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 destroyed a trading house and pillaged the goods, and harassed French shipping on the Mississippi.

They are most likely to attack if annoyed or harassed, or if their " personal space " has been encroached upon.

They tried to overrun two French military outpost and gain support for local Muslim tribes loyal to France, but instead they were harassed and eventually defeated by Legion units led by Colonel Albert Brothier after several days of fighting.

They did become briefly controversial in Los Angeles for siding with the young people being harassed on the Sunset Strip ; as a result, they were removed from their promised position of honor in the Tournament of Roses Parade in January 1967.

They may even spend the winter on lakes in parks, as long as they are not harassed, and will occur even on smallish Caribbean islands such as Grand Cayman.

They were harassed by the Bandjigali and Karenggapa Murris, and three of the men, Dr Ludwig Becker, Charles Stone and William Purcell, died from malnutrition on the trip.

They gain the attention of the Hulk when his friends, a community of Aboriginal Australians, are harassed.

They harassed rescuers, stripped Jews of assets needed for food and bribes, raised the overall level of insecurity, and forced hidden Jews to seek out safer accommodations.

They were conducted to a prison, and were harassed along the way.

They could not have been in good shape after fighting all the previous day in intense midsummer heat and having to remain in position overnight, far from water and harassed by British infantry.

They were constantly harassed by the party.

They also harassed Ottoman supply columns, attacked small garrisons, and destroyed railroad tracks.

They harassed the Roman legions, led personally by Caesar, with cavalry detachments and archers.

They are harassed, persecuted, and imprisoned, their family suffers retaliation from the Military Intelligence Service, and they are eventually awarded for their awesome leadership.

They are constantly harassed by two neds, who often play practical jokes on them and taunt them and often shout " ya couple a fannies !".

They were of service to their fellow-Jews only during the periods, often short, of their influence with the rulers ; and as they themselves often came to a tragic end, their co-religionists were in consequence of their fall all the more harassed.

They harassed the Spanish continuously for the next three weeks in what later became known as guerrilla tactics.

They were involved in a rivalry with Dusty Rhodes and harassed him with a replica of the NWA World Title belt that he wore when he was champion.

They immigrated to Palestine in 1933, after he was harassed by the German police, dominated by the Nazis who recently came to power.

They also became one of the leading targets of the FBI's COINTELPRO, which had long harassed Puerto Rican groups.

Amnesty International's 2009 report reads that, " They Moroccan police also conducted unauthorized raids on homes, confiscated property, verbally and sexually harassed people, and carried out arbitrary arrests and detentions.

They toured on through Ukraine, lionized in some towns, harassed by the police in others, until Goldfaden called them back to Odessa, a call that most of his troupe obeyed, leaving Rosenberg and the Adler-Oberlander contingent ( ironically, the leaders of the recent strike ) in Smila, without a troupe.

They destroyed their temples, and so harassed and interfered with the people that they abandoned the city in large numbers, refusing to remain any longer in a place where they had no liberty, and were liable to imprisonment, torture and death if they worshipped after their own fashion the gods of their fathers.

They hoped to keep the Spartans at bay while the superior Athenian navy harassed Spartan troop transports and cut off supply lines.