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 fall within a range between approximately 7500 BC ( 9, 500 years ago ) and approximately 16, 000 BC ( 18, 000 years ago ).

They total approximately 2, 500 persons.

They are distributed throughout the body of the breast ; approximately two-thirds of the lactiferous tissue is within 30 mm of the base of the nipple.

They include approximately 130, 000 cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia.

They rise out of 4 – 6 km deep ocean and have a total land area of approximately 180 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

They live in small social groups ( approximately six individuals ) that stay within a few feet of one another most of the time, staying in contact via high-pitched calls.

They are the most species-rich group of lizards, with approximately 1, 500 different species worldwide.

They physically exchange their positions approximately every 10 minutes ( long exchange ) and change sides every 5 minutes ( short exchange ).

They were also overwhelmingly Pashtun and were accused of not sharing power with the approximately 60 % of Afghans who belonged to other ethnic groups.

They were approximately contemporary with the mastabas of the archaic period of Egypt ( first and second dynasties ), the brick temples of Sumeria, and the first cities of the Harappa culture in India, and a century or two earlier than the Golden Age of China.

They were primarily farmers who lived in towns, organized into small kingdoms, however, within three decades an estimated Indian population of one million plummeted to a few tens of thousands, as approximately half of the indigenous people in western Nicaragua died of diseases brought by the Spaniards.

They found that studies generally assumed a scenario that half of the world's nuclear weapons would be used, ~ 5000 Mt, destroying approximately 1, 000 cities, and creating large quantities of carbonaceous smoke-1 – 2 × 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > grams being mostly likely, with a range of 0. 2 – 6. 4 × 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > grams ( NAS ; TTAPS assumed 2. 25 × 10 < sup > 14 </ sup >).

They also contain approximately 10 % of the total activity of two enzymes in the pentose phosphate pathway, which is important for energy metabolism.

They first travel to the Puppeteer home world, where they learn that the expedition's goal is to explore a ringworld: an artificial ring about one million miles wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit ( which makes it about 600 million miles in circumference ), encircling a Sol-type star.

They constitute 74. 5 % of the Sri Lankan population and number approximately 15 million.

They are normally a few centimeters long and with a diameter of approximately.

They mailed booklets, letters and videotapes to approximately 300, 000 Christian leaders.

They settled in three separate areas along approximately 650 kilometres of the western coast.

They were a major employer in the area, with approximately 200 employees by 1870.

They range in size from the small dwarf lanternshark ( Etmopterus perryi ), a deep sea species of only in length, to the whale shark ( Rhincodon typus ), the largest fish in the world, which reaches approximately.

They have lived on the Cape Peninsula for approximately one million years and continue to this day.

They settled in central and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony, along the upper reaches of the Weser River and in the valleys and mountains of the Eder, Fulda and Weser River regions, a district approximately corresponding to Hesse-Kassel, though probably somewhat more extensive.

They sent nine packets over a distance of approximately five kilometers ( three miles ), each carried by an individual pigeon and containing one ping ( ICMP Echo Request ), and received four responses.