Coal ( from the Old English term col, which has meant " mineral of fossilized carbon " since the 13th century ) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds By comparison in 2007, natural gas provided of oil equivalent per day, while oil provided per day.

Pontins was least affected, partly as they were already providing packaged holidays and partly because their smaller camps meant that they had fewer beds to fill.

A u-bar is similar to a broadfork, but has longer tines at 18 inches ( or 457 mm ) for deeper cultivation, since it is meant to be used in beds that have already been double dug at least once.

" Almost all of them ", he wrote, " clamoured for expenses of all kinds, which included ... wine, tobacco, cigars, clothes, shoes, board and lodging, and certain nameless extravagances " ( by which he meant attractive slaves to warm their beds ).

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.

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.

Once on the road ( and especially if the passengers were all regulars and masculine ), the schedule meant nothing.

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.

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.

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??

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

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

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

The agonies of nerves and itching of skin were phenomena which happened somewhere near him, but meant nothing.

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 meant not only that the king had retained the loyalty of ealdormen, royal reeves and king ’ s thegns ( who were charged with levying and leading these forces ), but that they had maintained their positions of authority in these localities well enough to answer his summons to war.

The breadth of slave ownership also meant that the leisure of the rich ( the small minority who were actually free of the need to work ) rested less than it would have on the exploitation of their less well-off fellow citizens.

However, after the cancellations of Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were finalized in September 1970 it meant that this crew would not rotate to a lunar mission as planned.

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.

Because the characters were 8 x 12 pixels this meant that video resolutions of 512 x 192 pixels ( in 64x16 character mode ), or 640 x 300 pixels ( in 80x24 character mode ) were created, which was quite high for the time.

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.

Unfortunately, they were blown back to Aeolia, where Aeolus refused to provide any further help, because he believed that their short and unsuccessful voyage meant that the Gods did not favour them.

The absence of a turret also meant that tank destroyers could be manufactured significantly cheaper, faster and more easily than the tanks on which they were based and fou8nd particular favor when production resoureces were lacking.

But whatever terms were arranged, he did not pretend that they meant a permanent peace.

If the holes bored into the thwarts are indeed meant to accommodate a dummy crew, the crew seating would have been arranged with two men per bench amidships, and one man per bench fore and aft where the ship narrows so that there is only room for one man.

As Minister for Finance, Haughey on two occasions arranged foreign currency loans for the government which he then arranged to be left on deposit in foreign countries ( Germany and the United States ), in the local currency-instead of immediately changing the loans to the Irish currency and depositing in the Exchequer-these actions were unconstitutional, because it effectively meant that the Minister for Finance was making a currency speculation against his own currency.

After Pertinax was assassinated, the praetorian prefect Aemilius Laetus and his men, who had arranged the murder, " sold " the imperial throne to wealthy senator Didius Julianus, effectively crowning him emperor, but a string of mutinies from the troops in the provinces meant the next Emperor was far from decided.

In court, Barry testified that he had been handed a musical manuscript of a work by Norman ( meant to become the theme ) and that he was to arrange it musically, and that he composed additional music and arranged the " James Bond Theme ".

Indeed the term joust meant " a meeting " and referred to arranged combat in general, not just the jousting with lances.

Neerpasch had arranged the sale of Rosche's M12 / 13 engine to Talbot, but Rosche and Neerpasch's successor, Dieter Stappert, successfully protested to their board that such an undertaking deserved full works commitment, particularly as the fact that M12 / 13 was derived from a production road car engine meant that potential success could be extremely valuable to BMW from a marketing and sales point of view.

The lines of the poem were arranged to be printed sideways, with each stanza forming an image meant to suggest a bird flying up with outstretched wings.

Batman and Martian Manhunter took Prometheus into custody and arranged to reduce Prometheus ' brain to a mentally disabled state in order to permanently end his threat, reasoning that his skills and training meant that no jail could hold him under conventional circumstances.

( A stop-over in Algiers meant a specially arranged radio phone call with Churchill.

The typical floor plan, with long rambling wings arranged en echelon ( staggered, so each connected wing received sunlight and fresh air ), was meant to promote privacy and comfort for patients.

* The temple was originally arranged in the " three Halls-one Pagoda " style which meant that the pagoda was in the center of the complex and flanked by three main halls on the left, right, and behind the central pagoda.

The museum houses a 19th-century theatre, with the " pit " meant for those who can afford more and seating for the rest of the audience in tiered-seats arranged in a semi-circle around the pit.

The dedication to Elizabeth meant that Thomas Percy arranged the work to give prominence to the border ballads which were composed in and about the Scottish and English borders, specifically Northumberland.

It indicates the same thing but it is meant to pertain more specifically to establishments designed to cater to smaller type boats such as outboards.

And our question is, is such an implication consistent with what we meant??

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.

However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

This meant the Electron had a lifespan not much shorter than those more popular micros and much longer than competitors such as the Oric-1 and Dragon 32.

Limitations with mp3-player DJing equipment has meant that only second generation equipment such as the IDJ2 or the Cortex Dmix-300 have the pitch control that alters tempo and allows for beatmatching on a digital music player.

In the following twenty years, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other smaller republican groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) mounted an armed campaign against the British, by which they meant the RUC, the British Army, the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) of the British Army ( and, according to their critics, the Protestant and unionist establishment ).

It also meant good programming productivity even in assembly language, as high level languages such as Fortran or Algol were not always available or appropriate ( microprocessors in this category are sometimes still programmed in assembly language for certain types of critical applications ).

An opposite example is the case of Chinese, whose variations such as Mandarin and Cantonese are often called dialects and not languages, despite their mutual unintelligibility, because the word for them in Mandarin, 方言 fāngyán, was mistranslated as " dialect " because it meant " regional speech ".

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

The hardest phase was the crossing of the Andes cordillera: at almost 4, 000 meters of altitude, the cold, hunger and tiredness meant the death of various Spaniards and natives, but mainly slaves who were not accustomed to such rigorous climate.

The Cold War meant that cryptography remained important, with fundamental advances such as public-key cryptography being developed in the following decades.

On early recording mediums ( until 1925 ) such as wax cylinders and discs carved with an engraving needle, sound balancing meant that musicians had to be literally moved in the room.

The idea was that the republicans within the organisation ( particularly IRB members ) would know exactly what this meant, while men such as MacNeill and the British authorities in Dublin Castle would take it at face value.

This encompasses such forms as traditional epic poetry, much of which was meant originally for oral performance, sometimes accompanied by instruments.

The demand for these program pictures in quantity meant the growth of film series such as The Hoodlum Soldier or Akumyo.

French actor Gérard Depardieu was involved in a famous row with American feminists because he mistakenly said he " assisted " a rape in his tumultuous teenage years, while what he really meant was that he had " witnessed " one such event.

This meant that some of the social problems associated with the industrial process ( such as those seen in England ) were diminished via control of the administration, but other problems arose due to the marked cultural differences between Russia and the Grand Duchy.

Environmental changes resulting from modernization — such as more intellectually demanding work, greater use of technology and smaller families — have meant that a much larger proportion of people are more accustomed to manipulating abstract concepts such as hypotheses and categories than a century ago.

There are also more exotic varieties, such as guitars with two, three, or rarely four necks, all manner of alternate string arrangements, fretless fingerboards ( used almost exclusively on bass guitars, meant to emulate the sound of a stand-up bass ), 5. 1 surround guitar, and such.

In some contexts, such as sequencing the genome of a pathogenic microbe, " genome " is meant to include information stored on this auxiliary material, which is carried in plasmids.