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They had forced China to import opium, thus leading to widespread addiction, defeated China in several wars, asserted a right to promote Christianity and imposed unequal treaties under which foreigners and foreign companies in China were accorded special privileges, extraterritorial rights and immunities from Chinese law, causing resentment and xenophobic reactions among the Chinese.
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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 greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.
They had pistols in their hands.
They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.
They had chosen this night purposely.
They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.
They had for cover both darkness and a summer storm.
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
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 couldn't have much dough, but then none of the freight-bums Feathertop rolled had much.
They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.
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 thought of themselves, to use Jefferson's words, as `` the Argonauts '' who had lived in `` the Heroic Age ''.
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 look as if they had been sculptured with an unsharpened chisel.
They had watered their stock at immense profit, then had raised the price of coal fifty cents a ton, netting themselves another $20,000,000 in annual profit.
They had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.
They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.
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.
They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.
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They crowded him in that threatening way once more, forced him to give in.
They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.
They took refuge on an island at Thorney, on the Hertfordshire Colne, where they were blockaded and were ultimately forced to submit.
They were forced to abandon several guns which became bogged down in the muddy roads.
They would begin to substantially increase both the numbers and the training standards of the cavalry in their employ, just as nearly a thousand years earlier the first Iranians to reach the Iranian Plateau forced the Assyrians to a similar reform.
They forced Chiang into making a " Second United Front " with the Communists against Japan.
They were forced to compete with louder horn instruments ( and later amplified electric guitars ), making bass parts difficult to hear.
They were locked out of the meeting hall three days later when they attempted to meet, and forced to reconvene to the royal indoor tennis court.
They took a prominent part in the battles by which the Prussians forced the line of the Jizera and in the Battle of Jičín.
They were considered " passive " citizens ; forced to rely on men to determine what was best for them in the government.
They were forced to take refuge in Falmouth, Cornwall, from where they returned to Plymouth for repair.
They were then counter-attacked by 21st Panzer at 11: 00 and forced to withdraw.
They were forced to move among the miniature huts by having hot air blown onto them.
They forced the Eastern Roman Empire to sign the Treaty of Margus, giving the Huns trade rights and an annual tribute from the Romans.
They were eventually forced or chose to withdraw, concluding that the wealth of the land did not justify the extensive garrisoning requirements.
They did such a precise job that the construction crew didn't notice until after they had laid the foundation ( and after the prank team informed someone on the project about the shifted stakes ), but California earthquake law forced them to re-survey the site and bring in engineering consultation.
They use forced induction ( similar to super-charging, or turbocharging ) to scavenge the cylinders ; an example of this type of motor is the Wärtsilä-Sulzer turbocharged two-stroke diesel as used in large container ships.
As population pressures forced them to associate more and more closely, they underwent a psychological transformation: They began to see themselves through the eyes of others and came to value the good opinion of others as essential to their self esteem.
They forced him to dismiss Tribonian and two of his other ministers, and then attempted to overthrow Justinian himself and replace him by the senator Hypatius, who was a nephew of the late emperor Anastasius.
They subsisted on Halliwell's money ( and unemployment benefits ) and were forced to follow an ascetic life in order to restrict their outgoings to £ 5 a week.
They would be forced to live in districts frequented by the criminal classes.
They would be forced to report to the police as other criminals were obligated to do.
They forced many people out of their homes and ignored many basic human freedoms ; they controlled how Cambodians acted, what they wore, who they could talk to, and many other aspects of their lives.
They believed that without their support, Gottwald would be unable to govern and be forced to either give way or resign himself.
They built the first school within the current boundaries of the city, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833 and their settlement was left vacant.
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