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They were a remarkable family, resilient, politically astute and faithful to the crown and to Ireland.
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They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
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They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
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They now gathered the various constitutional laws they had passed into a single constitution, showed remarkable strength in choosing not to use this as an occasion for major revisions, and submitted it to the recently restored Louis XVI, who accepted it, writing " I engage to maintain it at home, to defend it from all attacks from abroad, and to cause its execution by all the means it places at my disposal ".
But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.
They proved this was not the case in a remarkable 1, 000-km journey across the inland ice that almost killed them.
They agree that he had a vision, and his optimism helped popularize the remarkable plan of building a transcontinental railroad, convinced the Big Four to finance it, and was instrumental in securing Congressional passage of the 1862 law.
They will all have remarkable shapes: the Hadid Tower is twisted, the Libeskind Tower and the Isozaki Tower, although being perfectly straight, will reach 200m becoming the tallest building in Italy.
They are remarkable for their edges filled with animals symbolising proverbs and fables, for example the fable of The Crayfish and the Oyster or Skill is greater than Cunning.
They present the remarkable result that any linear transformation of a tensegrity is also a tensegrity.
They have adapted to a remarkable range of habitats, from desert to tundra, forests, mountains, and swampland.
They are also among the most skilled at background adaptation, having the ability to match both the colour and the texture of their local environment with remarkable accuracy.
They appeared respectively in 1885, 1888 and 1890, and were without doubt remarkable feats to be performed by a man who had passed his eightieth year.
They also introduced a few useful reforms, the most remarkable of which was the liberty of the press in 1766.
They made a remarkable achievement of winning The West of Scotland cup 9 years out of 10 between 1979 and 1989 although they have not won it since.
They are known from a remarkable series of monuments, including the well known tomb of Ramose at Thebes.
They are remarkable for the complex mechanisms they have developed for pollination, which independently parallel the unrelated Orchidaceae, especially in the grouping of their pollen into pollinia.
They joined a homegrown supply of actors — lured west from the New York City stage after the introduction of sound films — to form one of the 20th century's most remarkable growth industries.
They have a remarkable ability to go without water for months at a time, but when water is available they may drink up to 57 liters at once.
They also introduced a few useful reforms, the most remarkable of which was the liberty of the press in 1766.
They may be the origin of the occasional and remarkable blond, freckled, green-and blue-eyed Tuvans.
They re-assessed the phylogenetic relationships of tiger subspecies and observed a remarkable similarity between Caspian and Amur tiger indicating that the Amur tiger population is the genetically closest living relative of the extinct Caspian tiger, and strongly implying a very recent common ancestry for the two groups.
They are applicable to the many phenomena that do not require quantum statistics and provide a remarkable insight into the meaning of temperature.
They are often seen on Brazilian television shows, remarkable for a band which recently played in the São Paulo underground.
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