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 control of all polling places at gunpoint, cast tens of thousands of fraudulent votes for pro-slavery candidates, and elected a pro-slavery legislature.

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 were blind to the evidence that nothing could keep the Russian people fighting.

They show that this model, when optimized for single-step decision making, produces Belief Anchoring and Polarization of opinions-exactly as described in the global warming controversy context-in spite of identical evidence presented, the pre-existing beliefs ( or evidence presented first ) has an overwhelming effect on the beliefs formed.

" They serve a valuable purpose in paleontology because they provide direct evidence of the predation and diet of extinct organisms.

They cite Guam ’ s increasing reliance on Federal spending as evidence, and question how commonwealth status or statehood would benefit the United States as a whole.

They date back 1. 83 million years, the oldest evidence of hominid habitation in Southeast Asia ..

They argue that he has not provided a convincing case that the similarities presented as evidence are due to inheritance from an earlier common ancestor rather than being explained by a combination of accidental similarity, errors, excessive semantic latitude in comparisons, borrowings, onomatopoeia, etc.

They primarily consist of images of large animals, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time.

They date most of the plays earlier and say that the post-1604 plays, some of which show evidence of revision and collaboration, were completed by other playwrights for posthumous release.

They disagree, however, on the interpretation of the historical evidence from this era regarding the prerogatives of the Bishop of Rome as protos, a matter that was already understood in different ways in the first millennium.

They may, for example, legally search any suspect who has been arrested, or their vehicles, home or business premises, without a warrant, and may seize anything they find in a search as evidence.

They are external to his senses, and according to Descartes, this is evidence of the existence of something outside of his mind, and thus, an external world.

They first frisk them to check whether they have enough evidence to be even arrested for the relevant crime.

They are today considered strong evidence for an expanding universe and the Big Bang theory.

" They argue that clients who request it do so out of social pressure and internalized homophobia, pointing to evidence that rates of depression, anxiety, alcohol and drug abuse and suicidal feelings are roughly doubled in those who undergo therapy.

They point to what they consider an absence of regular sound correspondences, an absence of reconstructable shared morphology, and evidence that much shared lexical material has been borrowed from Chinese into Tibeto-Burman.

They argue that this accounts for the high number of burials in the area and for the evidence of trauma deformity in some of the graves.

They are variants of Apodemus sylvaticus and archaeological evidence suggests that this species was present during the Middle Iron Age ( around 200 BC to AD 400 ).

They would have been kept by the Scots and Picts, and used to help in providing part of their diet, namely hoofed game ( archaeological evidence likely supports this in the form of Roman pottery from around 1st Century AD found in Argyll which depicts the deerhunt using large rough hounds ( these can be viewed at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh ).

They assumed a connection, but did not seek linguistic evidence.

They contend that the Skene's glands do not appear to have receptors for touch stimulation, and that there is no direct evidence for their involvement.

They dispute whether observation of a particular instance ( such as one black raven ) is the kind of evidence that necessarily < i > increases </ i > confidence in the general hypothesis ( such as that ravens are always black ).

They found no evidence, because while they were waiting for a search warrant, Jennings flushed the cocaine.

They assert that DID cannot be accurately diagnosed because of vague and unclear diagnostic criteria in the DSM and undefined concepts such as " personality state " and " identities ", and question the evidence for childhood abuse beyond self-reports, the lack of definition of what would indicate a threshold of abuse sufficient to induce DID and the extremely small number of cases of children diagnosed with DID despite an average age of appearance of the first alter of three years.