Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize and the dramatic " literary battle " between two senior authors made front page news.

Both authors used a single axis in their treatments and have a variable length measured in reference to this axis.

Both these views had some truth to them, despite the biases of their authors: Diocletian and the Tetrarchs did greatly expand the army, and the growth was mostly in frontier regions, although it is difficult to establish the precise details of these shifts given the weakness of the sources.

Both included the work known as the Prose Merlin, but the Post-Vulgate authors left out the Merlin Continuation from the earlier cycle, choosing to add an original account of Arthur's early days including a new origin for Excalibur.

Both authors were pioneers in feminist criticism of science fiction during the 1960s and 70s through essays collected in The Language of the Night ( Le Guin, 1979 ) and How To Suppress Women's Writing ( Russ, 1983 ).

Both authors are staunch conservatives: on his website, Groseclose cites Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, Dick Armey, and Dick Cheney as his political heroes, and states that he usually sides with conservatives on controversial issues.

They both address “ situations that tend to develop in the bosom of the family .” Both authors, through their plays, reflect a patriarchal society in which the father-son relationship is essential to proper function and development of the household.

Both authors and major publishers of tabletop role-playing games consider them to be a form of interactive and collaborative storytelling.

" Both authors casually integrate characters ' thoughts into the third person narration, just one of several parallels between their writing styles.

Both King's sons are published authors: Owen King published his first collection of stories, We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories, in 2005.

Both More's and Shakespeare's works are controversial to contemporary historians for their unflattering portrait of King Richard III, a bias partly due to both authors ' allegiance to the reigning Tudor dynasty that wrested the throne from Richard III in the Wars of the Roses.

Both Merlin Donald and the Socratic authors such Plato and Aristotle emphasize the importance of mimesis, often translated as imitation or representation.

Both authors wrote plot twist endings, but O. Henry stories were much more playful.

Both Hopkins's and Gideon's editions incorporated significant edits to the text of the papers themselves, generally with the approval of the authors.

Both authors agree that the sign was not readily understandable to denote Christ, which corresponds to the fact that there is no certain evidence of the use of the letters chi and rho as a Christian sign before Constantine.

Both Hunt and the authors of Eagle and the Shield speculate it was meant to be used by either the President of the Congress or later by the President of the United States, but there is no other evidence to support this.

Both authors list the distances of routes traveled by Alexander the Great ( r. 336-323 BC ) as measured by his bematists Diognetus and Baeton.

Both authors also attribute to him a role in the translation of some of the saint's relics to Pershore.

Both his brother William and John were important early authors on bee keeping science.

Both authors admitted to the hoax having backfired to a certain extent, as it overshadowed their more serious work.

Both authors used their main characters to address their readers directly ; however, Camus ' narrative was written in the first-person present tense, thus assuming that the reader will join the main character, Clamence, in the novel's imagined sphere of discourse.

Both licenses impose a kind of reciprocity condition requiring authors of extensions to the software to license those extensions with the respective license of the original work.

Both authors also made a sequel, The King of Fighters 03: Xenon Zero ( 拳皇 XENON ZERO ), to conclude the 2003 tournament.

Both authors subsequently tack on 4, 000 cavalry, evidently not part of the 36, 000 or 38, 000, from which it may be inferred that the latter were infantry ( a circumstance not stated by the authors ).

Both lived in Georgetown, were unattached, and shared an active social life.

Both governments failed to implement sound social policies.

Both conservative and liberal parties tend to favor private ownership of property, in opposition to communist, socialist and green parties, which favor communal ownership or laws requiring social responsibility on the part of property owners.

Both the nobility and the serfs had sub-layers and social ranks.

Both natural and social sciences use working hypotheses that are testable by observation and experiment.

Both cultural and educational policy in Marxist-Leninist states have emphasized the development of a " New Man " – a class conscious, knowledgeable, heroic proletarian person devoted to work and social cohesion as opposed to the antithetic " bourgeois individualist " associated with cultural backwardness and social atomisation.

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" Both were motherless, and reinforced via opposite means the civic ideologies of patriarchy and the " highly gendered social and political realities of fifth-century Athens "-Athena by rising above her sex to defend it, and Pandora by embodying the need for it.

Both the Buddha and Mahavira were by birth kshatriya, the varna ( social order ) of soldiers and officials.

Both Marxists and radical feminists seek a total and radical change in social relations and consider themselves to be on the political left.

Both times, as Neil Smith noted, these approaches " claimed authority over the ' social '".

Both Marx and Weber agreed that social stratification was undesirable, however where Marx believed that stratification would only disappear along with capitalism and private property, Weber believed that the solution lay in providing " equal opportunity " within a competitive, capitalist system.

Both carried on with the economic structural reforms initiated after the reinstatement of democracy and other important reforms were aimed at improving the electoral system, social security, education, and public safety.

Both Morris and Burne-Jones had come to Oxford with the intention of taking holy orders, but as they felt their way, both decided their energies were best spent on social reform.

Both individual and social ( common ) goals can thus be distinguished and considered.

Both a social etiquette and a certain intelligence can be displayed through forms of wit and sarcasm.

Both initiatives are alternatives to free trade, which has no such controls, and generally permits and encourages free transit in goods ( but not, in general, labour ) across ecological and social borders.

Both local authorities are responsible for certain local services such as sanitation, planning and development, libraries, the collection of motor taxation, local roads and social housing.

Both use similar types of rites, materials, social roles and relationships to accomplish aims and engender belief.

Both office and business etiquette overlap considerably with basic tenets of netiquette, the social conventions for using computer networks.

Both the medical model and the social model are seen, at the least, to be in conflict with, and at the most, inapplicable to deafness when viewed from the cultural model of deafness.

Both males and females participate, but the game is more commonly played among males of varying social status.

Both parties promote social conservatism, opposing gay rights and abortion.