A badly-implemented " two driver changes per car per season " rule meant that some cars had to sit idle while drivers with budgets could not race them ( rather than allowing two drivers to share a drive through the season on a race-by-race basis, teams could only change the driver of any entry twice in a year ).

The desire from fans and manufacturers alike for higher performance cars within the restrictions of homologation meant that carmakers began producing limited production " special edition " cars based on high production base models.

The 1973 oil crisis meant that large displacement special edition homologation cars of all makes were suddenly sitting unsold.

Through the balance of the 1970s until 1992, the factory stock sheetmetal over a racing frame meant the cars looked very much like their street version counterparts.

In 2008, after a downturn in the stock market, the decline meant $ 18 billion less in taxable income, with less money available for " apartments, furniture, cars, clothing and services ".

The " seller's market " of the early postwar years, brought on by the lack of any new cars throughout the war, meant that every automaker found it easy to sell vehicles regardless of any drawbacks they might have.

Sports-prototypes may be ( and often are ) one-of-a-kind machines, and need bear no relation to any road-going vehicle, although during the 1990s some manufacturers exploited a loophole in the FIA and ACO rules which meant cars racing in the GT category were actually true sports-prototypes and sired some road-going versions for homologation purposes.

This option was never taken up because the design of the cable couplings meant that it was a time consuming operation to separate the motor cars from the rest of the train.

Moskvitch cars were never meant to be a fashion statement.

Also, the cars were difficult to drive, while the game's hardware requirements meant that it did not run well on many computers at the time of its release.

It was this progression toward the off-road class that brought about much of the hobby's popularity, as it meant radio-controlled cars were no longer restricted to bitumen and smooth surfaces, but could be driven virtually anywhere.

The greater availability of telephones in private residences, the improvement of roads and the introduction of highways, and the increase of personal cars for commuting to surrounding towns, all meant that individuals had less need to restrict themselves to close-by conveniences.

For AC, such delays meant that the first production cars ( now renamed 3000ME ) were not delivered until 1979, by which time they were in direct competition with the Lotus Esprit.

The nominal homologation at capacity meant that BDA-engined cars competed in what was usually the top class ( 1600 cc and up ) so were eligible for absolute victories rather than class wins.

British cars and cars in other countries applying the same approach to automobile taxation continued to feature these long thin cylinders in their engine blocks even in the 1950s and 1960s, after auto-taxation had ceased to be based on piston diameters, partly because limited funds meant that investment in new models often involved new bodies while under the hood / bonnet engines lurked from earlier decades with only minor upgrades such as ( typically ) higher compression ratios as higher octane fuels slowly returned to European service stations.

New rules meant cars had to use the same tires throughout the event.

However, the fuel crisis of the time meant that suddenly it became very hard to sell gas-guzzling cars like this ( even though the aerodynamics increased fuel economy greatly, reducing the power needed to attain its top speed by some 30 hp ), and coupled with some production line difficulties in actually building the car meant that sales and delivery were slow, and eventually just 204 examples were built, far short of the 30, 000 projected.

It was heavy, which meant that it was difficult for infantry to handle effectively, and was outdated ; by 1940 it was only effective at short ranges, and then only against armoured cars and light tanks.

Their small, lightweight mid-engined vehicles gave away much in terms of power, but superior handling meant their competing cars often beat the all-conquering front engined Ferraris and Maseratis.

Buyers were not sure if Edsel or Mercury were alternatives to Pontiac, Oldsmobile or Buick in terms of equipment offered and marketing department definitions of what the cars were meant to offer.

It was immediately on the pace, setting many fastest stage times, but a vehicle weight issue meant that the two cars were excluded from that event.

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.

Again it was used as the title for the hoss wrangler, and when the order was given to go out and `` rustle the hosses '', it meant for 'im to go out and herd 'em in.

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 ''.

These numbers are set up by a company offering low charge calls in the UK, these numbers are meant to be used as a sort of operator that you go through in order to qualify for these cheap calls.

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

For Africa this has meant fueling the already unprecedented urban growth phenomenon and increasing the challenges that go with it.

All communication between the Australian colonies and the British Government was meant to go through the Governor-General, and the other colonies had Lieutenant-Governors.

This meant that these battleships could travel from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea without having to go around Denmark.

The promoter of the event at Madison Square Garden, reluctant to close his stadium for half the day, realised that giving each rider a partner with whom he could share the racing meant the race could still go on 24 hours a day but that no one rider would exceed the 12-hour limit.

He said that his commitment to " go where the evidence leads " meant that he ended up accepting the existence of God.

The United States intervention against communist forces in Indochina during a conflict commonly referred to in the United States as the Vietnam War meant that Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia had to go through a prolonged and protracted war in their route to independence.

The reason is that injustice is most difficult to deal with when furnished with weapons, and the weapons a human being has are meant by nature to go along with prudence and virtue, but it is only too possible to turn them to contrary uses.

Secondary characters are meant to come and go, eventually dying in action or even living to retirement, while the Magi carry on.

The depth and length of time spent underwater meant that the cast and crew sometimes had to go through decompression.

Neither wanted to attack, but Abd-al-Raḥmân felt in the end obligated to sack Tours, which meant he had to go through the Frankish army on the hill in front of him.

He was still an MP but had learned that wartime changes in the constituency meant that Caernarfon Boroughs might go Conservative at the next election.

Stapp replied that it was because they always took Murphy's Law under consideration ; he then summarized the law and said that in general, it meant that it was important to consider all the possibilities ( possible things that could go wrong ) before doing a test and act to counter them.

One theory that may explain the effectiveness of this method is that by not voluntarily making oneself go to sleep, it relieves the performance anxiety that arises from the need or requirement to fall asleep, which is meant to be a passive act.

The Latin was itself a joining of ad-and gradi -, which meant to step or to go.

As for the government of the PRC, on the one hand, most analysts predict Beijing would be willing to go to great lengths to defeat any declaration of Taiwan independence, even if it meant military action.

Because of the diseases, the Indians were not allowed to go into any towns or villages along the way ; many times this meant traveling much farther to go around them.

The original ending of the film saw Sam go missing ( after he had left the child at the orphanage ) while he was meant to be writing an article about an upcoming boxing match.

This meant that the pike blocks could rise to the attack, making them less passive and more aggressive formations, but sufficiently well trained that they could go on the defensive when attacked by cavalry.