People decorated their homes and trees with paper flags ; there were ritual races, processions, dances, songs, prayers, and finally human sacrifices.

: People were flailing at themselves from hunger.

Of these three bodies it is the assembly and the courts that were the true sites of power — although courts, unlike the assembly, were never simply called the demos ( the People ) as they were manned by a subset of the citizen body, those over thirty.

They were created in the same year as the Tribunes of the People ( 494 BC ).

Since the Plebeian Aediles were elected by the Plebeians ( commoners ), rather than by all of the People of Rome ( Plebeians as well as members of the Patrician aristocracy ), they were not technically magistrates.

People were sleeping in alleys then, willing to work at anything.

People starting with John Oxley in 1817, 1818 and 1821, followed by Charles Sturt in 1829 – 1830 attempted to follow the westward-flowing rivers to find an " inland sea ", but these were found to all flow into the Murray River and Darling River which turn south.

People crossing the so-called " death strip " on the eastern side were at risk of being shot.

According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.

People were filing in through the veranda, past the coffin, and out at the front entrance.

People [...] were visibly uncomfortable and appeared to be confused, saying things like " What the fuck, man?

According to E. K. Hunt, classical liberals made four assumptions about human nature: People were " egoistic, coldly calculating, essentially inert and atomistic ".

People in the Middle Ages did not always know to which of the many lords, the Church and the individual churches, the towns, princes, and kings, they were subordinate.

Mather reported that, from his view, " none that have used it ever died of the Small Pox, tho at the same time, it were so malignant, that at least half the People died, that were infected With it in the Common way.

People were split into the Black Yi ( nobles, 5 % of the population ), White Yi ( commoners ), Ajia ( 33 % of the Yi population ) and the Xiaxi ( 10 %).

People were born into specific social classes ; social mobility was not unknown, but it was extremely rare.

European acts Silver Convention, Love and Kisses, Munich Machine, and American acts Donna Summer and the Village People, were acts that defined the late 1970s Eurodisco sound.

People were ordered by law to drop their Western Christian names ; the titles Mr. and Mrs. were abandoned for the male and female versions of the French word for " citizen "; Men were forbidden to wear suits, and women to wear pants.

* The Legislative Council: essentially the rubber-stamp Parliament, it was made up of People Commissioners ( known elsewhere as MPs ), who were sometimes elected, as individual members of the party, and always on the party platform.

" People are showing up dead, or disappearing.

* People are complaining almost everywhere that the sense of duty is disappearing.

People who take us for suckers are like the Westerner who had on exhibit his superior marksmanship in the form of a number of bull's-eye achievements.

`` You are bound to get involved with people when you have children '', Fran had told me at our first meeting, `` so it is good to know that those with whom you get involved are not just dreary little housewives and dull husbands, but People Who Do Things ''.

Henry stormed into Giffen's office waving a copy of the New Orleans Courier, shouting that the emancipation scheme had become a public affair, and that it would reach the `` Ears of the People on the Plantation, and make them restless & unhappy ''.

The singles " I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You ", " Games People Play ", " Damned If I Do ", " Time " ( Woolfson's first lead vocal ), " Eye in the Sky " and " Don't Answer Me " had a notable impact on the Billboard Hot 100.

People had used gloves previously, but never had a star like Spalding used one.

People can appreciate a Renaissance Madonna for aesthetic reasons, but such objects often had ( and sometimes still have ) specific devotional functions.

Before the Brunei People ’ s Party electoral success, a military wing had emerged, the North Kalimantan National Army ( Malay abbreviation TNKU, Tentera Nasional Kalimantan Utara ), which saw itself as an anti-colonialist liberation party.

Animal protection magazine Animal People reported in March 1997 that Greenpeace France and Greenpeace International had sued Olivier Vermont and his publisher Albin Michel for issuing " defamatory statements, untruths, distortions of the facts and absurd allegations ".

When Dole declined an invitation to speak to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he suggested Kemp as a substitute even before Kemp had become the Vice Presidential nominee.

People who had a significant influence on the development of the field

The " Dead Parrot " sketch was inspired by a " Car Salesman " sketch that Palin and Chapman had done in How to Irritate People.

A fortnight previously, Fayed had stated that " People approach us from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar.

At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.

She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

People who suspected that the Liberals had learned nothing from their term out of office soon had proof: a peace treaty signed with Bolivia on July 21, 1938, fixed the final boundaries behind the Paraguayan battle lines.

People were forced to live in their corresponding regions and the action of passing the boundaries without a permit was made illegal, extending pass laws that had already curtailed black movement.

A new political party, the People's Party, had formed to try to block the change but was unsuccessful as was the People Against Switching Sides protest group which launched a last minute legal challenge against the decision.

The Steelers ' " Steel Curtain " had led the AFC in fewest points allowed ( 189 ) and the Vikings ' " Purple People Eaters " had only given up 195.

People who had felt oppressed now felt empowered.

People who joined activist organizations after the riots had very little in common other than their same-sex attraction.

The state has had good relations with the People ’ s Republic of China over the past 30 years, recently receiving the Chinese president ( February 2009 ).

On January 20, 1649, a version of the " Agreement of the People " that had been drawn up in October 1647 for the Army Council and subsequently modified was presented to the House of Commons.