Their commercial empire directly and indirectly controls events throughout Known Space and beyond, and Puppeteer plots are behind many of the larger events in Known Space.

Their empire stretched from ocean to ocean, and extended into Central America.

Their actions could secure the empire for a usurper or take it away.

Their progress is checked by the Saracens, recruited from Arab tribes who control the eastern fringes of the empire.

Their commercial interests were protected by the resurgent military power of the Göktürks, whose empire has been described as " the joint enterprise of the Ashina clan and the Soghdians ".

Their work was vastly popular in their day among the citizens of the British empire.

Their power came from having large pack animals like camels and horses that were fast enough to keep a large empire under central control and were also useful in battle.

Their demands met for a time, the Hun kings withdrew into the interior of their empire.

Their dissatisfaction forced Nicholas to turn his attention inward to address the issues of the empire.

Their business empire also included Tongkah Harbour, the first Asian company involved in dredging the harbor floor for tin ( a publicly listed company ).

Their defeat was seen as a major catastrophe in the Ottoman empire, but in Russia it was glorified in the first national anthem, Let the thunder of victory sound!

Their new " Hindu-Muslim ... thing ," to quote the Prime Minister of Armenia (" I call it a riot with scripture ," quips Jeesh member Vlad ) is fraught with tension and Alai discovers that, despite his wife's status as an infidel and a woman, the more hotheaded members of his empire actually prefer her aggressive and expansionist policies.

Their civitas under the Roman empire was Cassel ( northern France ), near Thérouanne.

Their established continental peace, carved out of decades of conflict, set the stage for the shocking devastation of " The Other ," for Baron Wulfenbach's empire, and for Agatha's quest to find out the truth about herself.

Their progenitor, Ushoran, snubbed the other vampire masters to establish his own empire in Strigos, situated in what is now the Badlands.

Their power came from having large pack animals like camels and horses that were fast enough to keep a large empire under central control and were also useful in battle.

Their duty is to guard the Carpenter Wall that separates the empire of Rokugan from the foul and tainted Shadowlands.

Their arrival, which coincides with the decline of Teotihuacan and a period of general turmoil and mass migration in Mesoamerica, has led scientists to speculate that they might have been involved somehow in the fall of the Teotihuacan empire.

Their large empire, located far from the Galactic Core, has been known to resist all incursions into its territory and has never quarreled with humans.

Their scriptures and history were not preserved directly — instead, fragments of Ājīvika doctrine were preserved in Jain and Buddhist sources, and they are mentioned in several inscriptions from the Mauryan empire.

Their empire once ran as a series of holds throughout the mountain ranges joined by tunnels.

Their empire collapsed when their villages were repeatedly decimated by epidemics of smallpox and cholera in the late 1840s ; the population plunged from 20, 000 to just a few thousand by the 1870s.

Their empire collapsed when their camps and villages were repeatedly decimated by epidemics of smallpox and cholera in the late 1840s, and in bloody conflict with settlers, the Texas Rangers, and the U. S. Army.

Their destination was the Italian colonial empire in East Africa.

Their work was lonely.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

Their answer was: it can be done, and we will do it.

Their only hope of survival was to hold to the road and keep marching.

Their house was a centuries-old Colonial which they had had restored ( guided by an eminent architect ) and updated, and added on to.

Their world, again, was a still simple, traditional age which was only slowly beginning to appreciate the complexity of life.

Their study showed that it was possible to transfer 3 to 4 lb of oxygen / hr. / hp.

Their onrush and retreat, he reported, was accompanied by a great hissing, roaring and rattling.

`` Their house '', writes Albert S. Flint, `` was always a haven of hospitality and good cheer, especially grateful to one like myself far from home ''.

Their territory lay to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the Tombigbee, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees.

Their joint statement was welcomed by the Western delegations who will attend tomorrow the nineteenth plenary session of the fourteen-nation conference on the future of Laos.

Their flight was delayed, Dunn said, when a boarding ramp inflicted some minor damage to the wing of the plane.

Their singing was well-balanced, clear and, within obvious limitations, extremely pleasing.

Their collaboration in the Beethoven Second Symphony was lucid, intelligent and natural sounding.

Their strategy was sound enough and, he reasoned, had been defeated only by Philip Spencer's unwillingness to sanction an idea he had not originated.

Their robust Calvinism was publicized in such confessions as the London Baptist Confession of 1644 and the Second London Confession of 1689.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

Their goal was to regain access to Eden by finding the correct formula for perfect living, following specific rules governing agriculture, diet, and reproduction.

Their most famous battle against Rome took place in Argentoratum ( Strasbourg ), in 357, where they were defeated by Julian, later Emperor of Rome, and their king Chnodomarius was taken prisoner to Rome.