The Qin also employed long spears ( more akin to a pike ) in formations similar to Swiss pikemen in order to ward off cavalry.

These formations were essentially immune to the attacks of mounted men-at-arms as long as the knights obligingly threw themselves on the spear wall, but the closely packed nature of pike formations rendered them vulnerable to enemy archers and crossbowmen who could shoot them down with impunity, especially when the pikemen did not have adequate armor.

The great Hawaiian warrior king Kamehameha I had an elite force of men armed with very long spears who seem to have fought in a manner identical to European pikemen, despite the usual conception of his people's general disposition for individualistic dueling as their method of close combat.

These arquebusiers and heavy cannons scythed down the close-packed ranks of the Swiss squares in bloody heaps — at least, as long as the Swiss attack could be bogged down by earthworks or cavalry charges, and the shooters were backed up by Spanish and / or Landsknecht pikemen to defend them if necessary from the Swiss in close combat.

Against the fire of the musketeers, and the long reach of the English pikemen, the lancers had no chance.

Yet some still fought on ; and it was not until long after nightfall, when many a ship was blazing from the firebrands thrown upon them, that the work was done.

His obituary in The Sydney Morning Herald stated that he had fought, " A long battle with depression.

Kabul is over 3, 500 years old ; many empires have long fought over the valley for its strategic location along the trade routes of South and Central Asia.

After long deliberations, Gandhi declared that India could not be party to a war ostensibly being fought for democratic freedom while that freedom was denied to India itself.

Murad II's reign was marked by the long war he fought against the Christian feudal lords of the Balkans and the Turkish emirates in Anatolia, a conflict that lasted 25 years.

During the long Sierra Leone civil war which the government fought against the Revolutionary United Front from 1991 – 2002, the 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d ' état brought the armed forces into power again.

" Rather than follow, the British hung back, continuing to fire at long range ; this prompted one French officer to write that the British " only engaged from far off and simply in order to be able to say that they had fought.

Powell further claimed that even if nuclear weapons had not existed, the Russians would still not have invaded Western Europe: " What has prevented that from happening was ... the fact that the Soviet Union knew ... that such an action on its part would have led to a third world war -— a long war, bitterly fought, a war which in the end the Soviet Union would have been likely to lose on the same basis and in the same way as the corresponding war was lost by Napoleon, by the Emperor Wilhelm and by Adolf Hitler.

* The introduction of a " parity " system ( although in a weakened form ) on the supervisory boards of all companies employing over 2, 000 workers, a reform which West German trade unions had long fought for.

Simeon hoped to take Constantinople and become emperor of both Bulgarians and Greeks, and fought a series of wars with the Byzantines through his long reign ( 893-927 ).

They were long redoutable both as warriors and as armourers, but by the end of the fourteenth century they seem to have come thoroughly under the Tartar rule ; for they fought on the side of Toctamish Khan of Sarai against the great Timur.

In the days following the assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson made an address to Congress: " No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the Civil Rights Bill for which he fought so long.

The war should be fought swiftly to avoid economic losses: " No long war ever profited any country: 100 victories in 100 battles is simply ridiculous.

Digital Research fought a long losing battle to promote CP / M-86 and its multi-tasking multi-user successor Concurrent CP / M-86, and eventually decided that they could not beat the Microsoft-IBM lead in application software availability, so they modified Concurrent CP / M-86 to allow it to run the same applications as MS-DOS and PC DOS.

Liu Yao and Shi Le fought a long war until 329, when Liu Yao was captured in battle and executed.

The Swietokrzyskie Mountains Home Army District fought against the Germans long before Operation Tempest inflicted heavy casualties on the occupying forces and later took part in the final liberation of their towns and cities in January 1945.

This stirs something in Oedipus ' memory and he suddenly remembers the men that he fought and killed one day long ago at a place where three roads met.

In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy () or War of the Titans (), was the ten-year series of battles which were fought in Thessaly between the two camps of deities long before the existence of mankind: the Titans, based on Mount Othrys, and the Olympians, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus.

Tribes along the Upper Mississippi had long fought for control of diminishing hunting grounds, and the Black Hawk War provided an opportunity for some Natives to resume a war that had nothing to do with Black Hawk.

A long battle has been fought between the demon Ghost Rider and the Prince of Lies.

Though, except for the Dogger-Bank skirmish, no major battles were fought in European waters, and the British blockade encountered little opposition from the Dutch fleet, the blockade itself exacted its toll on the British seamen, who were at sea for long times at a stretch ( which even exposed them to the danger of scurvy ) and the ships, that suffered from severe wear and tear.

All day long, Arthur and his team fought ferociously to secure the dam holding back the company's precious stock of logs.

Early briefly had his headquarters in the town, and not long afterward the Battle of Berryville was fought in and around the town during the Valley Campaigns of 1864, during the American Civil War.

The hall, on the other hand, appeared lifeless and deserted on these long waterfront afternoons.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

For centuries the North Atlantic nations dominated the world and as long as they did they could afford the luxury of fighting each other.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

She'd found it by luck most likely but she hadn't said anything and we didn't know how long ago it'd been or how many other ones she'd found, saying nothing.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

On the other hand, out-of-sight does not lead to out-of-mind when children cannot be easily observed and you have to make a long trek to reach the pool.

In a long, rambling ranch, two such units can be installed, one serving the living area, the other the sleeping zone.

Out of long experience I have found that incidental figures and other objects like trees, logs, and bushes can be traced from the original sketch and moved about in the major areas on the final sheet until they occupy the right position, which I call clicking.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

Since the psychiatric interview, like any other interview, depends on communication, it is significant to note that the therapist in this interview was a man of marked skill and long experience.

`` As long as the couple is in agreement in their approach to sex, it makes little difference if one or the other dominates '', Dr. Calderone declares.

I took another sidelong glance at the other registration card, then took the key to Unit 13 that she had given me and went down long enough to park the car.

He didn't tell her of the long board meeting where Bobbie and John were weighed one against the other.

Far long ago, some other prisoner than one of these had tried to write a letter.

The other gods tricked Hera into letting her go by offering her a necklace, nine yards ( 8 m ) long, of amber.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

Rieux returns to the theme at the end of the novel, after the epidemic is over, when the depth of the feelings of exile and deprivation is clear from the overwhelming joy with which long parted lovers and family members greet each other.

Over the years, many other alternatives have also surfaced, but most have long fallen into disuse and obscurity.

Following the Protestant Reformation from 1517, it did not take long for Arian and other non-trinitarian views to resurface.

thus, as T decreases, ΔG and ΔH approach each other ( so long as ΔS is bounded ).

The city had long been ruled by kings born to the Penthilid clan but, during the poet's life, the Penthilids were a spent force and rival aristocrats and their factions contended with each other for supreme power.

Believing that without Christian wisdom there can be neither prosperity nor success in war, Alfred aimed " to set to learning ( as long as they are not useful for some other employment ) all the free-born young men now in England who have the means to apply themselves to it.

This honor was intended, in part, to commemorate the diplomatic and trading history which existed long before other Western nations were officially aware of Japan's existence.

The siege was long and famine broke out in the Christian camp ; the Byzantines and crusades blamed each other for the failure, and a truce was signed with Saladin.