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They derived their power largely from their personal influence and political sagacity, and were, for the most part, earnest opponents of political corruption, though they uniformly acted upon the principle, first formulated in 1833 by one of their number ( Marcy ), that “ to the victors belong the spoils .”
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They both frequently quoted folk song melodies verbatim and wrote pieces derived entirely from authentic songs.
They include such problems as determining when one work is " derived " from another, or deciding when information has been placed in a " tangible " or " material " form.
They opposed the theory that sovereignty derived from the people, the authority of parliament and freedom of religion.
They are derived from the Madagascar periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus ( formerly known as Vinca rosea ).
They consider new doctrines not derived from the sealed canon of Scripture to be both impossible and unnecessary whether proposed by church councils or by more recent prophets ( even though the canon itself was fixed by these councils ).
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They cover what are claimed to better ways for a Jew to live, based on what is not stated, but has been derived from the Hebrew Bible.
They also believe there are traditional formulas that date back to Moses on how the divine law may be interpreted-see above, " Rules by which early Jewish law was derived ".
They base their Imbolc celebrations on traditional lore and customs derived from medieval Irish texts, and research into the older beliefs of the polytheistic Celts.
They cited its potential derived from its status as a cheap and plentiful crop that grows in a wide variety of climates and locales.
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They taught that every argument could be countered with an opposing argument, that an argument's effectiveness derived from how " likely " it appeared to the audience ( its probability of seeming true ), and that any probability argument could be countered with an inverted probability argument.
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.
They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.
They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.
They brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.
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.
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