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 are also characterised by a laxer following of verse principles that the authors of later epics almost invariably adhered to.

They are characterised by a plural in-i and definite articles derived from the Latin.

They are characterised by a complex profusion of sculpture decorating all the temple parts chiseled of soft soapstone ( chloritic schist ), a good material for intricate carving, executed mostly by local craftsmen, and exhibit architectural features that distinguish them from other temple architectures of South India.

They are characterised by a protective outer case called a lorica and their habitat, which is in the spaces between marine gravel to which they attach themselves.

They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarpous, apparently bisexual ( but actually mostly cryptically unisexual ) flowers borne in panicles, cymes, spikes, or clusters.

They are characterised by a fatty hump on their shoulders, drooping ears and a large dewlap.

They characterised element of reality as a quantity whose value can be predicted with certainty before measuring or otherwise disturbing it, and defined a complete physical theory as one in which every element of physical reality is accounted for by the theory.

They are characterised by a number of properties:

They are characterised by richly coloured plumage, slender bodies, and usually elongated central tail feathers.

They are characterised by a long beak and large throat pouch used in catching prey and draining water from the scooped up contents before swallowing.

They were variously characterised as part of a garage rock, New Wave or post-punk revival.

They were deposited in the Devonian and Carboniferous eras in a sea characterised by island chains, volcanoes and atolls that were pushed together and covered by a layer of rock that had been transported from another location during the Variscan orogeny period of mountain building.

They are characterised by agglutinativity and astonishing consonant clusters — for instance the Nuxálk word () meaning ‘ he had had his possession a bunchberry plant ’ has thirteen obstruent consonants in a row with no vowels.

They are characterised by the slipper-shaped pouches ( modified labellums ) of the flowers – the pouch traps insects so they are forced to climb up past the staminode, behind which they collect or deposit pollinia, thus fertilizing the flower.

They are rather diverse in size and coloration, but are characterised by soft fluffy plumage.

They are characterised by simple, rounded to heart-shaped leaves and pinkish-red flowers borne in the early spring on bare leafless shoots, on both branches and trunk (" cauliflory ").

They reflected the realities of the range and ranch houses where the music originated, played a major part in combating the loneliness and boredom that characterised cowboy life and western life in general.

They are further characterised by the fact that the granules seem to overlie the nucleus.

They are characterised by light basophilic staining and a very eccentric nucleus.

They are farmhouses, characterised by elaborate security measures against raids.

They are characterised by an octagonal ( eight-sided ) plan, and often feature a flat roof and a veranda all round.

They were one of the groups that issued coinage before the Roman conquest, part of the cultural " periphery ", as Barry Cunliffe characterised them, round the " core group " of Britons in the south.

They were characterised by the lack of rancour between racial groups, typical of the 1966 general election and the 1968 by-elections.

They are characterised by a swollen body and short arms, which bear two rows of suckers or hooks.