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 ).

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.

Though Australia has a small population, the sheer number of venues that bands could play in, mainly along the Eastern coast, meant that a band could tour extensively, often playing every night for long periods.

After drawing the first leg of the UEFA Europa League qualifier at home with 2-2 Feyenoord lost the second leg with a 2-0 win for AC Sparta Praha which meant that for the 2012-2013 season, Feyenoord would not be playing European football.

Growing up playing on the streets of his hometown, he originally played in midfield because " it meant could get more involved in the games.

Withdrawals by Chile and Peru meant Argentina and Brazil qualified without playing a single match.

However, playing in a division where the same three teams — the Flyers, Capitals and Islanders — made the playoffs every year for six years running meant that the Devils found themselves in a losing battle with the Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins for the division's last playoff spot.

( The scene portrayed, with Posner playing Celia Johnson and Scripps as Cyril Raymond, is in the closing minutes of the film where Laura begins, " I really meant to do it.

This disappointing league performance meant that for the first time since the 1996 – 97 season, PSV would not be playing in the Champions League, but in the newly named UEFA Europa League instead.

It originally meant the side of dice with only one mark, before it was a term for a playing card.

Since this was the lowest roll of the die, it traditionally meant ' bad luck ' in Middle English, but as the ace is often the highest playing card, its meaning has since changed to mean ' high-quality, excellence '.

This flexible approach meant that the musicians could form a military band for open air concerts ( playing on Bournemouth Pier ) or a more formal classical ensemble for indoor programmes.

Their 12th place finish in the 2000 – 01 season meant it was their fourth successive season playing in the Third Division.

However, the difference in frame rates between film ( generally 24 frames / s ) and television ( 30 or 25 frames / s ) meant that simply playing a film into a television camera would result in flickering when the film frame was changed in mid-field of the TV frame.

Studying with these teachers meant that he was part of the so-called Franco-Belgian school of violin playing, which dates back to the development of the modern violin bow by François Tourte.

Because of the move to mid-season, the method of player selection for the All-Stars, largely unchanged for 20 years, was much scrutinized, as playing the All-Star Game mid-season meant that the First and Second All-Star teams were decided almost a full year before the game itself, and that by mid-season, the Cup winners were a vastly different team from the team that had won the Cup some eight or nine months before.

Optical drive technology was still limited in spindle speed, so playing an audio track from the game CD meant that the system could not access data again until it stopped the track from playing.

Because the characters they were playing were meant to be in distress, the crew ( filming from a distance ) did not realize that the actors were genuinely calling for help.

The so-called ' needle-time ' restrictions on playing music had been lifted, which meant it could play more music during the day as well as in the evenings where the eight hours were concentrated.

By " playing ," he meant not only the ways that children of all ages play, but also the way adults " play " through making art, or engaging in sports, hobbies, humor, meaningful conversation, et cetera.

This meant that Oxford United would be playing First Division football in the 1985 – 86 season, 23 years after joining the Football League.

However, dwindling attendances, a pitch protest and continued financial problems meant that the playing squad was gradually released to cut the wage bill though, and Chester's improved form did not last.

Chapman's playing career was that of a typical journeyman, owing mostly to the fact he often played as an amateur ; this meant that whether he could play for a particular club was dictated by whether he could find an appropriate job nearby.

The second movement consists of a single measure with the two chords that make up a ' Phrygian half cadence ' and — although there is no direct evidence to support it — it was likely that these chords are meant to surround or follow a cadenza improvised by a harpsichord or violin player.

In the original work, the chords are meant to represent " the Silences of the Druids — who Know, See and Hear Nothing.

" Knowing that Davis already knew how to arpeggiate each chord, Russell reasoned that he really meant that he wanted to find a new and broader way to relate to chords.

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!!

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

The government of Vasil Radoslavov aligned the country with Germany and Austria-Hungary, even though this meant also becoming an ally of the Ottomans, Bulgaria's traditional enemy.

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 ).

Starting in the 1990s, smaller half, quarter, eighth and even sixteenth-sized instruments became more widely available, which meant that children could start at a younger age.

Time magazine contributor James Poniewozik praised the Monkees ' classic sitcom, and Jones in particular, saying " even if the show never meant to be more than entertainment and a hit-single generator, we shouldn ’ t sell The Monkees short.

Butler meant the title to be read as the word Nowhere backwards, even though the letters " h " and " w " are transposed, therefore Erewhon is an anagram of nowhere.

Unfortunately, because the ISA bus was originally locked to the processor clock, this meant that some 286 machines had ISA buses that ran at 10, 12, or even 16 MHz.

Elizabeth was extremely jealous of his affections, even when she no longer meant to marry him herself.

However, in 1971 Erik Hornung pointed out that the traits of an apparently supreme being could be attributed to many different gods, even in periods when other gods were preeminent, and further argued that references to an unspecified " god " are meant to refer flexibly to any deity.

One of the German POWs successfully seduces the beautiful and tough Red Army Captain Alexandra Kasalniskaya ( Eva Bartok ) who prefers him to the sadistic camp commandant, which as Bartov comments also is meant to show that even in defeat, German men were more sexually virile and potent than their Russian counterparts.

Hawks told her that she meant nothing to Bogart and even threatened to send her to Monogram, the worst studio in Hollywood.

In the taxonomies of artillery pieces used by European ( and European-style ) armies in the eighteenth, 19th, and 20th centuries, the howitzer stood between the " gun " ( characterized by a longer barrel, larger propelling charges, smaller shells, higher velocities, and flatter trajectories ) and the " mortar " ( which was meant to fire at even higher angles of ascent and descent ).

The main emphasis is on the vocals as most compositions are written to be sung, and even when played on instruments, they are meant to be performed in a singing style ( known as gāyaki ).

John's suspicions and jealousies meant that he rarely enjoyed good relationships with even the leading loyalist barons.

And in human terms it meant death and suffering proportionally even greater than in the Ukraine

The development and proliferation of personal computers using the CP / M operating system in the late 1970s, and later DOS-based systems starting in 1981, meant that many sites grew to dozens or even hundreds of computers.

Alfred Tarski diagnosed the paradox as arising only in languages that are " semantically closed ", by which he meant a language in which it is possible for one sentence to predicate truth ( or falsehood ) of another sentence in the same language ( or even of itself ).

This meant that when the king intervened directly, he could decide without heeding the laws, and even contrary to the laws.

A degree of paranoid fear against mutants exists due to stories of mutants being a race or even a species ( Homo superior or Homo sapiens superior ) that is evolving and is meant to replace normal humans.

If an officer were incapable, even if he were a close relative of the ruler, he ought to be demoted, even if it meant poverty.

" Historian Richard Ellis ( 1998 ) says that the SDS's search for their own identity " increasingly meant rejecting, even demonizing, liberalism.

This meant that as soon as photographic materials became sensitive enough ( fast enough ) to take candid or what were called genre pictures, small detective cameras were used, some of them disguised as a tie pin that was really a lens, as a piece of luggage or even a pocket watch ( the Ticka camera ).