Ramming was impractical with these sailing ships, but their main purpose remained the transportation of soldiers to fight on the decks of the opposing ship ( as, for example, at the Battle of Svolder or the Battle of Sluys ).

Ramming blocks of enemy soldiers it cuts and squishes thoses before it with large rotating blades.

Ramming with a mallet ( which is acceptable for many other compositions ) may result in an explosion.

* Ramming pads — These rubberized pads are fitted to the chassis of the appliance, to allow the vehicle to be used as a battering ram, or to push other vehicles off the road in an emergency.

Ramming Cumberland nearly resulted in the sinking of Virginia as well.

The common examples are plastic masses, Ramming masses, castables, gunning masses, fettling mix, mortars etc.

A reporter for Foreign Policy commented that " Ramming vehicles carrying dissidents and foreign supporters, including diplomats, has been a stock-in-trade act of intimidation by Cuban state security for years.

Ramming itself was done by smashing into the rear or side of an enemy ship, punching a hole in the planking.

Ramming in air combat is a last-ditch tactic that was used when all else had failed.

Ramming took place when a pilot ran out of ammunition yet was still eager to destroy an enemy, or when his plane had already been damaged beyond saving.

Ramming was used in air warfare in the first half of the 20th century, in both World Wars and in the interwar period.

With the removal of the German High Seas Fleet in 1919, Britain had no naval enemies, and at the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 it was agreed that the USA, Britain and Japan should set their navies in a ratio of 5: 5: 3, with France and Italy maintaining smaller fleets.

The Mohists were renowned in the smaller states ( and the enemies of the larger states ) for the inventions of siege machinery to scale or destroy walls.

The reduced resolution of the Game Boy Color screen, compared to that of the NES, results in a field of view far smaller than in the original, making the GBC port considerably more difficult, as it is much more difficult to see approaching enemies in time to deal with them, and some enemies can attack the player from off-screen.

Although the Tyrian fleet was much smaller in size, the Tyrians defeated their enemies.

Westmoreland himself claimed a smaller number of enemies disabled, estimating that during the same period 32, 000 PAVN troops were killed and another 5, 800 captured.

In it, he calls his death " murder " and declares, " I do not have enemies, nor the smaller resentment I take to the grave against my murderers, I forgive them and wish them the greatest good.

The levels they inhabit are usually heavily guarded by smaller enemies, making the route to the final boss difficult.

Anansi has three enemies: Mmoboro, a giant talking wasp who can turn into a swarm of smaller wasps, Onini, a giant talking black python, and Osebo, a large man-shaped talking leopard with a metal fist.

The smaller force led directly by Hideyori sallied forth from Osaka Castle too late, and was chased right back into the castle by the advancing enemies ; there was no time to set up a proper defense of the castle, and it was soon ablaze and pummeled by artillery fire.

As Toyotomi's forces began to lose the battle, a smaller force led directly by Hideyori sallied forth from Osaka Castle too late, and was chased right back into the castle by the advancing enemies.

During the game the player may collect a series of power-ups, one of them allowing the plane to be escorted by two other smaller fighters in a Tip Tow formation. There were few enemies: Kawasaki Ki-61, Mitsubishi A6M Zero and Kawasaki Ki-48.

This is good for concentrating fire on boss enemies, but is rather difficult to use against large groups of smaller enemies.

Likewise, they gain the favor of a faction — and, to a smaller extent, its allies — by attacking its enemies.

Because the two large parties will tend to differ on major ideological issues, and portray themselves as rivals, or even sometimes enemies, they will usually find it more difficult to agree on a common direction for a combined government with each other than with smaller parties.

This allowed the Republic / TOG government to make use of smaller forces for maximum effect than their enemies using only P-comm system.

In particular, enemies roll a smaller die than the players ( d8 versus d10 ), making it markedly more likely that PCs will succeed in their actions than their antagonists.

The PS2 version of the sequel now uses fuller, more complex logic similar to the PC version's projector mode, in which an object that receives shadow selectively chooses which shadow objects to receive ( e. g. Sam will sometimes receive shadows of a beam, but not ones of enemies or smaller objects ), to swap between any of two objects ' receiving values, depending the position from the light and collision.

This command structure proved to be highly flexible and allowed the Mongol army to attack en masse, divide into somewhat smaller groups to encircle and lead enemies into an ambush, or divide into small groups of 10 to mop up a fleeing and broken army.

Appears as a humanoid bull with jet wings and a large cannon on its back that fires cannon balls, a launchable mace for its tail, and two smaller particle cannons on its shoulders that fire beams of electricity that destroys enemies on an atomic level and rivals the Moon Attack.

Because the Pandava army was smaller than the Kaurava's, they decided to employ the tactic of each warrior engaging as many enemies as possible.

Fusion Warheads will wipe the screen clean of smaller enemies, though will only damage larger / stronger enemies and the ship can only stock five at a time.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.

The Cunard line has under consideration replacing the Queen Mary with a ship smaller than 75,000 tons.

The gap between the bookshelf and the record cabinet grows smaller with each new recording catalogue.

Occasional meetings are held for the whole membership, usually with a guest speaker, while smaller discussion groups meet more frequently.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

The frequency used for these experiments is 15 mc. and the transducer is a specially cut crystal with an epoxy lens capable of providing beam diameters smaller than one millimeter.

In your sales force, will a smaller number of higher-priced, high-quality salesmen serve you best, or can you make out better with a larger number of lower-paid salesmen??

In the majority of countries, however, the rates range from $3.00 to $3.50 a day for the smaller sedans and graduate up to $7.00 and $8.00 a day for the larger, luxury European models, with the rate per kilometer driven starting at $.03 and going up as high as $.12.

Many other vehicles with smaller sensitive-area exposure-time products contribute some information.

The behavior of a biological aerosol, on a much smaller scale, is illustrated by a specific field trial conducted with a non-pathogenic organism.

When the smaller facet-planes of Analytical Cubism were placed upon or juxtaposed with the large, dense shapes formed by the affixed materials of the collage, they had to coalesce -- become `` synthesized '' -- into larger planar shapes themselves simply in order to maintain the integrity of the picture plane.

Because the rake angle Af at the tip of the knife is very much smaller ( or even negative ) when compared to the value of **yc for the major portion of the knife, a very rapid increase in cutting force with thickness will result.

The school finds that the children are satisfied with smaller amounts of food since all of it is high in quality.

) The House, which had passed its smaller appropriation before the President's urgent call for more, was expected to go along with the increased defense budget in short order.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

The assembled frogs may call in unison and frenzied activity ensues, the males scrambling to mate with the usually smaller number of females.

The two large families are cosmopolitan, with many of their species found in the northern hemisphere, and the smaller families are usually confined to Australia and the adjacent areas, or sometimes South America.

A chemical anisotropic filter, as used to filter particles, is a filter with increasingly smaller interstitial spaces in the direction of filtration so that the proximal regions filter out larger particles and distal regions increasingly remove smaller pales, resulting in greater flow-through and more efficient filtration.

Henry also proposed building a demonstration version of the full engine, with a smaller storage capacity: " perhaps for a first machine ten ( columns ) would do, with fifteen wheels in each ".

Finally, above the central part of the facade is a smaller balcony, also iron, with a different exterior aesthetic, closer to a local type of lily.