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 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 also carved out a place for themselves and their descendants in the Crusader States of Asia Minor and the Holy Land.

They intercepted Crusader reinforcements from Karak and Shaubak along the Nablus road and took a number of prisoners.

They visited the Byzantine Empire, the Crusader States in Palestine, and Damascus.

They put together a pilot film, The Comic Strips of Television, featuring Crusader ; a parody of Sherlock Holmes named " Hamhock Bones "; and a bumbling Mountie named Dudley Do-Right.

In 2012 Hasbro and PPW Toys have a plan to release Mr Potato Head in his Batman forum for the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie The Dark Knight Rises which comes out on July 20th, 2012, They are working together and are doing a tie-in to the upcoming movie, They are going to be making the toy and it's in development, The toy itself will be called The Dark Spud and will have Mr Potato Head dressed up as the Caped Crusader for the movie, He will include a cape, A mask, A utility belt, And of course a batarang to hold in his left hand, But also he was unveiled at the New York 2012 Toy Fair and was on display!

They were on their way from Cyprus to Rhodes, which was conquered three years later, becoming the centre of their Crusader State.

They are also a mild Warden clan in their leadership, although their warriors are evenly distributed between both Warden and Crusader philosophy.

They are a now a permanent feature of the Inner Sphere and are abhorred by many of the Crusader Clans, who view them as traitors to Kerensky.

They signed with EMI Records in 1984 with their first release on the label being Crusader ,( UK no 12 ).

They were discovered by the Uranian Eternals in a weapons depot left by the alien Kree and brought to Earth by the deluded Crusader that believed himself to be the 1950s Marvel Boy.

They did, however, allow Qutuz and his forces to travel unmolested through Crusader territory, and to camp for re-supply near the Crusader stronghold of Acre.

They set up a defense force, and put up a blockade that, if passed, would force them to send in soldiers.

They would then return, assist the fleet in Brest to emerge from the blockade, and together clear the English Channel of Royal Navy ships, ensuring a safe passage for the invasion barges.

They then sent another warship to blockade Road Harbour.

They were popular in trades that required speed and windward ability, such as slaving, privateering, and blockade running.

They soon discover that the blockade had protected a large medical research complex, the same one featured in the first scene of the film where the virus was developed.

They were also able to blockade Poland's ports, the most important of which was Danzig, maintaining a stranglehold on Polish trade.

They boarded a great barge, charged the covered ships, and fought a harsh battle with numerical disadvantage of 1 to 10 before Dong cut the two ropes with his sword, clearing the blockade.

They failed of their primary purpose, however, because Welles maintained the Union blockade, and international trade continued as before, carried in ships flying foreign flags.

They did not allow us to sell or buy anything from outside the village ..... After a month of the Jewish blockade, some families left.

We had been awaiting the end of the blockade, but it would not end unless the people left ... They were shooting, but not heavily.

They report that several Centauri supply ships, escorted by Centauri warships, are trying to run the blockade near Drazi space.

They did not doubt that starvation had occurred, but were unsurprisingly not clear of the extent to which it was a result of the Nigerian blockade or the restriction of food to the civilians by the Biafran government

They rendezvous with the thirty-eight gun frigate,, entering the outer harbour on blockade duty and are taken on board.

They never managed an effective blockade of the Dutch coast and couldn't prevent the VOC-fleet from returning from the Indies ( Battle of Vågen ).

They are intertwined with the blockade rules.

They were invented in 1795 by Nicolas-Jacques Conté, who created the combination of clay and graphite in response to the shortage of graphite caused by the Napoleonic Wars ( the British naval blockade of France prevented import ).

They were excellent blockade runners, and were frequently used as armed privateers.

They had installed themselves at Baghras some away and from there conducted a blockade of the city by cutting of its lines of communication.

They settle on a step less than a blockade, which is formally regarded as an act of war.

They were also wary of antagonizing the United States, which had emerged from its Civil War as a formidable military power with unsettled grievances because British interests had sold ships to the Confederacy despite a blockade, and thus opposed the use of terms such as kingdom or empire to describe the new country.

They were to be deliberately sunk at the entrance of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina in the hope of obstructing blockade runners, then supplying Confederate interests.

Berggolts also wrote many times about heroic and glorious events in the history of Russia, such as " Pervorossyisk, 1950, ( a poem about the Altay commune organized by the workers of Petrograd ), Faithfulness, 1954, ( a tragedy about the defence of Sevastopol in 1941-1942 ), and They Were Living in Leningrad, 1944, ( a play about the blockade of Leningrad ).

They were able to break through the Spanish blockade and reach General Maceo.