Many of Marquetalia's residents fled to the jungles, to take up arms and plan revenge.

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Ms Schiff depicts Franklin as being hounded by young Frenchmen eager to take up arms.

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The pacifist stance is only viable when one lives in a society with others who are willing to take up arms in self-defense.

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So it could all be kicked off if Sadr fighters decide to really take up arms and start battling in the way that they used to.

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If it does not, and if the grand tour leader cannot lay the blame on Mr Fox, he faces an uncomfortable choice: back down and negotiate a new agreement, return to the jungle and take up arms once more, or disappear into the obscurity from which he came.

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Dominant people tend to take up more space in the room, by splaying out their legs and feet, slouching in a chair to occupy more space in the room, and by using their arms and hands to take up more space horizontally.

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In his will written in 1934, Philip Canning Howard said his heirs had to change their surname to Howard and take up the family coat of arms within a 12-month deadline, London's High Court heard.

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Moshe Ya'alon, the deputy prime minister, warned that many of the freed men will take up arms again, despite the Israeli security services' best efforts to keep tabs on them.

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"I just want to get the most out of these arms, and just as goals come up, knock them down and take it absolutely as far as I can, " Mr Marrocco said on Tuesday.

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