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They pursued city officials and tobacco executives who bought tobacco from farmers who were not members of the Dark Tobacco District Planters ' Protective Association.
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They are pursued by Sunfire ; they manage to get the better of him and take him prisoner, but not before he manages to cripple the jet.
They charged the enemy supported by javelin throwers and slingers ; the cavalry pursued the enemy, sometimes dismounting to support infantry in dire situations.
They also pursued socioeconomic reforms such land redistribution, greater health and education spending, the nationalization of foreign businesses, Colombian banks, and transportation, and greater public access to mass media.
They broke the Crusader blockade, destroyed most of their ships, and pursued and captured those who anchored and fled into the desert.
They were pursued by three of the Australians who caught them at The Oval gates where a furious altercation ensued in front of bystanders.
They pursued Conan from Dol de Bretagne to Rennes, and finally to Dinan, where he surrendered the fortress's keys at the point of a lance.
They tend to feature a resourceful character struggling against incredible odds, which may involve life-threatening situations, an evil villain, and / or being pursued, with victory achieved at the end after difficult physical efforts and violence.
They are agile and have good endurance — these are advantages when pursued by sprint-dependent predators such as cheetah, which are the fastest of land animals, but tire quickly.
They pursued the Confederates at the Third Battle of Winchester and effectively destroyed Early's army during Sheridan's counterattack at Cedar Creek.
They had met as children but did not see one another for almost ten years, as each pursued their education.
They landed on Madagascar where their nine men were pursued by three hundred natives, because one of his mariners had carried off a young native girl among the trees.
They were pursued, and Bonifacio was nearly killed shielding Emilio Jacinto from a Spanish bullet which grazed his collar.
They are then pursued down the street by the Commando Elite in heavily armed kit-bash vehicles, but they are all destroyed during the chase-except Chip, who locates Joe's truck full of recalled Commando toys.
They then pursued the Continentals into the wood and were repulsed by Lt. Col. William Washington's Light Dragoons, and the 1st Maryland Regiment, abandoning the two guns they had just captured.
They were soon joined by Robert's much younger adoptive brother Jude Davenport, openly despised by Ginny, Cameron and Lewis, after he had romantically pursued Jessica.
They pointed out that the U. S. government had pursued expansionary policies, such as lowering interest rates, increasing government spending, and cutting taxes, when the United States itself entered a recession in 2001, and arguably the same in the fiscal and monetary policies during the 2008 – 2009 Global Financial Crisis.
They and city
They elected a city council, although only a small number of rich families were eligible for election.
They demanded two churches in Milan, one in the city ( the basilica of the Apostles ), the other in the suburbs ( St Victor's ), to the Arians.
They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain ; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats.
They will encamp surrounding the " holy ones " and the " beloved city " ( this refers to Jerusalem ).
They first appear in history in connection with the Gallic invasion of north Italy, 390 BC, when they made the Etruscan city of Felsina their new capital, Bononia ( Bologna ).
They were simply " Boston ", " Bostonians " or " the Bostons "; or the " Americans " or " Boston Americans " as in " American Leaguers ", Boston being a two-team city.
-- Hergeir, the faithful servant of the Lord, was angry with them and said, -- " They will lead away your wives and sons as captives, they will burn our city ( urbs ) and town ( vicus ) and will destroy you with the sword --"" ( Chapter XIX )
They attacked and finding no opposition, managed to recover eastern Thrace with its fortified city of Adrianople, regaining an area in Europe which was only slightly larger than the present-day European territory of the Republic of Turkey.
They were unable to reach Caligula's uncle, Claudius, who was spirited out of the city, after being found by a soldier, to a nearby Praetorian camp.
They commemorated scenes from the passion, such as the location of the prison of Christ and of his flagellation, and presumably were so placed because of the difficulties for free movement among shrines in the streets of the city.
They were nicknamed Hundemarken ( the German equivalent of " dog tags ") and compared to a similar identification system instituted for dogs in the Prussian capital city of Berlin at about the same time.
They city also expanded with the incorporation of the city of Rockingham and the establishment of the Davenport Municipal Airport.
... the emperor ... convened a council of 318 bishops ... in the city of Nicea ... They passed certain ecclesiastical canons at the council besides, and at the same time decreed in regard to the Passover that there must be one unanimous concord on the celebration of God's holy and supremely excellent day.
They are primarily concentrated in the north-central areas, in and around the city of Keren, and south towards Asmara, the nation's capital.
" They sent Barry Bernardi, their location manager ( and associate producer ), " on a sort of all-expense-paid trip across the country looking for the worst city in America ," producer Debra Hill remembers.
They also failed to take Trinity College, which was located in the heart of the city centre and which was defended by only a handful of armed unionist students.
They next string up a barrier of power lines around the city filled with a 1, 000, 000 volts of electricity ( 300, 000 volts had been tried in the first film, but failed to turn the monster back ).
They reached all the way to Delhi and sacked the city, taking the Koh-i-Noor diamond and many other treasures with them to Greater Khorasan.
They formed the Houston Sports Association as their vehicle for attaining a big league franchise for the city of Houston.
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