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The Guard of the Rock are the state border patrol, with responsibility for patrolling borders and defending them.
About this time he took up his residence in Vienna, being engaged mainly in the government of the Austrian dominions and in defending them against the Turks.
The male incubates the eggs for 50 – 52 days, removing or adding litter to regulate the temperature, then protects the brown-striped chicks, who stay in the nest for about nine months, defending them fiercely against all potential predators, including humans.
Males with semiaquatic territories have the most success in defending them.
Dave dies defending them from Ardelia.
Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them.
It was probably in Paris that Giovanni began his 900 Theses and conceived the idea of defending them in public debate.
Throughout the Middle Ages, the city was one of the staunchest supporters of the Counts of Flanders, defending them against insurrections from the South, and even from Ghent.
The Imperial Guard are constantly at war, freeing worlds from Chaotic or alien influence, or defending them from the same.
Gameplay focuses on raising alien creatures known as Norns, teaching them to survive, helping them explore their world, defending them against other species, and breeding them.
However, the male Willow Ptarmigan often takes responsibility of the young also, in particular in defending them against predators.
In their defense, Mrs. Loving had pointed to a marriage certificate on the wall in their bedroom ; rather than defending them, it became the evidence the police needed for a criminal charge, because it proved they had been married in another state.
Its well-known features include its hanging paper nests and the females ' habit of defending them with repeated stings.
# The U. S. government should identify and evaluate the transportation assets that need to be protected, set risk-based priorities for defending them, select the most practical and cost-effective ways of doing so, and then develop a plan, budget, and funding to implement the effort.
Typically, such birds help feed their parents ’ new nestlings and participate in defending them from nest predators.
But no matter how obvious it is that the child is guilty, Trudy always finds in favor of them ( even defending them by making up reasons as to why the child did the incident ) and delivers ridiculous sentences to the adults ( some of them occurring if the defendant doesn't have the fine money ) such as trapping a defendant in a rocket and sending him to Venus, having the defendant being chased by an unpredictable man in a gorilla suit, having the defendant be thrown into a leopard cage, having the defendants participate in a cage match with two professional wrestlers, crushing the defendant with a boulder, unleashing two hungry leprechauns to chew on the defendants, placing a nest of deranged woodpeckers on the defendant's head, having a defendant handcuffed to a sweaty opera singer, having the defendant trapped in a box with two contagious sick people, placing a defendant in a bathtub filled of cream and mushroom soup, having an old person doing a piggyback ride on the defendant, having the defendants play Dodgeball with three Marines, having the defendant being sold to the highest bidder in the courtroom, giving the defendant a little shot itself, opening a trap door beneath the defendants, confiscating the defendant's clothes, having the Bailiff spinnthe defendant until the defendant is uncomfortable, and putting an angry chipmunk in the defendant's pants.
Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were condemned to death in a Stalinist-style trial, wherein even their forcefully assigned lawyers began accusing them of having committed capital crimes, instead of defending them.
Ironsi then instituted military rule, by subverting the constitutional succession and alleging that the democratic institutions had failed and that, while he was defending them, they clearly needed revision and clean-up before reversion back to democratic rule.
If Batoum, Ardahan, Kars, or any of them shall be retained by Russia, and if any attempt shall be made at any future time by Russia to take possession of any further territories of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Asia, as fixed by the Definitive Treaty of Peace, England engages to join His Imperial Majesty the Sultan in defending them by force of arms.
Wambaugh refused to hear any confessions of guilt from his clients as he feared that it would only stand in the way of adequately defending them in court and Bone's rulings seemed to be directed more by his own moral compass than by point of law.
Dan described the announcement as " preparing to inform on their brother soldiers-who are defending them too.
However, it was not essential, as the Soviets already seized a series of convenient bridgeheads to the south of Warsaw, and were concentrating on defending them against vigorous German counterattacks.
In April 1992 Vinogradov declared his support for Moscow ′ s Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the city government, defending them from accusations of corruption.
These " rectifications " were supposed to be applied beginning in 1991 but, following a period of agitation and the publication of many books such as the Union of copy editors ' attacking new rules one by one, André Goosse's defending them, or Josette Rey-Debove's accepting a few ( that have been added, as alternative spellings, to Le Robert ), they appeared to have become dead proposals.
The following month, Incite responded in their Letters To The Editor section, spouting off in their subwords " Get it, GamePROSE ," and many supposed fans of their magazine defending them against the spoof ad.

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