There are two main defensive strategies used by centre-backs: the zonal defence, where each centre-back covers a specific area of the pitch ; and man-to-man marking, where each centre-back has the job of covering a particular opposition player.

There are two main defensive strategies used by centre-backs: the zonal defence, where each centre-back covers a specific area of the pitch, and man-to-man marking, where each centre-back has the job of covering a particular opposition player.

Avalon Hill's Squad Leader ( 2000 ), a man-to-man wargame utilizing the Soldiers at War engine, has also been compared ( unfavorably ) to X-COM and Jagged Alliance.

* The opposing team has a player or players too quick ( in the case of guards ) or too big ( in the case of forwards or centers ) for a man-to-man defense to be effective.

In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

IBM has a machine that can understand spoken words and talk back.

To the trained ear of the linguist, talk has always revealed a staggering quantity of information about the talker -- such things as geographical origin and/or history, socio-economic identity, education.

One has to talk confidentially with some of the directors of vocational high schools to realize that a boy cannot just say, `` I want to be a plumber '', and then, by doing good work, find a job.

Between the first meeting of Clerfayt and Lillian and this dismal denouement, Mr. Remarque has laid down many pages of junior-philosophical discourse, some demure and rather fetching love-making, pleasant talk about some of the countryside and restaurants of Europe, and a modicum of automobile racing.

Moreover, he stresses that talk of the miraculous has no surface validity, for four reasons.

Then, following the programme he outlined in his talk at the 1958 International Congress of Mathematicians, he introduced the theory of schemes, developing it in detail in his Éléments de géométrie algébrique ( EGA ) and providing the new more flexible and general foundations for algebraic geometry that has been adopted in the field since that time.

An outspoken commentator on various social, political and religious issues, Carolla has made numerous guest appearances on political talk shows, ranging from Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect to Bill O ' Reilley's The O ' Reilly Factor.

Pseudolus offers to impersonate Lycus and talk his way out of the mess but, his ingenuity flagging, he ends up merely telling the Captain that Philia has disappeared, and that he, " Lycus ," will set out in search of her.

He is the only person that has that peculiar something called ' audience appeal ' in sufficient quality to defy the popular penchant for movies that talk.

However he has expressed hope for its resurrection, saying " It ’ s only going to be dead if it doesn ’ t talk about the messages of life as much as the messages of death and non-movement ", citing artists such as NYOil, M. I. A.

Burton has said of his relationship with Elfman: " We don't even have to talk about the music.

One can talk of a unit for matter, like an atom or apple, and quantify how much potential and kinetic energy it has, but space and time have no unit-no identity.

However, since the economic crisis, there has been extensive talk and debate regarding the reintroduction of third-level fees.

As they talk, the lawyer reveals that the Chief Clerk of the Court has been sitting hidden in the darkness of a corner.

It has been successful enough to prompt talk of a Turkish model, " an example of a modern, moderate Muslim state that works.

Early on, as a youngster it was difficult, but I ’ m not ashamed to talk about it because many people have misconceptions about hearing loss ; like who has hearing loss and what it ’ s like not to hear, so I do talk about it.

" Also, the sketch ends with the shopkeeper saying that he has a slug that does talk.

The social panic approach is justified by the language used – we talk of the battle against terrorism or the war on drugs ..." The Economist magazine has become increasingly vocal in its criticism of such regulation, particularly with reference to countering terrorist financing, referring to it as a " costly failure ", although concedes that the rules to combat money laundering are more effective.

Marv has gained credibility and popularity among younger television viewers during his many guest appearances on David Letterman's late night talk shows for NBC and CBS.

Long after the physical need for morphine has passed, the addict will usually continue to think and talk about the use of morphine ( or other drugs ) and feel strange or overwhelmed coping with daily activities without being under the influence of morphine.

In a 1996 article for The Independent about a talk former Prime Minister Edward Heath gave at a Unification Church sponsored conference, Andrew Brown commented: " The term ' Moonie ' has entered the language as meaning a brainwashed, bright-eyed zombie.

Despite some optimistic talk in the foreign press the impetus of these reforms has not been followed with, for example, a large-scale decollectivization such as occurred in China under Deng.

As of February 2011, there has been some talk of extending rail to the Zambian border.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.

It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.

Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Even the great god Faulkner, the South's one probable contender for literary immortality, has little concerned himself with these matters ; ;

But Robert Rauschenberg, the neo-dadaist artist, has collaborated with several of them.

To raise the dancer out of his personal, pedestrian self, Mr. Nikolais has experimented with relating him to a larger, environmental orbit.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

The useful suggestion of Professor David Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments.

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

Our understanding of the solar system has taught us to replace our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate action which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

In addition, our way of dealing directly with natural phenomena has also changed.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

Much of the former extreme uneasiness associated with visions and hallucinations and with death has disappeared.

Today the private detective will also investigate insurance claims or handle divorce cases, but his primary function remains what it has always been, to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not.

Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.