Opposing Sentence Examples

One-quarter of the opposing Bolshevik army were Letts; Gen.

She had always claimed that he would listen if she presented an opposing opinion.

The opposing forces were too strong to permit Lord Selborne to succeed.

When consul (49) he advised the rejection of all peace terms offered by Caesar, and declared that, if the senate did not at once decide upon opposing him by force of arms, he would act upon his own responsibility.

That city is taken; the Russian army suffers heavier losses than the opposing armies had suffered in the former war from Austerlitz to Wagram.

If at this stage of their existence the real ambition of the Transvaal Boers was to found a strong and compact republican state, their conduct in opposing a scheme of union with the Orange Free State was foolish to a degree.

He induced these to unite in opposing the Lutheran heresy on condition that the pope would issue a decree providing for some of the most needed reforms. There was to be no more financial oppression on the part of the clergy, and no unseemly payments for performing the church services.

The long-felt strain between opposing cantons led at last to civil war.

The opposing groups were known as " Bucktails," whose leaders were Governor Tompkins and Martin Van Buren, and " Clintonians " or supporters of De Witt Clinton.

He warned Buckingham and Prince Charles of the perils of their project for the Spanish marriage, and after their return from Madrid he encountered their resentment by opposing war with Spain.

They easily defeated the comparatively weak Turkish forces opposing them, and arrived before the city on Nov.

He was a director in numerous corporations, and was a conservative Republican, opposing the League of Nations.

This conference had no influence in reconciling the opposing parties, and another, held at Delft in the year 1613, was equally unsuccessful.

The majority of the burghers rallied to his support, and on the 25th of May the two opposing forces faced one another on the banks of the Rhenoster.

Kant claimed to solve these contradictions by saying, that in no case is the contradiction real, however really it has been intended by the opposing partisans, or must appear to the mind without critical enlightenment.

But neither his courage nor his industry forsook him; and he found, in opposing the new views of his old colleague, ample scope for both voice and pen; and as a member of the House of Lords he continued almost to the last to take part in hearing and deciding appeals, and sometimes in the ordinary business of the House.

This advance was only arrested, when the opposing forces were almost within touch of each other, by the tidings that a revolution had taken place at St Petersburg, and that Peter III.

He took a prominent part in opposing the Socialist movement, and in April 1870, having subscribed a large sum to the funds of a committee formed to combat the Napoleonic plebiscite, had to leave the country.

The opposing principle, that of concentrating power in the hands of the governor-general, was re-affirmed, but in practice was modified by the retention of the direction from Paris of a few of the public services.

On the 15th of September 1821 Costa Rica, with the other Central American provinces, revolted and joined the Mexican empire under the dynasty of Iturbide; but this subjection never became popular, and, on the establishment of a Mexican republic in 1823, hostilities broke out between the Conservatives, who desired to maintain the union, and the Liberals, who wished to set up an independent republic. The opposing factions met near the Ochomogo Pass; the republicans were victorious, and the seat of government was transferred from Cartago, the old capital, to San Jose, the Liberal headquarters.

Acrodont, Old World lizards, with laterally compressed body, prehensile tail and well developed limbs with the digits arranged in opposing, grasping bundles of two and three respectively.

Adams and opposing that of Jackson, which succeeded it.

In the Constituent Assembly he was a member of the committee of taxes (comité des contributions), prepared a scheme for a new system of taxation, drew up a law on patents, occupied himself with the laws relating to stamps and assignats, and was successful in opposing the introduction of an income tax.

Another inundation, in 1604, suggested the transfer of the city to Tacubaya, but the landowners opposing and the city being again inundated in 1607, the Nochistongo tunnel was begun under the auspices of a Jesuit, Enrico Martinez, and roughly completed in eleven months.

Refusing to observe the ecclesiastical regulations of Archbishop Laud, he was brought before the court of high commission in 1629, and again in 1634, when, for opposing the placing of a rail around the communion table, he was suspended and imprisoned.

The construction of the Canadian Pacific railway, thus inaugurated, became for several years the chief subject of political contention between opposing parties.

One of its few surviving copies contains an article by Laurier opposing confederation as a scheme designed in the interest of the English colonies in North America, and certain to prove the tomb of the French race and the ruin of Lower Canada.

In 1869 he went to the Vatican Council as secretary to Cardinal Hohenlohe, and took an active part in opposing the dogma of papal infallibility, notably by supplying the opposition bishops with historical and theological material.

This analysis does not disclose, nor indeed is it possible to discover, what was the determining element for Tertullian; in fact he was under the dominion of more than one ruling principle, and he felt himself bound by several mutually opposing authorities.

His views imply a cultivated intelligence well versed in practical affairs, opposing to the extremes of both nominalism and realism a practical common sense.

Further, if the cavalry had to walk, or at most trot, through the fields the opposing infantry was almost always unable to fire their muskets.

It is like " immanent philosophy," in opposing experience to the transcendent; but it also opposes experience to the transcendental, or a priori.

Hence Descartes began the reform of psychology not only by the appeal to consciousness, " I think," but also by opposing body and soul, no longer as matter and form, but as different substances.

Gloucester courted popularity by opposing them throughout; with him was Richard of York, who stood next in succession to the crown.

As a public speaker he had an inborn Irish readiness and vehemence of expression; and, though a thorough Liberal, he split from Mr Gladstone on Irish home rule, and took an active part in politics in opposing it.

He sought to incorporate in a new code for the District of Columbia, in 1832, a prohibition of the slave trade in the district, at the same time opposing the abolition of slavery there without the consent of Maryland and Virginia, which had originally ceded the district to the United States.

In this section the river is confined between opposing walls of cliff ranging from 300 to 500 ft.

In the second half of 1812 the British general, Sir Isaac Brock, lieutenantgovernor of Upper Canada, adopted measures for opposing the Americans on the frontier line, between Huron and Erie.

He was a Whig representative in Congress in 1849-1853, and was leader of the radical Whigs and Free-Soilers, strongly opposing the Compromise Measures of 1850,1850, and being especially bitter in his denunciations of the Fugitive Slave Law.

The presence of a small quantity of the hard cementite ought naturally to strengthen the mass, by opposing the tendency of the soft ferrite to flow under any stress applied to it; but more cementite by its brittleness naturally weakens the mass, causing it to crack open under the distortion which stress inevitably causes.

The opposing school (the Sumerists) insists that these Hastings's Diet.

This view stands as a connecting link between the extreme idea of the Halevyan school and the extreme idea of the opposing Sumerist school.

Magee took a prominent part in the Ritual controversy, opposing what he conceived to be romanizing excess in ritual, as well as the endeavour of the opposite party to "put down Ritualism," as Disraeli expressed it, by the operation of the civil law.

In one of his speeches opposing the sending by the United States of representatives to the Panama Congress, he said, "The moment the federal government shall make the unhallowed attempt to interfere with the domestic concerns of the states, those states will consider themselves driven from the Union."

They had supported him in his commercial reform of 1878, but by opposing the Septennate in 1880 they had shown that he could not depend upon them.

In the first meetings it appeared that there were strong opposing tendencies within the party which for the first time could be brought to public discussion.

Obliged by their constitution to regard equally the material interests of all classes for they represent rich and poor, peasants and artisansthey were the natural support of the government when it attempted to find a compromise between the clamour of opposing interests.

The elector was not unwilling, but the scheme was wrecked by the opposition of the heir to the Bavarian throne, the duke of Zweibriicken, in response to whose appeal Frederick the Great formed, on the 23rd of July 1785, a confederation of German princes (Fiirstenbund) for the purpose of opposing the threatened preponderance of Austria.

The Poles wished to gain as much autonomy as they could for their own province, but they had no interest in opposing the centralization of other parts; they were satisfied if Austria would surrender the Ruthenes to them.

This is one reason for the comparative weakness of Austria as compared with Hungary, where the Delegation is elected by each House as a whole; the Bohemian representatives, e.g., meet and choose 10 delegates, the Galicians 7, those from Trieste 1; the Delegation, is, therefore, not representative of the majority of the chamber of deputies, but includes representatives of all the groups which may be opposing the government there, and they can carry on their opposition even in the Delegation.

They were completely defeated in the elections which followed, but for the next four years the two parties among the Czechs were as much occupied in opposing one another as in opposing the Germans.

In 1890, however, instead of proceeding to the coronation as was expected, Taaffe attempted to bring about a reconciliation between the opposing parties.

Tirhaka was energetic in opposing the Assyrian advance, but in 670 B.C. Esarhaddon defeated his army on the border of Egypt, captured Memphis with the royar harem and took great spoil.

In 1724 this person was assassinated through the machinations of the pasha, and Shirkas Bey, of the opposing faction, elevated to the office of Sheik al-B alad in his place.

Debs, former Socialist candidate for president, who was sentenced to 10 years in a Federal prison for a speech opposing the war and denouncing war as the work of capital.

He was an influential member of the constitutional convention of 1787, advocating the counting of all slaves as a basis of representation and opposing the abolition of the slavetrade.

In opposing Napoleon, " the oppressor of Europe and the disturber of the world's peace," Alexander in fact already believed himself to be fulfilling a divine mission.

Stanton was removed from office for opposing the scheme, and Walker resigned in disgust.

In 1816 in the congressional caucus which nominated James Monroe for the presidency Crawford was a strong opposing candidate, a majority being at first in his favour, but when the vote was finally cast 65 were for Monroe and 54 for Crawford.

Let him cultivate towards the whole world - above, below, around - a heart of love unstinted, unmixed with the sense of differing or opposing interests.

He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1752 until the organization of the state government in 1776, was the recognized leader of the conservative Whigs, and took a leading part in opposing the British government.

He formed the bold design of combining the Irish Catholic millions, under the superintendence of the native priesthood, into a vast league against the existing order of things, and of wresting the concession of the Catholic claims from every opposing party in the state by an agitation, continually kept up, and embracing almost the whole of the people, but maintained within constitutional limits, though menacing and shaking the frame of society.

But in yielding to the will of the majority he excited the displeasure of the minority, the genuine zealots, who in Moawiya were opposing the enemy of Islam, and regarded Ali's entering into negotiations with him as a denial of the faith.

It is only by the detailed enumeration of these opposing forces that we can form an idea of the heavy task that lay before the Prince of the Believers, and of the amount of tact and ability which his position demanded.

In 1795 he fought a duel with Colonel Waitstill Avery (1745-1821), an opposing counsel, over some angry words uttered in a court room; but both, it appears, intentionally fired wild.

Bacon alone was right in altogether opposing induction to syllogism, and in finding inductive rules for the inductive process from particular instances of presence, absence in similar circumstances, and comparison.

Blucher, now almost surrounded, called back the troops opposing Ney to make head against Soult, and Ney's four corps then carried all before them.

As member of parliament for Tregony in 1 7681 774 and for Minehead in 1774-1780, he at first sided with the Whigs in opposing all plans to tax the American colonists, but he supported North's administration after the outbreak of the War of Independence.

Although possessing a weak constitution, which was further impaired by his irregular manner of life, James showed great vigour and independence as a sovereign, both in withstanding the machinations of his uncle, Henry VIII., and in opposing the influence of the nobles.

Returning to Massachusetts, he spoke and wrote in opposition to its ratification, and although not a member of the convention called to pass upon it, he laid before this convention, by request, his reasons for opposing it, among them being that the constitution contained no bill of rights, that the executive would unduly influence the legislative branch of the government, and that the judiciary would be oppressive.

Washington seems never to have understood fully either the nature, the significance, or the inevitable necessity of party government in a republic. Instead, he attempted to balance party against party, selected representatives of opposing political views to serve in his first cabinet, and sought in that way to neutralize the effects of parties.

In 1839, only twelve months after opposing the pro-slavery demands, he prepared an elaborate speech, in order "to set himself right with the South," which, before its delivery, received pro-slavery approval.

In the 9th century, however, the Welsh, attacked by land and sea, by Saxons and by Danes, at length obtained a prince capable of bringing the turbulent chieftains of his country into obedience, and of opposing the two sets of invaders of his realm.

In "autogenous soldering" two pieces of metal are united by the melting of the opposing surfaces, without the use of a separate fusible alloy or solder as a cementing material.

It is also to be noted that he is here definitely opposing religion to magic, which he holds to be based on the (implicit) assumption " that the course of nature is determined, not by the passions or caprice of personal beings, but by the operation of immutable laws acting mechanically."

The advantage of keeping the solution in motion is due partly to the renewal of solution thus effected in the neighbourhood of the electrodes, and partly to the neutralization of the tendency of liquids undergoing electrolysis to separate into layers, due to the different specific gravities of the solutions flowing from the opposing electrodes.

The electrical pressure required to force a current of this intensity through the solution, and to overcome a certain opposing electromotive force arising from the more electro-negative impurities of the anode, depends upon the composition of the bath and of the anodes, the distance between the electrodes, and the temperature, but under the usual working conditions averages o-3 volt for every pair of electrodes in series.

Mary had wearied of her guiding statesmen, Moray and the more pliant Maitland; the Italian secretary David Rizzio, through whom she had corresponded with the pope, now more and more usurped their place; and a weak fancy for her handsome cousin, Henry Darnley, brought about a sudden marriage in 1565 and swept the opposing Protestant lords into exile.

At Worms he showed some signs of a willingness to compromise, but at Regensburg his old violence reasserted itself in opposing all efforts at reconciliation and persuading the Catholic princes to reject the Interim.

He carefully refrained from incurring suspicion and unpopularity by opposing the general outcry, and though he saw through the imposture from the beginning he made no attempt to moderate the popular frenzy or to save the life of any of the victims, his co-religionists, not even intervening in the case of Lord Stafford, and allowing Titus Oates to be lodged at Whitehall with a pension.

It holds a most judicious balance between the two opposing parties of the time.

This was a serious departure from the principles of the system, facilitating a return of later Stoicism to the dualism of God and the world, reason and the irrational part in man, which Chrysippus had striven to surmount.3 Yet in the general approximation and fusion of opposing views which had set in, the Stoics fared far better than rival schools.

In the parliament which met on the 12th of February 1376, Lord Latimer and Alice Perrers, the king's mistress, a lady of good birth, and not (as the mendacious St Albans chronicler alleged) the ugly but persuasive daughter of a tiler, were impeached, and Wykeham took a leading part against Latimer, even to the extent of opposing his being allowed counsel.

In 1835, when a struggle for the chief power had made two factions in the neighbouring republic of Peru, Santa Cruz was induced to take a part in the contest; he marched into that country, and after defeating General Gamarra, the leader of one of the opposing parties, completed the pacification of Peru in the spring of 1836, named himself its protector, and had in view a confederation of the two countries.

Varro adopts a compromise between the two opposing schools of grammarians, those who held that nature intended the declinationes of all words of the same class to proceed uniformly (which uniformity was called analogic) and those who deemed that nature aimed at irregularity (anomalia).

Of `Ali Riza's 25 divisions, 3 were scattered between Prishtina and the Austrian frontier, 31 at Scutari, z at Dibra, and i at Prizren; 2 opposing the Greek main army in Thessaly and 2 the Greek secondary army in Epirus; 3 in the Struma valley and i guarding the railway between Veles and Salonika, making, in all, 16 which were totally unavailable for battle in the decisive theatre.'

The Turkish force opposing each of these amounted to about 2 divisions.

Asanga managed with great dexterity to reconcile the two opposing systems by placing a number of Saivite gods cr devils, both male and female, in the inferior heavens of the then prevalent Buddhism, and by representing them as worshippers and supporters of the Buddha and of Avalokitesvara.

The theological question involved is a very small one, but it brings out clearly the opposing versy.

His father was long prominent in Virginia politics, and became a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1764, opposing Patrick Henry's Stamp Act resolutions in the following year; he was a member of the Continental Congress in 1774-1777, signing the Declaration of Independence and serving for a time as president of the Board of War; speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1 7771782; governor of Virginia in 1781-1784; and in 1788 as a member of the Virginia Convention he actively opposed the ratification of the Federal Constitution by his state.

In the election of the following year he attracted a large part of the "Whig and Anti-Masonic vote of the Middle and Western states and led among the candidates opposing Van Buren, but received only 73 electoral votes while Van Buren received 170.

A county council has the same power of opposing bills in parliament and of prosecuting or defending any legal proceedings necessary = for the promotion or protection of the interests of the inhabitants of a county as are conferred on the council m legal of a municipal borough by the Borough Funds Act 1872, with this difference, that in order to enable them to oppose a bill in parliament at the cost of the county rate, it is not necessary to obtain the consent of the owners and ratepayers within the county.

The power thus conferred is limited to opposing bills.

For it is against a solid rock, the foundation-stone of the Church, that you have opposed yourself in opposing me.

Nevertheless, he continued his political opposition, and endeavoured to thwart Suffolk, who was now taking Beaufort's place in the council, by opposing the king's marriage to Margaret of Anjou.

Had the author been consciously opposing the great apostle to the Gentiles he would probably have treated the subject less superficially.

Although he was tinged with republican ideas and had rendered himself obnoxious to Queen Anne by opposing the grant to her husband, Prince George, through the influence of Marlborough he was foisted into the ministry as secretary of state for the southern department, taking office in December 1706.

He chose the moment of a terrific struggle for the colours between the opposing sides; hence the work became commonly known as the "Battle of the Standard."

The government now sent Sir Henry Docwra to Derry, and O'Donnell entrusted to his cousin Niall Garve the task of opposing him.

Entering politics as a Jacksonian Democrat, Mason was throughout his career a consistent strict constructionist, opposing protective tariffs, internal improvements by the national government, and all attempts to restrict or control the spread of slavery, which he sincerely believed to be essential to the social and political welfare of the South.

But he soon showed petulance towards the civil authorities, from whom he came to differ concerning the political ends in view; and he now found severe critics, who doubted his capacity for directing an offensive war; but the government yielded to his plans for an oblique, instead of a direct, movement upon Richmond and the opposing army.

That he was slow, and perhaps too tender-hearted, in handling armed masses for action may be admitted, and though admirable for defensive war and a safe strategist, he showed himself unfitted to take the highly essential initiative, both because of temperament and his habitual exaggeration of obstacles and opposing numbers.

In 1638 ship-money was levied on Bedfordshire, and in the Civil War that followed, the county was one of the foremost in opposing the king.

Moral and political phenomena are the result of the opposing forces of progress and preservation, and their perfection lies in the fulfilment of the law of equilibrium or universal harmony.

The Manchester Education Union and the Birmingham Education League had already formulated in the provinces the two opposing theories, the former standing for the preservation of denominational interests, the latter advocating secular rate-aided education as the only means of protecting Nonconformity against the Church.

On the native question he held a consistently strong attitude, defending their rights, and uncompromisingly opposing the native liquor traffic. In 1901 he went to the Transvaal as chief justice of that colony.

In the National Assembly he sat on the extreme Left, consistently opposing the opportunist policy of successive governments.

It was first turned to account when the Flemings, who had scruples about opposing their liege lord the king of France, found it convenient to discover that, since Edward was the real king and not Philip, their allegiance was due in the same direction whither their commercial interests drew them.

The postmaster-general, Lord Lichfield, in opposing it, declared that, if the revenue of his office was to be maintained, the correspondence of the country, on which postage was paid, must be increased from 42,000,000 to 480,000,000 letters a year, and he contended that there were neither people to write, nor machinery to deal with, so prodigious a mass of letters.

The country, after the long political truce which had been maintained by Lord Palmerston, was again ranged in two hostile camps, animated by opposing views.

In 1324, two years after Thomas had lost his life for opposing the king, Henry was made earl of Leicester by his cousin, Edward II., but he was not able to secure the titles and estates of Lancaster to which he was heir, and he showed openly that his sympathies were with his dead brother.

But a strong opposing current of feeling, equally passionate, set in against the Turks; war began and lasted long; and as the agitation at home and the conflict abroad went on, certain of Disraeli's colleagues, who were staunch enough at the beginning, gradually weakened.

In 171 B.C., true to its policy of opposing Thebes, it sought the friendship of Rome.

It is not true that all the biting processes of the Arthropod limb are thus produced - for instance, the jaws of Peripatus are formed by the axis or corm itself, whilst the poisonjaws of Chilopods, as also their maxillae, appear to be formed rather by the apex or terminal region of the ramus of the limb; but the opposing jaws (= hemignaths) of Crustacea, Arachnida and Hexapoda are gnathobases, and not the axis or corm.

Neoplatonic philosophy had been in the main content either to formulate the contradiction or to deny the reality of one of the opposing terms. And traces of Neoplatonic influence, more especially as regards their doctrine of the unreality of the material and sensible world, are to be found everywhere in the Christian philosophers of Alexandria, preventing or impeding their formulation of the problem of freedom in its full scope and urgency.

But the most important point at issue between the opposing theories has remained throughout the history of the controversy, the morality or immorality of their respective solutions of the problem.

Although he had impeached the turbulent tribune C. Norbanus (q.v.), and resisted the proposal to repeal judicial sentences by popular decree, he did not hesitate to incur the displeasure of the Julian family by opposing the candidature for the consulship of C. Julius Caesar (Strabo Vopiscus), who had never been praetor and was consequently ineligible.

His method is to distinctly define the opposing elements and then to seek their harmonious combination by the aid of a deeper conception.

Having no grounds for opposing the royal title to the wardship of the heiress, they abjured English law and became Irish chieftains.

The able opportunist Sir Anthony St Leger, who was accused by one party of opposing the Reformation and by the other of lampooning the Sacrament, continued to rule during the early days of Edward VI.

The Unionists of Ireland had been taken by surprise, and out of Ulster they had no organization capable of opposing the National League and the government combined.

The Unionist party had adopted a policy of local government for Ireland while opposing legislative independence, and a bill was introduced into the House of Commons by Mr Balfour in February 1892.

A struggle, motived by self-interest, no doubt; but a struggle, too, of opposing principles.

When Hugh died in 996, he had succeeded in maintaining his liberty mainly, it is true, by diplomacy, not force, despite opposing powers and his own weakness.

While Richelieu was opposing the designs of the pope and of the Spaniards in the Valtellina, while he was arming the duke of Savoy and subsidizing Mansfeld in Germany, Henri, duc de Rohan, and his brother Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise, the Protestant chiefs, took the initiative in a fresh revolt despite the majority of their party (1625).

He resumed the policy of Henry IV., confining his military operations to the region of the Alps, and contenting himself at first with opposing the coalition of the Habsburgs with a coalition of Venice, the Turks, Bethlen Gabor, king of Hungary, and the Protestants of Germaay and Denmark.

The settlement had, in fact, settled nothing; it had, indeed, merely intensified the profound cleavage between the opposing tendencies; for if the democrats were alienated by the narrow franchise, the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which cut at the very roots of the Catholic system, drove into opposition to the Revolution not only the clergy themselves but a vast number of their flocks.

Bonapartes cleverness lay in opposing Daunous plan to that 01 Sieys, and in retaining only those portions of both which could serve his ambition.

In 1850 his power of specious argument won back to him his Chicago constituents who had violently attacked him for not opposing the Fugitive Slave Law.

The common-sense conception of change involves at bottom the same contradiction of opposing qualities in one real.

The Spanish government lodged a vigorous protest, but the French National Assembly refused to lend any assistance, and Floridablanca was forced to conclude a humiliating treaty and give up all hope of opposing the pf ogress of Great Britain.

He secured his base of operations by the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, and at Salamanca he completely routed the opposing army of Marmont.

He shared fully in the eccentric family pride; and boasted of his brother's genius even when bitterly opposing him.

He broke with him in 1827 on the occasion of the re-election of Peel for the University, Newman opposing this on personal grounds.

Therefore, he dreaded Cynthia seeking his complicity in opposing Randy's march to glory.

He had never met a woman who could swiftly stir his blood in so many opposing ways!

It was a misdemeanor count of resisting or opposing a law-enforcement officer without violence.

Libya's recent accession to the CWC may undermine any efficacy the one-time Arab League policy opposing that treaty had retained.

Opposing them is the disciple of one God, female android ' Cylon ', Number Six.

The old opposing power blocs have gone, but have been replaced by a dangerous and unpredictable tapestry of shifting alliances.

That opened the door for him to claim the caliphate, opposing Yazid.

The Local Schools Forum is trying to find someone to stand on the single issue of opposing school closures.

Evo Morales came to prominence as a coca farmers ' leader, opposing the US-sponsored program to eradicate coca.

If any country threatened to dominate the continent, Britain would join with the opposing coalition to prevent it.

Many a big guy on the opposing side have come a cropper thinking Peter was easy meat.

Deposition occurs where the two opposing forces are evenly balanced forming the ebb tidal delta.

I cannot understand those unionist parties who are opposing the devolution of policing powers.

There are honorable grounds for upholding the authority of the United Nations and opposing American global domination.

These are machined to a depth equal to half the specimen thickness and spaced equidistant from the specimen mid-length on opposing faces.

Articles or letters on this subject, whether opposing or supporting the ether opposing or supporting the ETH, are welcome.

The groups are members of opposing political factions, each aiming to be the first to land on Earth.

How far to hold onto unity how to find a way through that will somehow unite the two opposing factions.

Jonas was once sent off in a FA Cup tie at Millwall in January 1915 for fighting with the opposing goalkeeper.

Dreams are made of Rooney, Rossi and Ronaldo exchanging high-fives in the future as their goals bulge the nets of opposing sides.

Complementary colors Created from opposing color hues on the color wheel.

All the new bi-wire cables in the Original Range feature an enhanced geometry that minimizes cable inductance by precisely spacing opposing sets of conductors.

Both euthanasia and abortion are subjects ripe for debate, although unfortunately opposing sides are often intolerant of each other!

Voted Best athlete in his high school, Melvin was also a star football player, terrorizing opposing offenses as an outside linebacker.

I hadn't ever come across opposing fans before, and I loathed them in a way I had never before loathed strangers.

The objective for the team is to knock more marbles outside the ring than the opposing team.

He said the marchers spoke for the majority in Britain in opposing war.

As Highland tenants now mull over the pros and cons before making their decision, the two opposing sides outline their arguments.

A Roman by birth, he is remembered for opposing Nestorianism and Pelagianism and restoring several Roman basilicas.

Active nihilism (opposing religion) has changed into passive Nihilism.

We must however give to our fight against the war its fully revolutionary sense, opposing and pitilessly denouncing pacifism.

Leo Szilard and James Franck circulated a petition among the scientists opposing the use of the bomb on moral grounds.

When police primacy became a pivotal political reality, the seeds were sown for active engagement against those violently opposing the state.

Team Colors - For team identification, one team shall use white pushers and the opposing team shall use black Pushers.

Tony Blair would never appoint someone to a race equality post who had a lukewarm record of opposing racism.

Most people opposing the system could be silenced by financial pressure, or suffer public ridicule.

First, he claims public sector unions have left scars on his back by opposing his reforms.

Far from opposing Slovene secession, Milosevic welcomed it.

Talking of broken promises, how about the pre-election rhetoric from Labor re opposing the sell-off of air traffic control.

Could he not have claimed that the opposing player leaped at his fist and deliberately smashed his face into Johnson's knuckles.

Tony sanded a flat on two opposing corners and fixed it between centers, he turned a spigot then mounted it onto a chuck.

A long clearance was put over the Cheshunt back line and the opposing strikers rushed on to score.

We are opposing the owners of the former Wesleyan ' tin tabernacle ' at Hebden Bridge who wish to demolish.

Satan would be an atheist, a humanist, who denies the trinity by simply not opposing them.

He experienced the consequences of his choice in opposing tyranny in his own special way, for the remainder of his life.

Were her shifts between opposing viewpoints intriguing or merely bewildering?

Needless to say, of the possible benefits involved with group work, this topic invoked the most opposing viewpoints.

Ann is a member of the London nuclear Trains Working Group, opposing the transportation of nuclear waste through Bromley Boro.

Chicheley also incurred the papal wrath by opposing the system of papal provision which diverted patronage from English to Italian hands, but the immediate occasion was to prevent the introduction of the bulls making Beaufort a cardinal.

In the middle of this slide a stiffly fitting brass disk is inserted, to which a small turn-table motion may be communicated by an attached arm, acted on by two fine opposing screws accessible to the astronomer; and by their means the " fixed web " may be rendered strictly parallel with the movable one.

To fulfil condition (I) the plates A i and A, are mounted in circular slides, whose centres are El and E2 respectively, so that by means of the screws Dl, D2, with their corresponding opposing springs F 1 and F 2, the operation can be very easily accomplished.

The aggressive attitude of Chile towards Bolivia was causing considerable anxiety, and Argentina and Brazil wished to show that they were united in opposing a policy which aimed at acquiring an extension of territory by force of arms. The feeling of enmity between Chile and Argentina was indeed anything but extinct.

In a speech at Rochester, New York, in 1858 he made the famous statement that there was "an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labour nation."

The problems arising out of the special consideration of the power required to propel a railway train against the resistances opposing its motion, the way the power is applied to trains, the agent by means of which the power is exerted, are conveniently grouped together under the general heading of Locomotive Power.

In1850-1851he filled the unexpired term of Thomas Corwin in the U.S. Senate, strenuously opposing Clay's compromise measures and advocating the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.

This Admission to Benefices Act, as it was called, passed into law, but did not reconcile the opposing parties.

The queen disliked him for opposing the grant of favours to her proteges, and he had offended Mme de Polignac in a similar manner (see Marquis de Segur, Au Couchant de la monarchic, p. 305306).

On Abdallah's side were many Castilian knights, among them Count Garcia Ordonez, a prince of the blood, whom the Cid endeavoured vainly to persuade of the disloyalty of opposing their master's ally.

There was no precedent for large military forces, in close contact with a formidable enemy, embarking within easy artillery range of positions in the hands of the opposing side, and the most sanguine amongst high military authorities in the councils of the Entente feared that a withdrawal could not be carried out without incurring heavy losses.

The Constantinopolitan Acoemeti took a prominent part in the Christological controversies of the 5th and 6th centuries, at first strenuously opposing Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, in his attempted compromise with the monophysites; but afterwards, in Justinian's reign, falling under ecclesiastical censure for Nestorian tendencies.

After defeating a large Neapolitan force at Mola and organizing the siege operations round Gaeta, Fanti returned to the war office at Turin to carry out important army reforms. His attitude in opposing the admission of Garibaldi's 7000 officers into the regular army with their own grades made him the object of great unpopularity for a time, and led to a severe reprimand from Cavour.

Lutheranism began to run so strongly in Denmark as to threaten to whirl away every opposing obstacle.

But the Emigrants (see Mahomet) asserted their opposing claims, and with success, having brought into the town a considerable number of outside Moslems, so as to terrorize the men of Medina, who besides were still divided into two parties.

In 1798 he joined Jefferson in opposing the Alien and Sedition Laws, and Madison himself wrote the resolutions of the Virginia legislature declaring that it viewed "the powers of the Federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them."

As they rotate they roll themselves up the pairs of bands which are attached to the top of the casting, and at the same time cause the leaden weights attached to the bottoms of the cylinders to take up a lateral position, where they exercise a leverage opposing the motion of the cylinders, and bringing them up in a definite position corre - sponding to the pull of the vertical rod.

Team Colors - For team identification, one team shall use white Pushers and the opposing team shall use black Pushers.

By shaking the blade rhythmically, a rapid-fire exchange of opposing muscle contractions is initiated, from the core to the extremities.

Any team wishing to postpone or rearrange a fixture must give the opposing team Captain 96 hours notice prior to the original fixture date.

At the age of 17 years he was imprisoned on Robben Island for opposing the oppressive apartheid regime.

For the salmon and sea trout angler there is simply no case for opposing a cull.

Contrary to skeptics ' claims, she does not weigh the evidence in light of the two opposing hypotheses.

Could he not have claimed that the opposing player leaped at his fist and deliberately smashed his face into Johnson 's knuckles.

An opposing player makes a snide remark of " Chicken " to the goalkeeper who then strikes the opposing player.

James Callaghan for opposing laws curbing Trade Union power in 1968, as Britain stared into the industrial relations abyss that became the Seventies?

This article compares the traditional statistical approach to our understanding of enzyme function with that of the opposing structuralist view.

An uneasy truce seems to have been reached between opposing viewpoints.

Ann is a member of the London Nuclear Trains Working Group, opposing the transportation of nuclear waste through Bromley Boro.

He recommended writing a letter opposing the transfer in the strongest terms.

As the time on the clock came to an end, battles between opposing teammates began clinching.

In a furious tirade, she railed against the opposing politician's incompetence.

In a furioustirade, sherailedagainst the opposing politician'sincompetence.

Samantha seemed seconds from launching into a frustrated tirade against the opposing team after our sixth loss in a row.

The supercilious attitude of the opposing team was intimidating.

The presidential candidate made a diatribe against the opposing party, causing there to be even more anger between the parties.

Some ergonomic keyboards are split and separate the letter keypad in two at opposing angle which allows typing without bending your wrists.

As a party to a divorce action, you will be expected to answer questions from opposing counsel (interrogatories).

Galley - A galley kitchen basically looks like a corridor, consisting of two opposing counters at least 42" apart that also hold the appliances.

The opposing side retains an upside down copy of the image the light source let in.

After regaining emotional control, the student can then approach the other person, listen to the opposing viewpoint, consider the other person's thoughts and feelings, and discuss the problem to come to a compromise or solution.

These types of teams are not for people who are faint at heart; you can expect to be blamed if you let a winning touchdown or goal by the opposing team get by you.

Night driving involves a myriad of other difficulties that inexperienced drivers have difficulty with, such as opposing headlights on dark roads.

With all the pressure to fit in and form a unique identity, there are many opposing forces that teenagers face in daily life.

Those two players must head to the center of the circle and, remaining on their knees, try to remove the opposing players socks before their own are removed.

Points are accumulated by the opposing team when the balloon hits the floor on one side of the net.

Mario Perniola has argued that these opposing meanings arise from the different metaphysics underlying the Greek and the Judaic traditions.

They should be evenly distributed on opposing walls.

He did not believe that the conscious and subconscious functioned in opposing ways and that, in fact, dreams were a way to see how we truly felt since we think the same way when we are asleep as we do when we are awake.

Your goal is to kill your enemies and hold more flags than the opposing team.

This produces interesting game mechanics where Terrorists hunt and kill hostages and the opposing team while the Counter-Terrorist group makes a mad-dash to protect the few innocents.

The opposing players and "manager" AI routines learn your strengths and weaknesses and attempt to adapt to situations and run successful plays with greater frequency.

You can hit the space bar to run and tackle the opposing team.

To add insult to injury, it's flame proof and can and will bounce through any opposing grenade or rocket launcher blasts intact until it reaches and blasts its target.

The player who rolls the higher values can then defeat troops from the opposing team.

When two sixes are rolled, the opposing team loses have of its units in the current battle.

If parents exhibit opposing approaches, children learn to exploit these differences.

A fractured bone is immobilized by applying opposing force at both ends of the injured area, using an equal amount of traction and countertraction.

The points of the molars fit into the grooves of the opposing molars.

Braces apply constant gentle force to slowly change the position of the teeth, straightening and properly aligning them with the opposing teeth.

Sensory information provides critical input on the current position and velocity of body parts, and spinal nerve cells (neurons) help prevent opposing muscle groups from contracting at the same time.

One important refinement to it comes from considering the role of opposing, or antagonistic, muscle pairs.

This practice peaked in 1971, and one year later the National Association of Black Social Workers issued a statement opposing transracial adoption.

Then, the original foot steps out again and then the opposing foot touches next to it.

The female version is the same way, only mirroring the male, meaning she steps backwards first and dances the box on opposing feet.

Point your toe and reach out your opposing arm into an outstretched position of worship and grace.

If two individuals of opposing elements share the same bedroom, consider adding knickknacks or pillows of complementing colors on each side of the bed.

Opposing yet equal energies that are complimentary and completely inseparable; this is just one aspect of the ancient diagram that symbolizes a key theory in feng shui.

The ancient symbol of the yin yang, also known as the T'ai Chi, illustrates the equal and opposing energies found in everything in the universe.

Incorporating a yin yang art dragon into your home not only illustrates the perfect balance of the two opposing forces, it also invites auspicious chi to flow freely thorough your space.

Although the two forces are opposing, they are complementary.

The Tao yin yang symbol represents the dynamic, interacting, opposing energy forces that make up all things in the universe.

The opposing energies of the yin and yang flow into one another in an easy natural way.

The influences of these two opposing energies don't stop with nature.

The Golden Gate Bridge has two main cables that rest above its 746-foot tall towers and end in a curve at its two opposing anchorages.

Enjoy their summertime products at your local mall while getting your hands on the opposing season's goods at their official website.

The opposing forces are the inspiration behind Challenge of the GoBots, a cartoon series based on the Tonka toys.

The game is played in rounds and depending on how many ships each person has left afloat in each round determines how many shots he or she has at hitting the opposing player's boats.

Once the pieces are in place in the first rows, the opposing pieces of each army will be facing each other from across the board.

If a piece is moved into a square occupied by a piece from the opposing army, the piece is "captured" and taken off the board.

A Checkmate or Mate - One army moves their pieces in such a way that the opposing King cannot move without being captured.

The king also has the ability to Castle, which is done on the first row when there is nothing between the king, and the king and neither rook has moved and no opposing piece attacks the empty squares between.

The rooks are allowed to move in a straight line either across the board or in a line toward the opposing player's side of the game board.

The two opposing players set up their game pieces on opposite sides of the board facing one another.

This is accomplished by trapping the opposing king in a position where the player is not able to make a move without the king being captured.

Opposing signs can easily experience a strong attraction to one another based on factors such as aesthetic appreciation, lust, envy, or awe.

An Aquarius will be cooperative when working on group projects and cordial in meetings and with customers, but he or she also won't hesitate to share an opposing point of view or offer a completely new perspective on a situation.

What might appear to be opposing viewpoints to others simply appear to Aquarius as bridges for discovering truer insights and knowledge.

Scorpio is loyal and faithful even in the wake of opposing advice and evidence.

Charts that are too dominant in one energy, or are dominant in two opposing energies, can create more complicated individuals.

Pisces, being water-born and represented by two opposing fish due to the mythology surrounding this sign, is an exemplary model of water's nature.

In group hide and seek, you can make it a rule that if one member of your team gets caught, the entire team is out, or that the opposing team has to find all your members before they win.

Those opposing school uniforms are just as passionate as the proponents.

The opposing team must catch the volleyball in their blanket and toss it back again.

Yet, on the opposing side of the argument, unless children play on a level playing field with the same means for the latest fashions and trends, uniforms can actually make school an antagonizing and dreaded experience.

Sandals and boots are two of the most versatile types of shoes--from opposing seasons.

If you're wearing them at night, throw on a pair of leggings in an opposing color that plays well with your boot color.

On the opposing side, many experts and parents say that digital watches cripple the learning process.

There are still government crackdowns opposing the very freedoms being embraced.

Owners are not listed in any state or public records, which means opposing attorneys, or the IRS, cannot determine who owns a Nevada Corporation or LLC by calling the Secretary of State.

Cheers that insult opposing players or the other team in general cross the line into inappropriate.

In fact, there are entire websites devoted to the kinds of cheers that are jeering or insulting to the opposing team.

The worst example is the opposing team at the Toros football game, where the cheerleaders end a cheer with "All we know is Toros suck !".

The problem is they were stealing the cheers from the Clovers, and if there's one thing that the Toros cheers from Bring It On illustrate, it's why you should never copy cheers from either an opposing team or a movie.

Generally speaking, crowds want their voices to be heard; they want to be led in chants that will help intimidate and distract the opposing team.

The back dumbbell fly will work the opposing muscle groups in your back and shoulders.

Hold a barbell straight up over your head, using a normal grip (thumbs opposing other fingers).

Dumbbell Kickbacks - Grab a dumbbell in one hand, then put the opposing knee and opposing hand on a bench and lean forward.

When performing the bicep flex, the biceps are in charge of the bending movement, whereas the triceps, which are the opposing muscle group, control the straightening or return movement.

The opposing hip should stay flat on the floor.

You can, for example, lie prone on the stability ball and lift the opposing arm and leg.

Bring your leg and arm down at the same time and repeat with your opposing limbs, taking a step forward each time you switch legs.

While Napster would eventually become part of the system it was opposing, WinMX fought hard and succeeded several times before officially closing its doors.

The musket was designed to fire cone-shaped bullets with a spin to further penetrate the opposing infantry.

You do not want the jersey to be tight, but neither should it be too loose; the extra material on a loose jersey is easy for opposing players to hold onto.

A uniform helps to build team unity, letting each team member easily identify their teammates against the opposing team.

The leader having played his first bowl, the opposing leader will play his first and so on.

If the current drive an electromagnetic engine, the reaction of the engine will produce an electromotive force opposing the current.

Instead of opposing Francesco Sforza in Milan, he lent him his prestige and influence, foreseeing that the dynastic future of his own family and the pacification of Italy might be secured by a balance of power in which Florence should rank on equal terms with Milan and Naples.

At the same time the cabinet, as a whole, brought in a Clerical Abuses Bill, threatening with severe punishment priests guilty of disturbing the peace of families, of opposing the laws of the state, or of fomenting disorder.

Even the coup detat of the 16th of May 1877 (when Macmahon dismissed the Jules Simon cabinet for opposing the Clerical petition) hardly availed to change the attitude of Depretis.

More peculiarly his own is Hegel's great doctrine The of contradiction, whereby opposing views of truth " rank as stages in one progressive definition.

Butler is opposing the psychological hedonism 2 of Hobbes.

In British practice the chains consist of three links, and are of such a length that when fully extended there is a space of a few inches between opposing buffers; this slack facilitates the starting of a heavy train, since the engine is able to start the wagons one by one and the weight of the train is not thrown on it all at once.

Meanwhile a series of petty civil wars greatly interfered with the prosperity of the native population, who grouped themselves into two opposing political parties.

The peculiar service which was rendered at this juncture by the ` Cambridge School' was that, instead of opposing a mere dogmatic opposition to the Tubingen critics, they met them frankly on their own ground; and instead of arguing that their conclusions ought not to be and could not be true, they simply proved that their facts and their premisses were wrong.

A captain of landsknechts, Fabian by name, holding his long pike crosswise, brought it down with all his force upon the opposing spears, and at the cost of his life made a narrow gap through which the French broke into the mass of the enemy.

Panin was the inventor of the famous "Northern Accord," which aimed at opposing a combination of Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and perhaps Great Britain, against the Bourbon-Habsburg League.

In 1911 he made a violent speech in the Grand Sobranje, opposing the amendment to the constitution by which the King was given the right to make secret treaties, and in 1913 he openly accused the King of having brought about the calamitous war with Serbia.

Carnot, the ablest administrator, but not the strongest man, soon joined Barthelemy in opposing their Jacobinical colleagues - Barras, Rewbell and Larevelliere - Lepeaux.

In the religious literature they are almost exclusively represented as magicians and diviners opposing the Christian missionaries, though we find two of them acting as tutors to the daughters of Laegaire, the high-king, at the coming of St Patrick.

While opposing the Covenant of the League of Nations, he gave to many of his supporters the impression that he desired an " association of nations " which, without the characteristics of a super-state (such as he believed the League to be), might safeguard peace.

The need of financial retrenchment led to his opposing the proposal that war veterans should receive a cash bonus.

During those fifteen years the kingdom of Jerusalem was agitated by a struggle between the native barons, championing the principle that sovereignty resided in the collective baronage, and taking their stand on the assizes, and Frederick II., claiming sovereignty for himself, and opposing to the assizes the feudal law of Sicily.

As a legislator he spoke seldom, but always with great ability, his most famous speech being that of the 11th of February 1847 opposing the Mexican War.

This ideal, when put forward by the consummate eloquence of Demosthenes and other orators, created great enthusiasm among the Athenians, who at times displayed all their old vigour in opposing Philip, notably in the decisive campaign of 338.

In the Gathas the Good Spirit of Mazda and the Evil Spirit are the two great opposing forces in the world, and Ormazd himself is to a certain extent placed above them both.