They wouldn't o' stood no chance with you in a plain, straight-out shoot-down ''.

They combed their hair and streaked it at the part and greased the bangs so that the hair above their foreheads stood rigid like the tails of sage hens making love.

They conclude that it lacks certain features of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and has others consistent with the Pileated ( Sibley at al., 2006 ) The original Cornell research team stood by their original findings in a response article in the same issue of Science, stating:

They see Selassie as being worthy of worship, and as having stood with great dignity in front of the world's press and in front of representatives of many of the world's powerful nations, especially during his appeal to the League of Nations in 1936, when he was still the only independent black monarch in Africa.

They stood facing each other immobile for about an hour, before the English withdrew from the field and marched off to join other English units in Meung, Beaugency and Jargeau.

They followed up with several more shows, and of their work in The Passing Show of 1918 Heywood Broun wrote: " In an evening in which there was an abundance of good dancing, Fred Astaire stood out ...

They fell in love, and with Melian, Thingol stood spellbound in Nan Elmoth for several years.

They first stood in 1979 obtaining their best results in the Basque autonomous community where they polled 15 % and won 3 seats.

" They called on Horatius to retreat but perceiving the tactical difficulty of allowing the enemy to cross he stood his ground, directing them to tell the consuls to tear up the bridge.

They left no doubt where they stood on the upcoming hostilities.

They appear to have stood aside as neutrals during Trajan's final campaign of AD 105-106, which ended in the complete destruction of the Dacian state.

They stood by the party's original stance for strict construction of the Constitution and opposed Jefferson's pragmatic approach to governing.

They were cleared away by the start of the 19th century so there is now no trace left of whatever might once have stood there or indication of what it might have been used for.

They accused Brissot of being a Police Spy ; saying that he was plotting against the revolution he had once stood behind.

They stood on either side of a cross and stretched out their hands horizontally.

They especially should not be afraid that any form of genocide could occur, because they themselves know best that during the Second World War a large number of Croats stood at their defense, and that they, along with Serbians, contributed to the National Liberation War, and even prevented a larger number of victims.

They stood upon a compartment depicting the countryside and coastline of Humberside.

They stood guard while the mail sat on the sidewalk until it could be protected by the National Guard.

They then stood just inside an empty hut at the end junction and waited.

They stood united against what they viewed as the threat posed by unruly plebeians.

They stood for a revolutionary war against the Central Powers ; opposed the right of nations to self-determination ( specifically in the case of Poland, since there were many Poles in this communist group and they did not want a Polish capitalist state to be established ); and they generally took a voluntarist stance regarding the possibilities for social revolution at that time.

They failed to mount a challenge for the new Premier League title, and as late as March they stood 15th in the table.

* Mark Gould " They stood up to hatred " Guardian. co. uk, Tuesday 27 January 2009 12. 03 GMT

They stood for re-election in the Highfield constituency against the MDC but failed to get re-elected.

They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

They reined in there, Brannon remaining in the saddle while Hogan went to look for Jesse Macklin in the hotel dining room.

They whirled and saw him, standing there dim in the slatted light from the boarded freight wall.

They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

They were poems in a strange language, of which he could barely touch a meaning -- enough to make his being ache with the desire for the fullness he sensed there.

They refuse to mention or to notice that they are not there.

They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to buy fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there.

They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;

They were not free to be themselves in this situation, an interpersonal one, where there was an observer of their reactions and they had no guide for acceptable behavior.

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

When someone says, for example, `` They took x-rays to see that there was nothing wrong with me '', it pays to consider how this statement would normally be made.

They were not sufficiently challenging however, and she resigned in 1887, to go to Germany with her brother Winslow and his family while he was there on study.

They succeeded in eluding the curious at the hotel, but there was no chance of avoiding them at the nightclub.

`` They found something else up there '', she said half-aloud to the empty room.

They showed they were glad that Carnegie would have a major orchestra playing there so often next season to take up the slack with the departure to Lincoln Center of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.

They must be freezing up there now.

They are attracted there by the calling of the first male to find a suitable place, perhaps a pool that forms in the same place each rainy season.

They noted that there was little vocabulary shared by Turkic and Tungusic but not Mongolic.

They failed to reach the Anatolian coasts of the Black Sea however, as another Indo-European people, the Kaskians, had established a kingdom there in the 17th Century BC, displacing earlier Palaic speaking Indo-Europeans.

They concluded that there was another gas in the air mixed in with the nitrogen.

They have not been expelled or suspended, since there is no mechanism in this voluntary association to suspend or expel an independent province of the Communion.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.