It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Opposite every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-step, set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse.

And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.

While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

Even before the century was out the tide of reaction had set in.

When Partisan and Kenyon set up shop, Mencken was still accepted as an arbiter of taste ( remember Hergesheimer??

Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.

The bodice beneath was buttoned and, withdrawing his lips from hers, he set her upright on his knee and started to undo it, unhurriedly as if she were a child.

A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.

The purchase was effected and they made their way towards the hotel again, the hen, with whom some sort of communication had been set up, nestling in the doctor's arms.

Hatless, in an overcoat of rough blue wool, I was given a proud farewell by my mother and father, and I set out into the strangely still streets of Brooklyn.

A set of tables containing spectral intensities for 39,000 lines of 70 elements, as observed in a copper matrix in a d-c arc, was completed and published.

set production ( excluding those destined for the export market ) also ran ahead in the early months, but was curtailed after the usual vacation shutdowns in the face of growing evidence that some of the early production plans had been overly optimistic.

Demand for parts for home entertainment was strong in the first half, but purchases were cut back to lower levels during the fall as set manufacturers reduced their own operating rates.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

Each time Letch `` went up '' in his `` lines '', I was the one to be patient, helpful and apologetic while he indulged in outbursts of temperament, profanity and abuse, blaming others, going into `` sulks '' and, on more occasions than I care to count, storming off the `` set '' for the rest of the day.

After all, if you were going to set up a workshop you had to have the proper equipment and that was that.

In 1893, the Badminton Association of England published the first set of rules according to these regulations, similar to today's rules, and officially launched badminton in a house called " Dunbar " at 6 Waverley Grove, Portsmouth, England on September 13 of that year.

During normal gameplay, arrows scroll upwards from the bottom of the screen and pass over a set of stationary arrows near the top ( referred to as the " guide arrows " or " receptors ", officially known as the Step Zone ).

* European Petroleum Survey Group ( EPSG ) ( which despite being officially disbanded in 2005 continues to refine a well tested set of Geodetic Parameters )

* 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when around Arlington Mansion ( formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee ) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U. S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

The Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was set up in 1920 and was renamed the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1925 when the Kazakhs were differentiated officially from the Kyrgyz.

Most countries have adopted the metric system officially over a transitional period where both units are used for a set period of time.

The United States also allows two-axle tractors to tow two 1-axle semi-trailers known officially as STAA doubles and colloquially as doubles, a set, or a set of joints on all highways that are part of the National Network.

On 13 August, 2012, this project was officially announced to be The Zero Theorem, set to start shooting in Bucharest on October 22, produced by Dean Zanuck ( son to the late Richard D. Zanuck who was to originally produce in 2009 ), worldwide sales handled by Voltage Pictures, Toronto and starring Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz in the lead, replacing Billy Bob Thornton who had been attached to the project in 2009.

It was not until the Edo period in 1638 when the rulers of Japan tried to regulate the types of swords and the social groups which were allowed to wear them that the lengths of katana and wakizashi were officially set.

In July 1979 the specifications of this architecture, established by SC16, were passed under the name of " OSI Reference Model " to Technical Committee 97 " Data Processing " along with recommendations to start officially, on this basis, a set of protocols standardization projects to cover the most urgent needs.

More controversially, it set the ground rules by which the Church would relate to secular states, both pluralistic ones like the U. S., and officially Catholic nations like Malta and Costa Rica.

The comic starts with an all-new story, " Opposites Attack ", which is officially set before Web of Spider-Man # 75.

A jury is a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial verdict ( a finding of fact on a question ) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment.

Before the Code, France did not have a single set of laws-law consisted mainly of local customs, which had sometimes been officially compiled in " customals " ( coutumes ), notably the Coutume de Paris.

" To cure this disgraceful state of affairs, Blackstone called for sweeping reforms that would firmly set out the Delegates ' powers and obligations, officially record their deliberations and accounting, and put the print shop on an efficient footing.

Although slave status was hereditary, they could be sold or freed at officially set prices, and the mistreatment of slaves was forbidden.

The Republic of the United Provinces was officially recognized in the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ), and lasted until French revolutionary forces invaded in 1795 and set up a new republic, called the Batavian Republic which would be replaced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Holland.

Kett and his followers were now officially rebels ; the authorities therefore shut the city gates and set about preparing the city defences.

Photo by Ernest Brooks ( photographer ) | Ernest Brooks. Zero hour was officially set at 7: 30 am for 1 July 1916.

At Trier, altars were set up in honour of Lenus Mars, Ancamna and the genii of various pagi of the Treveri, giving the impression of Lenus Mars and Ancamna as tribal protectors honoured in an officially organized cult.

Once all athletes are in the set position, the starter's gun is fired, officially starting the race.

On September 18, 1822, Governor Lewis Cass set Lapeer County's boundaries, although it remained a part of Oakland County until it was organized ; Lapeer County officially became a county on February 2, 1835.

In 1970, the Chichester Range National Park was set aside and officially named.

Later at night fireworks are set off to officially announce the end of the festival.