Urged on by robotic jockeys, camels charge down a racetrack in the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: URGED ON by robotic ro·bot·ic adj. Relating to, characteristic of, or employing robots. jockeys, camels charge down a racetrack in the Middle Eastern nation of Qatar. The robots are remotely controlled by camel, trainers. Previously, boys as young as 4 rode in camel races. Many of them had been sold into slavery by their families or kidnapped Kidnapped caught in the intrigues of Scottish factions, David Balfour and Alan Breck are shipwrecked, escape from the king’s soldiers, and undergo great dangers. [Br. Lit.: R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped] See : Adventurousness ; owners starved starve v. starved, starv·ing, starves v.intr. 1. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food. 2. Informal To be hungry. 3. To suffer from deprivation. the boys to keep their weight down. The robots were developed in 2004, in response to a ban on camel, riders under 16. |
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