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They were seeking black slaves for use in sugarcane plantations of Northeastern Brazil ( Pernambuco, Olinda, Recife ) which they had also seized from Portugal.
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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.
`` 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.
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They have taken responsibility for the nurture and support of those individuals seeking to discern God ’ s call to service as ordained or licensed ministers.
They are an educational agency seeking to acquaint the young with the world's literature and to cultivate a love for reading.
They considered themselves to lack jurisdiction over a defendant until he had voluntarily submitted to it by entering a plea seeking judgment from the court.
They are currently seeking to resume whaling of the gray whale, a right recognized in the Treaty of Neah Bay.
They enlisted the aid of their daughter, Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia, in seeking a suitable candidate.
They became estranged when Edward spurned the French diplomatic marriage that Warwick was seeking for him and instead married Elizabeth Woodville, widow of an obscure Lancastrian gentleman, in secret in 1464.
They had traveled beyond the boundaries of the United States seeking an isolated area to practice their religion, far away from the violence and the persecution they experienced in the East.
They also said that the emergence of armed rebel groups seeking to overthrow Aristide reflected " the failure of the country's democratic institutions and procedures ".
They feared that Tiberius was seeking to become King of Rome, a loathed office which had been dismantled with the ousting of the Tarquins and the establishment of the Republic.
They were mainly seeking more political power for themselves against the de facto government of Count Berlaymont, Granvelle and Viglius of Aytta, but also for the Dutch nobility and, ostensibly, for the Estates, and complained that too many Spaniards were involved in governing the Netherlands.
They set off on his motorcycle to find alternative shelter, eventually seeking cover in an old Buddhist temple.
They decided on a new strategy ( the Trachenberg Plan ) of avoiding direct battle with him while seeking out and attacking his subordinates instead, thus weakening his army.
They were invented much later by historians seeking to differentiate between the classical period of the Roman Empire, the medieval period ( label the Byzantine Empire ) and the late medieval Latin Empire, all of which called themselves " Roman.
They include the third largest party ( the Communist Party ), which still commands large support from many rural working areas as well as some of the immigrant population in Greece, as well as the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally, with the latter, while commanding a mere three and a half per cent of votes, seeking to capitalise on opposition in some quarters regarding Turkey's EU accession and any tension in the Aegean.
They realise the tripods intend for the boys to lead them to the human resistance ( an organisation which the boys have been seeking ).
They will often scavenge, eating scraps and rubbish and can be quite bold when seeking food from people, lingering around picnic areas and bird-feeding trays.
They were also active in seeking the vote: in 1913 a delegation of them arrived at the legislature demanding the vote ; Sifton asked them " did you ladies wash up your luncheon dishes before you came down here to ask me for the vote?
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