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Their notorious cruelty, which they practised against the natives, helped to turn the British Empire under Gladstone against the Ottoman Empire, as well as to attract Russian intervention at Serbian request, the very sequence of events that, when the region was under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, would result in world-wide conflagration.
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Their first project, the tragédie en musique Samson, was abandoned because an opera on a religious theme by Voltaire — a notorious critic of the Church — was likely to be banned by the authorities.
Their most famous performance was heavily influenced by an early similar act by the notorious Barrison Sisters.
Their voyages, which are sometimes called the Pacific passage, were as inhumane and dangerous as the notorious Middle Passage.
Their collaboration, Ishtar ( 1987 ), co-starring Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, was an even more notorious disaster than her previous film.
Their destination was Fort Whoop-Up, a notorious whiskey trading post located at the junction of the Belly and Oldman Rivers.
Their major works include Santa María de Iquique ( 1970 ), an album of spoken history, songs, and instrumentals about a notorious massacre in the city of Iquique, and the song " El pueblo unido jamás será vencido " (" The people, united, will never be defeated "), with lyrics by Quilapayún and music written by famed Chilean songwriter and playwright Sergio Ortega.
Their most notorious insult to the United States came on Memorial Day in 2003 when they interrupted Raw announcer Lilian Garcia as she was singing America the Beautiful.
Their main base, however, is in a deep dragon's lair in the notorious Underdark trade city of Skullport, situated beneath the great human city of Waterdeep.
Their food contains fewer aquatic animals and more terrestrial ones ; they are known to gather together and feed on locust swarms, killing many of these notorious pests.
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Their menaces compelled him to accept the Imperial purple, his only refuge indeed against the jealous cruelty of Maximin (...).
Their petition related to the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act which was criticized for encouraging cruelty and brutality, and noted the danger which free blacks risked of being kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Their cruelty in the treatment of humans was unspeakable, both toward the enemies of the Evermind and to those who had already been conquered.
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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 kind created an American culture superior to any in the world, an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the Federal treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies.
Their interest remains chiefly biographical, for they throw some light on the utter despair which overtook Thompson in the spring and early summer of 1900.
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 Majesties, The Queen of Carnival and The Queen of Comus, have jointly issued invitations for Shrove Tuesday evening at midnight at which time they will entertain in the grand ballroom of a downtown hotel following the balls of Rex and Comus.
Their bodies writhe and they raise and lash their tails which makes it difficult for the predator to avoid contact with their poison-producing granular glands.
Their therapy consisted of constraint-induced movement therapy which resulted in improvements of their arm function.
Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.
Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.
Their main force was infantry, armed with javelins in the front ranks and pikes behind, which formed into a phalanx ; and was supported by camelmen and horsemen on the flanks.
Their non-Greek language is confirmed on the site by inscriptions in the Cypriot syllabary which alone in the Aegean world survived the Bronze Age collapse and continued to be used down to the 4th century BC.
Their allied troops occupied the neighbouring principality which was granted to Andrew's younger son, Coloman.
Their research was applied on the MiG-15 and F-86 Sabre and bombers such as the B-47 Stratojet used swept wings which delay the onset of shock waves and reduce drag.
Their main disadvantage is the distortion of the flow itself by the structure supporting the transducers, which requires a correction based upon wind tunnel measurements to minimize the effect.
Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".
Their most common shared activity is watching music videos, which they tend to judge by deeming them " cool ," or by claiming, " This sucks!
Their actions sometimes have extreme consequences, but often for others, for which they themselves show no remorse whatsoever.
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Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
Their names had not come up in any discussions with Laura, and he had no idea what they would be like.
Their demand against the Calvinist Orthodoxy for intellectual liberty had never meant that they would follow `` free inquiry '' to the extreme of proclaiming Christianity a `` natural '' religion.
Their vivid anecdotal qualities have made favorites some of them of painters since the Renaissance, so that they stand out more prominently in the modern imagination.
Their beliefs and behavior are difficult to decipher from physical materials, and their languages remain unknown as they had no known writing system.
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.
Their fighting was tense and they did not retreat when disadvantaged by an advancing opposing force and preferred death over defeat.
Their return was blocked, and they resolved to march on Athens, where the Long Walls were not yet completed, winning a victory at the Battle of Tanagra.
Their turretless construction bears similarity to later tank destroyers and they were used as an anti-tank component of the reconnaissance units.
Their best finish of this period was under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver, when in 1954 – 55 they finished as runners-up, after Udinese who originally finished second were relegated for corruption.
Their offices were compatible with other offices, i. e. they can hold two benefices or offices at one and the same time, some conferred by the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, others by the Holy Father.
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