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 emerged as the major threat to the late Ming Dynasty after Nurhaci united all Jurchen tribes and established an independent state.

They emerged from the same roots.

They were one of a number of nonconformist dissenting groups that emerged around this time.

They also renewed the pact between the Popes and the kings of the Franks, confirming the privileges of the Roman church, and the continued existence of the recently emerged Papal States.

They have no close relatives, and descend from a line of coral-dwelling species that emerged around 40 million years ago.

They were said to have emerged from the acacia tree of Iusaaset, which the Egyptians considered the tree of life, referring to it as the " tree in which life and death are enclosed.

They emerged shortly after going over with minor injuries and were charged with performing an illegal stunt under the Niagara Parks Act.

They contain possibly organic carbon and imply some possibility that photosynthetic life had already emerged at that time.

They fought against the rampant corruption that had emerged in the civil war period and were initially welcomed by Afghans weary of warlord rule.

They did not create her ; it was her lila that she emerged from their combined energy.

They claimed that the deaths of a fair number of people in the waters of the Rhône were due to a dragon who lived in the river, and who had previously emerged, a many years before.

They were one of a number of nonconformist dissenting groups that emerged around this time.

They argued that sarcopterygians may have first emerged unto land from intertidal zones rather than inland bodies of water.

They soon entered into direct talks with Macdonald and Cartier, wherein Ritchot emerged as an effective negotiator ; an agreement enshrining many of the demands in the list of rights was soon reached.

They emerged in western Germany out of the German Youth Movement of the late 1930s in response to the strict regimentation of the Hitler Youth.

They first emerged in the late 7th century AD, concentrated in today's southern Iraq, and are distinct from Sunni Muslims and Shiʿa Muslims.

They were held again in 1932 when the Nationalists emerged victorious ( 21 seats out of 32 ).

They missed De Vasto's arquebusiers — who had, by 6: 30, emerged from the woods near the castle and swiftly overrun it — and blundered into 6, 000 of Georg Frundsberg's landsknechts.

Other bands such as Story of the Year-formally Big Blue Monkey, 360Smile, Blinded Black, So They Say, and Cavo emerged from St. Louis.

They were one of a number of nonconformist dissenting groups that emerged around this time.

They were also urged to lead their units from the front, and to keep command posts well forward ( Fredendall had built an elaborate, fortified " bunker " headquarters behind the front, and only rarely emerged to visit the lines ).

They included the Royalists, who supported King Charles I ; the Parliamentary forces, called " Roundheads ," who later emerged under the name of the New Model Army led by Oliver Cromwell ; the Fifth Monarchy Men, who believed in the establishment of a heavenly theocracy on earth to be led by a returning Jesus as king of kings and lord of lords ; the Agitators for political egalitarian reform of government, who were branded " Levellers " by their foes and who were led by John Lilburne ; and the Christian communists, who called themselves the True Levellers for their beliefs but who were branded " Diggers " because of their actions.

They surprised their enemies by drawing up as the Spartans emerged from a nearby wood.

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 were running from something.

They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

They got tin cups of coffee from the big pot on the coosie's fire, rolled and lighted brown-paper cigarettes, lounged about.

They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.

They escorted him down from the porch and through the rain to his office.

They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

They had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.

They had fought from caves, and the marines resorted to burning them out.

They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.

They whirled and saw him, standing there dim in the slatted light from the boarded freight wall.

They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.

They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.

`` They swear that every person smells different and every family smells different from every other.

They fought hard, but they were forgiving to former foes, and sought to prevent vindictive legislatures from confiscating Tory property in violation of the Treaty of 1783.

They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

They reincarnated the figures of human beings banished from his canvases since the 1920's.

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 straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.

They had other topics of conversation, besides their news from courts and fairs, which were of interest to Othon, the builder of castles in Wales and churches in his native country.