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They and hired
They borrowed a typewriter, raised about $2,000 in contributions, hired a secretary, persuaded a couple of young men to join them for almost no pay and began mailing out a collection of unstapled leaflets that they called Guideposts.
They were often hired as mercenary soldiers, sometimes fighting on both sides in the great battles of the times.
They wanted to do more than just straight news, so they hired comedians who were talented vocalists.
They also hired running backs coach, Sylvester Croom, tight ends coach, Bobby Johnson, and wide receivers coach, Jerry Sullivan, to the coaching staff.
They opened their own restaurants or were hired by wealthy locals.
They were often hired by the many warring kingdoms as advisers to the state.
They were distinguished from others, however, in that they hired out their services not only for gain, but also in order to realize their own ethical ideals.
They also hired Rich Frank of KCOP-TV and a member of the Operation Prime Time steering committee.
They hired employees with criminal backgrounds, including burglary and theft, and lied about those backgrounds.
They took their name from an article the Beastie Boys published in their Grand Royal magazine about a man they hired to track down classic sneakers.
He in turn hired five other top British car engineers. They were Kenneth Barnett body design, engineers John Simpson and Edward Chapman, John Crosthwaite ex-BRM as chassis engineer and Peter Slater as chief development engineer.
They purchased his script, bought several others, and hired him on staff.
They hired Straczynski as executive story editor to fill in the remaining number of needed episodes.
They hired the mercenary, King Pyrrhus of Epirus, in neighboring Greece to fight the Romans on their behalf.
They are hired for several reasons.
They hired New York City book packager Mega-Books to produce further series.
" They were hired to write the score for the 1925 Theatre Guild production The Garrick Gaieties, the success of which brought them acclaim.
The Moabites were to be excluded from the assembly of worshipers, because: “ They did not come to meet you with food and drink when you were on your way out of Egypt, and even hired Balaam, son of Beor, to oppose you by cursing you .” ( Deuteronomy 23: 3-5 ) The Israelites were allowed to harass Moab, but were forbidden to wage war on them, so they defeated Midian as a result of the advice that Balaam gave that led to a plague in punishment for the worship of idols at Baal Peor.
They hired former All-Star ( and Los Angeles native ) Dennis Johnson as an assistant coach, as well as Hall of Fame former Laker great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to help tutor second-year center Michael Olowokandi.
They had hired Mikan, who had been the team's general manager for the previous two seasons, as head coach to replace Kundla.
They were hired out by many as mercenaries to perform capture, infiltration and retrieval, and, most famously, assassinations.
They were hired by Henry VIII to suppress various Catholic orders in England.
They are ambushed by Pike's former partner, Deke Thornton ( Robert Ryan ), and a posse of bounty hunters hired and deputized by the railroad.
They have acquired life rights from Wilson and his wife, Melinda, and hired Oren Moverman, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind the offbeat Bob Dylan film I'm Not There, to write a script.
' They had hired a guy who I think was Mia Sara's blowout guy.

They and Basque
They were resisted in areas in the northwest ( such as Asturias, where they were defeated at the battle of Covadonga ) and the largely Basque regions in the Pyrenees.
They are reported to speak Basque for the most part, which " makes them incomprehensible ".
They first stood in 1979 obtaining their best results in the Basque autonomous community where they polled 15 % and won 3 seats.
They recognized thus, themselves, as " Basques " from Castile, as the former " Basque " Lords of Biscay had done in the Castilian kingdom, whereby a López de Haro was succeeded by his eldest son named however as a Díaz de Haro and then, the following Lord of Biscay, being described again as a López de Haro in spite of his father being known, politically speaking, as a " Díaz de Haro " and so on and on for some 3 centuries or so, alternating the family name, a genealogical fact ignored today by many Basque, and Castilian, people
They are very popular and common in the Basque Country.
They were once common men's headwear across the cooler north of the country, in regions of Navarre, the Basque Country, Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia and nearby areas.
They lived for years in the Basque countryside of France.
They are also known as harrespil in the Basque country, where villagers call them mairu-baratz or jentil-baratz that means " pagan garden ( cemetery )", referring to mythologic giants of the pre-Christian era.
They wear red, white and green, and supporters wave the Basque flag in the stands.
They were only expelled in 986, leaving a legacy of naval expertise in Labourd and all the coastal Basque Country.
They were formed in 1979 in Salvatierra / Agurain, a small town in the Basque Country ( Spain ).
They, along with dozens of other bands were part of an underground movement that existed throughout the 1980s in Spain, particularly in the Basque Country, that came as a reaction to the fall of fascism in Spain in 1975 with the death of Francisco Franco.
They continued whale fishing in Iceland and Spitsbergen at least into the 18th century, but Basque whaling in those regions appears to have ended with the commencement of the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ).
They met with twenty other whaleships ( eleven-twelve Basque, five French, and three Dutch ), as well as a London interloper, which were either ordered away or forced to pay a fine of some sort.
They also incorporated traditional Basque instruments into their music, such as the trikitixa ( button accordion ).
They had a big significance for left-wing basque nationalism ( which rejected the autonomist project ) as precursors of a new wave of music: Basque Radical Rock ( Rock Radikal Vasco or RRV ).
They reached a huge degree of influence in Basque and Spanish punk, as other bands like La Polla Records, Cicatriz and Eskorbuto became famous in the 80's underground scene.
They dedicated their focus on the revival and social status of the Basque language.
They support the creation of an independent Basque Country, but see it as achievable through the project of the European Union, as a union of peoples, a federation of nations, not states.
They were never aligned politically with any ideology saying, " Rock does not have a mother country, not even the Basque ".
They preferred not to organise classes for Basque students not subtract those given by the council of Biscay although his ambition was to promote the creation of the Basque University.
They were joined by the Basque Nationalist Party ( EAJ – PNV ) and the Catalan nationalist Convergence and Unity ( CiU ).

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