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 were granted sovereignty in 1717.

They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.

They also were the supreme commanders in the Roman army, with each being granted two legions during their consular year.

They requested that the Central Committee of the party was granted the right to directly enter their representatives into the VCheKa.

They jointly applied for a patent and were granted this for a period of ten years.

They granted public access to the collection the following year.

They subsequently married ( between 1993-1996 ), filed for divorce on the week of 2007-08-10, and were granted the divorce in January, 2008.

As President and First Lady, the Reagans were reported to display their affection frequently, with one press secretary noting, " They never took each other for granted.

They began their work at Bell's Volta Laboratory in Washington, D. C., in 1879, and continued until they were granted basic patents in 1886 for recording in wax.

They also had other possessions in Jerusalem and Caesarea, plus smaller colonies ( with lesser autonomy ) in Cairo, Alexandria and of course Constantinople, where the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus granted them special mooring and trading rights.

* They argue that the Dogmatic Constitution Pastor æternus concerns the permanence of the primacy of the Holy See over the universal church and condemns as heretical the propositions that the authority granted to St. Peter by Christ either was abolished after his death or devolved to the college of bishops, both positions that were argued by Orthodox theologians.

They can also take some justifications for granted, according to common sense.

They were granted right-of-ways of plus of land ( ten sections ) adjacent to the track for every mile of track built.

They were granted an amnesty and freed in 1938, by which time the league had lost most of its popular support.

They were subsequently granted the leasehold on various lands in East Anglia and the West Country for a period of 21 years.

They were granted on 2 April 1954.

They hold the rank not because of the see that they head but because it has been granted to them personally (" ad personam ").

They were often granted monopolies as part of the chartering process.

They were granted the non-royal prefix of " Prince " and their descendants bear the title Count af Rosenborg in the Danish nobility.

They secured the use of the Church of St. Anna dei Greci and were granted permission to hold services according to the Greek and the Latin rite.

They granted him permission to become a member of the society afterwards.

They decided to retain the ribbons with which the pigtail was tied as a declaration against over regulation, and were granted this special concession by the King.

They enjoyed these titles for life, even after the Royal Rescript regulating the styles and titles of the Royal House following Egypt's independence in 1922, when the sons and daughters of the newly styled King () were granted the title Sahib ( at ) us-Sumuw al-Malaki, or Royal Highness.

They were all for the small casts permitted under his licence, although at the Salle Choiseul he was granted an increase from three to four singers.