They can also be used to cover the retreat of forces disengaging from the enemy, or for interdiction of supporting units to isolate front line units from resupply.

They are held to isolate them from combatants still in the field, to release and repatriate them in an orderly manner after hostilities, to demonstrate military victory, to punish them, to prosecute them for war crimes, to exploit them for their labor, to recruit or even conscript them as their own combatants, to collect military and political intelligence from them, and to indoctrinate them in new political or religious beliefs.

They isolate themselves from the outside world where the Red Death, a plague, reigns supreme.

They lived in the Everglades, to isolate themselves from European-Americans.

They also need protection measures to physically isolate their high voltage parts from accidental contact with humans and pets.

They display considerable adaptability, and have sometimes been known to team up to hunt animals as large as the Red Kangaroo, to cause goats to fall off steep hillsides and injure themselves, or to drive flocks of sheep or kangaroos to isolate a weaker animal.

They then attempted to separate these radioactive fractions further, to isolate a smaller fraction with a higher specific activity ( radioactivity divided by mass ).

They would isolate us.

) They were also able to isolate the portion of DNA bound by the protein by using the enzyme deoxyribonuclease, which breaks down DNA.

They isolate themselves from the host country's environment, which they come to perceive as hostile, withdraw into a " ghetto " and see return to their own culture as the only way out.

They argued that this turn would isolate the WRP and that it was necessary to turn back to Trotsky's Transitional Programme.

They operate at a detected potential of around 50 volts to open a main breaker and isolate the supply from the protected premises.

They instigate the apparent theft of the real Scone of Stone from its closely guarded cave, hoping to cause a civil war between traditionalists and progressive dwarfs and isolate the country under the werewolves ' feudal leadership.

They isolate themselves socially.

They would attempt to penetrate enemy weak points to bypass and isolate heavily defended positions in the front line.

They isolate themselves socially.

They may also be used to isolate electrical loads from the electrical power supply line.

They comprise almost 4, 000 inhabitants and speak the Huaorani language, a linguistic isolate that is not known to be related to any other language.

They cite the lack of an extensive hydrogen infrastructure in the U. S. and stating: " the large amount of energy required to isolate hydrogen from natural compounds ( water, natural gas, biomass ), package the light gas by compression or liquefaction, transfer the energy carrier to the user, plus the energy lost when it is converted to useful electricity with fuel cells, leaves around 25 % for practical use.

They may constitute a language isolate.

They spoke a language isolate that has no known close relatives, although it may be very distantly related to the Muskogean languages of the Creek Confederacy.

They managed to isolate their feedback from the standards thereby minimizing the threat to their self-esteem.

They played with separation and recording levels and built baffles and platforms covered with carpet, using them to isolate vocals and instruments.

They once spoke the now-extinct Tonkawa language believed to have been a language isolate not related to any other indigenous tongues.

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.