Their fighting was tense and they did not retreat when disadvantaged by an advancing opposing force and preferred death over defeat.

Their main African base was in Mozambique, therefore the Portuguese navigators preferred to use the Mozambique Channel to go to India.

Their preferred habitat is forests in mountainous or hilly regions.

Their patents included two other major interrelated innovations: one concerning the use of parallel connected, instead of series connected, utilization loads, the other concerning the ability to have high turns ratio transformers such that the supply network voltage could be much higher ( initially 1, 400 to 2, 000 V ) than the voltage of utilization loads ( 100 V initially preferred ).

Their preferred diet is primarily deep-water squid, but also benthic and benthopelagic fish and some crustaceans, mostly taken near the sea floor.

Their preferred repertoire overlapped in some of the classics, but Mengelberg had his own favourites from Bach's St. Matthew Passion to Mahler symphonies, and was happy to leave Debussy and Stravinsky to Monteux.

Their preferred habitat is fairly open country, and they eat insects and fruit.

Their preferred habitat is fairly open country, and they eat insects and fruit.

Their distribution is restricted by the presence of their preferred prey, specific species of ticks, and the animal hosts of those ticks.

Their preferred habitat for breeding is in swamps and wooded ponds of the northern half of the United States and southern Canada.

Their preferred habitat is open grasslands with scattered trees and they are often seen hunting along roadsides.

Their main African base was in Mozambique, and therefore the Portuguese navigators preferred to use the Mozambique Channel to go to India.

Their preferred environment is just off the continental shelf on steep banks with water depths varying from and water temperature at least and preferably.

Their preferred breeding habitat is wetland, but semi-domesticated birds will build a nest anywhere close to water.

Their diet varies according to season ; arthropods and larvae are the preferred food items at the breeding grounds, while various hard-shelled molluscs are consumed at other feeding sites at other times.

By day Spirula lives in the deep oceans, reaching depths of 1, 000 m. At night, they rise to a depth of 100 to 300 m. Their preferred temperature is around 10 ° C, and they tend to live around oceanic islands, near the continental shelf.

Their grandmother preferred to raise them simply, and they made their own clothes.

Their application however was rejected as the then English Northern Premier League side Gretna were preferred by league members over the new Airdrie United.

Too busy playing in the Bay Area, the band preferred to perform cover material of obscure British songs, although Their signature " Let's Talk About Girls " was penned by Manny Freiser of the Tongues of Truth, an Arizona band.

* Their preferred weapon in close quarters is the Minbari Fighting Pike, also known as the Denn ' Bok.

Their preferred habitat is open grassland with water.

Their preferred habitat is a body of freshwater away from the coast with dense vegetation nearby.

Their preferred foods are fruit and flowers, a seasonal resource that is varied to cope with changes in food availability.

Their preferred habitat is largely contained within the range of the creosote bush, mainly dry, sandy desert scrubland below.

Their main tactic was the anti-thesis between religious and non-religious parties, which meant that it sought to break the cooperation between liberals and Catholics and to create an alliance between Catholics and Protestants.

Their primary tactic is simply to engage the enemy in close combat.

Their tactic was to aid other candidates in any constituency where the sitting MP supported a ban in order to bring about a government that will repeal the current ban on hunting in favour of workable animal welfare legislation.

Their next LP, Flashlights, was released on compact disc in January 2007 ; however, as a promotional tactic, the entire album is also available as a free download via the band's MySpace profile.

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.