Attacking Sentence Examples

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  • They've been attacking schools all over the world.

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  • The Indians were attacking them.

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  • Besides he began by attacking Germans.

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  • I told her Owen Bryce was killed while attacking someone he thought was connected to the tipster.

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  • Obviously something was attacking the goats.

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  • To the last he believed that the attacking force would at least have spared his house, which contained official records of priceless value, but he was doomed to see his faith falsified.

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  • No sustained effort was made to ward off the inroads of the Danes and others, who were constantly attacking the borders of the Empire.

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  • But at that moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse.

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  • There's a lot of stealth involved, but there's also all-out attacking you can do.

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  • They were able to track the demons attacking schools.

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  • As Victor moved toward her, she caught sight of Cassandra attacking Jackson, ripping into his neck with her fangs while he screamed, "Get off me, you bitch!"

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  • We already hear of them as attacking Babylonia in the 9th year of Samsu-iluna the son of Khammurabi, and about 1780 B.C. they overran Babylonia and founded a dynasty there which lasted for 576 years and nine months.

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  • Doctrines directly attacking Christianity Cromwell regarded, indeed, as outside toleration and to be punished by the civil power, but at the same time he mitigated the severity of the penalty ordained by the law.

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  • Their services to their owners and to Arctic explorers are well known, but Eskimo dogs are so rapacious that it is impossible to train them to refrain from attacking sheep, goats or any small domesticated animals.

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  • It is explained by Cicero as being due to his theory that the scepticism of Carneades was merely a means of attacking the Stoics on their own ground.

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  • The vamp wasn't attacking.

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  • He went to the sink and began attacking the pile of dirty dishes as he pondered how they would tell the young girl her world was about to flip upside down.

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  • When I came back, the demons were attacking.

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  • What's this about Rob attacking you?

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  • On the 3rd of July he defeated the Austrians at Monte Saello, on the 7th at Lodzone, on the 10th at Darso, on the 16th at Condino, on the 19th at Ampola, on the 21st at Bezzecca, but, when on the point of attacking Trent, he was ordered by General Lamarmora to retire.

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  • In this matter the opposition were in the wrong, and by attacking the parliament discredited themselves.

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  • Among them secular studies had been neglected, and Mendelssohn saw that he could best remedy the defect by attacking it on the religious side.

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  • A second expedition of Lothair expelled Roger of Sicily (to whom Anacletus had given the title of king in return for his support) from southern Italy, but a quarrel with Innocent prevented the emperor attacking Rome.

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  • Discords must not be taken unprepared, because a singer can only find his note by a mental judgment, and in attacking a discord he has to find a note of which the harmonic meaning is at variance with that of other notes sung at the same time.

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  • They appear to be present in large numbers in the soil, and to infect the Leguminous plant by attacking its root-hairs.

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  • In 1826 the idea occurred to him of attacking this problem by means of pendulum experiments at the top and bottom of a deep mine.

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  • In 1875 Bismarck was suspected of a design of again attacking France, and Gorchakov gave him to understand, in a way which was not meant to be offensive, but which roused the German chancellor's indignation, that Russia would oppose any such scheme.

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  • Certain traditions, it is true, indicate that Israel had been at war with the Aramaeans from before 854 to 842, and that Hazael was attacking Gilead at the time when Jehu revolted; but in the midst of these are other traditions of the close and friendly relations between Israel and Damascus !

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  • The workers of these ants range over the country in large armies, killing and carrying off all the insects and spiders that they find and sometimes attacking 'vertebrates.

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  • He had read a pamphlet published in America attacking the proposed order, which was to form a bond of association between the officers who had fought in the American War of Independence against England; the arguments struck him as true and valuable, so he re-arranged them in his own fashion, and rewrote them in his own oratorical style.

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  • They are famous, too, as hunters of big game, attacking even elephants with sword and spear.

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  • Since, however, his power was not well enough grounded to allow of his attacking Syria, Antiochus considered that he might leave Achaeus for the present and renew his attempt on Palestine.

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  • The odontophore also is remarkably developed, its lateral teeth being mobile, and it serves as an efficient organ for attacking the other pelagic forms on which the Heteropoda prey.

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  • He arrived at the republican headquarters, then at 0111oules on the north-west of Toulon, on the 16th of September; and it is noteworthy that as early as September 10th the commissioners had seen the need of attacking the allied fleet and had paid some attention to the headland behind l'Eguillette, which commanded both the outer and the inner harbour.

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  • He published several pieces bearing on medicine, astrology and alchemy, and attacking the system of Paracelsus.

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  • Here he collected another army of 20,000 men, with which he so strongly entrenched himself on the Scanian coast in 1716 that his combined enemies shrank from attacking him, whereupon he assumed the offensive by attacking Norway in 1717, and again in 1718, in order to conquer sufficient territory to enable him to extort better terms from his enemies.

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  • The crusaders of northern Germany never went to the Holy Land at all; they were allowed the crusaders' privileges for attacking the Wends to the east of the Elbe - a fact which at once attests the cleavage between northern and southern Germany (intensified of late years by the war of investitures), and anticipates the age of the Teutonic knights and their long Crusade on the Baltic. The crusaders of the Low Countries and of England took the sea route, and attacked and captured Lisbon on their way, thus helping to found the kingdom of Portugal, and achieving the one real success which was gained by the Second Crusade.

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  • In 1527 he joined in the movement for the expulsion of the family and was instrumental in defeating the Medicean troops under Cardinal Passerini, who were attacking the Palazzo della Signoria.

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  • After capturing Angora from a horde of Turkomans encamped there who were attacking his dominions, at first with some success, Mur ad 1, in 1361 Murad prepared for a campaign in Europe.

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  • On the 22nd of June the Russian army, under Prince Gorchakov, crossed the Pruth, not - as was explained in a circular to the powers - for the purpose of attacking Turkey, but solely to obtain the material guarantees for the enjoyment of the privileges conferred upon her by the existing treaties.

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  • Lord Aberdeen still hoped to secure peace, and the Russian government was informed that no casus belli would arise so long as Russia abstained from passing the Danube or attacking a Black Sea port.

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  • But the Austrians had no intention of attacking him, for time was now working on their side and, leaving his men to starve in the exhausted district, the emperor again returned to Dresden, where for the rest of the month he remained in an extraordinary state of vacillation.

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  • It is probable that some are carnivorous, either attacking other larvae or subsisting on more minute forms of animal life; but others perhaps feed more exclusively on vegetable matters of a low type, such as diatoms.

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  • But these were soon changed, and he now took the important resolution of striking a blow for Spain, and for the defenders of Madrid, by attacking Napoleon's communications with France.

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  • To this element prob ably belongs the story of the schoolmaster who, when Camillus was attacking Falerii, attempted to betray the town by bringing into his camp the sons of some of the principal inhabitants of the place.

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  • The scorpion, attacking the genitals of the bull, is sent by Ahriman from the lower world to defeat the purpose of the sacrifice; the dog, springing towards the wound in the bull's side, was venerated by the Persians as the companion of Mithras; the serpent is the symbol of the earth being made fertile by drinking the blood of the sacrificial bull; the raven, towards which Mithras turns his face as if for direction, is the herald of the Sun-god, whose bust is near by, and who has ordered the sacrifice; various plants near the bull, and heads of wheat springing from his tail, symbolize the result of the sacrifice; the cypress is perhaps the tree of immortality.

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  • Next year he joined Henry in attacking their common enemy, Geoffrey Martel, count of Anjou.

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  • The townspeople, encouraged and reinforced by this aid from without, at once rose in revolt, and, attacking the Spanish troops, disarmed them and drove them to take refuge in the citadel (28th July).

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  • This is especially clear from clause xvi., which decrees that the title and estates of the lords-lieutenant of counties should not be hereditary, thus attacking feudalism at its very roots, while clause xiv.

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  • On the one hand, the true method of arriving at a knowledge of the genealogical tree was recognized as lying chiefly in attacking the problem of the genealogical relationships of the smallest twigs of the tree, and proceeding from them to the larger branches.

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  • Subsequently he ruled gratings on a layer of gold-leaf attached to glass, or on a layer of grease similarly supported, and again by attacking the glass itself with a diamond point.

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  • He encountered resistance at Belmont on the 23rd, but attacking resolutely he drove the Boers out of their strong positions.

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  • In 310 Agathocles, defeated and besieged in Syracuse, took the desperate resolve of breaking through the blockade and attacking the enemy in Africa.

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  • He followed up this measure by dissolving parliament and attacking the universities.

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  • The living organism may be regarded as constantly engaged in a warfare with these silent and apparently insignificant messengers of destruction and death, with the result that too often the battle ends in favour of the attacking enemy.

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  • There they show marked phagocytosis, attacking and taking up into their interior and destroying the micro-organisms in large numbers.

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  • But he was inordinately vain, and totally unscrupulous in gaining money, in attacking an enemy, or in protecting himself when he was threatened with danger.

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  • His peculiar fashion of attacking the popular beliefs of his time has also failed to secure the approval of some who had very little sympathy with those beliefs.

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  • Moreover, promising as the situation may have appeared to be from the attacking side in so far as neutralization of the Ottoman batteries was concerned, it was plain that the mine-sweepers were making disappointing progress.

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  • A tactical operation of that character demanded most careful prior organization, and it called for a distribution of the attacking force amongst the available shipping based on purely tactical considerations.

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  • Still, if the attacking side enjoyed an advantage in this respect, the possible landingplaces were few in number and were therefore well indicated, there had been ample time to protect them with earthworks and barbed wire, and in any disembarkation in face of resistance the tactical conditions favour the defence.

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  • Numerically, the contending armies would at this very critical juncture of the campaign be almost equal, the invaders rather the stronger; but the Turks were much dispersed, so that the result almost hinged upon the speed with which the attacking side should gain ground before the defenders had time to concentrate.

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  • A rearrangement of the attacking forces was carried otit during the following night, and the attempt to gain the highest ground was resumed at dawn on the 8th from the positions that had been acquired 24 hours earlier.

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  • As Turkish detachments watching this strip of coastline were known to number only about 2,000 men - the Ottoman authorities never contemplating a hostile landing in force in the locality - the design was to put most of the attacking troops ashore during the night of the 6th-7th as a surprise, and that they should then push on at once and master a range of hills 4 or 5 m.

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  • But the urgent need of pressing forward at once was not realized by the attacking side, and the opposition offered by the parties of Osmanlis close to the bay was taken too seriously after daylight.

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  • When Liman von Sanders (who had fixed his headquarters near Gallipoli) learned during the night of the 6th-7th that the Allies were landing in strong force about Suvla, and were also attacking Sari Bair from Anzac, and after he had satisfied himself that certain threats on the part of his opponents at other points might be regarded as mere feints, he ordered the two Turkish divisions under his immediate orders to proceed towards Suvla with all speed.

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  • Consequently there was still on the 8th a great opening left for the attacking side to complete the first part of its programme, i.e.

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  • The defending side, in fact, came to be in a much more favourable position than was the attacking side in respect to diminishing the strain that is always experienced by fighting personnel when in close contact with an enemy even during periods of virtual inactivity.

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  • The mycelium spreads through the green parts of the plant, attacking the leaves, twigs and unripe grapes.

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  • Mycelium of the fungus attacking root of vine (reduced).

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  • After the death of the king his opposition became more marked; he denounced the September massacres, but when called upon to justify his attitude confined himself to attacking Marat, who was at the time all-powerful.

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  • Linguet, however, continued his career of free lance, now attacking and now supporting the government, in the Annales politiques, civiles et litteraires, published from 1777 to 1792, first at London, then at Brussels and finally at Paris.

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  • His activity and fearlessness in attacking those in power during this eventful year were remarkable, and an ironical petition was circulated in Westminster Hall and the London streets complaining of his indefatigable scribbling.

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  • Mahomet early found an excuse for attacking the Jews, who were naturally in the way of his schemes.

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  • She had lost her dominion over the sea, and the Tuscan Guelphs again joined in attacking her by land.

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  • By this means they were enabled to capture the island of Giglio, and, attacking the Pisan harbour, carried off its chains, bore them in triumph to Florence, and suspended them in front of the baptistery, where they remained until 1848.

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  • Between 1499 and 1505 they heroically withstood three sieges and repulsed three attacking armies.

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  • The rearmost troops of the Russian 2nd column, not yet committed to the fight on the Goldbach, made a bold counter stroke against St Hilaire's right flank, but were repulsed, and Soult now turned to relieve the pressure on Davout by attacking Sokolnitz.

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  • Meanwhile the Magyars had renewed their ravages and were attacking Augsburg.

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  • Also the notion that snakes when attacking are able to jump off the ground is quite erroneous; when they strike an object, they dart the fore part of their body, which was retracted in several bends, forwards in a straight line.

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  • On the first occasion which offered itself, that of Pulteney's rupture with Walpole in 1726, he endeavoured to organize an opposition in conjunction with the former and Windham; and in 1727 began his celebrated series of letters to the Craftsman, attacking the Walpoles, signed an "Occasional Writer."

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  • A very powerful method of attacking problems in electrical distribution was first made known by Lord Kelvin in 1845 and is described as the method of electrical images.'

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  • But on the other side the disorder became greater and greater, many regiments were used up, and Johnston himself killed in vainly attacking on a point of Wallace's line called the Hornet's Nest.

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  • It is based upon the facts that concentrated hot sulphuric acid converts silver and copper into soluble sulphates without attacking the gold, the silver sulphate being subsequently reduced to the metallic state by copper plates with the formation of copper sulphate.

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  • The town is celebrated in Mexican history for the intrepid defence of the place by Jose Maria Morelos (1765-1815), the patriot leader, against a greatly superior royalist force, from the 19th of February to the 2nd of May 1812, when he cut his way through the attacking army and escaped.

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  • Corps, attacking with the 37th Div.

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  • Corps, attacking with the 6th and 1st Div.

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  • The captures of the corps came to over 4,000 prisoners and 87 guns; the attacking strength of the Australians was less than 6,000 and the casualties were just over r,000 in all.

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  • It was hoped that the assembly of the attacking troops in the restricted zone opposite the crossing point, the rapid bridging of the dry canal, and the pushing forward of guns to cover the farther advance, and of reinforcements, ammunition and supplies to support it, could all be carried out with the necessary speed and security, although the difficulties to be faced were very great and the possible causes of contretemps numerous.

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  • Corps, attacking with the 62nd and 2nd Div.

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  • Several families of bugs are predaceous in habit, attacking other insects - often members of their own order - and sucking their juices.

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  • The Mahommedans had all this time refrained from attacking the capital as had been expected.

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  • Such raids had been rather frequent, the invaders attacking the natives who live under British protection, burning their huts, murdering the men, carrying off the women and children as slaves, and returning to their own haunts laden with booty.

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  • There are towers about every 80 ft.; and the' gates are so arranged that the passage inwards usually runs from right to left, and so an attacking force would have to expose its right or shieldless side.

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  • Twelve years later he was, like Marsiglio, attacking the very foundations of the papacy itself, as lacking all scriptural sanction.

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  • At the same time that the Neo-Platonists, like Ficino and Pico de la Mirandola, and the pantheists, whose God was little more than a reverential conception of the universe at large, and the purely worldly humanists, like Celtes and Bebel, were widely diverging each by his own particular path from the ecclesiastical Weltanschauung of the middle ages, Ulrich von Hutten was busy attacking the Curia in his witty Dialogues, in the name of German patriotism.

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  • These measures, and the excitement which followed the arrival of the radicals from Zwickau, led Luther to return to Wittenberg in March 1522, where he preached a series of sermons attacking the impatience of the radical party, and setting forth clearly his own views of what the progress of the Reformation should be.

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  • A council held at Sens, 1528-29, approved all those doctrines of the old Church which the Protestants were attacking, and satisfied itself with enumerating a list of necessary conservative reforms.

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  • It is free to every one to form his own conclusions in religious matters; and so we do no more than set forth the meaning of divine things as they appear to our minds without, however, attacking or insulting those who differ from us.

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  • They spent their energy in attacking Plato and Aristotle, and hence earned the opprobrious epithet of Eristic. They used their dialectic subtlety to disprove the possibility of motion and decay; unity is the negation of change, increase and decrease, birth and death.

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  • But it was left alone to protect its own frontier against the French, and while the assembly was wrangling with Governor Clinton for the control of expenditures the French and their Indians were burning farm houses, attacking Saratoga (November r6, 1745), and greatly endangering the English-Iroquois alliance.

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  • The emigrants soon came into collision with Mosilikatze, raiding parties of Zulus attacking Boer hunters who had crossed the Vaal without seeking permission from that chieftain.

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  • To this Brand rejoined that, as far as the offensive was concerned, he did not desire to be a party to attacking any one, and as for the defensive, where was the pressing danger of the enemy which Kruger feared ?

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  • Kuropatkin, thus required to abandon his own Kum- plan, had only to choose between attacking the ist patkin.

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  • On the 14th ands 5th, attacking sharply on the Russian front and lapping round both its flanks, Oku won an important and handsome victory, at a cost of 1200 men out of 35,000 engaged, while the Russians, with a loss of at least 3600 out of about 25,000 engaged, retired in disorder.

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  • It was repulsed with a loss of nearly r000 men in the action at the Motienling (17th July), but it was at least ascertained that considerable forces were still on the Japanese right, and upon the arrival of a fresh army corps from Europe Kuropatkin announced his intention of attacking Kuroki.

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  • In his twenty-sixth year, believing himself to be a divinely-commissioned prophet, he began to preach in his native parish and afterwards throughout Norway, calling people to repentance and attacking rationalism.

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  • It is in answer to A Defence of the Government established in the Church of Englande, by Dr. John Bridges, dean of Salisbury, itself a reply to earlier puritan works, and besides attacking the episcopal office in general assails certain prelates with much personal abuse.

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  • Marat began by attacking the most powerful bodies in Paris - the Constituent Assembly, the ministers, the corps municipal, and the court of the Chatelet.

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  • The spores formed on the delicate grey mould are carried during the summer from one plant to another, thus spreading the disease, and also germinate in the soil where the fungus may remain passive during the winter producing a new crop of spores next spring, or sometimes attacking the scales of the bulbs forming small black hard bodies embedded in the flesh.

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  • Stories were told of its attacking the bison, and it has been reported to carry off the carcase of a wapiti, weighing nearly 1000 lb, for a considerable distance to its den, there to devour it at leisure.

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  • It possesses all the active, courageous and bloodthirsty disposition of the rest of the genus, but its diminutive size prevents it attacking and destroying any but the smaller mammals and birds.

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  • In January 1644 he commanded the forces attacking Nottingham, and soon afterwards, on Prince Rupert's recommendation, he was made lieutenant-general of Newcastle's Northern army.

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  • Again, however, he made the mistake of attacking a fortress, which delayed his advance for a month, and gave John Casimir time to collect an army for the relief of the besieged.

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  • In the centre, the valleys of the Ohio, the Cumberland and the Tennessee were the battle-ground of large armies attacking and defending the south and south-eastern states of the Confederacy, while on and beyond the great waterway of the Mississippi was carried on the struggle for those interests, vital to either party, which depended on the mighty river and its affluents.

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  • Corps to a strength of 120,000 men, crossed the Rapidan on the 4th of May with the intention of attacking Lee's inner flank, that nearer Richmond.

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  • The attacking infantry, who found it necessary to cross a fire-swept zone l000 yds.

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  • The Algerians extricated the government from its difficulty by attacking the French troops, who were obliged to defend themselves.

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  • During the Crimean War he revived his "secret war plan" for the total destruction of an enemy's fleet, and offered to conduct in person an attack on Sevastopol and destroy it in a few hours without loss to the attacking force.

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  • Although feeding chiefly on roots, fruits and grain, it is also to some extent carnivorous, attacking and eating small quadrupeds, lizards and birds.

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  • The reason for this punishment is not mentioned in Homer, and is obscure; according to some, he had revealed the designs of the gods to mortals, according to others, he was in the habit of attacking and murdering travellers.

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  • Of more historical interest are the two books Contra Symmachum, of 658 and 1131 hexameter verses respectively, the first attacking the pagan gods, the second directed against the petition of Symmachus to the emperor for the restoration of the altar and statue of Victory which Gratian had cast down.

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  • Their numbers were several times seriously reduced by the matlazhuatl, apparently analogous to yellow fever, but not attacking the whites, and unknown before the conquest.

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  • In 1096 Bohemund, along with his uncle the great count of Sicily, was attacking Amalfi, which had revolted against Duke Roger, when bands of crusaders began to pass, on their way through Italy to Constantinople.

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  • Their larvae resemble those of the lacewings, attacking scale-insects and sucking their juices.

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  • Elijah Clarke marched against the town in three divisions, and while one division, attacking a neighbouring Indian camp, drew off most of the garrison, the other two divisions entered the town; but British reinforcements arrived before Brown could be dislodged from a building in which he had taken refuge, and Clarke was forced to withdraw.

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  • In view of the weakness of the king's government, to reduce the army would be to expose the excitable elements of the population to the temptation of attacking it.

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  • Fly-sheets were issued attacking him and other eminent ministers.

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  • He aimed at honour in upholding the pope, in driving the Austrian tyrant from Italy, in attacking Prussia.

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  • It should be noted that, within a limited range of application to terrestrial mechanics, the most convenient way of attacking the question of the relations of forces to the physical statics.

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  • Although two periscopes are provided when attacking, one only would be shown for short periods to get check observation so as to prevent the wash of the upper tube revealing the proximity of the submarine.

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  • On the 9th of June 1798 the Irish insurgents, attacking the town, were defeated by the royal troops near Arklow Bridge, and their leader, Father Michael Murphy, was killed.

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  • These leaders skilfully seized upon every breach of tradition to inflame popular passion, attacking especially the medical work as a pretext for mutilation, the schools as hotbeds of vice, and the orphanages as furnishing material for witchcraft.

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  • It any state most plants feed greedily upon it, and when pure or free from decaying wood or sticks it is a very safe ingredient in composts; but it is so liable to generate fungus, and the mycelium or spawn of certain fungi is so injurious to the roots of trees, attacking them if at all sickly or weakened by drought, that many cultivators prefer not' to mix leaf-mould with the soil used for permanent plants, as peaches or choice ornamental trees.

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  • Pythium is a semiaquatic form attacking seedlings which are too plentifully supplied with water; its hyphae penetrate the cell-walls and rapidly destroy the watery tissues of the living plant; then the fungus lives in the dead remains.

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  • Baeyer's laboratory at Berlin, attacking among other problems that of the composition of camphor.

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  • He elected to sit for Marseilles, and lost no opportunity of attacking the Empire in the Assembly.

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  • He retired from parliament in May 1797, and departed from his customary moderation by attacking the government in an inflammatory "Letter to the citizens of Dublin."

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  • Spartacus led them against Rome, but their hearts seem to have failed them; and instead of attacking the capital, he passed on again to Lucania.

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  • It shows itself as a boil, attacking the face and extremities.

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  • He had also earned renown by carrying on feuds with the citizens of Worms and of Metz, and now, with a view to realizing his larger ambitions, he opened the campaign (August 1522) by attacking the elector of Trier, who, as a spiritual prince, would not, it was hoped, receive any help from the religious reformers.

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  • Instead of attacking the enemy with his accustomed vigour, he withdrew into Bohemia and was engaged in lengthy negotiations with the Saxon soldier and diplomatist, Hans Georg von Arnim (1581-1641); his object being doubtless to come to terms with Saxony and Brandenburg either with or without the emperors consent.

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  • The Prussian diet of 1862 was no whit more tractable than its predecessor, but fell to attacking the prof essional army and advocating the extension of the militia (Landwchr) system; on the 11th of March the king dissolved it in disgust, whereupon the Liberal ministry resigned, and was succeeded by the Conservative cabinet of Prince Hohenlohe.

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  • Bismarck, now that the choice was forced upon him, determined in favor of Austria, and during a visit to Vienna in October, arranged with Count Andrssy an alliance by which in the event of either being attacked by Russia the other was to assist; if either was attacked by any power other than Russia, the other was to preserve benevolent neutrality unless the attacking power was helped by Russia.

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  • This was a prosecution of nine German subjects for sedition, conspiracy and lse-majest against the Russian emperor, and for the circulation of books and pamphlets attacking him and his government.

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  • The Mahratta chiefs availed themselves of these circumstances to endeavour to possess themselves of the whole country, and Ahmad was compelled more than once to cross the Indus in order to protect his territory from them and the Sikhs, who were constantly attacking his garrisons.

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  • The Athenians retaliated by attacking Methone (which was secured by Brasidas), by successes in the West, by expelling all Aeginetans from Aegina (which was made a cleruchy), and by wasting the Megarid.

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  • These unstable combinations were soon after upset by Alcibiades himself, who, having succeeded in displacing Nicias as strategus in 419, allowed Athenian troops to help in attacking Epidaurus.

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  • The alkaloid curarin causes motor paralysis by attacking in a selective way this junction of motor nerve cell and striped muscular fibre.

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  • In the state campaign of 1859 he made a speech attacking the Fugitive Slave Law and arguing for state's rights and thus injured his political standing in Wisconsin; and in April he delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston, an oration on "True Americanism," which coming from an alien was intended to clear the Republican party of the charge of "nativism."

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  • As long as your Excellency lives you will see that we shall never be the attacking party on another man's land."

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  • Of course there were many false methods of attacking the art-problem, and many other relationships, true and false, between the complexity of the settings of the various parts of the Mass and of motets.

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  • Previous to the emergence of the young queen, the old queen, prevented by the workers from attacking her daughters, has led off a swarm to find a new home elsewhere.

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  • He had reproached him with attacking and overthrowing his predecessors.

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  • Lastly, the philosophers of the second physical succession - Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Leucippus - not directly attacking the great mystery of the One and the Many, but in virtue of a scientific instinct approaching it through the investigation of phenomena, were brought by their study of sensation to perceive and to proclaim the inadequacy of the organs of sense.

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  • Instances of their attacking man are not uncommon, and the story of Romulus and Remus has had its counterpart in India within comparatively recent times.

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  • The available Spanish army consisted of about 600 men, while the attacking force numbered 6830.

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  • The writers of the silver age found fault with his prolixity, want of sparkle and epigram, and monotony of his clausulae.4 A certain Largius Licinius gained notoriety by attacking his Latinity in a work styled Ciceromastix.

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  • In 1262 the Tatar tribute was felt so grievously all over Russia that preparations were made for a general insurrection, and Alexander, who knew that an abortive rebellion would make the yoke heavier, was obliged to go to the Horde in person to prevent the Tatars from again attacking Russia.

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  • Hajjaj was a sincere Moslem; this, however, did not prevent him from attacking Ibn Zobair in the Holy City, nor again from punishing rebels, though they bore the name of holy men.

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  • Constantine advanced with a numerous army, but was afraid of attacking the invaders.

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  • Moslim, came to the rescue by attacking the rear of Ibrahim.

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  • Conrad does not seem to have considered the idea of attacking till later on in the season, and the plan which he put before German headquarters was radically different in idea from that which Krauss favoured.

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  • Conrad's attacking mass consisted of 14 divisions only.

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  • He assumed, moreover, that Conrad had reasonably accurate information about the forthcoming Russian offensive and would not risk attacking at such a distance when the Russian threat was imminent.

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  • He urged that the front of attack should from the outset be divided between Dankl and von .Koevess, and pressed for the adoption of his plan for the concentration of attacking masses in the valleys, especially in the Val Sugana.

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  • By May ig the Austrians were attacking hard all along the line to which the Italians had retired, from Coni Zugna and the Passo di Buole to Pasubio, and the Campomolon line had gone.

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  • The course of the battle, with the necessity of bringing up reserve divisions, led to a reorganization of the attacking forces, von Koevess taking command of the left wing and Dankl of the right.

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  • The columns attacking Passo di Buole suffered heavily from the flanking fire of the 44th Div.

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  • Owing to an error in the transmission of an order the Alpine troops who were holding the positions of Cima Undici and Cima Dodici retired before the Austrians attacked, and uncovered the flank of the division, while on the same day (May 25) the attacking forces succeeded in occupying the important position of Corno di Campo Verde (6,815 ft.).

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  • The attacking divisions were beginning to lose their offensive value, and the reserves were insufficient.

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  • Attacking on May 25, all along the line, the Italians found the invaders in retreat.

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  • In 1 7931 79 6 he strongly criticized the administration for maintaining a neutral position between Great Britain and France, writing for the public press five papers (signed "Helvidius"), attacking the "monarchical prerogative of the executive" as exercised in the proclamation of neutrality in 1793 and denying the president's right to recognize foreign states.

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  • In 1796 he published a long letter to Washington, attacking his military reputation and his presidential policy with inexcusable bitterness.

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  • In the first place it was impossible to support the defence by direct flanking fire against attacking troops; in the second place, there was little depth in the lines traced on the Zagradan-Jeza ridge, which fell rapidly to the head of the Judrio valley and the glens which carry the minor streams between the Judrio and the Natisone.

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  • By the evening the situation was very favourable to the attacking forces.

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  • The attacking columns reached the crest of Monte Tomba, but their bolt was shot; and Monfenera still held firm and raked their left flank.

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  • The attacking troops, both gunners and infantry, found their task unexpectedly lightened by the absence of a heavy return fire upon their batteries, trenches, and zones of concentration.

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  • The news of the outbreak found the legate Suetonius Paulinus engaged in attacking Anglesey.

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  • These acts helped greatly to discredit the Moderate party, of whose spirit they were the outcome; and that party further injured their standing in the country by attacking Leslie, afterwards Sir John Leslie, on frivolous grounds - a phrase he had used about Hume's view of causation - when he applied for the chair of mathematics in Edinburgh.

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  • On the other hand, though a strong opponent of militarism, he publicly stated that foreign nations attacking Germany must not expect the help or the neutrality of the Social Democrats.

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  • Deceived by the forgeries of Otto von Pack, he believed in the existence of a conspiracy to crush the reformers, and was only restrained from attacking his enemies by the influence of John of Saxony and Luther.

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  • Eventually he betook himself to Harold Bluetooth, then king of Denmark, and endeavoured to secure his assistance in gaining the Swedish throne by force of arms. Although he failed in this attempt he was not deterred from attacking Eric, and a battle took place between the two at the Fyrisa (close to Upsala) in which Styrbiorn was defeated and killed.

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  • After a stubborn fight the day ended in victory for the attacking forces; but the losses on both sides were great, and on the following day negotiations for peace were attempted by the representatives of the foreign powers in Lima, the object being to avoid, if possible, any further bloodshed.

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  • A force of io,000 men was now raised by the junta of the revolution, and preparations were rapidly pushed forward for a move to the south with the object of attacking Valparaiso and Santiago.

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  • The wali of Arabia commenced the battle by attacking the left wing of the Afghans with great fury, routing it, and plundering their camp. The prime minister immediately afterwards attacked the enemys right wing, but was routed, and the Afghans, taking advantage of the confusion, captured the Persian guns and turned them on the Persian centre, who fled in confusion without striking a blow.

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  • But before setting out for Afghanistan he took measures to secure the internal quiet of Persia, attacking and seizing in his stronghold the chief of the marauding Bakhtiaris, whom he put to death, retaining many of his men for service as soldiers.

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  • Other trekkers followed in the wake of Retief, and attacking Dingaan avenged the massacre.

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  • It was at this time he began his memorable controversy with Episcopius, who, in attacking the Coronis, railed against the author as having been "a disturber of the public peace in his native country, so that the English magistrates had banished him thence; and now, by his late printed Coronis, he was raising new disturbances in the peaceable Netherlands."

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  • These hostages, when restored in 150, swelled the ranks of the proletariate opposition, whose leaders, to cover their maladministration at home, precipitated a war by attacking Sparta in defiance of Rome.

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  • The Nitro-bacteria are smaller, finer and quite different from the nitroso-bacteria, and are incapable of attacking and utilizing ammonium carbonate.

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  • Collins resembles Blount in "attacking specific Christian positions rather than seeking for a foundation on which to build the edifice of Natural Religion."

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  • The attacking army was formed in an unwieldy mass of ten "battles," each consisting of horse and foot, and the whole formed in three lines each of three "battles," with the tenth "battle" as a reserve in rear.

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  • The campaign was marked by the extraordinary enthusiasm exhibited by the Whigs, and by their skill in attacking Van Buren without binding themselves to any definite policy.

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  • It should attack and subdue the air, and never give the air an opportunity of attacking or subduing it.

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  • After 1864 Hall bore more than his fair share of the odium and condemnation which weighed so heavily upon the national Liberal party, making no attempt to repudiate responsibility and refraining altogether from attacking patently unscrupulous opponents.

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  • They are not preserved to any very considerable height; but the arrangement of the gates is clearly traceable; as a rule they come at the end of a long, straight stretch of wall, and are placed so as to leave the right side of any attacking force exposed.

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  • The defenders of the property (who included a squad of soldiers from the garrison at Pittsburg) killed two and wounded several of the attacking party, but they were finally forced to surrender, and General Neville's mansion and other buildings were burned to the ground.

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  • To the Indians he preached through an interpreter, and their interests he boldly and successfully defended by attacking the whites 1 Edwards recognized the abuse of impulses and impressions, opposed itinerant and lay preachers, and defended a well-ordered and well-educated clergy.

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  • On the Parliamentary right, Goring had swept away the Yorkshire horse, and although most of his troopers had followed in disorderly pursuit, Sir Charles Lucas with some squadrons was attacking the exposed right of Leven's infantry.

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  • Ahaziah son of Jehoram of Judah and Jehoram brother of Ahaziah of Israel had taken joint action against the Aramaeans of Damascus who were attacking Ramoth-Gilead under Hazael.

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  • In 1715 the Earl Marischal proclaimed the Old Pretender at Aberdeen, and in 1745 the duke of Cumberland resided for a short time in the city before attacking the Young Pretender.

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  • This was, however, only a lull in the storm, and the emperor soon began to make preparations for attacking the league of Schmalkalden, and especially John Frederick and Philip of Hesse.

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  • This fort effectively protected the city in 1814 when attacked by the British, and it was during the attack that Francis Scott Key, detained on one of the British attacking vessels, composed the " Star Spangled Banner."

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  • Another expedition against the great oasis failed likewise, and the plan of attacking Carthage was frustrated by the refusal of the Phoenicians to operate against their kindred.

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  • He dreamed, we are told, of attacking Ireland, even of crowning himself king at Paris.

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  • He was undoubtedly gcaded into his last rebellion of 1459 by the queens undisguised preparations for attacking him.

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  • The commanders of the allied armies, however, hesitated to throw themselves against the forts,erected to the north of the town, and decided on the hazardous task of marching round Sevastopol and attacking it from the south.

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  • From that time the two writers could never meet on a common subject without attacking each other.

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  • But, though Semler was really not inconsistent with himself in attacking the views of Reimarus and Bahrdt, his popularity began from that year to decline, and towards the end of his life he felt the necessity of emphasizing the apologetic and conservative value of true historical inquiry.

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  • He was present at Princeton; was chiefly responsible for the mistake in attacking the "Chew House" at Germantown; urged New York as the objective of the campaign of 1778; served with efficiencylat Monmouth and at Yorktown; and after the surrender of Cornwallis was promoted major-general, and served as a commissioner on the exchange of prisoners.

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  • When Monge announced the intention of attacking Great Britain on behalf of the English republicans, the British government and nation were thoroughly alarmed and roused; and when the news of the execution of Louis XVI.

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  • Here he fell in battle (497), while attacking Ennea Hodoi (afterwards Amphipolis) on the Strymon, which belonged to the Edonians, a Thracian tribe.

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  • It was certainly unfortunate that he began life by attacking his own father.

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  • Aristotle had already been led to attempt a refutation of the Socratic identification of virtue with knowledge; but his attempt had only shown the profound difficulty of attacking the paradox, so long as it was admitted that no one could of deliberate purpose act contrary to what seemed to him best.

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  • In his Inquiry concerning Virtue and Merit he begins by attacking the egoism of Hobbes, which, as we have seen, was not necessarily excluded by the doctrine of rational intuitions of duty.

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  • When this was reported to the Turks, they at once decided to prevent the formation of such a league by attacking its prospective members one by one.

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  • As the incandescent bodies of the universe are visible by their own light, the problem of ascertaining their existence and position is mainly one of seeing, and our facilities for attacking it have constantly increased with the improvement of our optical appliances.

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  • Another kind of warfare was about to absorb their whole attention; the barbarians were attacking the frontiers of the Empire on every side, and their advent once again modified Gallo-Roman civilization.

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  • To check the Bretons and the Normans, who were attacking from the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Charles the Bald found himself obliged to entrust the defence of the country to Robert the Strong, ancestor of the house of Capet and duke of the lands between Loire and Seine.

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  • The convention adjourned to Baltimore, where the Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland delegations left it, and where Douglas was nominated for the presidency by the Northern Democrats; he campaigned vigorously but hopelessly, boldly attacking disunion, and in the election, though he received a popular vote of 1,376,957, he received an electoral vote of only 12 - Lincoln receiving 180.

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  • The ignorant polytheism of the time could not tolerate such explanation, and the enemies of Pericles used the superstitions of their countrymen as a means of attacking him in the person of his friend.

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  • Time was not on his side at his age, and if he had to be beaten at one election he was anxious to get rid of the other issues which would encumber the popular vote, and to press on to a second when he would be on the attacking side.

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  • During the summer of 1378 he was employed partly in attacking the enemy in Cyprus, but mainly in taking possession of the Istrian and Dalmatian towns which supported the Hungarians from fear of the aggressive ambition of Venice.

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  • He soon became prominent; first by his contributions to its organ the Messenger; then by The Anxious Bench - A Tract for the Times (1843), attacking the vicious excesses of revivalistic methods; and by his defence of the inauguration address, The Principle of Protestantism, delivered by his colleague Philip Schaff, which aroused a storm of protest by its suggestion that Pauline Protestantism was not the last word in the development of the church but that a Johannean Christianity was to be its outgrowth, and by its recognition of Petrine Romanism as a stage in ecclesiastical development.

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  • But neither Necker nor his wife cared to remain out of office, and in 1787 Necker was banished by "lettre de cachet" 40 leagues from Paris for attacking Calonne.

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  • Bourbon then became a violent reactionary, attacking the former members of the Mountain and supporting rigorous measures against the rioters of the 12th Germinal and the 1st Prairial of the year III.

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  • Closely related to the typical aphides is Phylloxera vastatrix, the insect which causes enormous loss by attacking the leaves and roots of vines.

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  • There is still a wide field open for the application of proper processes for the removal of impurities and colouring matters without running the risk of attacking the oil or fat itself.

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  • Even if a mixture of several oils and fats be present, the iodine value assists greatly in the identification of the components of the mixture, and furnishes the most important key for the attacking and resolving of this not very simple problem.

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  • Why would they risk attacking the freight wagons, anyway?

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  • But once they start attacking …" "We fight, like always.

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  • Not attacking one of their brothers had been Andre's sacred rule.

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  • Of course, attacking an adult Texas long horn was a little different than a herd of hornless goats, but the cow was supposed to be carrying a calf.

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  • They're going to stop attacking Guardians, too, and they're going to focus on Darian.

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  • Within moments, she was dozing, accompanied to sleep by dreams of men attacking her in an arena filled with blood.

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  • We still seemed aimless, but at least the regular threats from Stourport did now prompt some attacking reposts.

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  • As a result of my body attacking itself seven fingers were partially amputated in 2000.

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  • The actions of those attacking Lebanon will seriously backfire.

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  • Jubilee have enough pyro here to sink any attacking battleships.

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  • In the third, Atkinson again came out attacking with Elriani finding success driving to length then sticking a trickle boast or straight drop.

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  • In rheumatoid arthritis it prevents the immune system from attacking cartilage giving the body the chance to rebuild damaged cartilage.

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  • We'll never know, but the very next day a large black cockerel suddenly appeared and began attacking everyone in sight.

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  • But people never do that, they always get defensive, and start attacking, when we were trying to debate something else.

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  • Jimmy Hill What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

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  • Our own attacking force will consist of thirty new Volksgrenadier divisions and new panzer divisions, plus panzer divisions from the eastern front.

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  • Banff Strike Wing Memorial Mosquito from Banff attacking shipping in Norwegian fiord, Spring 1945 Gp.

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  • Attacking the now exposed German left flank caused that section of the German defensive line to withdraw, allowing the 126th Infantry to advance.

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  • But my midfield foursome is completed on the right side by the attacking talent of Kaka.

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  • People have seen giant squid attacking whales for food.

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  • Failure to control security could also invite hackers to attacking your data.

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  • Playing a great deal of flowing attacking rugby in what were dreadful conditions, Ashton's side looked simply irresistible.

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  • Those attacking the doctrine are certainly not all theological liberals; many conservatives too are uneasy with it.

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  • Ben Burgess is the attacking lynchpin through which City can develop most of their attacks.

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  • He then cast second spell releasing Trimus from the charm that had kept him from attacking the mage.

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  • Our immune system protects us from disease, destroying invading microbes with a swarm of attacking cells.

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  • The attacking midfielder had previously starred in the Champions League for his french side.

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  • Woods I like, he's a busy attacking midfielder.

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  • Just sending out Oxbridge style missives, that seem, at best, condescending, and at worse, attacking.

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  • By fairly manipulating Law 11, defenders can quickly move up field with the aim of catching attacking players offside.

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  • With runs no longer an issue, we kept attacking and rotating the bowlers but struggled to break their 7th wicket partnership.

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  • In addition, the attacking planes would fly low, strafing the emergency personnel with machine gun fire.

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  • The red color is an added attraction, provoking pike into attacking, these poppers are however resistant to pike's teeth.

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  • The red color is an added attraction, provoking pike into attacking, these poppers are however resistant to pike into attacking, these poppers are however resistant to pike's teeth.

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  • The trouble with new attacking ploys is that defenses seem to be able to find the solution almost instantaneously.

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  • Saracens were limited to attacking from Wasps errors as the champions retained some good possession going into the last quarter.

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  • A sweet attacking move from the restart saw South apply some early pressure by winning their first short corner of the match.

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  • What he lacks in attacking prowess, he more than makes up for with his defensive qualities.

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  • Converted at Norwich into an attacking midfield role, he made his City debut against Ipswich in the League Cup in September 1980.

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  • Had sis told him there was no evidence of WMD, he might still have been justified in attacking Iraq.

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  • In this light, their request for guidelines in attacking " unruly " pupils carries the stench of cant.

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  • Will Dyson felt very strongly about this issue and produced a series of cartoons attacking the way the government was treating the suffragettes.

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  • Climb the steps of the 17th-century fort and view the holes down which boiling date syrup was poured on attacking forces.

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  • With cleverly disguised serving, Tony followed up with fast attacking topspin from both flanks and Peter looked to be beaten.

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  • Red attacker No. 7 is attacking down the left wing touchline and shoots the ball toward the defending teams ' goal.

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  • Luis Aragones opted to use an attacking triumvirate of Torres, Villa and Liverpool's Luis Garcia with Raul on the bench.

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  • The remarkable thing about England's performance on Saturday was the attacking verve shown; prompted by Rooney.

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  • Personal observations of polar bears stalking and attacking young walrus are noted.

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  • I just started attacking him and he had welts all over his back.

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  • Therefore, although the Scienza nuova cannot be said absolutely to deny the law of progress, it must be allowed that Vico not only failed to solve the problem but even shrank from attacking it.

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  • The Athenians were preparing to make reprisals, in spite of the advice of the Delphic oracle that they should desist from attacking Aegina for thirty years, and content themselves meanwhile with dedicating a precinct to Aeacus, when their projects were interrupted by the Spartan intrigues for the restoration of Hippias.

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  • Lauder's charge of plagiarism (1750), attacking David Hume's rationalism in his Criterion of Miracles (1752), and the Hutchinsonians in his Apology for the Clergy (1755).

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  • Attacking the passes of Maya and Roncesvalles, he obliged their defenders to retire, after sharp fighting, to a position of close to Sorauren, which, with 25,000 men, he the Pyre= attempted to carry (July 28).

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  • The typical bas relief, which is found in great abundance in the museums of Europe, invariably represents Mithras, under the form of a youth with conical cap and flying drapery, slaying the sacred bull, the scorpion attacking the genitals of the animal, the serpent drinking its blood, the dog springing towards the wound in its side, and frequently, in addition, the Sun-god, his messenger the raven, a fig-tree, a lion, a ewer, and torch-bearers.

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  • It is equally active and courageous, not rarely attacking persons who approach too near to its resting-place.

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  • The aim of the war, " limited " in so far that the Japanese never deluded themselves with dreams of attacking Russia at home, was to win such victories as would establish the integrity of Japan herself and place her hegemony in the Far East beyond challenge.

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  • He was succeeded by Artemisia, whose military ability was shown in the stratagem by which she captured the Rhodian vessels attacking her city, and whose magnificence and taste have been perpetuated by the "Mausoleum," the monument she erected to her husband's memory (see Mausolus).

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  • Mr Asquith was in a difficult position, but the ministry remained in office; and he had developed a concentration of forces with a view to attacking the veto of the House of Lords (see Parliament), when the death of the king in May caused a suspension of hostilities.

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  • The raid into the Free State failed; the blackest incident in connexion with it was the attempt of the Pretorius and Kruger party to induce the Basuto to harass the Free State forces behind, while they were attacking them in front.

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  • Wolves (C. Bengalensis) are formidable in the wilder tracts, and assemble in troops on the snow, destroying cattle and sometimes attacking single horsemen.

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  • The attacking force was arrayed in two armies, one behind the other, Dankl's XI.

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  • Locke believed that in attacking " innate principles " he was pleading for universal reasonableness instead of blind reliance on authority, and was thus, as he says, not " pulling up the foundations of knowledge," but " laying those foundations surer."

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  • In the offices and shops and at the post office everyone was talking about the army and about the enemy who was already attacking the town, everybody was asking what should be done, and all were trying to calm one another.

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  • You begrudged your lump of a son," a little old man suddenly began attacking Dron-- "and so they took my Vanka to be shaved for a soldier!

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  • For that, not storming and attacking but patience and time are wanted.

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  • The news that the Russians were attacking the left flank of the French army aroused that horror in Napoleon.

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  • The Russians did not make that effort because they were not attacking the French.

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  • The moral force of the attacking French army was exhausted.

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  • But he continued to exert all his powers to restrain his troops from attacking.

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  • Though the condition and numbers of the French army were unknown to the Russians, as soon as that change occurred the need of attacking at once showed itself by countless signs.

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  • But by the time this letter, which proved that the real relation of the forces had already made itself felt in Petersburg, was dispatched, Kutuzov had found himself unable any longer to restrain the army he commanded from attacking and a battle had taken place.

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  • The tactical rule that an army should act in masses when attacking, and in smaller groups in retreat, unconsciously confirms the truth that the strength of an army depends on its spirit.

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  • Since then, and until evening, the party had watched the movements of the French without attacking.

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  • No one found more opportunities for attacking, no one captured or killed more Frenchmen, and consequently he was made the buffoon of all the Cossacks and hussars and willingly accepted that role.

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  • The explanation of this strange fact given by Russian military historians (to the effect that Kutuzov hindered an attack) is unfounded, for we know that he could not restrain the troops from attacking at Vyazma and Tarutino.

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  • Natasha was the first to speak, defending her husband and attacking her brother.

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  • Was it rational to expect that they would contradict all this by attacking us militarily?

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  • Rome was stung, but retaliated with massive force, with Titus, the son of the emperor attacking the city in 70 AD.

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  • Had SIS told him there was no evidence of WMD, he might still have been justified in attacking Iraq.

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  • His attacking threat was, admittedly, stifled by a lack of service.

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  • This gave them a greater attacking threat, but was leaving gaps in their rearguard for South to exploit in swift counter-attacks.

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  • Stuart responded by upping the tempo, producing some magnificent attacking topspin shots which even Peter was struggling to return.

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  • Luis Aragones opted to use an attacking triumvirate of Torres, Villa and Liverpool 's Luis Garcia with Raul on the bench.

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  • The remarkable thing about England 's performance on Saturday was the attacking verve shown; prompted by Rooney.

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  • This is highly interesting, especially in light of the fact that Muslims often vilify Paul, attacking his credibility.

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  • They then got the Northern Alliance to stop attacking these warlords strongholds.

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  • Second, the other cats need to stop attacking him when he is trying to use the litter box, or he will be afraid to use it and will simply go anywhere he feels safer, which may be your bed or shoes.

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  • She is also displaying what we call "psycho kitty" events, where she runs up and down the stairs, chasing something invisible, attacking her brother (neutered male) and play fighting all the time.

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  • However, one video entitled, "Probably the Funniest Cat Video You'll Ever See" does feature everything from a cat attacking a baby to another cat being whipped around by a ceiling fan.

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  • Your goal in the beginning is simply to have the cats be in the same room without one attacking the other or too much hissing and yowling going on.

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  • For example, you might find a wooden plank which you can lock doors with, preventing the ghosts from attacking Scooby.

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  • If you can't walk away for some reason, stand your ground until they get bored of attacking you.

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  • Instead, try to talk to your husband or wife without shouting, and state your feelings without attacking him or her.

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  • Attacking post-partum depression sufferer Brooke Shields for taking medication to help her depression.

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  • This is the United States, so Miss Prejean has every right to believe and say what she wants about anything she wants and no one is attacking her.

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  • Francis claims that he did pull her hair, but only after she began attacking him.

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  • In 1986, Heatherton was once again arrested for drug possession and felonious assault after attacking her former manager Jerry Fisher with a knife.

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  • Place the collar around the plant and push into the soil to prevent the cutworm from attacking the stem.

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  • Learn how to identify the three most common leaf diseases and how to prevent them from attacking your trees.

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  • These products control fleas by attacking the nervous system of the pests.

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  • This is a rare medical condition where the affected individual's own nervous system goes into overdrive and starts attacking the nerve cells.

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  • The jetted tubs are the perfect place to unwind after a day spent attacking the slopes or hiking on the trails that border the nearby Finger Lake region.

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  • These include going on "dungeon roaming" missions, attacking a wide range of enemies with an increasingly large arsenal of weapons.

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  • With only a flashlight for light during the majority of the game, bad guys can sneak up and start attacking you at any time.

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  • Besides moving, when you hit the 'X' button and join it with a moving on the analog stick, it creates attacking combo of up to 4 hits.

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  • To do that you'd better get used to the analog stick in attacking.

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  • Getting the hang of the different keys for moving, attacking and accessing menus takes a little getting used to, but is not too difficult.

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  • Each takes one (or, on occasion, two) turns attacking the other, after which the damage is tallied up and the action returns to the map screen.

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  • One example of this is Oil Fight, a multiplayer game where players compete to control the most oil, building up their army, attacking, and sabotaging other players to get the best rank.

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  • For the Veterans, the true fun comes in Battle Mode where you try to make your opponent lose by "attacking" them to make it harder to hit the arrows.

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  • Action was sparse in the beginning of the game, but it helps to get use to the layout of the control scheme and hone your attacking skills.

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  • The controls of Lego Star Wars are simple as most of the action consists of running, jumping, attacking, and using your character's special power.

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  • It's one thousand years after the war and the demons are attacking the peaceful land of Riviera.

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  • You are thrown into battles with scores of Romans attacking you from all sides.

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  • While he is stunned, keep attacking him and refilling your energy bar so you can do it again until he is defeated.

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  • He is unable to attack you for a while, so continue attacking him and using the spear's ability when your energy is charged up.

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  • Otherwise, unsheathing/sheathing the sword, actual attacking, and shooting the crossbow or throwing the knives was responsive and switching between doing all three were smooth.

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  • Quick and aggressive play is necessary as you must balance building your base with having an army capable of attacking.

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  • One of the most public figures who has been attacking the video game industry for its apparent irresponsibility and over-the-top violence is Jack Thompson.

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  • Thompson is an American attorney and activist, and in addition to attacking the video game industry, he has also spoken out against the sex and violence shown in movies, rap music, and other forms of entertainment.

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  • People start to change into mutants who starting attacking from within.

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  • This position will not only protect your vital organs, but will also demonstrate to the bear that you are no longer a threat, and it will usually stop attacking you.

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  • If the bear does not stop attacking you even when you are in this fetal position, get up and fight back with your hands and feet and anything you can lay your hands on.

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  • The body's immune cells turn on the body, attacking various tissues and organs.

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  • The immune system is composed of elements that are needed for the body to fight infections by recognizing disease agents and attacking them.

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  • Some advocate the use of visualization strategies, in which patients are encouraged to visualize the immune cells of their body attacking and destroying the cancer cells.

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  • Alkylating drugs-kill cancer cells by directly attacking DNA, the genetic material of the genes.

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  • A donor's and a recipient's HLA types should match as closely as possible to prevent the recipient's immune system from attacking the donor's marrow as a foreign material that does not belong in the body.

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  • Garnishing wages, attacking bank accounts, and foreclosing on real estate are all used to force payment to affected children.

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  • Some are able to control aggressive impulses without acting on them while others act out in less destructive ways, such as screaming at someone rather than attacking them physically.

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  • The humoral response is particularly useful for attacking bacteria.

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  • The cellular response of adaptive immunity is useful for attacking viruses, some parasites, and possibly cancer cells.

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  • Harassment-The persistent annoying, attacking, or bothering of another person.

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  • Autoimmune disorders occur when the body's immune system mistakenly identifies the body's own tissue as foreign and goes about attacking those tissues, as if trying to rid the body of an invader (such as a bacteria, virus, or fungi).

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  • While this keeps the immune system from attacking a person's own skin, it also means that any malignant (cancerous) cells in the skin will be able to grow freely.

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  • Because of greater social interaction, children need to learn the differences between real and imaginary insults, as well as the difference between standing up for their rights and attacking in anger.

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  • Many species travel in packs or groups in the wild, and many human fatalities resulting from dog bites involve a large group of dogs attacking one or two persons.

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  • This pain and inflammation can occur both within and outside of the body, attacking organs, joints, tissue, and skin.

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  • It features lots of movement, including a cannon and an attacking dragon.

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  • More new chess players get into trouble because they start attacking too early probably than any other reason.

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  • Draw the opponent's attacking pieces away into a square from which it can be captured.

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  • That way you can begin to figure out which way you need to start attacking.

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  • He was an exceptional attacking player who was champion from 1972 to 1975, when he lost the title to Anatoly Karpov due to non-participation.

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  • The opponent must tell the attacking player which boat was hit and then place a red peg in the appropriate spot on the boat.

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  • When they consume it, the immune system reacts by attacking the prolamins in the gluten.

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  • For people with celiac disease, when gluten-containing foods are eaten, your body responds by attacking the villi, so rather than having all this surface area to absorb nutrients, the opposite occurs.

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  • The body acts by attacking the very same organ which is vital for continued health and growth.

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  • The mismatched trio of cool former city cop, smart-mouth young scientist, and obsessed hunter enliven the final portion of Jaws on the rare occasions when the shark is not attacking the boat.

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  • Michael begins to stalk Laurie and her friends before attacking Annie, Lyndsay, and their boyfriends on Halloween.

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  • For decades, residents of the American Southwest and South America have reported sightings of a strange animal that they believe is attacking their livestock.

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  • The first public reaction to these attacks in Puerto Rico was that the mysterious and deadly creature was some horrible form of vampire. that was attacking livestock and other small animals as its form of sustenance instead of humans.

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  • While each message board has its own rules about behavior, courtesy and respect; these rules may be overlooked by ardent fans defending or attacking something they love or hate.

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  • Her actions led directly to the lawyer attacking and raping Brooke in her own home.

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  • Franklin's obsession with Tara resulted in his attacking her twice, kidnapping her and stealing her away to Mississippi where he threatened to turn her.

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  • This form of piracy, once the haven for young, computer geeks eager to make a name for themselves in the hacker community, has been invaded by criminal elements specifically attacking business operations.

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  • Attacking someone because you disagree with what they wrote is usually not allowed.

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  • Saffre responded to the clearance request by telling Eminem that his writing was lazy and to stop attacking the same old victims.

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  • When two dementors appear in his neighborhood and start attacking his cousin, Harry is forced to do a spell to save him, bringing the Ministry of Magic into his "muggle" home.

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  • With Voldemort's "Death Eaters" attacking frequently in the wizarding world, and mysterious attacks on students at Hogwarts, Harry must hurry to reveal the truth before it is too late.

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  • The decisive moment in the episode - and a nod to the value of live pets - was when an intruder broke in and the electronic dog that was programmed to attack anyone with a mask on, ended up attacking George instead.

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  • Remember that you're attacking the toenail fungus with its worst enemy - acid!

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  • But once they start attacking …" "We fight, like always.

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  • First the death dealers attacking her, now Gabriel.

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  • The mixed news produced a sense of relief that Martha was, according to Fred, temporarily safe, but she seethed at what she saw as Fitzgerald's vindictiveness at attacking them through the old man.

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  • The events he spoke of occurred just a few months before, when Darkyn was attacking the Immortals and before Rhyn took over the Council That Was Seven.

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  • I ask that, in the meantime, you refrain from attacking any Immortal traveling the road to the castle.

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  • They went through an entire range of movements, from attacking to defending in motions that resembled a dance.

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  • Attacking me isn't the right way to get it.

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  • If Darkyn told him about the death dealers attacking his mate, Gabriel would've ignored him.

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  • She rolled her eyes and retreated to her bunk, hoping Sasha planned to give her time to rest before attacking her.

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