They broke their legs to prevent them from attempting to escape before being eaten, but kept them alive so that they could brood over their impending fate.

They resented the changes imposed on the Roman Catholic Church by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy ( 1790 ) and broke into open revolt in defiance of the Revolutionary government's military conscription.

They were defeated by the Roman navy but managed to escape into the Aegean Sea, where they ravaged the islands of Lemnos and Scyros, broke through Thermopylae and sacked several cities of southern Greece ( province of Achaea ) including Athens, Corinth, Argos, Olympia and Sparta.

They formed a unified empire under Attila the Hun, who died in 453 ; their empire broke up the next year.

Demme broke into feature film working for exploitation film producer Roger Corman from 1971 to 1976, co-writing and producing Angels Hard as They Come and The Hot Box.

They broke up in 1995.

They broke the Yankees ' 1948 record by drawing nearly 2. 7 million in 1970.

) They go on to say: ' The Templars broke this age-old rule and passed the power from man to man: this led to sin and in doing so it brought about their downfall.

They broke away from a pure literary reading of his orations, in an attempt to embed Cicero in European ethics.

They broke the Crusader blockade, destroyed most of their ships, and pursued and captured those who anchored and fled into the desert.

They broke free from domination of the Khmer Empire, but from the middle of the 14th century gradually came under the control of the Ayutthaya kingdom at the southern extremity of the floodplain.

They broke up in 1987, reformed in 2003 and released a new album in 2007.

They showed that floods of water broke through dams, carved deep valleys, eroded grooves into bedrock, and travelled thousands of kilometers.

They broke up in 2001.

They could not communicate with the humans as war broke out, but were able to touch Ender's mind, creating the dreams he felt and preparing this place for him.

They could either be remnants from the planet's proto-planetary accretion disc that failed to coalesce into moonlets, or conversely have formed when a moon passed within its Roche limit and broke apart.

They were engaged when she left him in 1968 for actor Marcello Mastroianni, her co-star in A Place for Lovers ; she and Mastroianni broke up in 1970.

They killed Thomas Quinn, the town's Indian Agent, after a disagreement broke out.

They were eliminated by eventual Western Conference finalist Toronto, but broke their playoff losing streak at 10 games with a Game 3 win.

They broke off their siege when nearby dykes were breached by the Dutch.

They planted incriminating forged documents, spread false rumors of treachery and fomented distrust .... As a frenzy of throat-cutting and disemboweling broke out among confused and suspicious FLN cadres, nationalist slaughtered nationalist from April to September 1957 and did France's work for her.

They broke the statue, incurring the wrath of fellow villagers, and escaped to Hong Kong.

They got back together recently, much to the disgust of Matt's friends, then broke up again.

They broke up in July 1963, one month after she gave birth to their son Christian.

They threw their tjuringa sticks at it and broke its leg, and the sandhill wallaby called out that he was now lame and a man like them, not a bandicoot.

They were a Huguenot ( French Protestant ) family who fled to New York about 1687 to avoid the religious persecutions of King Louis XIV.

They have fled from Judaism that they may become Epicureans.

They were initially intended for Nazi collaborators, but then other categories of political prisoners ( for example, members of deported peoples who fled from exile ) were also sentenced to " katorga works ".

They fled to and were welcomed by John.

They fled, but it would not be the last time they harried the northern coasts.

They originally intended to seek shelter with their allies the Crow but upon the Crow's refusal to offer help they attempted to reach the camp of Lakota Chief Sitting Bull's who had fled to Canada.

They then rapidly gained control of most of northern Afghanistan, and took control of Kabul on 13 November after the Taliban unexpectedly fled the city.

They briefly took over the tower, but hijacked an Air India flight and fled to South Africa where they were arrested and charged.

They fled to the First Bulgarian Empire, where they were welcomed and commissioned to establish theological schools.

They fled back home after a four-week domestic battle with her mother.

They were divided into several groups, some of whom fled westward.

They were forced from eastern Montana and Wyoming: some bands fled to Canada, while others suffered forced removal to distant reservations, primarily in present-day South Dakota and Nebraska west of the Missouri River.

They panicked and fled.

They had lost their best players two years before, when they fled in the wake of the failed uprising against the communist regime.

They battled against the demon for one year, and after the death of two kings, the Dwarves who had not been killed fled from the Misty Mountains.

They fled the city to Galilee where they later gave themselves up to the Romans.

They looked, and terrified by the two serpents Athena had set within to guard the child, they fled in terror and lept from the Acropolis to their deaths.

They fled their home and took refuge in a shelter, but it was destroyed while the house remained unscathed.

They narrowly missed being killed by a direct hit on the castle by German bombers and fled to Prince Xavier's French Castle in Bostz.

They had been impoverished by Captain Reynold's March 17, 1876 attack and fled to Sitting Bull's camp for safety.

They warned him that there had been a raid, and he fled too.

They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated, inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable, and among others to the cruelties of a savage foe and actuated by principles of true English liberties, they met all hardships with pleasure compared with those they suffered in their own country from the hands of those who should be their friends.

They pushed Eleanor, her sons and their supporters aside, and Henry and his brothers fled and scattered.

They then attempted to kidnap Deslauriers, but it went wrong due to the fact that the ' knock out drops ' they used were inert, and on June 26, 1969, Mesrine and Schneider fled to the US.