The main character is Raul Endymion, an ex-soldier who receives a death sentence after an unfair trial.

Their leader, Yorgi ( Marton Csokas ), is a Soviet Union ex-soldier who has a grudge against authority and society in general.

A recurring secondary adversary ( initially treated seriously, though later becoming comic relief ) is Suicida, a psychopathic ex-soldier who leads the murderous Gangreen street gang.

In Roman times, Macey is an ex-soldier with a group of deserters.

Witnessing all of this is Reva Cody ( Deborah Van Valkenburgh ), who runs a local diner, wires her kid brother Tom Cody ( Paré ), an ex-soldier and Ellen's ex-boyfriend, to rescue her.

He is annoyed by a tomboyish looking ex-soldier named McCoy ( Amy Madigan ), a mechanic who " could drive anything " and who is good with her fists, as evidenced when she knocks out Clyde.

As an ex-soldier, he is skilled with rifles and submachine guns, and has on occasions also used a sniper rifle.

When Steve goes outside, he is attacked by Drake, but is saved by Mike, who beats the ex-soldier in unarmed combat.

Carl Palmer: Played by Bob, Carl is an ex-soldier and has returned home from service in Cyprus.

An ex-soldier who fought in France, he is shown as the most violent of the outlaws, having turned to murder after powerlessly witnessing the brutalisation and trampling to death of his wife at the hands of Normans.

" Kangaroo " is the fictional nickname of one of Lawrence's characters, Benjamin Cooley, a prominent ex-soldier and lawyer, who is also the leader of a secretive, fascist paramilitary organisation, the " Diggers Club ".

Clayton is with him, takin him out of the valley.

His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.

`` Exterminatin' cow thieves is just a business proposition with me '', he'd blandly announce.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

It is nothing you can put your fingers on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of electricity.

It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

That place is crawling with Bill Doolin and his gang ''.

The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

`` What is with this vow jazz ''??

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.

In the later books, the limp is not mentioned, which suggests it may have been a temporary wartime injury.

If a fighter loses consciousness (" goes limp ") as a result of legal strikes, or does not immediately defend himself after a knockdown, he is declared knocked out.

However, before a stop such as ( provided there is no morpheme boundary between them ), only one of the nasals is possible in any given position: before, before or, and before, as in limp, lint, link (,, ).

This idea is supported by other images in the work, such as the wide expanding landscape, and other limp watches shown being devoured by ants.

The secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand.

The cane is more than a prop: a childhood bout with polio has caused him to walk with a limp.

When he is speaking as himself, his dialogue has a strong metre, but when he impersonates Vincentio, the metre suddenly begins to limp, thus suggesting he is having difficulty playing this new role.

The character in the show was given a serious limp, and is said to hate the word " tomorrow " and to know every detail about everything that goes on in London.

Prisoners are often reported to have little or no struggle before they go limp, because their jugular vein and carotid arteries are blocked and blood flow to the brain is reduced.

One interviewer wrote: " A limp, exhausted body racked by constant pain due to weakened arteries is now the remnant of the relentless figure that once waved a Marshal's baton.

* In a rag doll or golliwog act, one or two assistants bend, shake and carry the contortionist in such a way as to convince the audience that the disguised performer is actually a limp, life-sized doll.

Consul Moffat, professor of mathematics in the chapter of mathematics applying to gastronomy -- that is, the chapter limited to giving the ciphers for eating today, for eating tomorrow and for eating day after tomorrow -- made the first dollars drop into the limp pocketbooks of the men opposed to Zelaya and was thus able to prove that psychology and mathematics have a common root.

He seems to die near the end of the series, but the fact is that he lived, even saving Mimori before escaping ( he goes limp after his thinking slows down gradually ).

One of the many problems with the process whereby ' something dangerous that is felt inside can be moved outside-a process of " projection "'-is that as a result ' the projector may become somewhat depleted and rendered limp in character, as he loses part of his personality '.

There, in his speech, Arthur Conan Doyle stated: " I consider the production a personal gratification ... My only complaint is that you made the poor hero of the anemic printed page a very limp object as compared with the glamour of your own personality which you infuse into his stage presentment ".

The ragfish body is scaleless and limp, both because of the cartilaginous skeleton, as well as its flabby muscles.

; < span id =" dead_hang "> Dead hang </ span >: To hang limp, such that weight is held by ligament tension rather than muscles.

Lola arrives at the bank a few moments later because of her limp, which leaves enough time for her father's mistress to explain that she is pregnant by someone else.

However in unilateral cases ( e. g. post traumatic ), there may be shortening, leading to a short limb gait characterised by limp which is seen as a vertical dip on the affected side during the stance phase ( as opposed to a lurch characterised in a Trendelenburg gait ).

He then meets " Golden Leg " Fung ( Ng Man Tat ), a legendary Hong Kong soccer star in his day, who is now walking with a limp, following the treachery of a former teammate Hung, now a rich businessman.

Paper is limp.

Discharged from the Marines, he is walking with a limp ( presumably from his injuries from the explosion ), and it is suggested that his three friends were all killed.