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 were running from something.

They were a pair of lost, whipped kids, Morgan thought as he went to bed.

They passed ranches that were framed dark gray against the black hills.

They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.

They bawled questions that were not answered in the uproar.

They were about a mile off ; ;

They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

They were going to town, and they were both excited.

They were free.

They were in a fight, outweighed in both numbers and money.

They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.

They were considering it gravely, neither seeming to like what he planned.

They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.

They were all good men.

They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.

`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.

They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.

They were already swollen to bursting.

They may also be politically motivated, such as " Save the Scouts, forward this to as many friends as possible " or a concept that a popular TV or radio show may be forced off the air.

They justify their behaviour by invoking the great sanctions – God, the King, Parliament, the People – that unscrupulous statesmen, motivated by the naked desire to be on top, have used throughout the ages.

They generally have an ideological basis in heterosexism, and are also motivated by homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia.

They were motivated to fight mostly by expectations of plunder.

They showed instead that the raiders were Special Forces loyal to Diệm's brother, Nhu, and motivated to frame the army generals.

They visited Frankfurt fairs in 1477, where van Dorpp sold his wears to a German merchant from Antwerp, and Behaim was motivated by his mother to return in the fall where he worked with Bartels von Eyb ( a friend of the family ).

They state that since the government was controlled not by socialists but by Freemasons at the time, most government opposition to the visions would have been motivated by concern for separation of church and state, not by atheistic, antitheistic or Communistic ideology.

They were motivated by concern about what they perceived as increasingly liberal views among the Disciples fellowship on issues such as the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Bible and homosexuality.

They contend that she was motivated to kill her two children to rid herself of her financial burdens.

They say they are not motivated by nostalgia, as they are critical of Josip Broz Tito.

They were motivated by a desire to be able to hunt wild animals in private hunting preserves rather than a desire to protect wilderness.

They are currently serving prison terms on charges of extortion that Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Front Line have condemned as politically motivated.

They are both motivated by a deep longing to find their way to the place that is ultimately their true homeland.

They expressed concern that she was becoming typecast, but these negative reviews motivated her to improve as an actress by accepting more demanding roles.

They were motivated both by a desire to prove themselves as a competent military, as well as the need to avenge the slaughter of so many soldiers.

They seek the acceptance of others and are especially motivated to enhance their social status.

They were motivated by a newly recognized need for pooled observational and computational facilities and a strong research staff, which together would allow the academic community to carry out complex, long-term scientific programs beyond the reach of individual universities.

They were motivated by the loss of trade threatened by the repeal of the British Corn Laws.

Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer argues that terrorist attacks ( specifically al-Qaeda attacks on America ) are not motivated by a religiously inspired hatred of American culture or religion, but by the belief that U. S. foreign policy has oppressed, killed, or otherwise harmed Muslims in the Middle East, condensed in the phrase " They hate us for what we do, not who we are.

They were motivated by a belief that the sale of the Isle of Wight to the English crown in 1293 was unconstitutional.

They expressed concern at the possibility of opportunistic non-citizens, motivated more by profit than loyalty or patriotism, seeking to take advantage of Chinese economic growth, and at the erosion of the Chinese nation-state.

They argue that the view that rape is due to a domination desire, cannot explain to the victim why the rapist seemed to be sexually motivated.

But economics motivated most swamp pop musicians: They wanted to sell records not only in southern Louisiana and southeast Texas, but beyond, where the pronunciation of ethnic surnames like Guillot, Barrios, and DeRouen eluded record promoters, disc jockeys, and consumers.

They might be motivated to perpetrate factitious disorders either as a patient or by proxy as a caregiver to gain any variety of benefits including attention, nurturance, sympathy, and leniency that are unobtainable any other way.