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They adopted him after he was discarded by his trainer for coming last in a race in the first episode of the series. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has adopted multiple retired racers.
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They speak a number of subdialects of the Aimaq dialect of Persian, however some southern groups of Taymani and Maleki Aymaqs have adopted Pashto.
They also adopted two sons, John and Richard, the latter of whom became a notable filmmaker, author, and psychologist.
They spread its use into North Africa where it was adopted by Mamluk Egyptians and the Sudanese who produced it until the early 20th century.
They include the existence of a prime minister and Cabinet, the fact that the governor general is required to grant Royal Assent to bills adopted by both houses of parliament, and the requirement that the prime minister either resign or request a new general election upon losing a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons.
They can be seen in 19th-century liberal British theology and in the rise of Unitarianism, which adopted many of its beliefs and ideas.
They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapithae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.
They can be classified into two categories: declarations, adopted by bodies such as the United Nations General Assembly, which are not legally binding although they may be politically so as soft law ; and conventions, which are legally binding instruments concluded under international law.
They settled on the southwestern slopes of the Lebanon Mountains and soon adopted the Druze religion.
They adopted two children: Roxanne ( born 1944, adopted 1944 ) and Ronald Charles ( born 1937, adopted 1943, a. k. a. Ron Pickford Rogers ).
Scholar John Strohm suggests that they did so by creating personas of a type conventionally seen as masculine: " They adopted a tough, unladylike pose that borrowed more from the macho swagger of sixties garage bands than from the calculated bad-girl image of bands like The Runaways.
They were used for both petrol and diesel engines, although high speed engines have now adopted the lighter weight slipper piston.
They adopted the term (" the Third Empire " – usually rendered in English in the partial-translation " the Third Reich "), first used in a 1923 novel by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, that counted the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire as the first and the 1871-1918 monarchy as the second, which was then to be followed by a " reinvigorated " third one.
They have been adopted in the United States by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and internationally by the International Telecommunication Union.
They and him
They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.
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