Adams predicted the likelihood of the Union's dissolution over the slavery issue, and was a key opponent of the Mexican – American War for this reason.

According to his Confessions, after nine or ten years of adhering to the Manichaean faith as a member of the group of " hearers ", Augustine became a Christian and a potent adversary of Manichaeism ( which he expressed in writing against his Manichaean opponent Faustus of Mileve ), seeing their beliefs that knowledge was the key to salvation as too passive and not able to effect any change in one's life.

A few key sumo techniques which require grabbing the belt or pants of the opponent also become ineffective, as this is illegal in MMA.

Everything else is assumed to be knowable by the opponent, so everything except the key should be revealed to the analyst.

The key point in anti-grappling is to prevent going to the ground at first, and if one lost his / her balance or fell, he or she will use the same chi sao reflexes and wing tsun eight principles on the ground for preventing chokes, joint-locks and finishing the opponent, to get back on feet as soon as possible.

A key innovation was the addition of the coup-fourré, whereby bonus points are earned by holding back a safety card ( such as the puncture-proof tire ) until an opponent plays the corresponding hazard card ( in this case, the flat tire ).

According to this idea, the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than one's opponent.

In opposition to her conservative opponent Nawaz Sharif whose policy was to make the nuclear weapons programme benefit the economy, Benazir Bhutto took aggressive steps and decisions to modernize and expand the integrated atomic weapons programme founded and started by her father in 1972, was one of the key political administrative figures of Pakistan's nuclear deterrent development.

As expected, a number of key Republicans abandoned the former governor during the autumn campaign, one of the most significant defections being that of wealthy WW Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who resigned his seat on the Republican National Committee to actively support John Hemphill, Pinchot ’ s Democratic opponent.

A key part of the campaign was to secure Labour Party support ( Herbert Morrison was a fierce opponent of the Daily Worker ).

This is an example of disapproval voting on an informal level, where voters found a way to approve of the candidate, while disapproving of party and platform-and of his key opponent, George W. Bush.

Shankly would also try to boost the confidence of his own players by announcing that a key opponent was unfit.

Yamaha is also a key player in the " four-stroke wars ", which are a series of advertisements from opponent Ski-Doo who claim their E-tec and power-tec equipped two-strokes are still cleaner and more efficient than four-strokes, while Yamaha still claims the four-strokes are cleaner.

The key is to obscure your intentions and make them unpredictable to your opponent while you simultaneously clarify his intentions.

Governor Pete Wilson, a Republican, was a prominent supporter of Proposition 187, which ultimately became a key issue during his 1994 re-election campaign against Democratic opponent Kathleen Brown.

To an opponent with a massive collection of possible key texts, this leaves possible a brute force search of the order of, which by computer cryptography standards is a relatively easy target.

On the highest level, an opponent is allowed to tire himself out, evasion becoming the Dragon's key defense.

Strikes are the key focus of several sports and arts, including boxing, karate, muay thai, taekwondo and wing chun, some martial arts also use the fingertips, wrists, forearms, shoulders, back and hips to strike an opponent as well as the more conventional fists, palms, elbows, knees and feet that are common in combat sports.

This battle has not been fully covered by the international media, but was a significant direct attack and victory on a key U. S. opponent.

In 2006, the idea of an expansion surfaced once again at a dinner in Fort Worth attended by Timothy Potts, the museum's director at the time ( Eric M. Lee has been the director since March 2009 ); Kay Fortson, president of the Kimbell Art Foundation and a key figure in the creation of the original building ; Ben Fortson, a trustee ; and Sue Ann Kahn, Louis Kahn's daughter and a vocal opponent of the original plan for expansion.

Ricochet also features a secondary attack ( done by the alternative fire key ) which cuts off the head of your opponent.

He also became known as an outspoken opponent of capitalism, denouncing an economic system that " considers profit the key motive for economic progress, competition the maximum law of economics, and private ownership of the means of production an absolute right that carries no corresponding social obligations.

Estonia's key games during their independence are as follows place, opponent ( result ):

The union federation has been a consistent and key opponent of Venezulean President Hugo Chávez.

Furthermore, when faced with a maneuverable opponent capable of redeploying key forces quickly and discretely, or when tempered, the capacity of maneuver warfare strategies to deliver victory becomes more challenging.

The key distinguishing factor between direct and collateral appeals is that the former occurs in state courts, and the latter in federal courts.

The key difference between the von Neumann and Harvard architectures is that the latter separates the storage and treatment of CPU instructions and data, while the former uses the same memory space for both.

Maritime conservatism since the Second World War has been very much part of the Red Tory tradition, key influences being former Premier of Nova Scotia and federal Progressive Conservative Party leader Robert Stanfield and New Brunswick Tory strategist Dalton Camp.

A key distinction between analysis of algorithms and computational complexity theory is that the former is devoted to analyzing the amount of resources needed by a particular algorithm to solve a problem, whereas the latter asks a more general question about all possible algorithms that could be used to solve the same problem.

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

According to former DARPA Director Tony Tether and W. B. Bonvillian (“ Power Play ,” W. B. Bonvillian, The American Interest, Volume II, p 39, November – December 2006 ), DARPA's key characteristics to be replicated to reproduce DARPA's success are:

With Stilicho ’ s fall, Olympius moved against all of his former father-in-law ’ s allies, killing and torturing key individuals and ordering the confiscation of the property of anyone who had borne any office while Stilicho was in command.

Other key groups cited by current and former members of Napalm Death as formative influences include Discharge, Amebix, Throbbing Gristle, and the aforementioned Dirty Rotten Imbeciles.

The Reform Package debate has seen the return of key political figure and former Chief Secretary Anson Chan, raising speculations of a possible run up for the 2007 Chief Executive election, though she dismissed having a personal interest in standing for the next election.

Soon, however, Pei and his team won the support of several key cultural icons, including the conductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President Georges Pompidou, after whom another controversial museum was named.

A key difference between libertarian socialism and capitalist libertarianism is that advocates of the latter generally believe that one's degree of freedom is affected by one's economic and social status, whereas advocates of the former focus on freedom of choice.

The counter-action against Stalin aligned with Lenin ’ s advocacy of the right of self-determination for the national and ethnic groups of the former Tsarist Empire, which was a key theoretic concept of Leninism.

From England, two former guitarists with the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, moved on to form key acts in the genre, The Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin respectively.

A major development bordering the west side of the former Potsdamer Bahnhof site, some of its 19 individual buildings were then erected by other architects, who submitted their own designs while maintaining Piano's key elements.

Aflaq and al-Arsuzi were key figures in the establishment of the Arab Ba ’ ath ( Renaissance ) Party, and the former was for long its chief ideologist, combining elements of Marxist thought with a nationalism to a considerable extent reminiscent of nineteenth-century European romantic nationalism.

Both rhyme and rhythm are key elements, although the former is not restricted to falling at the end of the phrase.

Succession issues, particularly concerning liabilities and assets of the former Yugoslavia, remain a key factor in Slovenia's relations in the region.

In 218 BC, the Carthaginian navy was busy scouting the Sicilian waters and preparing for a surprise attack on their former key stronghold Lilybaeum on the western tip of the island.

This project was a key element of his overall strategy, setting Canada on a course independent of Britain, of former colonizer France, as well as of the neighbouring powerful United States.

The main difference between Phase 2 and the former arrangement is that Phase 2 requires banks connecting to the network to use a Relationship Management Application ( RMA ) instead of the former Bilateral key exchange ( BKE ) system.

In cases where a group or religion is state-sanctioned, a key power, or in the majority ( Singapore ), a shunned former member may face severe social, political, and / or financial costs.

Prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, allegedly, through Pakistan's former top scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, supplied key data, stored in CDs, on uranium enrichment and information to North Korea in exchange for missile technology around 1990 – 1996, according to U. S. intelligence officials.

In the early stages the lowlands and cities may have had some organisation or " council " and the Bishop of London appears to have played a key role, but they were divided politically as former soldiers, mercenaries, nobles, officials and farmers declared themselves kings, fighting amongst each other and leaving Britain open to invasion.

The former home of the President of Booth Newspapers, who served as U. S. Minister to Denmark and a key Detroit Institute of Arts philanthropist, Ralph Booth, the brother of George G. Booth.