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 shift the hypothalamic balance to the sympathetic side.

They marked a shift from a largely apophatic ( negative ) philosophical trend within Buddhism to a decidedly more cataphatic ( positive ) modus.

" They noted that " the law of transformation of quantity into quality ", " holds that a new quality emerges in a leap as the slow accumulation of quantitative changes, long resisted by a stable system, finally forces it rapidly from one state into another ," a phenomenon described in some disciplines as a paradigm shift.

They are not usually designed to withstand an abrupt shift in rudder from one direction to the other.

They also attributed his lack of problems to extensive compensatory mechanisms enabled by neural plasticity in the nearby cerebral cortex and a shift of some functions to the homologous area in the right hemisphere.

They also argue that the development of these organisms will simply shift the consumption of petroleum to the utilization of biomass in order to create energy.

They argue that sexual orientation can shift over the course of a person's life.

# They can interact with other solitons, and emerge from the collision unchanged, except for a phase shift.

They use sophisticated load balancing to shift traffic from one path to another to avoid network congestion on any particular link, and sometimes to minimize the cost of transit across external networks or improve network reliability.

They also believed that with a choice of open enrollment, white parents would shift their children to " preferred " schools that would create both predominantly African American and predominantly European American schools within the district.

They also gave an impetus to International Polar Years, meaning a shift from sports-like races of single expeditions to worldwide scientific cooperation in exploring the polar regions.

They knew that there was a three shift system working in the factory and so they planned a bombing raid.

They left the Morgans ' apartment at approximately 5: 50 in order that Kathy Whitman could leave for her 6: 00 – 10: 00 p. m. shift.

They measured the Doppler shift and transferred the data to 5 hole paper tape using standard teleprinter hole convention.

They work 24 hour shifts ( with the next two days off ), varying their role during the shift.

They attribute the increase primarily to a shift from a hunter-gatherer to an agricultural diet on the islands, with the introduction of rice.

They shift power from party hierarchs to voters, from Whips to backbenchers and from ministers to Parliament.

They find that a large part of the shift came about because of the availability of short-haul crudes from Latin America.

They attribute his shift in position as a reaction to the relationship between the New Deal senators and the conservative 1930s Court, which ruled much of the New Deal legislation unconstitutional.

They argue that with this demographic shift comes affirmative action, immigrant ghettos and declining educational standards.

They include sub-oceanic volcanism ; limestone covered blocks created by the destruction of an active volcano in a cataclysmic eruption ; coral reefs that were raised from the sea as the result of a massive geologic shift ; and tidal movements.

The shift was short-lived, and he would only return to pop indirectly by providing backing vocals for his friend Madonna many years later, on her cover of " American Pie " and on the track " They Can't Take That Away from Me " on Robbie Williams ' Swing When You're Winning in 2001.

They can also increase nutrient content of the soil in certain areas, or shift soil about ( as termites, ants, and moles do ) creating patches in the habitat.