Their fighting was tense and they did not retreat when disadvantaged by an advancing opposing force and preferred death over defeat.

Their preferred tactic was to avoid an open field battle, and to fight from the cover of a huge fortified camp.

Their main African base was in Mozambique, therefore the Portuguese navigators preferred to use the Mozambique Channel to go to India.

Their preferred habitat is forests in mountainous or hilly regions.

Their patents included two other major interrelated innovations: one concerning the use of parallel connected, instead of series connected, utilization loads, the other concerning the ability to have high turns ratio transformers such that the supply network voltage could be much higher ( initially 1, 400 to 2, 000 V ) than the voltage of utilization loads ( 100 V initially preferred ).

Their preferred diet is primarily deep-water squid, but also benthic and benthopelagic fish and some crustaceans, mostly taken near the sea floor.

Their preferred repertoire overlapped in some of the classics, but Mengelberg had his own favourites from Bach's St. Matthew Passion to Mahler symphonies, and was happy to leave Debussy and Stravinsky to Monteux.

Their preferred habitat is fairly open country, and they eat insects and fruit.

Their preferred habitat is fairly open country, and they eat insects and fruit.

Their distribution is restricted by the presence of their preferred prey, specific species of ticks, and the animal hosts of those ticks.

Their preferred habitat for breeding is in swamps and wooded ponds of the northern half of the United States and southern Canada.

Their preferred habitat is open grasslands with scattered trees and they are often seen hunting along roadsides.

Their main African base was in Mozambique, and therefore the Portuguese navigators preferred to use the Mozambique Channel to go to India.

Their preferred environment is just off the continental shelf on steep banks with water depths varying from and water temperature at least and preferably.

Their preferred breeding habitat is wetland, but semi-domesticated birds will build a nest anywhere close to water.

Their diet varies according to season ; arthropods and larvae are the preferred food items at the breeding grounds, while various hard-shelled molluscs are consumed at other feeding sites at other times.

By day Spirula lives in the deep oceans, reaching depths of 1, 000 m. At night, they rise to a depth of 100 to 300 m. Their preferred temperature is around 10 ° C, and they tend to live around oceanic islands, near the continental shelf.

Their grandmother preferred to raise them simply, and they made their own clothes.

Their application however was rejected as the then English Northern Premier League side Gretna were preferred by league members over the new Airdrie United.

Too busy playing in the Bay Area, the band preferred to perform cover material of obscure British songs, although Their signature " Let's Talk About Girls " was penned by Manny Freiser of the Tongues of Truth, an Arizona band.

Their preferred habitat is open grassland with water.

Their preferred habitat is a body of freshwater away from the coast with dense vegetation nearby.

Their preferred foods are fruit and flowers, a seasonal resource that is varied to cope with changes in food availability.

Their preferred habitat is largely contained within the range of the creosote bush, mainly dry, sandy desert scrubland below.

Their hobnailed sandals ( caligae ) were also an effective weapon against a fallen enemy ( cf.

Their uniforms tend to fit rather loosely, and often feature large phaser holsters that allow the entire weapon to be ' dropped in ', hiding most of it from view.

Their trade-mark weapon is a small rod with two handles and a plunger at one end, giving it a syringe style.

Their primary weapon was the two-handed Danish battleaxe, although every man would have carried a sword as well.

Their most effective weapon was the atlatl, a throwing stick that greatly increased the deadliness of their spears.

Their activities have been known to include assassinations, involving for example a ' terror weapon ' entity.

Their primary weapon is the M16 assault rifle.

Their primary weapon is the M4 carbine.

Their weapon of choice was the AK-47 assault rifle, which they acquired from black markets hosted by triads.

Their purpose in dual affiliation was increasing the breadth of the boycott, which they had found a useful weapon.

Their resistance cell manages to infiltrate a Dominion shipyard and steal the Breen weapon that Federation ships were defenseless against.

Their actions allowed Starfleet engineers to develop shields that could counter the weapon.

Their weapon was a rather primitive and exceedingly dangerous explosive device: the petard.

Their basic weapon was the bow and arrow, but the short ( usually less the four feet long ) and stout Indian bow was designed for short-distance hunting from horseback.

Their weapon and sensor configurations would then be adopted on the VF-1 series the next year.

Their weapon of choice is usually a sword, but in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, they use knives.

Their weapons consisted of one or more long spears for throwing and a short stabbing-spear or assegai ( also the principal weapon of the Zulu ).

Their most fearsome weapon is the howl that gives them their name.

Their repairs usually only on the weapons and weapon systems that are the official property of these institutions, and limited to restoring these government-owned firearms to officially sanctioned standards of functionality and configuration.

Their main offensive weapon was a torpedo.

Their design was made to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles, an innovation that brought about the widespread use of the rifle as a mass battlefield weapon.

Their most potent weapon is their venom, which can change humans into degenerate ophidians.

Their Beryl rifles are equipped with EOTech holographic weapon sight s.

Their first tests were favorable but highlighted the desirability of a repeating weapon, that is, a weapon with a magazine.