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 had learned, both of them, about Abraham Wharf.

They learned how to extract metals from ores, and how to compose many types of inorganic acids and bases.

They were allowed to have family members bring in their own food and were on good terms with the guards from whom they learned the latest news.

They later learned that an NKVD agent was hiding in the bushes outside their window and wrote down every word they said to each other.

They argue that genes determine the architecture of a learning system, but that specific " facts " about how grammar works can only be learned as a result of experience.

They also learned that the Apocalypse ’ s Horsemen had been kidnapping these mutants from around the globe.

They had no professional lawyers, but many of their farmer-warriors, like Njal, the truth-teller, were learned in folk custom and in its intricate judicial procedure.

They also learned from Goldstine that, back in the UK, Douglas Hartree and Maurice Wilkes were actually building another such machine, the pioneering EDSAC computer, at the University of Cambridge.

They also owned a substantial ranch in northern Arkansas, where Davis learned to ride horses as a boy.

They " lived in native communities for years, learned native languages fluently, attended native councils, and often fought alongside their native companions.

They have learned how to play their instruments.

They thus claimed that human " excellence " was not an accident of fate or a prerogative of noble birth, but an art or " techne " that could be taught and learned.

They cultivate oysters, having learned the technique from the Romans.

He found the simulated people acted just as sociologists ' theory predicted. They were more likely to commit suicide in clusters, either because they had learned this trait from their friends, or because suicidal people are more likely to be like one another.

" They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife.

They were long-serving classicists, presiding over a learned business that printed 5 or 10 titles each year, such as Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon ( 1843 ), and they displayed little or no desire to expand its trade.

They received haircuts, new clothes, took on Anglo names, and learned English.

They also have learned to feed on steelhead and salmon below fish ladders at Bonneville Dam and at other locations in the Columbia River.

They add, that several learned men, French and English, who had been at Lisbon to verify the fact, had made enquiries at the Carmelite monastery, where Gusmao had a brother, who had preserved some of his manuscripts on the manner of constructing aerostatic machines.

They learned immediately after of their brothers ' beatings by the Earps within the previous two hours.

They learned that anti-aircraft artillery positions remained intact within the safety zone, and that numerous plain-clothed soldiers were found concealing their weapons.

They also learned to sing and play one musical instrument and were trained as athletes for military service.

They started with singing lessons, and they learned their notes using gold colored buttons on their jackets.

They perform shows at the end of each semester which showcase everything they have learned.