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.

The subsequent Allied withdrawal meant an end to the idea of defeating the Ottoman Empire quickly.

円 /" En " meant " circle " or " perfection "; 明 /" mei " meant " light "/" clarity ", and 流 /" ryū " meant " school "; the name seems to have been derived from the idea of holding the two swords up in the light so as to form a circle.

The authors call this concept a ‘ conduit metaphor .’ By this they meant that a speaker can put ideas or objects into words or containers, and then send them along a channel, or conduit, to a listener who takes that idea or object out of the container and makes meaning of it.

Where the English proverbs above are meant to make a potential customer smile, in one of the Zimbabwean examples " both the content of the proverb and the fact that it is phrased as a proverb secure the idea of a secure time-honored relationship between the company and the individuals ".

The motion picture is Stoppard's only film directing credit: " t began to become clear that it might be a good idea if I did it myself — at least the director wouldn't have to keep wondering what the author meant.

The spin-off idea was cancelled after Five pulled out of the deal, which meant that the show could potentially screen on a rival UK channel, so Five requested that the new show developed as a stand-alone series and not feed off a series they own a stake in.

This was as opposed to cattle, which then meant any sort of domestic livestock that was easy to collect and remove from the land, from the idea of personal-property ownership ( rather than real estate property ) and related to modern chattel ( property ) and capital.

Like other contemporary arrangements, the agreement stressed the responsibility of the adopted rather than adopter, focusing on the fact that, under the contract, the adoptive father was meant to be cared for in his old age ; an idea that is similar to the conceptions of adoption under Roman law.

Two innovations were added: 1 ) adoption was meant to ensure the " best interests of the child ;" the seeds of this idea can be traced to the first American adoption law in Massachusetts, and 2 ) adoption became infused with secrecy, eventually resulting in the sealing of adoption and original birth records by 1945.

He seized on an ambiguous passage which might have meant that their marriage was chaste, perhaps to give the idea that Edith's childlessness was not her fault, to claim that Edward had been celibate.

Mauritius ’ s governor, to woo Madagascar from French control, recognized Radama I as King of Madagascar, a diplomatic maneuver meant to underscore the idea of the sovereignty of the island and thus to preclude claims by any European powers.

The rabbis taught a " quite literally ... down-to-earth " view of the eternalness of God: That " God is eternal but it is not given to man to explore the full meaning of this idea ," and so " one cannot, therefore, expect to find in the rabbinic literature anything like a detailed examination of what is meant by divine eternity.

Its approval meant that the principle of secession was no longer in keeping with the idea of a national union.

It is probable that the idea of demonstrating a conclusion first arose in connection with geometry, which originally meant the same as " land measurement ".

Horse-racing historian Michael Tanner, in a 2011 television interview at Epsom, pointed out that as Emily Davison was standing on the inside of the bend at Tattenham Corner, amidst heaving crowds, and with no racetrack commentary like there is today, it would in fact have been impossible for her to have any idea whether the King's horse Anmer had in fact already gone past or not when she stepped out onto the racecourse to make her protest ; and that at the speeds the horses were going it would not have been practicable for her to identify any particular horse anyway even if she'd meant to.

Trotskyism meant the idea that the Russian proletariat might win the power in advance of the Western proletariat, and that in that case it could not confine itself within the limits of a democratic dictatorship but would be compelled to undertake the initial socialist measures.

It has been suggested this idea was strong enough in medieval times to produce an expression, " to mate griffins with horses ", which meant about the same as the modern expression, " When pigs fly ".

It is probable that the idea of demonstrating a conclusion first arose in connection with geometry, which originally meant the same as " land measurement ".

" This is what Friedman meant by musicality, extending the idea more radically to conclude that anyone can create work of any kind from a score, acknowledging the composer as the originator of the work while realizing the work freely and even interpreting it in far different ways from those the original composer might have done.

The idea that they should do so originated with Elijah Cadman who, at The Salvation Army's ' War Congress ' in August 1878 said " I would like to wear a suit of clothes that would let everyone know I meant war to the teeth and salvation for the world ".

The Zhou developed the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, by which was meant that the emperor ruled by the grace of Heaven, and that the replacement of the Shang by the Zhou was a legitimate act due to Heaven no longer favoring Shang because of Shang misrule under their last ruler.

He found a jar of preserved tomatoes and one of eggs that they had meant to save.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

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.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

`` Mixed herd '' meant a herd of mixed sexes, while a `` straight steer herd '' was one composed entirely of steers, and when the cowman spoke of `` mixed cattle '', he meant cattle of various grades, ages, and sexes.

In law, it is generally meant to state specifically and in detail what one did and for what reason, often in relation to commission of a crime.

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.

In one paragraph he wrote: " The laws of this country will of course, be introduced in South Wales, and there is one that I would wish to take place from the moment his Majesty's forces take possession of the country: That there can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves ", and he meant what he said.

Dylan meant that title, of course, and he means this one too, which doesn't make " Love and Theft " his minstrelsy album any more than Self Portraits dire " Minstrel Boy " was his minstrelsy song.

Deaths before that time meant that many parents, spouses and children were never told more than that it was secret work for the Foreign Office or one of the armed services.

In the subsequent battle of Frekastein ( probably one of the 300 hill forts of Södermanland, as stein meant " hill fort ") against Högni and Grammar, all the chieftains on Granmar's side are slain, including Bragi, except for Bragi's brother Dag.

The European corn borer, one of the primary insects Bt is meant to target, has been shown to be capable of developing resistance to the Bt protein.

A frequent method for this purpose is reiterating what one heard in one's own words and asking the other person if that really was what was meant.

In addition, the appetite for a continual supply of new music, carried over from the Baroque, meant that works had to be performable with, at best, one rehearsal.

In psychology, phenomenology largely has meant attempting to investigate consciousness using the method of introspection, which means looking into one's own mind and reporting what one observes.

" The vow of brahmacarya is meant to help one completely abstain from sex indulgence in work, words, and mind – at all times, under all circumstances and in all places.

To have held each office at the youngest possible age ( suo anno, " in his year ") was considered a great political success, since to miss out on a praetorship at 39 meant that one could not become consul at 42.

He called his approach towards Judaism " Positive-Historical ," which meant that one should have a positive attitude towards accepting Jewish law and tradition as normative, yet one should be open to developing the law in the same fashion that it has always historically developed.

The rise of citizenship was linked to the rise of republicanism, according to one account, since independent citizens meant that kings had less power.

Each cabal was usually dedicated to one very specific area of the game which meant the cabal had to meet very regularly, in the case of Half-Life the members had to meet four days a week, six hours a day for five months.