They were meant to keep in check the Basques and defend the mouth of the Garonne from the Vikings when the latter appeared c. 844 in the region of Bordeaux.

They have fewer teeth and shorter skulls, with much more specialized carnassials meant for shearing meat.

They received the answer that by the " third fruit " the " third generation " was meant, and that the " narrow passage " was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Rhium.

They distrusted standing armies and banks, and the dismantling of the federalist taxation system meant they could not finance the quick hiring of mercenaries.

They explained that this blindness meant that Poland was blind back then, but from now was going to be illuminated by Mieszko and elevated over the neighboring nations.

He warded off the evil hour that seemed approaching, he infused vigour into our arms, he taught the nation to speak again as England used to speak to foreign powers ... Pitt, on entering upon administration, had found the nation at the lowest ebb in point of power and reputation ... France, who meant to be feared, was feared heartily ... They were willing to trust that France would be so good as to ruin us by inches.

They also practiced a form of excommunication from the assembly of worshipers, which in ancient Gaul meant a separation from secular society as well.

They might have been something between a " status symbol " and a " passive defence " building, meant to be a deterrent for possible enemies.

They are also meant not to notice this ; for thereupon they would have to be at a loss and therefore useless.

They demanded Dillinger tell them what the document meant, but he refused.

They were mainly meant for townsmen, who were generally not wealthy enough to afford an original painting.

They were meant to work by distributing the wearer's weight over the shoes ' wide bottom surface.

They thought that this meant that the languages were unorganized and lacked strict rules for pronunciation, and they took it as evidence that the languages were more primitive than their own.

They were magical figures and columns erected in public places, meant to protect the cities from afflictions.

They also pointed out that the rise of this industry meant that artistic excellence was displaced by sales figures as a measure of worth: a novel, for example, was judged meritorious solely on whether it was a best-seller, music succumbed to ratings charts and the blunt commercial logic of the Gold disc.

They received the answer that by the " third fruit " the " third generation " was meant, and that the " narrow passage " was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Rhium.

They drew 1 – 1 at the Philips Stadion, which meant that Valencia advanced to the quarter-final 3 – 5 on aggregate.

They are highly-trained units of the Indian Army, meant to operate behind enemy lines.

They received the answer that by the " third fruit " the " third generation " was meant, and that the " narrow passage " was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Patras.

They received the answer that by the " third fruit " the " third generation " was meant, and that the " narrow passage " was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Rhium.

They received the answer that by the " third fruit " the " third generation " was meant, and that the " narrow passage " was not the isthmus of Corinth, but the straits of Rhium.

They also meant that the engine was very much " sealed for life "-for example, replacing the big-end bearings required specialised equipment to dismantle and reassemble the built-up crankshaft, and as this was often not available the entire crankshaft had to be replaced.

They headed for higher ground which meant St. Claude Avenue ( closer to the Mississippi River ) in Arabi and the Kaiser Aluminum plant in Chalmette.

They were the first to achieve reputations for very close compatibility with the IBM machines, which meant that they could run software written for the IBM machine without recompilation.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

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

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

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

They could no longer afford the luxury of the canvas sweat bag that cooled it by evaporation.

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

They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.

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 recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

They were repelled by his noisy newspapers, his personal publicity, his presumptuous campaign for the Presidential nomination, and by the swelling cloud of rumor about his moral lapses.

They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.

They both measure literature by moral standards, and in their political writings both allow for censorship, but the differences between them are also significant.

They even accept the `` double standard '' of sex morality in a double sense, i.e., both sexes agree that standards for men differ from standards for women, and women apply to both sexes a standard different from that held by men.

They had risen from humble beginnings by their own diligence and astuteness, they were unfettered by the codes that bound nobles like Othon or even the older generation of clerks like Hotham, and they were working for an end that their opponents had never even visualized.

They, however much they were in disagreement with the late Victorians over the method by which Britain was Germanized, agreed with them that the end result was the complete extinction of the previous Celtic population and civilization.

They react in obedience to an instinct or urge which has itself been impelled by natural law.