In combat, helping your CO make a fool of himself might mean getting yourself killed.

This may mean having fellowship in the church with people with whom, on the level of merely human agreeableness, we might prefer not to have any association at all.

It might mean again or a second time or from above, which would explain Nicodemus ' confusion.

This confusion might mean that Caligula originally made the decision to divide the province, but the implementation was postponed because of the rebellion.

Statements of " belief " sometimes mean the speaker has faith that something would prove to be useful or successful in some sense — perhaps the speaker might " believe in " his or her favorite football team.

The term fatwā is sometimes used by some Muslims to mean to " give permission " to do a certain act that might be illegal under Islamic law ; other Muslims view this to be incorrect.

Fear of what the changes might mean for them ( as much of the country's businesses were Chinese owned ), a Malay backlash resulted, leading rapidly to riots and inter-communal violence in which about 6, 000 Chinese homes and businesses were burned and at least 184 people were killed.

For example, in evaluating the effectiveness of a new therapy, the mean performance of the therapy in one treatment group might be compared to the mean effectiveness of a placebo ( or a well-known therapy ) in a second, control group.

Some restaurants might use the suffix-zen ( 膳 ) as a classier though dated synonym to the more familiar, since the latter basically is a term for a combo meal served at a, akin to a diner .. Teishoku means a meal of fixed menu, a dinner à prix fixe served at or, which is somewhat vague ( shokudō can mean a diner type restaurant or a corporate lunch hall ); but e. g. defines it as fare served at, etc., a diner-like establishment.

A question of the first type might be, " What do the words ' good ', ' bad ', ' right ' and ' wrong ' mean?

" Maeshowe " might then mean " the burial mound field ", or " the area around the cairn ".

This might mean driving down manufacturing costs, or changing the artwork or content of products like magazines or albums so they better fit with Wal-Mart's image of family friendliness.

This assumption is known as the closed world assumption: it is often violated in practical databases, where the absence of a tuple might mean that the truth of the corresponding proposition is unknown.

In many of the following terms corresponding to British cultural influence, areas of relatively low mean population density might bear a title of an entity one would expect to be either larger or smaller.

In other words, there might be still a growing in numbers of members but it does not mean that all members are faithfully following the rules of pious behaviors expected.

Although an SSTO rocket might theoretically be built, margins would be likely to be very thin: even comparatively minor problems could mean that the craft may fail to achieve the necessary mass-fraction to reach orbit with useful payload.

This might mean that Stephen is referring to the " old kings " which could only be Attila and Nimrod.

It might also mean that the constitution of the kingdom itself was not employed by St Stephen, but by his ancestors.

Alternatively, technological unemployment might refer to the way in which steady increases in labour productivity mean that fewer workers are needed to produce the same level of output every year.

Act utilitarians, on the other hand, do not accept human rights as moral principles in and of themselves, but that does not mean that they reject them altogether: first, most act utilitarians, as explained above, would agree that acts such as enslavement and genocide always cause great unhappiness and very little happiness ; second, human rights could be considered rules of thumb so that, although torture might be acceptable under some circumstances, as a rule it is immoral ; and, finally, act utilitarians often support human rights in a legal sense because utilitarians support laws that cause more good than harm.

A fragment from Kuntillet Ajrud ( 9th / 8th centuries ) mentions Baal in association with Yahweh, but in this case the word might simply mean " Lord " ( the literal meaning of " baal ").

The name might mean " Yah ( weh ) has concealed ", " whom Yah ( weh ) has hidden ", or "" Yah ( weh ) lies in wait "".

It was also considered that the auctor might have intended a certain word to mean something different.

The Allied fleet now sailed from Artemisium to Salamis to assist with the final evacuation of Athens ; en route Themistocles left inscriptions addressed to the Ionian Greek crews of the Persian fleet on all springs of water that they might stop at, asking them to defect to the Allied cause.

In June 1809 Jamison sailed to London to bolster his business interests and give evidence against Bligh in any legal prosecutions that might be brought against the mutineers.

The reason why the Aube sailed ahead of the Comte-de-Paris was to ‘ gain time for fear the British might get the start of them ’ Yet the New Zealand Company's survey ship Tory had sailed from Plymouth on 12 May 1839, before Langlois and his associates had made their first approach to the French government, and as early as June the British Government was considering sending Captain William Hobson to act as Lieutenant-Governor over such parts of New Zealand as might be acquired from the Māori.

On 30 April, Cervera set steam from Cape Verde, and panic gripped the U. S. populace, who did not know what his ships might do: attack the largely undefended East Coast while the fleet sailed about in an effort to engage him, prey upon American shipping, or perhaps sail up the Potomac and set fire to Washington, D. C.

The latter page carries an account by historian Edward Gibbon: " A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire ; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland: the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames.

The American freighter Auckland picked up seventeen survivors from the sea, who might have been the first Japanese people to set foot on California when they were brought to San Francisco in February 1851, although Hasekura Tsunenaga had earlier sailed past Cape Mendocino.

If it had sailed, it might have met the Turkish fleet earlier than it did.

The customs officials suspected that the cargo might contain weapons to arm militant Icelandic home rulers who sought independence from Denmark, however the SS Fanny managed to escape into a gale and sailed outside of Danish territorial waters.

In 1606, without Wingfield's input through his extensive influential contacts, it is possible that the expedition might never have sailed.

The Battle of Sacheon caused the Japanese command at Busan some anxiety, as the supply ships that sailed from Japan might be in danger.

In 1770, Captain Cook sailed into Botany Bay and made the first written description of the river as follows: " I found a very fine stream of fresh water on the north side in the first sandy cove within the island before which a ship might lay land-locked and wood for fuel may be got everywhere.

Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.

Inmates might even demand the 34-hour week, all holidays off and fringe benefits including state contributions toward lawyers' fees.

Unfortunately the cafes might not make enough money to support themselves during the off season.

You might try providing standard vacation time off but make the vacation pay depend on the number of hours worked in the previous year.

A careful and orderly man, who values precision and a kind of tough intellectual responsibility, might easily be put off by such a book.

That stupid girl might have gone off and left Francie ''!!

Any little dose of radiation might knock off these critters ''.

Kornemann's brief is that Antoninus might have waged preventive wars to head off these outsiders.

Hence these words of David: In the morning I put to death all the wicked of the land, that I might cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord.

No symbol for Barack Obama has appeared in the strip ; the May 30, 2009 strip had Obama and an aide wondering what the reason for this might be ( off panel ).

" If Danny feels like doing Kaplan that night, he might be off on Kaplan for two hours.

While the sedimentation event itself might be relatively short-lived, the ecological disruption caused by the mass die off often persists long into the future.

However, it is as such that she is ultimately treated-rather than being prosecuted in an open trial ( which she might have welcomed ) Annie is discreetly packed off to a private asylum.

However, on May 8, 2010, a sighting of a gray whale was confirmed off the coast of Israel in the Mediterranean Sea, leading some scientists to think they might be repopulating old breeding grounds that have not been used for centuries.

Hector takes it off, embraces his wife and son, and for her sake prays aloud to Zeus that his son might be chief after him and become more glorious in battle than he.

For instance, someone who has committed a sin punishable by stoning might fall off a roof, or someone who ought to be executed by strangulation might drown.

In part, the excitement stemmed from the inclusion of all tournament entrants into the same tournament, where a small town's David might knock off a large city's Goliath.

It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off .... Man's only right to land is his might over it.

If the affair did not dissipate before, one side might find enough courage to mount a sustained attack, driving off their enemies.

This might have happened during the initial marshaling of forces from a jump off point, or the deployment of reserves, but once the great encircling sweep of frenzied warriors in the " horns " and " chest " was in motion, the izinduna could not generally exercise detailed control.

Moreover, due to the overscanned nature of television video, the precise edges of the visible area of the screen varied from television set to television set, so characters near the expected border of the active screen area might be behind the bezel or off the edge of the screen.

The birds will tend to come ashore in small groups to provide some defense against predators which might pick off individuals one by one.

( For example, a bookseller's loyalty card program might provide a customer with a 10 % off coupon once the customer has spent $ 200. 00 at the bookseller.