They were seeking black slaves for use in sugarcane plantations of Northeastern Brazil ( Pernambuco, Olinda, Recife ) which they had also seized from Portugal.

They seized evidence that Aggregate delivered concrete that did not meet contract specifications.

They have seized the very means set aside to furnish funds for the lights ever kept burning at St. Peter s tomb, and they have carried off offerings that have been made by you and by those who have gone before you.

They seized most of the country but failed to take the capital.

They formed an alliance with England and seized town after town in France.

They bungled the job and were seized by the emperor's bodyguard.

They seized hundreds of British ships, operating with virtual impunity in the West Indies ; they were also active in European waters.

They also seized the Bois des Corbeaux a second time, but at a crippling cost before they could finally occupy the crests of Le Mort Homme and Côte 304.

They seized Chania itself on 2 August 1645.

They attempted to capture several Spanish ships on the outward-bound voyage to improve their profits, but they were captured themselves and their cargo seized.

They seized the land.

They also seized control of three newspapers owned by Arias ' brother, Harmodio and blackmailed the owners of the country's oldest newspaper, La Estrella de Panama, into becoming a government mouthpiece.

They seized the islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina Island, Colombia.

They also seized prisoners and vessels from the Bay of Fundy.

They were seized with the fear that the extreme leaders of the Republican party would not stop at any excess and would deprive them of their property.

They had seized Alba as far as Hadrian's Wall and from there began their devastation in the island.

They rose to power after their leader Wanyan Aguda unified them in 1115, declared himself Emperor, and in 1120 seized Shangjing ( 上京 ), also known as Linhuangfu ( Traditional Chinese: 临潢府 ), the Northern Capital of Liao.

They seized Baghdad in 1048, before dying out in 1194 in Iran, although the production of “ Seljuq ” works continued through the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century under the auspices of smaller, independent sovereigns and patrons.

In order to reclaim the Fort, they appeal to " higher authority " by wire, which turns out as an all-ears U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt ( Attorney General William Henry Moody: " They say a billionaire from Scotland has seized a military installation on the coast!

They held that the whole cataclysm had been engineered by some great and mysterious secret society of international Jews, who, in the pay and at the orders of Germany, had seized the psychological moment and snatched the reins of government.

They gathered their own posse, and seized the Maine Land Agent and his assistants in the middle of the night.

They seized the critical crossroads that triggered the Battle of Cold Harbor ( June 1 to June 12 ) and withstood a number of assaults until reinforced.

They seized the building held it for six hours but they were unable to broadcast due to the cutting off of the audio lines from the main studio to the tower as soon as the station was seized.

They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.

They know that they must depend heavily on factors outside their own control.

They were put on control diets to determine as accurately as possible, the normal cholesterol level of their blood.

They argue further ( and somewhat contradictorily ) that our knowledge and resources in preventive medicine would make it possible to control such an outbreak of disease.

They explained its absence in others on the basis of an intervention of control factors.

They felt that they were relaxing as much as they could and that any control factors which might be present to prevent response must be on an unconscious level.

They are held in control by force, but barely.

They are often recovered from a plane after a crash to determine control settings and other parameters during the incident.

They are known in this context as control tables and are used in conjunction with a purpose built interpreter whose control flow is altered according to values contained in the array.

They gained control of the Dressau City Council and moved to close the school.

They initially were not part of the territory under direct Roman control, having voluntarily allied themselves to Rome following Claudius ' conquest of AD 43.

They engaged in a bitter power struggle over several issues, such as who would control territories Serbia annexed in the Balkan Wars.

They have also hailed its control of the armed forces, it respect for civil liberties, its expansion of suffrage and participation, and its gradual admission of new contenders, especially reformers, to the political arena.

They thought that individuals should be free to pursue their self-interest without control or restraint by society.

They quickly realized that ethnic inclusiveness was needed if the new republic was to maintain control over the territories bequeathed by the Qing dynasty.

They also are active in efforts to control contraband and illegal immigration from Haiti to the Dominican Republic and from the Dominican Republic to the United States ( via illegal transportation of Dominicans to Puerto Rico ).

They selected two subjects with bilateral damage to the amygdala, as well as six control subjects and six subjects with brain damage.

They are a battlespace control measure that designate the forward-most friendly maritime or land forces on the battlefield at a given point in time, during an armed conflict.

They are used for establishing the vertical geospatial control.

They were not, however, able to expand their control beyond Puerto Caballos and Trujillo, thanks to determined Miskito resistance.

They imposed on the parts of Afghanistan under their control their political and judicial interpretation of Islam issuing edicts forbidding women to work outside the home, attend school, or to leave their homes unless accompanied by a male relative.

The main provisions of the Edict of Nantes were as follows: a ) Huguenots were allowed to hold religious services in certain towns in each province, b ) They were allowed to control and fortify eight cities ( including La Rochelle and Montauban ), c ) Special courts were established to try Huguenot offenders, d ) Huguenots were to have equal civil rights with the Catholics.

They started with annual raids, collecting ransom from villages and towns while the declining Mughal Empire retained nominal control.