They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.

They existed in only very small numbers and faced a very strong opposition, even from the Levellers.

* They had once faced persecution, but not to the point of bloodshed.

They eventually withdrew from their enterprise when faced with heavy losses.

They faced opposition from their enemies, the Fomorians, led by Balor of the Evil Eye.

They are rectangular or trapezoidal in shape with a small enclosing chamber faced with large slabs of stone set on end and sometimes subdivided into smaller compartments.

They faced starvation and possible annihilation by the superior numbers of Mexican troops.

They were confined to a mountainous district, cut off from both the Biqa and Beirut, and faced with the prospect of ever-growing poverty.

They faced off, and Musashi struck a single blow, per their agreement.

They appeared on opposite ends of the field and then faced each other near the 50-yard line.

They moved the ball nine yards in their next three plays, and then faced fourth down and one.

They faced each other in a runoff on 29 January 2006, where Halonen was re-elected with 51. 8 % of the vote against Mr. Niinistö's 48. 2 %.

They included the Maths and Social Sciences Tower, the Faraday Building, the Renold Building, and the Barnes Wallis Building, the last two of which faced each other across a bowling green, which later became a landscaped garden.

They faced persecution not only from German soldiers but also from other prisoners, and many gay men were beaten to death.

They were faced with " massive resistance " in the South by proponents of racial segregation and voter suppression.

They were faced with Hobson's choice: either a complete extinguishing of the national identity in the form of annexation to the Empire, or the lesser evil of a new kingdom under one of Napoleon's relatives.

They give Bobby the final choice and, faced with going with Ted, wherever that may be, or staying behind, Bobby chooses to stay.

They faced each other twice in the season-ending ATP Tour World Championships, with Sampras losing the round-robin match, but winning the final.

" His book, Our Threatened Values, ( London, 1946 ) Gollancz described the conditions Sudeten German prisoners faced in a Czech concentration camp: " They live crammed together in shacks without consideration for gender and age ...

They faced Boston in the semifinals for the second consecutive season, and lost again, this time in five games.

They faced the choice of registering and being regarded as traitors by other Poles, or not signing and being treated by the Nazi occupation as traitors to the Germanic " race ".

They then faced the Boston Celtics in the conference finals.

They then faced their rival, the Boston Celtics, in the second round, and were eliminated 4-3.

They then reached the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 1998, and faced the Miami Heat.

They realize that by acting in concert, rather than individually, they will not be picked out as objects of retaliation -- economic and otherwise.

They can even be rather grand, like Edward Land's monument to the astonishing success of Polaroid.

They have insisted, rather, on living fully and completely within modern culture and, so far from considering this treason to God, have looked upon it as the only way they could be faithful to him.

They are relatively robust herbaceous perennials with short rhizomes and leaves forming a rosette, individually linear-oblong, flat, rather fleshy.

They are herbaceous perennials with bulbs, and can be identified by their rather fleshy leaves, usually large and attractive flowers, with six stamens and an inferior ovary.

They were well-planned: vast sections or wings erected were finished in a single stage, rather than in increments.

They administered rather than governed.

They apparently live singly or in pairs, rather than in herds like most cattle, except when the cows are about to give birth.

They generally saw themselves as restoring the original church of Jesus Christ rather than reforming one of the existing churches.

They agree with communists that the means of production should be expropriated from private owners and converted to common property, but they advocate the ownership of this property to be vested by a loose group of decentralized communes rather than to be held in common by all of society.

They seek a new understanding of celibacy that is focused on God rather than a future marriage or a lifelong vow to the Church.

They were constituted as the conservators of public morality ; they were not simply to prevent crime or particular acts of immorality, but rather to maintain the traditional Roman character, ethics, and habits ( mos majorum )— regimen morum also encompassed this protection of traditional ways, which was called in the times of the empire cura (" supervision ") or praefectura (" command ").

They were medium rather than heavy cavalry, meaning that they were better suited to be scouts, skirmishers, and pursuers rather than front line fighters.

They viewed the Chinese revolution in different terms than the Communists, claiming that China already went past its feudal stage and in a stagnation period rather than in another mode of production.

They often interpret passages of the Bible as being less a record of actual events, but rather stories illustrating how to live ethically and authentically in relation to God.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised.

They argue that some, if not all, of the cost difference between public and private schools comes from a process known as cream skimming — selecting only those students that belong to a preferred economic, religious, or ethnic group — rather than from differences in administration.

They view the ecumenical councils as misguided human attempts to establish doctrine, and as attempts to divine dogmas by debate rather than by revelation.

They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.

They support the predictions of quantum mechanics rather than the class of hidden variable theories supported by Einstein.

They have the ability to taunt enemies into focusing on them, rather than other party members who may be more susceptible to damage and death.

They underwent ecdysis in a similar manner to extant chelicerates, and most fossils are thought to be of exuviae, rather than cadavers.

They no longer represent the world of popular carnival, but rather a dark, dramatic realm of fantasy and nightmare.