation zone.

However another 1 – 0 defeat, this time to Canvey Island at Villa Park meant Forest Green finished as runners up for a second time.

Cole scored the winning goal in United's final Premier League game of the season against Tottenham Hotspur, a result which meant United finished one point ahead of rivals Arsenal to win the Premier League title.

The game finished 1-1 which meant that Manchester United won their 12th Premier League title.

Scotland won their first two matches, but a 1 – 0 home defeat by England meant that the Scots finished as runners-up.

In addition to Pinax Theatri Botanici, Gaspard planned another work, a Theatrum Botanicum, meant to be comprised in twelve parts folio, of which he finished three ; only one, however, was published ( 1658 ).