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They were tried and executed one after the other until, when only one was still alive, the accounting error was discovered and that last surviving treasurer was acquitted.
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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 tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.
They both tried to keep smiling and winking for a long time, but it made their lips and eyelids tremble.
They learn to like these so well that it isn't surprising to hear that one boy tried the oats he was feeding his horse at chore time.
They note that the discoverers of the two planets around HW Virginis tried to circumvent the naming problem by calling them " HW Vir 3 " and " HW Vir 4 ", i. e. the latter is the 4th object – stellar or planetary – discovered in the system.
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They were nonviolent pacifists who refused to serve in the military and tried to live by George Rapp's philosophy and literal interpretations of the New Testament.
They were tried in an oyer and terminer court without the benefit of a jury, and four were convicted.
They also claim to have tried filming the being, but said their motion picture film was ruined by the heat and humidity.
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They made us want to make our music more interesting and more complex and we tried to blend that with our own personalities to see what we could come up with that was indisputably us.
They slew 7, 000 Irish but, as the knights tried to move the rocks with ropes and force, they failed.
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They were actively supported by the missionaries who tried to destroy all signs of indigenous beliefs, notably by razing the ' mahoka ' huts where the local population worshiped their ancestors ' spirits and by ridiculing their rites, dances and other ceremonies.
They demanded that he be tried by the ' Congress of Greeks ', rather than in Athens, although it seems that in the end he was actually summoned to Athens to stand trial.
They also maintained the traditional ( i. e. nominal ) claims to the Kingdom of France, but none of them tried to make substance of it, though Henry VIII fought wars with France to try to reclaim that title.
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