They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.

They are also famous for their richly-patterned brocade, known as xilankapu, a product that in earlier days regularly figured in their tribute payments to the Chinese court.

They figured it was in the air, that if they came to Detroit and recorded on the freeway, they'd get the Motown sound.

It also figured largely in a 2004 episode of the ITV detective series Foyle's War, entitled " They Fought in the Fields ".

They figured that most kids would be targeted for mischief between the hours of 3-6pm, so the afterschool program was definitely a positive way to keep the kids safe while they continued to learn and have fun at the same time.

They were good with slings, and somehow figured out a way to poison sling bullets.

They figured out the truth of man's extinction and his " Engine of Salvation "; it was really a weapon that had been designed to fight the Foe, but man and the Foe had destroyed one another before the potentially planet destroying weapon had been completed.

They then by process of elimination figured out that they were in Dras-Leona.

They had been sent to Admiral Sampson by General Calixto Garcia ( the same who figured with U. S. Lieutenant Rowan in the famous " A Message to Garcia ") to report that the Cuban forces, whose outposts occupied positions on the coast from the mouth of the Yateras to a point west of Santiago were at the disposition of the U. S. Commander-in-Chief.

They found the khan surrounded by astonishing barbaric pomp-gilded thrones, golden peacocks, gold and silver plate and silver animals, hangings and clothing of figured silk.

They figured that the Japanese would not want them to be rescued by advancing American forces, regain their strength, and return to fight the Japanese again.

They figured little in Western films until Sergio Leone re-introduced them in his movies The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West.

He recalled: " They wanted me to write and produce for them, so I figured, why not?

They figured it would be a sideline business from their commercial printing operations.

They just all cleared out.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

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 could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

They filed out through the guard-room door, into the paved square.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

They thought it would be a chance for you to make a life out where nobody will be thought any better than the next except for just what's inside of them.

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

They have pulled out all my teeth and now she will carve out my tongue with her hacksaw!!

They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

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.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

They kicked their horses through the deep water with their bare heels, drove the Rebels out of their rifle pits and captured four men.

They laughed and, true to national form and manners, never talked long or solemnly on any subject at all, but some of them worried out loud about short memories and ghosts.

They point out simply that `` it is the law of the land ''.

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

They pointed out to him.

They were climbing the hill in the night when the headlights abruptly probed solid blackness, became two parallel luminous tubes which broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended.

They waited three minutes and then crept out on tip-toe ; ;

They will help provide the skilled manpower necessary to carry out the development projects planned by the host governments, acting at a working level and serving at great personal sacrifice.

They then point out that with our present lack of knowledge of all the factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics, it is unlikely that a planned episode could be initiated.

They were, in a sense, `` tried out '' in realistic situations.

They isolate out easily, naturally, and unambiguously from the continuum of nature and existence ; ;

As Wisman put it, `` They have separate pieces of the pie, and we have the whole pie.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.

`` 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 predicted escalation, and escalation is what we are getting.

They hope that if history vouchsafes the West another Budapest, we will receive the opportunity gladly.

They set bouncing betties to jump and explode at testicle level while we more mercifully had them go off at the head.

They should know simple exercises that could prepare less fortunate children for the sports we will demand be taught.

They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;

This brings us to the fact that the realities we are dealing with lie not in the field of civil legislation, but in the realm of conscience and religion: They are moral judgments and matters of theological belief.

They brok & run and Arch holored out to shoot the ornery suns of biches and we all let go at them.

They said that we must not fight but wait for the Messiah ''.

They reasoned that if all three families had a common ancestor, we should expect losses to happen at random, not only at the geographical margins of the family, and that the observed pattern is consistent with borrowing.

They attest that whatever we are obliged to do must be possible, and achieving the perfect good of both happiness and moral virtue is only possible if a natural moral order exists.

They had planned to sell this engine to motor manufacturers, but having heard that the Aston Martin car was no longer in production they realised that they could capitalise on the reputation of the Aston Martin name ( what we would now call the brand ) to give themselves a head start in the production of a completely new car.

They are stupid cartoon people completely made up by this Texas guy whom we hardly even know.

" They won with homegrown players, have more talent on the way and have maintained stability in their front office, so they had pretty much everything we look for in an organization.

They have been measured in detail, and match what would be expected if small thermal variations, generated by quantum fluctuations of matter in a very tiny space, had expanded to the size of the observable universe we see today.

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

They do not believe we can be sure of being saved, believing instead that salvation comes as a result of a life of obedience to the commands of Christ After death, believers are in a state of non-existence, knowing nothing until the Resurrection at the return of Christ.

They also agreed that " we shall by all means labor to keep off from us all such as are contrary minded, and receive only such unto us as may be probably of one heart with us, such as that we either know or may well and truly be informed to walk in a peaceable conversation with all meekness of spirit, for the edification of each other in the knowledge and faith of the Lord Jesus …" The covenant also stipulated that if differences were to arise between townsmen, they would seek arbitration for resolution and each would pay his fair share for the common good.

They promote bioregionalism, permaculture, and local economies as solutions to these problems, overpopulation, global warming, global epidemics, and water scarcity, but most notably to " peak oil "-- the prediction that we are likely to reach a maximum in global oil production which could spell drastic changes in many aspects of our everyday lives.

They also contain statements ( that with hindsight we know to be approximate ) about squaring the circle and " circling the square.