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They are the descendants of economic migrants that came to Gibraltar after the majority of the Spanish population left in 1704.
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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 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 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 tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.
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 ''.
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They were generally sentimental, narrative, strophic songs published separately or as part of an opera ( descendants perhaps of broadside ballads, but with printed music, and usually newly composed.
They became adept at raiding Spanish settlements and, albeit in declining numbers, managed to hold off the Spaniards and their descendants until the late nineteenth century.
They were descendants chiefly of relationships or marriages between servant women and enslaved, servant or free African or African-American men.
They discovered a greater amount of cultural diversity than they had ever imagined, and the question arose of how this vast amount of human cultural diversity could be compatible with the biblical account of Noah's descendants.
They mainly include descendants of immigrants from Italy, Germany, and France, as well as other countries.
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They were descendants of the Bani Utbah tribe who gradually migrated in the early eighteenth century from Nejd to the shores of the Persian Gulf.
They had eight children together, the descendants of whom remain in the Arkansas Valley of Colorado.
They are xenophobic, violent, hyper-intelligent and driven only by the fierce instinct to protect their descendants.
They are said to be descendants of the ancient Irish King Heremon, who, along with his brother Herber, conquered Ireland.
They reasoned that he lacked a formal appointment from Shoghi Effendi, and that the office was confined to male descendants of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the Aghsan.
They believed it had significance not only for northeastern Native Peoples and descendants of English and Dutch colonists, but for all Americans today.
They also carved out a place for themselves and their descendants in the Crusader States of Asia Minor and the Holy Land.
They are assumed to have been the descendants of the Caledonii and other tribes named by Roman historians or found on the world map of Ptolemy.
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They are the descendants of various tribal groups, which included the Duwamish, Skopamish, Smulkamish, Stkamish, Tkwakwamish, Yilalkoamish, and Snoqualmie tribes.
They were of uncertain origin ; they may have been the descendants of the indigenous neolithic peoples.
They were built by Seth's descendants based on Adam's prediction that the world would be destroyed at one time by fire and another time by global flood, in order to protect the discoveries and be remembered after the destruction.
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