He ranked along with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Göring, Himmler, and Martin Bormann as the senior Nazi with the most access to Hitler, which in an autocratic regime meant access to power.

The first definite impulse came from the lectures of Friedrich Karl von Savigny, the celebrated investigator of Roman law, who, as Wilhelm Grimm himself says in the preface to the Deutsche Grammatik ( German Grammar ), first taught him to realize what it meant to study any science.

During the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact negotiations, Ribbentrop was overjoyed by a report from his Ambassador in Moscow, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, of a speech by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin before the 18th Party Congress in March 1939 that was strongly anti-Western, which Schulenburg reported meant that the Soviet Union might be seeking an accord with Germany.

Both Hitler and Raeder believed that Langsdorff should have fought the British and gone down fighting, even if it meant the deaths of most or all of the crew of Admiral Graf von Spee.

According to Truesdell ( 1980 ), Julius Robert von Mayer in 1841 made a statement that meant that " in a process at constant pressure, the heat used to produce expansion is universally interconvertible with work ", but this is not a general statement of the first law.

The Admiralty recognised that her slow speed meant the fleet would not be fast enough to force an engagement and also that without the Canopus the fleet stood no chance against von Spee.

Consequently, the equation E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup > was not originally written as a formula but as a sentence in German that meant if a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L / V < sup > 2 </ sup >.< ref > See the sentence on the last page ( p. 641 ) of the original edition of Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?

In prefatory remarks to his edition of the works, Otto von Irmer notes that Beethoven meant the six bagatelles to be played in order as a single work, as least insofar as this can be inferred from a marginal annotation Beethoven made in the manuscript: " Ciclus von Kleinigkeiten " ( cycle of little pieces ).

Helmuth Volkman assumed his place, but his pessimistic reports to Berlin, continued demands for support and resources, and disagreements with Richthofen meant he was replaced by von Richthofen in October 1938, possibly at the request of the Nationalists.

Most of the airborne forces that landed by Gilder or parachute lost most of their radios, which meant von Richthofen reliant on aerial reconnaissance aircraft.

Later in 1944, Goerdeler told Kunrath von Hammerstein that " In those days your father stood at the helm of world history ", by which Goerdeler meant that if General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord had carried out a putsch in 1933, then the present state of world troubles in 1944 might have been avoided.

This nine-hour delay meant it was too late for him to move his army in sufficient strength to eventually provide Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher with the support he needed ( and which one source says he had promised ) on 16 June at the battle of Ligny.

But not Margarethe von Trotta — to stay in the game, she accepted proposals for TV pieces, even if it meant losing a bit of her artistic allowances.

Wilhelm II had dismissed " Iron " Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and his Realpolitik system of treaties and agreements in 1890, replacing Bismarck's clear rule with a muddle and his foreign policies with a confrontational, expansionist Weltpolitik that was marked by a great build-up of the German Navy meant to challenge Britain.

Following the capture of the Annie Larsen and confiscation of its cargo, Bernstorff made efforts to recover the $ 200, 000 worth of arms insisting they were meant for Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa.

However, in the Middle Ages, the von particle was still a common part of names and was widely used also by commoners ; thus, " Hans von Duisburg " meant Hans from city of Duisburg.

In Germany, this meant that in principle von simply became an ordinary part of the names of the people who used it.

Their unusual morphology meant that they could not be comfortably included in Distoma so in 1856 Meckel von Helmsback created the genus Bilharzia for them.

Harvard's decision not to join the Yale-Rutgers-Princeton-Columbia association meant that they needed to look further afield to find football opponents so when a challenge from Canada ’ s McGill University rugby team in Montreal was issued to Harvard, they accepted.

Known as the " Dreadnoughts ", the team continued to play at the Essendon Cricket Ground until the expansion of the Jolimont Railway Yards into the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1922 meant that the " Same Olds " were looking for a new home.

Independent production usually meant restricted circumstances, but not always — Sweet Smell of Success, for instance, despite the original plans of the production team, was clearly not made on the cheap, though like many other cherished A-budget noirs it might be said to have a B-movie soul.

The role of Rost in the Doctor Who serial " Attack of the Cybermen " was meant for her but she allegedly had a disagreement with the production team over her fee and was replaced by Sarah Greene.

The English team continued to bowl bodyline in the remaining two Tests, but slower pitches meant the Australians, although frequently bruised, sustained no further serious injuries.

The same could be said for Lillywhite ’ s team which, being selected from only four counties, meant that some of England ’ s best players did not take part.

The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960 ; the name is partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture.

Prost and John Barnard, formerly chief designer at McLaren, came close to founding a team in 1990 ; but a lack of sponsorship meant that this was not possible, so Prost moved to Ferrari.

The deal meant Puma supplied team kit, replica kit and training equipment for the 2010 – 11 and 2011 – 12 seasons.

Internal disputes meant Argentina's squad for the tournament did not contain a single member of the team which had reached the final in 1930.

An odd number of teams per league meant that at least one team in each league would have to be idle on any given day, or alternatively that odd team out would have had to play an interleague game against its counterpart in the other league.

Decent home form, including a victory over Real Madrid, led to the team sitting comfortably in the top half of the Liga and qualifying from their Europa League group, although poorer performances away from Bilbao meant that a really successful run never materialised.

This also meant that they would start in League One ( third tier of English Football for the first time in 50 years ) with minus 10 points, within six years of being FA Cup runners-up, UEFA Cup participants and the eighth placed team in the Premier League.

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 relegation of FK Bodø / Glimt meant that Tromsø IL were the only team from Northern Norway in the 2006 season.

However, the proximity of other more established teams, such as Chelsea and Fulham and its small ground, meant that the club struggled to increase its fan base to the size needed to maintain a top flight team.

Steinbrenner frequently tried to trade him, but Winfield's status as a 10-and-5 player ( 10 years in the majors, five years with a single team ) meant he could not be traded without his consent.

It is meant to be a feeder system for the Brush Arcs football team.

In particular, disputes between the São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro state football federations meant that the team would not be composed of players coming from either of the federations.

After attending high school in Mer Rouge, Louisiana, he received academic assistance to attend Southern University in Baton Rouge, but when a low grade in his first semester meant the possibility of losing his scholarship, he decided to try out for the school's baseball team in order to secure an athletic scholarship.

The team had trouble gaining success, as the music industry at the time thought " new and exciting " meant upbeat guitar-oriented skinny-tie power pop bands with male lead singers and thus did not understand their Synth Punk sound and more adventurous subject matter.

The South American Cup meant a return to the world stage and prepared the team for contesting the Copa Libertadores title.

In the United Kingdom another line of ceramic armour development had been started in the early 1960s, meant to improve the existing cast turret configuration of the Chieftain that already offered excellent heavy penetrator protection ; the research by a team headed by Gilbert Harvey of the Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment ( FVRDE ), therefore was strongly oriented at optimising the ceramic composite system for defeating shaped charge attack.