The Shi ' ar are cold-blooded humanoids of avian descent ; they resemble humans with feathered crests atop their heads in lieu of hair.

Shi Min himself lead Hans in killing the Hu ( 胡 ) and Jie ( 羯 ) people without regard for sex or age, during the day were severed tens of thousands heads.

Modarresi also founded and currently heads the League of Religious Scholars which brings together many high ranking Shi ’ ite scholars or their representatives in Iraq.

Master Hidar Fen Ajidica heads Project Amal, an early attempt by the Bene Tleilax to create synthetic melange in order to eliminate dependence upon the planet Arrakis ; intending an eventual Tleilaxu takeover of the universe, Ajidica sends " improved " Face Dancers off to unexplored systems.

Between 1975 and 1981, Belizean leaders stated their case for self-determination at a meeting of the heads of Commonwealth of Nations governments in Jamaica, the conference of ministers of the Nonaligned Movement in Peru, and at meetings of the United Nations ( UN ).

Movement of the filaments over each other happens when the globular heads protruding from myosin filaments attach and interact with actin filaments to form crossbridges.

She was chosen chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1976, and hosted the Movement's conference, attended by numerous heads of state.

Since first August 2008, Yvonne Ridley has joined the Free Gaza Movement in Cyprus as it heads for Gaza to challenge the Israeli siege.

He heads the Pachakuti Indigenous Movement ( MIP ) and has also been general secretary of the United Union Confederation of Working Peasants of Bolivia ( CSUTCB ).

Par heads to the forge, hoping that the Movement will know more of the Four Land in order to find the Sword.

Dr Sa ' ad Rashed Mohammad al-Faqih () ( born January 2, 1957 in Az Zubayr, Iraq ), also known as Sa ' ad Al-Fagih, Sa ' ad Al-Fakih or Sa ' ad Al-Faki, is a Muslim Saudi national who heads the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia ( MIRA ).

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

Two men murmured with their heads together at the end of the bar, while the sleek-headed bartender absently polished a glass.

The pilots' heads looked ridiculously small.

Their heads were in the air sniffing.

They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.

The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

and they had ( vaguely ) heads and feet.

`` Go back to America or any other place '', well-meaning friends of Captain Heard advised them, `` but put thoughts of going to Burma out of your heads ''.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice of surrendering West Berlin to communism.

Weeks ago he saw a business upturn in the second quarter of this year while his colleagues in the Cabinet were shaking their heads in disagreement.

If we go all gooey over this newest Castro ( until he proves he isn't ) we've got rocks in our heads.

It is not our bodies but our hearts and heads that have grown too soft.

Even at this short distance they were only vague shapes, setting up the machine gun on a small knoll so that it could fire above the heads of the rest of the patrol.

He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread out like a serpent with two heads.

And as the Pilgrims bowed their heads in humble gratitude, they shared another feeling -- the anticipation of what the future held for them and their posterity.

This method of computing compression ratio cannot be used accurately for engines that have pistons with either domed or irregularly shaped heads.

Any irregularity on the piston heads will make it impossible, with normal means, to determine the final combustion chamber volume because the volume displaced by the piston heads cannot be readily computed.

First of all, the six figures of the Buddha you heisted -- four Siamese heads, a black obsidian statuette in the earth-touching position, and a large brass figure of the Dying Buddha on a teakwood base.

But it is the wooden sculpture from Bali, the one representing two men with their heads bent backward and their bodies interlaced by a fish, that I particularly call to your attention.

It was nevertheless almost incredible that four years after Yalta there should be a complete split over Germany, with hot heads on both sides planning to use the Germans against their former allies, and with Nazi-minded Germans expecting to recover their power by fighting on one side or the other.

If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at all, that they asserted nothing true or false, but merely expressed emotions like `` Hurrah '' or `` Fiddlesticks '', then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at rest.

This basic principle, the first in a richly knotted bundle, was conveyed to me by Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, where he heads the world's first department of anthropology and linguistics.

But the older and wiser heads had dismissed his warning as alarmist.