Both realms were threatened by powerful eastern and southern enemies: the Byzantines by the Persians and the Muslim armies of the Arabs and the Turks, Langobards and Goths ; Gondor by the Easterlings, the Haradrim, and the hordes of Sauron.

Both realms were in decline at the time of a final, all-out siege from the East ; however, Minas Tirith survived the siege whereas Constantinople did not.

Both of these realms would eventually be consumed by dragons — the Grey Mountains in 2590 by a horde and The Lonely Mountain in 2770 by the dragon Smaug.

Both kings of Aragon and Sicily agreed with this strategy as a viable alternative to having the Almogavar standing army unemployed in their realms.

Both men were professional polemicists and their ideas often clashed despite the fact that both men held sway over the same realms of liberal intellectual schools of thought.

Both kingdoms are empires, i. e. realms ruled by a self-styled emperor.

Both realms would preserve their laws, institutions and autonomy, remaining legally distinct but federated in a dynastic union under one ruling House.

Both Quataert and Palairet ’ s work suggest that in the second quarter of the 19th century there were impressive economic advances in the Ottoman Empire contradicting Wallerstein and Kasaba ’ s claim that " in the long run, the effects of incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the world-economy proved to be catastrophic for manufacturing in the Ottoman realms as a whole.

Both Willy Brandt's Social Democrats, who gained 22 seats in the new parliament, and the Free Democrats, who picked up 23, will insist on that before they enter the government.

Both Martha Washington and Abigail Adams gained fame from the Revolutionary War and were treated as if they were " ladies " of the British royal court.

Both the sons gained distinction in Hungarian politics.

Both Sunnis and Shias were welcome at court, and members of both sects gained high office.

Both Sunnis and Shias were welcome at court, and members of both sects gained high office.

Both were governed by both Dutch and British rulers and gained their independence in the second half of the twentieth century.

Both SMTP and HTTP are valid application layer protocols used as Transport for SOAP, but HTTP has gained wider acceptance as it works well with today's Internet infrastructure ; specifically, HTTP works well with network firewalls.

Both Taft and Willkie gained in strength on each ballot, and by the fourth ballot it was obvious that either Willkie or Taft would be the nominee.

Both Polish and Ruthenian cultures gained a major cultural centre with the foundation of the Academy of Vilna.

Both Spinoza and Leibniz asserted that, in principle, all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, could be gained through the use of reason alone, though they both observed that this was not possible in practice for human beings except in specific areas such as mathematics.

Both Britten and Pears applied for recognition as conscientious objectors ; Britten was initially allowed only non-combatant service in the military, but gained unconditional exemption on appeal.

Both of them had already produced copious and talented music in a late Romantic idiom but felt they gained new direction and discipline from Schoenberg's teaching.

Both places were the scene of occasional fights, and both of the Perkins Brothers gained a reputation as fighters.

Both firms gained out of this: Cyrix could carry on having their CPUs made by Texas Instruments, SGS Thomson, or IBM, all holders of Intel cross-licenses ; Intel avoided a potentially embarrassing loss.

Both sides came to an agreement, and The Daily Californian gained financial and editorial independence from the university and is now published by an independent corporation called the Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc.

Both A. platanoides and its cultivar, " Crimson King " have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit ( AGM ).

Both models gained a reputation for strength and reliability.

Both parties prospered: Lansky was able to get sizeable footholds in Brownsville, East New York, and Ocean Hill, while Reles gained the backing he needed to keep both his business and himself alive.

Both Gates McFadden and Brent Spiner gained the parts of Beverly Crusher and Data respectively through the normal audition processes.

Both before and after Fiji gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1970, tensions between the indigenous Fijian and Indo-Fijian ethnic groups ( comprising an estimated 46 % and 49 % of the 1987 population, respectively ) continually manifested themselves in social and political unrest.

Both have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Both drank heavily, and Methot gained a reputation for her violent excesses when under the influence.

Both football groups gained weight ; however, the supplement group gained an average 2. 1 lb lean mass compared to 1. 1 lb for placebo

Both opioids and amphetamines induce a therapeutic response very quickly, showing results within twenty-four to forty-eight hours ; the therapeutic ratios for both opioids and amphetamines are greater than those of the tricyclic anti-depressants.

Both the El Tigre and Monos pyramids encompass a volume greater than 250, 000 cubic meters.

Both were widely influential, promoting greater uniformity between jurisdictions and tending to promote the automobile's priority in city streets.

Both sides see " great slaughter, the groans of the dying causing a greater range in those that survived.

Both praised and lambasted for his behavior, he garnered responses to his actions as wide ranging as " one of the greater contemporary gay heroes ," to " revolting, infantile, cheap name-calling.

Both share influences of the traditional cuisine of France, though with greater use of rice.

Both envisaged that spontaneous generation produced simple forms of life that progressively developed greater complexity, adapting to the environment by inheriting changes in adults caused by use or disuse.

Both these forces are weak when compared with the forces we are able to experience directly, but the electromagnetic force in this example is some thirty nine orders of magnitude ( i. e., 10 < sup > 39 </ sup >) greater than the force of gravity — roughly the same ratio as the mass of the Sun compared to a microgram mass.

Both Union and Confederate casualties could be high, but the Union had greater resources to replace lost soldiers and equipment.

Both Union and Confederate casualties could be high, but the Union had greater resources to replace lost soldiers and equipment.

Both breccias and conglomerates are composed of fragments averaging greater than in size.

Both enjoyed greater commercial success in the United States than Bauhaus had, but disappeared from the charts in their homeland.

Both practices serve the same purpose of allowing clubs to have larger dances, but the greater distances traveled and greater length for fly-ins requires more planning and promotion, will usually have more than one caller, and entail greater costs.

Both genders occupy overlapping home ranges through the greater part of the year ; typically for females, up to for males.

Both of these problems imply that developing countries should have greater protections against international markets than developed ones and greater barriers to trade.

Both the Catawba and Broad Rivers are in the greater Santee River basin.

Both of these standards are capable of broadcasting audio of significantly greater fidelity than that of standard AM with current bandwidth limitations, and a theoretical frequency response of 0 – 16 kHz, in addition to stereo sound and text data.

Both the Town of Culpeper and Culpeper County are part of the greater Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area.

Both assumed aircraft and surface raiders presented the greater threat in British waters.

Both UK parties toyed with various suggestions for greater self-government for Ireland, in March 1885 the settlement that the radical MP Joseph Chamberlain proposed involved democratic county councils which in turn would elect a Central Board for Ireland, which was thrown out by the Cabinet.

Both commercial and private trips have seen their share of injuries and fatalities, though private travel has typically been associated with greater risk.

Both Alan Jackson and Travis Tritt achieved greater success, and Billy Ray Cyrus became a teen idol.