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 go on to add, " Most contemporaries seem in fact to have held him in high esteem, and he certainly inspired loyalty in a way his brother could not ".

They were one of the early thrash metal bands to sign to a major label ( Atlantic Records, in 1986 ), though Overkill would not achieve commercial success until they popularized " thrash " in the late 1980s with their contemporaries Anthrax, Exodus, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Testament.

They were contemporaries of the poet Hipponax, whom they were said to have caricatured.

They were, he says, his nidus senectutis, the ' nest of his old age ', and there he spent the rest of his days, composing poetry and writing to many eminent contemporaries, several of whom had been his pupils.

They were the first receivers of Theravada missionaries from Sri Lanka, in contrast to their Hindu contemporaries like the Khmers or Chams.

They were contemporaries by age.

They are mistakenly referred to as " Hessians " by some Americans, but were correctly identified as Brunswickers by their contemporaries.

They mentioned and described Le Sage's theory in their books and papers, which were used by their contemporaries as a secondary source for Le Sage's theory ( because of the lack of published papers by Le Sage himself ).

To his friends, Arthur ’ s death came as ' a loud and terrible stroke from the reality of things upon the faery building of our youth ' They remembered him in vivid elegy: he had been ' the most charming and the most promising ' of his contemporaries ; ' his mind was more original & powerful than the minds of us his contemporaries '; ' he had a genius for metaphysical analysis ', ' a peculiar clearness of perception ', and an ' always active mind '; an ' angelic spirit ', ' he seemed to tread the earth as a spirit from some better world ; ' his mighty spirit ( beautiful and powerful as it had already grown ), yet bore all the marks of youth, and growth, and ripening promise.

• They were the first stage shows in the UK to present comedic performers ( such as Monty Python and Rowan Atkinson ) in the same setting and shows as their contemporaries in rock music ( such as Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton and Sting ).

They called themselves True Levellers, whereas the Digger name was coined by their contemporaries.

They were once contemporaries of the Ancients, and learned much from them.

The music of Scelsi was heard by millions in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island in which excerpts of his two pieces " Quattro pezzi su una nota sola " ( which does not appear on the soundtrack of the film ) and " Uaxuctum: The Legend Of The Mayan City Which They Themselves Destroyed For Religious Reasons – 3rd Movement " were featured in the film alongside the music of his contemporaries György Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, John Cage and Morton Feldman.

They had ended up with on-stage personas Braben says he did not like-Morecambe was " gormless " ( a northern England phrase meaning stupid and unworldly ), whereas Wise was tight-fisted with money, smart and hard-edged ( they were not dissimilar from their older contemporaries Abbott and Costello in this respect ).

They must have appeared particularly cryptic to his contemporaries ; we can now read them as containing the germs of the theories of L-functions and complex multiplication, in particular.

They helped confirm his position as a promising young American composer among his German contemporaries, from whom he received favorable critiques.

They " professed an art of healing superior to that practiced in the cities " Philo notes, and the reader must be reminded of the reputation as a healer Saint Anthony possessed among his 4th-century contemporaries, who flocked out from Alexandria to reach him.

They followed Australian contemporaries The Birthday Party to the busier music scene in London.

They are usually remembered as ' Carl Wayne and the Vikings ', to avoid confusion with their US contemporaries.

They leave for London and reside in Jack's apartment until they can return to Canada ; in that time, Anne works for a British newspaper office and becomes acquainted with Fergus Keegan, Jack's editor, and Maude Montrose, one of Jack's contemporaries and a fellow spy.

They were contemporaries of country music founders Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and occasionally gave advice to Tennessee Ernie Ford on his music.

They are also one of the very few late 1950s-based groups to successfully re-invent themselves and go on to maintain consistent recording success well into the 1960s / 1970s, while many of their contemporaries had long since faded from the charts.

They issued a common proclamation together that included the statement that: " We look forward to a fruitful collaboration to enable our contemporaries to rediscover the Christian roots of the European Continent which forged the different nations and contributed to developing increasingly harmonious links between them.

They have served longer than their battlefield contemporaries, the Alvis Saracen, which were not considered suitable for use in an urban environment.