These troops policed labor camps ; ran the Gulag system ; conducted requisitions of food ; subjected political opponents to torture and summary execution ; and put down rebellions and riots by workers or peasants, and mutinies in the desertion-plagued Red Army.

These cautious tactics aroused derision amongst their more conservative French and Russian opponents but proved appropriate to the new nature of warfare.

These books carry a sharp polemic, hardly surprising when it is recalled that his opponents charged Wycliffe with blasphemy and scandal, pride and heresy.

These scholars are labeled " revisionists " by their opponents.

These were still effective for thrusting against lightly armoured opponents.

These are seen as important by the Department of Justice because they believe that terrorists can exploit wiretap orders by rapidly changing locations and communication devices such as cell phones, while opponents see it as violating the particularity clause of the Fourth Amendment.

These opponents came together to form a political party after the Morgan affair convinced them the Masons were murdering their opponents.

These studies were also tended to refute criticissm from opponents of assisted outpatient treatment.

These Saracens located in the northern Hejaz appear as people with a certain military ability who are opponents of the Roman Empire and who were characterized by the Romans as barbarians.

These included infighting between China's qigong establishment and Falun Gong, speculation over blackmailing and lobbying by qigong opponents and " scientists-cum-ideologues with political motives and affiliations with competing central Party leaders ", which caused the shift in the state's position, and the struggles from mid-1996 to mid-1999 between Falun Gong and the Chinese power elite over the status and treatment of the movement.

These attempts have met stiff resistance — some opponents characterize the measures as " resurrection resolutions "— and no legislature has approved one.

These individuals and groups use a variety of tactics and tools to advance their aims, including advocating their positions publicly, attempting to educate supporters and opponents, and mobilizing allies on a particular issue.

These measures, coupled with Ovando's earlier nationalization of Gulf Oil properties, angered his opponents even more, chief among whom was Banzer and his US supporters.

These opponents of NATO war claim that war was avoidable, had the real wish of US and NATO been to solve the Kosovo problem.

These entities are apparently designed to teach a form of lesson (" instruct ") to opponents of the Culture, and to eliminate specific leaders of the enemy ; generally, one or two enemies at the top of the conspiracy " pay with their lives ".

These policies were informally referred to as " State Socialism " by liberal and conservative opponents ; the term was later adopted by supporters of the programs in a further attempt to detract the working class from the SPD, with the goal of making the working class content with a nationalist-oriented capitalist welfare state.

These opponents accused Welch of harboring feminist, ecumenical, and evolutionary ideas.

These opponents called themselves “ Tangwai ,” literally meaning " outside the party ".

These tengu are the troublesome opponents of Buddhism, who mislead the pious with false images of Buddha, carry off monks and drop them in remote places, possess women in an attempt to seduce holy men, rob temples, and endow those who worship them with unholy power.

These are the only opponents of Benton.

These tactics consisted of small groups who attempted to catch their opponents by surprise, through an ambush.

These names were considered by the Soviets as being like a nickname given to one's unit by the opponents in a battle, such as the US Marines were called by the Germans in France " Devil Dogs ", which they appreciated as a feather in their cap.

These were positioned in such a way that Reiter's Briansk Front was on the northern flank of Army Group South, while Voronezh was directly opposite of Kursk, and the Southwestern Front was located opposite their opponents.

* Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests: These forests occupy the mountains of northern Anatolia, running east and west between the coastal Euxine-Colchic forests and the drier, continental climate forests of central and eastern Anatolia.

* Central Anatolian deciduous forests: These forests of deciduous oaks and evergreen pines cover the plateau of central Anatolia.

* Central Anatolian steppe: These dry grasslands cover the drier valleys and surround the saline lakes of central Anatolia, and include halophytic ( salt tolerant ) plant communities.

These provinces and many areas of Navarre are heavily populated by ethnic Basques, but the Euskara language had, at least until the 1990s, all but disappeared from most of Álava, western parts of Biscay and central and southern areas of Navarre.

These days beatmatching is considered central to DJing, and features making it possible are a requirement for DJ-oriented players.

These requirements may be direct, such as requiring certain assets to bear certain minimum credit ratings, or indirect, by the central bank lending to counterparties only when security of a certain quality is pledged as collateral.

These books, secular perennialists argue, are written by the world's finest thinkers, and cumulatively comprise the " Great Conversation " of mankind with regard to the central human questions.

These theories work from the central premise that effective learners are active agents who construct knowledge by setting goals, analyzing tasks, planning strategies and monitoring their understanding.

These restrictions effectively give the British Government the ability to prevent the island's government from declaring the islands to be a tax haven or from establishing a central bank.

These instruments are descended from ones that existed in ancient central Asia and India.

These alterations included the removal of his tiny ears, 3 toes on each foot rather than four, enlarged central dorsal fins and a bulkier body.

These are spoken in the arid zone bordering, and considerably within, the Sahara desert of west and central Niger in the Tillaberi, Tahoua, Dosso, Maradi, Agadez and Zinder regions.

These texts are the central shruti ( revealed ) texts of Hinduism.

These are typically composed of a central rod made of fibre reinforced plastic and an outer weathershed made of silicone rubber or ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber ( EPDM ).

These are connected via T1 lines with the central office switch, replacing older analog two-way and direct inward dialing ( DID ) trunks.

These eastern mountains are formed by a central ridge of metamorphic rock running northwest to southeast from which many long spurs jut to the north and south.

These central highlands, traditionally the homeland of the Merina people and the location of their historic capital at Antananarivo, are the most densely populated part of the island and are characterized by terraced, rice-growing valleys lying between grassy, deforested hills.

These efforts had important effects, but they lacked any central organization and planning, and failed to meet many of Europe's more fundamental needs.

These funds played a central role in the reindustrialization of Germany.

These can affect the central nervous system ( brain and spinal cord ), the peripheral nervous system, or the autonomic nervous system.

These roamed the rural borderlands of central Europe embarking on many of the same illegal activities associated with today ’ s crime organisations, with the exception of money laundering.

These are features which are common to many ODBMS's and are considered central to their respective implementing systems.

These three institutions: political representation, majority rule and the party system are the basic components of modern political machinery ; they are applicable to both central and local governments and are becoming by their adaptability ends in themselves rather than a machinery to achieve some purpose.

These networks are in general called ' centralized networks ' because of their lack of ability to work without their central server ( s ).