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 are herbs with corms and leaves which are sometimes stalked ( petiolate ) with wide blades.

They are petiolate or perfoliate and more or less sheathing, the blade usually dissected and pinnatifid, but entire in some genera.

This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.

They were poems in a strange language, of which he could barely touch a meaning -- enough to make his being ache with the desire for the fullness he sensed there.

They can be obtained analytically, meaning that the resulting orbitals are products of a polynomial series, and exponential and trigonometric functions.

They say that the literal meaning is true but that hidden behind this historical account are many allegories.

They were sometimes referred to as " rush leeks " ( from the Greek schoinos meaning rush and prason meaning leek ).

They exist in monochrome versions as well, meaning that the game will display well on monochrome monitors.

They also deform less under load, meaning they have less contact with the bearing retainer walls and can roll faster.

They were medium rather than heavy cavalry, meaning that they were better suited to be scouts, skirmishers, and pursuers rather than front line fighters.

They are sometimes portrayed as having especially large eyes or watching treasure very diligently, a feature that is the origin of the word dragon ( Greek drakeîn meaning " to see clearly ").

They can be declined for number when they are used as substitutes for nouns ( as in, " I'll take the reds ", meaning " I'll take the red ones " or as shorthand for " I'll take the red wines ", for example ).

They need to be analyzed and criticized in all their manifestations ; the function of both logical and axiological oppositions must be studied in all discourses to provide meaning and values.

They recognize situations because they have meaning.

They urge us to move from externalism about meaning of the sort Putnam defended to externalism about contentful states of mind.

They had two sons, naming one Shear-Jashub, meaning " A remnant shall return " and the younger, Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, meaning, " Spoil quickly, plunder speedily.

They argue that the name khazar comes from the Chechen language, meaning beautiful valley.

They were hoping that, as he was a descendant of Muhammad, his presence would help to improve their date palm crops thanks to his barakah " blessing ", an Arabic term meaning a sense of divine presence or charisma.

They were called the ouemessourita ( wimihsoorita ), meaning " those who have dugout canoes ", by the Miami-Illinois language speakers.

They are also typically less massive than baryons, meaning that they are more easily produced in experiments, and thus exhibit certain higher energy phenomena more readily than baryons composed of the same quarks would.

They are considered essential fatty acids, meaning that they cannot be synthesized by the human body but are vital for normal metabolism.

They can also carry a meaning separate from the repetitive sound patterns created.

They named the Island Epekwitk, meaning " resting on the waves "; Europeans represented the pronunciation as Abegweit.

They are generally regarded as having positive contact with the deity or deities of the religion to which they subscribe, often interpreting the meaning of events and performing the rituals of the religion.

They are often used in the punch line of a joke, where they typically give a humorous meaning to a rather perplexing story.