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German and grip
On some large weapons, such as the German Zweihänder, a metal cover surrounded the ricasso, and a swordsman might grip it in one hand to wield the weapon more easily in close-quarter combat.
The bow is held underhand ( palm up ), similar to a German double bass bow grip, but away from the frog towards the balance point.
The overhand grip is used in giant swings, and the dorsal grip in German Giant Swings.
The party's last leader, Egon Krenz, was unsuccessful in his attempt to retain the SED's grip on power, and was sentenced to prison after the German reunification.
In the German grip, the palm of the hand should be parallel to the drum head and the thumb should be on the side of the stick.
' Like the German Jager rifles, it had a scrolled brass trigger guard to help ensure a firm grip and a raised cheek piece on the left-hand side of the butt.
Official censorship tightened its grip over the media, and the import of the men's magazines Playboy, Penthouse and Lui, as well as the West German news magazine Der Spiegel, was banned because they offended “ morality and proper behavior ”.
The débâcle in Russia loosened the French grip on the German princes.
Specific forms of the grip are French grip, German grip, and American grip.
In French grip, the palms of the hands face directly toward each other and the stick is moved primarily with the fingers rather than the wrist as in German grip.
In German grip, the palms of the hands are parallel to the drumhead or other playing surface, and the stick is moved primarily with the wrist.
German grip provides a large amount of power, but sacrifices the finesse provided by the use of the fingers as in French grip.
American grip is a hybrid of the French grip and German grip.
This grip is considered a general-purpose grip by percussionists because it combines the power of German grip with the finesse of French grip.

German and tightened
* " German gun control laws to be tightened " CCN article ( April 26, 2002 )
German forces were particularly severe in exacting revenge for the killing of their ambassador, while Russia tightened its hold on Manchuria in the northeast until its crushing defeat by Japan in the war of 1904-1905.
Neither was able to secure any strategic advantage, and the German defensive perimeter around Caen tightened.
In 1942, after the German invasion of the Low Countries and as the Nazi grip on Holland ’ s Jewish community tightened, his parents decided to give their child to acquaintances in the Dutch resistance who placed him with the Van Tilborghs, an orthodox Christian farming family that lived in the village of Sprang Capelle in the region of Noord-Brabant near the Belgian border.
The group's German tours tightened their sound, as it did with many Liverpool combos who also made the trip.

German and Livonians
It should be noted that in the course of their 700 year history, Baltic German families often had not only ethnic German roots, but also mixed with peoples of non-German origin, such as native Estonians, Livonians and Latvians, as well as with Danes, Swedes, English, Scots, Poles, Dutch, Hungarians.
This occupation and the subsequent German invasion of 1941 ended all progress the Livonians had made in the preceding twenty years.
Using Mitau as a southern fortress, the German knights subdued the surrounding Livonians and Semigallians by 1290.
In 1219, the German crusaders of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword made a raid against Vironians together with recently christened Letts, Livonians, and several proto-Estonian tribes ( Sakalians, Ugaunians and Jervians ).
Many years ago the Ugaunians, upon the advice of the Livonians, had robbed a caravan of German merchants by the Daugava river.
Many years ago the Ugaunians, upon the advice of the Livonians, had robbed a caravan of German merchants by the Daugava river.

German and rebelled
In 1547 the Bohemian Estates rebelled against Ferdinand after he had ordered the Bohemian army to move against the German Protestants.
Michael Glinski was the most illustrious member of the family: he studied at the German university, took part as a knight in the Italian Wars, was the most powerful man in Lithuania in the 16th century, but later rebelled and run away with his brothers to Muscovy and helped the Russians to retake the city of Smolensk.
* Prussian Confederation, an alliance of German Hanseatic cities in Prussia who rebelled against the Teutonic Knights
On January 12, 1904, the Herero people, led by Samuel Maharero, rebelled against German colonial rule.
In the next year, when Miklós Kőszegi rebelled against King Andrew III and occupied Pozsony ( German: Pressburg, Slovak: Prešporok, today Bratislava ) and Detrekő ( Slovak Plaveč ), Máté managed to reoccupy the castles on behalf of the king.
In January 1811, some slaves from James Brown's plantations outside the city rebelled, joining the 1811 German Coast Uprising, including the notorious Kook, one of the leaders of the insurrection.
With the western allies driving into Germany, the Texel-based 822nd Georgian battalion rebelled against their German overlords.

German and against
* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.
* 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
Taking the title " Margrave of Brandenburg ", he pressed the " crusade " against the Wends, extended the area of his mark, encouraged German migration, established bishoprics under his protection, and so became the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1157, which his heirs — the House of Ascania — held until the line died out in 1320.
As the German princes were experiencing the tumult of the Reformation, the German Peasants ' War, and the wars against the Ottoman Turks, they did not enforce the ban on the duke, and agitation against him soon died away.
In 1164 began twenty years of crusades against the Wends, sometimes with the help of German duke Henry the Lion, sometimes in opposition to him.
Though Hitler was originally against the idea ( but later convinced ), Drexler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP ) early in 1920.
However, the small 37 mm gun would not be effective against the front armor of German tanks so as an armored car, designated M8 Light Armored Car, it was used for reconnaissance instead.
A predecessor of the WW2 German " 88 " anti-aircraft gun, the WWI German 77 mm anti-aircraft gun, was truck-mounted and used to great effect against British tanks.
The Polish Home Army conducted a regular campaign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland.
In 1941, Ultra exerted a powerful effect on the North African desert campaign, against the German army, under General Erwin Rommel.
The French cavalry exerted themselves once more against the first line – Lumley's English and Scots on the Allied left, and Hompesch's Dutch and German squadrons on the Allied right.
The French government relocated from Paris to Bordeaux very briefly during World War II, when it became apparent that Paris would soon fall into German hands ( as in 1870 during war against Prussia and at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war ).
Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.
* The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain in the Second World War
There is little doubt that the hilly, heavily wooded Ardennes could have been relatively easily defended by the Allies, even against the bulk of the German armoured units.
In August 1944 at Mortain, stout defense and counterattacks against the German flanks by American and Canadian forces closed the Falaise pocket.
The German version is a song against the war.
Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.
* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 – 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )
* Holger Nehring, ' The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957 – 64 ', Contemporary British History, 19, No. 2 ( 2005 )

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