They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.

They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.

They are mere fragments, just one portion of preprepared messages.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

They are in general those fears that once seemed to have been amenable to prayer or ritual.

They are non-conformists on principle.

They are full of contempt for the institution of matrimony.

They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.

They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

They are presumed to have plunged to a common grave in this fatal embrace.

They are determined to prove something.

They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.

They are very small, and in the form of haystacks, without either chimney or windows.

They are situated in the midst of trees, which hang over them, and appear truly romantick.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

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 ''.

They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.

They are longing to see you ''.

They are not true because scientists or prophets say they are true.

They often bear some resemblance to English words as Lombardic was akin to Saxon.

( d ) They must have voluntarily cohabited and held themselves out to the world as being akin to spouses for a significant period of time.

They have more powers than the arrondissements of Paris, and are more akin to the London boroughs.

They were described by Herodotos as being of Minoan descent, while the Carians themselves maintained that they were Anatolian mainlanders intensely engaged in seafaring and were akin to the Mysians and the Lydians.

They spoke an Italic language, Faliscan, closely akin to Latin.

" They were akin to the Folk of Hador and spoke a closely related language, though its knowledge was mostly lost later.

They are represented as akin to the ruthless, political commissars of the former Soviet Union.

They may also be led to recite a text in the manner of that deity, in which case the invocation is more akin to ritual drama.

They were akin to a jury which was summoned from time to time by the Lord of Mann or by the deemsters when they required advice as to the law.

They have traditionally included pieces made using some degree of division of labour, where a number of specialised workers were used in the different processes involved in making each piece, in settings more akin to a factory than a studio.

They make use of technology, including anti-gravity devices, splinter weapons, dark matter ( in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, something more akin to antimatter ) weaponry, nanotechnology and psychic artifacts.

They could only be explained if a situation akin to Dien Bien Phu came into being.

They believed their way of regarding the authority of the Pope — more in line with that of the Conciliar movement and akin to the Orthodox and Anglicans — was more in conformity with Holy Scripture and tradition.

They tended to see cinema akin to other arts, such as literature.

They also had a long form of Type and Model Number system used between 1920 and 1943, a short designation system akin to that of the United States Navy in use between the late 1920s and 1945, a system of popular names introduced to replace type numbers from 1943 through 1945, and finally an SADP ( Service Airplane Designation System ) number used from 1939 onward.

They are forced to leave their dæmons behind, which is painful and akin to death.

They also sometimes adopt a minimalist & dadaesque style, a trend of the Quebec music scene of the 2000s-a decade of voluntary simple yet nonetheless quite intelligent and Joual lyrics, therefore subversive and akin to a sort of lyrical naïve art.

They have no structural purpose, but may be considered lucky, akin to a horseshoe mounted over a doorway.

They provide something akin to a political cabaret, dealing with gossip and contemporary affairs.

They are structurally akin to the PCBs and other polyhalogenated compounds, consisting of two halogenated aromatic rings.

They have transcended the status of elf and, through Orion have become akin to the forest spirits.

They participated in several music festivals, and in 1981 won the Lyra in Bratislava, the communist bloc's best-known music prize ( akin to the Sanremo Music Festival ).

They could function as two-way radios with video capabilities akin to those Dick Tracy used.

They provided political and social commentary and satire and are a good example of a bardic tradition, akin to that that in medieval Europe or, more recently, the role calypsos played in the West Indies.