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 given when the plaintiff's suit is trivial, used only to settle a point of honour or law.

They become inflamed or enlarged in various conditions, which may range from trivial, such as a throat infection, to life-threatening such as cancers.

" They went on to say, " there is no doubt that a deterioration in taste follows the use of this type of hymn and tune ; it fosters an attachment to the trivial and sensational which dulls and often destroys sense of the dignity and beauty which best befit the song that is used in the service of God.

They are sometimes defined as compact Kähler manifolds whose canonical bundle is trivial, though many other similar but inequivalent definitions are sometimes used.

They are continually being called out to attend some emergency or other ( in many cases to resolve fairly trivial matters ), but to Captain Flack's annoyance never an actual fire.

They have given us a version which is contemporary in idiom, up-to-date in scholarship, attractive, and at times exciting in content ..." However, T. S. Eliot comments that the New English Bible " astonishes in its combination of the vulgar, the trivial and the pedantic.

They nearly burn their nursery down by setting off fireworks, call each other names like " duffer ," and argue over trivial matters.

They violate, in a variety of ways, standard novelistic expectations by drastic — and sometimes highly successful — experiments with subject matter, form, style, temporal sequence, and fusions of the everyday, fantastic, mythical, and nightmarish, in renderings that blur traditional distinctions between what is serious or trivial, horrible or ludicrous, tragic or comic.

They spend time in the shack engaged in trivial small talk filled with jokes, role-playing, and sexual innuendo.

They are designed to get children interested in science by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant.

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 even accept the `` double standard '' of sex morality in a double sense, i.e., both sexes agree that standards for men differ from standards for women, and women apply to both sexes a standard different from that held by men.

They were, in a sense, `` tried out '' in realistic situations.

They have a sense of marginality at being denied that special badge of status, the out-of-town school.

They are in this sense skills marketable immediately on graduation from high school.

They made sense and yet they didn't.

They should sense the tremendous significance of joining the spiritual succession reaching back to Christ our Lord and forward to an eternal fellowship with the saints of the ages.

They are beings because, and in the sense that, they are physical objects.

They appear to make sense out of a world that is otherwise confusing.

They are taking form in independent bookstores, coffeehouses, local pubs, and through new and innovative means to create the social capital needed to foster the sense and spirit of community.

They are the only tiles in the whole set that don't match other tiles in the normal sense.

They believe strongly in traditional values and traditional politics, and often have an urgent sense of nationalism.

They do not rely on existing codes and social norms but trust that as they are open to experiences they will be able to trust their own sense of right and wrong.

They might include the hiring of actors, the development of a season of plays or operas with a sense of coherence among them, assistance with and editing of new plays or operas by resident or guest playwrights or composers / librettists, the creation of programs or accompanying educational services, helping the director with rehearsals, and serving as elucidator of history or spokesperson for deceased or otherwise absent playwrights or composers.

Other states decohere into mixtures of stable pointer states that can persist, and, in this sense, exist: They are einselected.

They also contain a small proportion of heavier elements, and this fraction is referred to as a star's metallicity ( even if the elements are not metals in the traditional sense, such as iron ).

They will also have no individual sense of direction in the absence of a group.

They postulate that these elements of reality are local, in the sense that each belongs to a certain point in spacetime.

They need a keen business sense, and an intimate knowledge of all aspects of film production, financing, marketing and distribution.

They rarely developed a sense of a full Berber nationhood, as we understand it today.

They have a good sense of smell and will move upstream in search of food such as dead fish, following the trail of scent molecules.

They have quarreled with their respective fathers, they are proud to be Saxons, they display a highly-evolved sense of justice, they support the rightful king even though he is of Norman-French ancestry, they are adept with weapons, and they each fall in love with a " fair maid " ( Rowena and Marian, respectively ).

In fact the activities banned on the Sabbath are not " work " in the usual sense: They include such actions as lighting a fire, writing, using money and carrying in the public domain.

They are good only in a negative sense, insofar as they are self-sufficient and thus not subject to the vices of political society.

They have, by the help of Divine Providence, overcome all obstacles, and have made themselves free ... I know not by what misfortune, we are fallen into the error of those, who poised the Emperor Titus to make room for Domitian, who made away Augustus that they might have Tiberius, and changed Claudius for Nero ... whereas the people of England are now renowned, all over the world, for their great virtue and discipline ; and yet suffer an idiot, without courage, without sense, nay, without ambition, to have dominion in a country of liberty.