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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 and only
They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.
They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.
They move only in accordance with what is in their natures.
They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.
They were aware that soldiers went to town, in more ways than one, because of the monotony of camp life, to find the only release available in the absence of movies, reading rooms, and playing fields with adequate athletic equipment.
They stopped expecting her to die the next minute, but only in the next day or two.
They caused my love for Jessica to become warmer and at the same time more hopeless, as if my adolescent self knew that only torment would ever bring me the courage to ask to see her again.
They may be claimed only by itemizing them on page 2 of Form 1040.
They serve not only as spokesmen for their areas, but they also contribute to top-level decision making.
They involve only simple mathematics that are taught in grammar school arithmetic classes.
They gathered roots, bulbs, odd ferns, leaves, and bits of resin from the rare Santa Lucia fir, which exists only on a forty-five mile strip on the westerly side of these mountains.
They were pushed gently into the room by Arlene -- whose only part appearing were hands that crept quickly back around to the kitchen side of the door.
They initiate campaigns, so to speak, even if this initiation is diffused among them, and their concerted action only psychologically organized.
They are in themselves neutral, and, so far as they get a moral quality, they get it only through being invested with it by the attitude of the onlooker.
They had traveled only a short distance when they spotted five Mexicans riding along a horse-trail across the stream just ahead of them.
They are the only poems that he rearranged as a group between their first appearance ( in Satires Of Circumstance ) and the publication of the Collected Poems.
They got it over the side and clambered aboard only a few minutes before their schooner went under.
They discovered that, although 42 per cent of a sample of Catholic students and 15 per cent of the Protestants believed it important to live in accordance with the teachings of their religion, only 8 per cent of the Jewish students had this conviction.

They and telling
They " simply came and took al-Libi away from the FBI ", and one CIA officer was heard telling their new prisoner that " You know where you are going.
Director Terry Jones noted, " They were all very knowing because they'd all worked for Franco Zeffirelli on Jesus of Nazareth, so I had these elderly Tunisians telling me, ' Well, Mr Zeffirelli wouldn't have done it like that, you know.
They are intended to give the English king a message telling him to kill Hamlet.
The ground station at Khabarovsk reports back, " There are no instructions from No. 20 ( Sergey Korolyov ), and the flight is proceeding normally " They are telling Gagarin that they don't have his orbital parameters yet because the spacecraft has been in orbit for only 6 minutes, but the spacecraft systems are performing well.
They insisted on Mendelssohn telling them his views on Jesus and managed to get from him the statement, that, provided the historical Jesus had kept himself and his theology strictly within limits of orthodox Judaism, Mendelssohn " respected the morality of Jesus ' character ".
They may be benevolent ( telling the patient good things about themselves ) or malicious, cursing the patient etc.
They contained brief, psychologically taut pieces, acclaimed for their classical diction, telling details, and the skilful use of colour.
They humour her, telling her to keep the money.
) They also attempted to fool the polygraph by thinking happy thoughts when lying and thinking stressful thoughts when telling the truth to try to confuse the machine.
They persuade him to sign over the stage rights, telling him they want to show the world " the true Hitler, the Hitler with a song in his heart.
They are typically good at reading, writing, telling stories and memorizing words along with dates.
They send a video message to Alan, telling him to surrender the Gorgonites or Christy will die.
They then begin fooling around, telling Mr. Krupp he is a monkey or chicken.
They were generally propagated by illiterate women, telling stories to each other or to children.
They include the Today Programme, where John Humphrys never gets the time right, Sue MacGregor stressing the " Mac " in her name, and Rabbi Lionel Blue on " Thought for the Day " telling listeners " Don't worry, something will turn up, it usually does.
They waterboard the nerd into telling them Mordor is in Pakistan, and then jail him.
After a incident with Reggie Jackson in which Martin suspended Jackson for bunting ( against orders ) into a popout, Martin was forced to resign after telling reporters, " They deserve each other.
* In the film Star Trek Generations, the villain Tolian Soran quotes from Schwartz's poem, “ Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day ”, telling Captain Jean-Luc Picard,They say time is the fire in which we burn .” Playwright Philip Ridley uses the same line as one of the epigraphs for his 2012 play Shivered.
They tendered a handsome amount ; he is said to have abated something from it, an incident perhaps more telling of his lack of greed than earlier cases where he worked for nothing at all.
One of the most controversial points in the script, and often the only one referred to in media reports, was the depiction of Reagan telling his wife during a conversation about AIDS patients, " They that live in sin shall die in sin.
They aim to entertain, to identify a sitter so unmistakably that a few telling lines will be telegraphed at a glance.
They are very powerful and privileged and have lots of money to pay lawyers to prevent me from telling the truth.
They are so similar that even their mother often has a difficult time telling the two apart.
They then selected Clarke and had three candidates before telling him he could not stand.

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