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They are arranged so as to overlap in a head-to-tail direction, like roof tiles, allowing a smoother flow of water over the body and therefore reducing drag.
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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 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 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 tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.
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 ''.
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They allotted $500,000 three years ago to support Interama until its own financing could be arranged.
They have six stamens, four of which are longer ( as long as the petals, so relatively short in fact ) and are arranged in a cross like the petals and the other two are shorter ( tetradynamous flower ).
They were the basis on which the land was distributed and held, and by which the public services of the temple were arranged and conducted.
They chased him relentlessly and upon reaching Delphi he was told by Apollo that he should go to Athens to seek Athena's aid ; he did so and she arranged a trial.
* They are not designed for public performance or the stage, although traditional folkdances may be later arranged and set for stage performances.
They made occasional public appearances together between their breakup and 1961 but were not seen together until a surprise appearance by Martin on Lewis's Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon in 1976 arranged by Frank Sinatra.
They certainly arranged several marriages for her to important or powerful men in order to advance their own political ambitions.
They never lived together and Mao refused to recognise her as his wife, becoming a fierce critic of arranged marriage.
They commonly contain a sequencer that allows the creation of drum patterns, and allows them to be arranged into a song.
They first occupied the RuzynÄ› International Airport, where air deployment of more troops was arranged.
They can also be used for collecting powerups and bonuses ; the latter is often arranged in an arc such that the player can collect all of them if the jump is timed right.
They usually produce two or two-and-a-half hours of new material each week, either arranged as four or five half-hour episodes a week, or two one-hour episodes.
They all have relatively low, monoclinic crystal symmetries and contain nearly identical puckered Se < sub > 8 </ sub > rings arranged in different fashions, as in sulfur.
They were arranged in a circle between the two rings of sarsens and in an oval at the centre of the inner ring.
They first met when Bullock arranged for her ten-year-old godson to meet James as a Christmas present.
They are both wound on a common core and the windings are so arranged that the magnetic flux induced by both of them is in the same direction.
They are respectively filaments twisted into irregular shapes, and those that are arranged in fishbone patterns, usually by uneven wind currents that favor the formation of these varieties.
They quickly formed a friendship, and Horne arranged for Murdoch to be promoted and posted to his department at the Ministry.
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