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

They faced a rather small audience, as quite a few subscribers apparently had decided to forego the pleasures of the afternoon.

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 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 had come to America to escape religious persecution, but then nearly starved to death.

They assert that by defining crimes as being committed by one group against another, rather than as being committed by individuals against their society, the labeling of crimes as “ hate crimes ” causes groups to feel persecuted by one another, and that this impression of persecution can incite a backlash and thus lead to an actual increase in crime.

They also carried the slogan ' Fueling middle England's persecution complex since 1958 '.

They were the last deadly victims of the judicial persecution of homosexual men in Engeland.

They proclaimed a policy of religious freedom for all, ending the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.

They were often subject to persecution and perceived as a subversive element by the nineteenth century Russian authorities and ecclesiastical bodies.

They had escaped to the Netherlands from France in order to flee religious persecution there ; examples of these are Pierre Joubert who came from La Motte-d ' Aigues for religious reasons.

They appeared to participate in open acts of persecution towards other Vulcans, such as isolating and quarantining victims of Pa ' nar Syndrome rather than treating them ; prejudicial acts against any Vulcan proven to have committed a mind meld ; and hunting down and capturing, even often killing, members of the underground group, the Syrranites.

They had traveled beyond the boundaries of the United States seeking an isolated area to practice their religion, far away from the violence and the persecution they experienced in the East.

They were, however, repeatedly subjected to severe persecution.

They avoided persecution by posing as Christians, a credible ruse because Hundertwasser's father had been a Catholic.

They have also been persecuted for their predation on game and farm animals, and that persecution has led to the extinction of at least one species, the Guadalupe Caracara.

They were in fact joined by other English Roman Catholics fleeing persecution under Queen Elizabeth I and subsequent monarchs.

They wanted to live in an area that would allow them to practice their beliefs without persecution.

They did so in the knowledge that they would face more persecution.

They were beheaded, both men and women, and a fresh persecution of Christians followed

They stay but persecution escalates.

They are members of a religious group that originally fled from Holland and Belgium in the 16th century to escape persecution and eventually resettled in these areas.

To the masses, the Decembrist exiles were “ generals who had refused to take the oath to Nicholas I .” They were great figures that had suffered political persecution for their loyalty to the people.

They had been extinct in Britain for a long time because of land reclamation of their habitat and persecution by skin and egg collectors, but during or soon after World War II started breeding on reclaimed land near the Wash which was returned to salt marsh to make difficulties for any landing German invaders.

They confirm that the death penalty exists for homosexuality in Iran and that gay and lesbian people suffer persecution, including arrest, torture, imprisonment and execution by slow strangulation.

They also migrated north to the Frankish kingdom in times of persecution.

They were to be allowed to immigrate to the US if they had suffered persecution by the communist regime after 1975.