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 also built another two churches and a monastery dedicated to John the Baptist, and are credited with introducing sugarcane production to the city.

They have been credited with popularizing the practice of ending sentences with the colon or full stop, inventing the semicolon, making occasional use of parentheses and creating the modern comma by lowering the virgule.

They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic.

They are also credited as a source of the dialectic method used by Socrates.

They even credited themselves alongside the software publisher's name in their custom cracktro screens.

They were so popular that they could be credited with launching a boom in radio-controlled model cars in the early to mid 1980s, and provided the basis for today's radio-controlled car market.

They released a compilation record, Everything Went Black, which was credited to the individual musicians, not " Black Flag ".

They are credited with pioneering the ' boutique spa ' movement in the city.

They have been both credited with being a grass-roots movement with an impact on local government, and villainized for being a group of " nit-picking blowhards, part of why town politics are so venomous.

They are often credited with taking the first steps toward popularizing grunge music, and have continued to achieve critical and commercial success in the new millennium, with popular bands such as Fleet Foxes, Dinosaur Jr., Foals, Beach House, The Postal Service, Flight of the Conchords, No Age, Wolf Parade and The Shins on their roster.

They are credited with mentoring the young actor.

They also demonstrated this theorem — the foundation of " The Law of Falling Bodies " — long before Galileo, who is generally credited with it.

They insist that he always credited the Soviet work once he knew about it.

They also are usually credited as inventors of the first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen, in 1885, but Italy's Enrico Bernardi, of the University of Padua, in 1882, patented a one-cylinder petrol motor, fitting it into his son's tricycle, making it at least a candidate for the first automobile, and first motorcycle.

They have been credited with launching the girl group genre, with much of their music reflecting the genre's essence.

They credited The Lovin ' Spoonful concert as a fateful experience, after which they decided to leave the folk scene and " go electric.

In various interviews, Newman has credited The Fleetwoods with giving him his first national break: the trio recorded his song, " They Tell Me It's Summer ", as the B side of one of their 11 hit singles, giving Newman great exposure and royalties ( piggy-backed on the sale of the Fleetwoods ' 1962 hit A side, " Lovers By Night, Strangers By Day ").

They played together before his solo career took off, credited on the album, Chapin Music !, and later on his live albums Greatest Stories Live and Legends of the Lost and Found.

They were intended as replacements for Erin Moran and Scott Baio ( who departed for their own show, Joanie Loves Chachi ) and were credited as part of the semi-regular cast.

They are widely credited as having been the highest paid female entertainers in the UK for more than 20 years.

They have been credited with guiding the Association toward a more educated position, promoting youth coaching and training just before hostilities in 1939.

They are often credited as one of the leading bands of the 1980s hardcore punk scene.

They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres.

They are credited with leaving behind the very numerous remains dating from the Bronze Age which are scattered all over southern Siberia.