Was that a yes?

Was that a no?

It meant I commit myself. I engage myself.

That would have meant too much pressure.

That meant avoiding a war with Israel.

To do so would mark the beginning of the end for Hong Kong.

In imperial China, this meant Confucian orthodoxy.

That would be a disastrous step.

Deregulation meant competition and thinner margins.

To allow them to win would be to accept the supremacy of evil.

But it would certainly not mean the end of the world.

The word belief itself originally meant to love, to prize, to hold dear.

Even back in January, a lot of people meant 30.

This meant Florida had to count the votes again.

That would mean sawing off the branch you're sitting on.

It is then inferred that this means that manufactures must be expanded.

I believe it did not mean, I accept certain creedal articles of faith.

The why meant really, What consequences does it have when I take a step?

This meant that as the ruble depreciated, Russia s debts rose.

Now, ecstasy in Greek meant simply to stand to the side of something.

The fall of Bursa meant the loss of Byzantine control over northwestern Anatolia.

Motivating financial executives to focus on the effects of their choices on all those contributing capital to the bank would significantly improve their risk taking incentives.

Everywhere, this has meant massive pauperization of the least favored part of the population.

This meant active encouragement by information, by political education, for example.

But moving in this direction, even if imperfectly, would mean real progress.

In short, the Kyoto agreement meant lots of short term pain for little long run gain.

Calm economic waters had given the ECB and Trichet a honeymoon until last fall.

This meant that we were going to have to raise funds to properly commission Dominque.

And this is exactly how we will treat it from here for ever .

But revealing the skeletons in Bo s closet also meant revealing the secret world of the red aristocracy.

For Domitian, this meant that a significant part of his adolescence was spent in the absence of his near relatives.

History will have many tales to tell about what this really meant for the Continent.

In other words, governments could no longer treat their citizens however they wanted.

This amounted to transferring annually 8 10 of Germany s national income, or 65 76 of its exports.

Rapid productivity increases in manufacturing had outpaced growth in demand, which meant that manufacturing employment decreased.

In the 17th century, a doodle was a simpleton or a fool as in Yankee Doodle.

Only money ruled in America, it was thought, so that meant that the Jews ruled.

Viewed from a matching perspective, there is no failure of aggregate demand whatever that means.

Was France losing its autonomy, perhaps even its sovereignty? Was it capitulating to American hegemony?

But EU membership has always been about more than economic integration and trade flows.

A larger capital stock would mean thicker markets, a finer division of labor, and a more productive economy.

Everyone wanted to flee war, even if that meant leaving anonymous women and children behind.

That could plunge the global economy into another financial crisis, delivering a shock equivalent to the autumn of 2008. It would also mean a eurozone failure that would not leave the Common Market unharmed.

As far as education was concerned, it often meant committing resources to financial assistance for students, such as subsidized loans or scholarships.

Moreover, NATO enlargement has meant that Europe itself has still not emerged from the Cold War.