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 may have thought of themselves as the heirs to the prestigious civilizations that had preceded them.

They were immediately preceded by the unauthorized Robert Williams who quietly set about supporting himself by publishing American editions of Wesley's hymnbooks without obtaining permission to do so.

They absorbed many of the Cushitic peoples who had preceded them, as well as most of the remaining Khoisan-speaking inhabitants.

They arrived to find the colony's population almost annihilated by the Starving Time, which had left only 60 survivors out of the 500 who had preceded them, and most of these survivors were sick or dying.

They saw their first action at Blackburn's Ford on July 18, resisting a Union Army reconnaissance in force that preceded the First Battle of Bull Run.

They were preceded by the Oroville / Chico Red Sox of the minor league's Class-C Far West League from 1948-1951 and were succeeded by the Chico Outlaws of the independent Golden Baseball League, taking their place in 2005.

They may have once been believed to be the beings who preceded the gods, similar to the Greek Titans.

They were preceded in proximity only by Henry VIII's three children-Prince Edward, Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth-and the descendents of Margaret Tudor, the elder daughter of Henry VII and Queen consort of Scotland, after 1542 represented by Mary, Queen of Scots.

They were preceded in death by their daughter, Mary, who died unexpectedly of polio in 1949 at the age of 19.

They preceded the historic tribes of the Ohio River area.

They recorded and released their second album entitled Ain't Life Grand in 2000, which was preceded by a tour supporting AC / DC and followed by their own headlining tour.

They were not the first dance troupe to appear regularly on TOTP ; they were preceded by The Go-Jos in the programme's first four years, before Pan's People replaced them in May 1968.

They preceded this show with a headline performance at RockNess 2009 in June.

They were preceded, among others, by the Butterfield Overland Stage, but the failure of the latter put the business in Wells Fargo's hands and led to a monopoly on overland traffic that lasted until 1869, when the transcontinental rail line was completed.

They were sometimes preceded by torture publicly inflicted by the same elephant used for the execution.

They had been preceded by the Saraieh, who in turn had replaced the once dominant El ' Ahmer.

They had been preceded by others under various signatures such as Candor, Father of Candor, Anti-Sejanus, Lucius, Nemesis, which have all been attributed, some of them certainly in error, to one and the same hand.

They were preceded by glossaries of German words and phrases on various specialized topics.

They are preceded in the testis by a population of ' fetal '- type Leydig cells from the 8th to the 20th week of gestation, which produce enough testosterone for masculinisation of a male fetus.

They ran Republicans out of office, were responsible for the Coushatta Massacre, disrupted Republican organizing, and preceded elections with such intimidation and violence that black voting was sharply reduced.

They are ( like other lenis or short consonants ) always preceded by long vowels, with the possible exception of unstressed vowels.

They were preceded by a screening force of mounted scouts supported by parties of warriors 200 – 400 strong tasked with preventing the main columns from being sighted.

They evolved a belief in one God that preceded Bhagat Kabir selected the writings of The Great Hindu Bhaktis and Sufi saints.

They preceded the Anishinaabe, the Dakota, and other Native American inhabitants.