As her parents were not publicly acknowledged as being married at the time of her birth, Elizabeth's ' illegitimacy ' would be used by political opponents to challenge her right to the throne.

The purity of his character and the sincerity of his religious views were acknowledged even by his opponents.

" His opponents within the party later used Portillo's apparent equivocation as an example of his indecisiveness, and he acknowledged that " ambiguity is unattractive.

As a Senator, Ames became a talented public speaker to the point where even some of his Democratic opponents acknowledged his ability.

Perhaps the first known major case came to light in October 2007, when Absolute Poker acknowledged that its integrity had been breached by an employee, who had been able to play at high stakes while viewing his opponents ' hidden " hole " cards.

Even Guderian grudgingly acknowledged that his opponents were learning.

Clinton then made what even his opponents acknowledged was a master stroke by choosing Al Gore, a Senator from Tennessee, as his running mate.

Müller's importance in the history of political economy is acknowledged even by the opponents of his religious and political point of view.

As ruefully acknowledged by their opponents, the activists had the advantage of highly qualified, eloquent leaders and were able to use the new internet technology to devastating effect.

The battalion's reputation was also acknowledged by their opponents.

In order to give a philosophical tinge to their polemics with their opponents, they borrowed the dialectic forms of the Motekallamin, and even adopted their name ( Mas ' udi, in " Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale ," viii.

Athanasius spent a good deal of his energy on polemical writings against his theological opponents.

In 429 as the Christological controversies increased, his output of writings was that which his opponents could not match.

" It is likely that we have only a partial view of their beliefs, because the writings of the Cathars were mostly destroyed due to the doctrinal threat perceived by the Papacy ; much of our existing knowledge of the Cathars is derived from their opponents.

But when he turned his roughest side upon his opponents, as for example in his sermons, polemical writings and tracts, he met the attacks with an unfriendly tone.

But these extremes strengthened the firm but moderating influence exhibited in Cyprian's writings, and the following of his opponents grew less and less.

Most of these sophists are known today primarily through the writings of their opponents ( specifically Plato and Aristotle ), which makes it difficult to assemble an unbiased view of their practices and beliefs.

Inspired by Thomas Carlyle, Froude's historical writings were often fiercely polemical, earning him a number of outspoken opponents.

Their view that mankind can avoid sinning, and that we can freely choose to obey God's commandments, stand at the core of Pelagian teaching, and comes through even in the writings of Pelagius's opponents.

While in his lectures and speeches he was frequently carried away by the excitement of the moment, and made sharp and questionable attacks on his opponents, in his writings he exhibits great self-control.

In private life he was undoubtedly an amiable man, although the dogmatic tone that disfigures portions of his writings procured him many opponents.

His writings bear witness to his erudition and culture, his power as a philosopher and rhetorician, his keen appreciation of the intellectual temper of his age, and his tact and delicacy in dealing with the powerful opponents of his religion.

His writings prove that he had many of the qualities of an orator: but his irritability prevented him from doing himself justice in debate: for nothing was easier than to goad him into a passion ; and, from the moment when he went into a passion, he was at the mercy of opponents far inferior to him in capacity.

Valentinus produced a variety of writings, but only fragments survive, largely those embedded in refuted quotations in the works of his opponents, not enough to reconstruct his system except in broad outline.

His followers claim that as clearly stated by him in the beginning of his book Hujjatullah it was only after his use of Arabic was labelled inadequate, ungrammatical and ' unchaste ' by his opponents that Ghulam Ahmad deliberately amalgamated his own writings with that of Al-Hariri's in order to expose his adversaries ; whom he called upon to distinguish between his writings and that of Al-Hariri ’ s.

The origins of the term date back to the German literature of the 1620s, when opponents of Böhme's thought, such as the Thuringian antinomian Esajas Stiefel, the Lutheran theologian Peter Widmann and others denounced the writings of Böhme and the Böhmisten.

Since David's works were banned, most of what is known of him is from the writings of his contemporaries and opponents, chiefly Albert the Great and St. Thomas.

The Priscillian citation was only published in 1889 by Georg Schepps, before that time Priscillian was only known through the writings of his opponents.

The term's use remains confined mostly to anti-gay religious groups, but it is occasionally seen in the writings of their opponents, such as DignityUSA.

The term cult apologist is used by opponents of cults and new religious movements to describe social scientists, religious scholars, and other persons who write about cults and new religious movements whose writings they consider as uncritical or not sufficiently critical.

Everyone was discussing the writings of Thomas Malthus on population outstripping resources as the New Poor Law described by opponents as " a Malthusian bill designed to force the poor to emigrate, to work for lower wages, to live on a coarser sort of food " brought the construction of workhouses in the southern counties despite riots and arson.

He was a prolific controversialist, widely read in the writings of his opponents.

This charge was denied by those who read Persian and were familiar with ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's writings, including some of Shoghi Effendi's opponents.

What is known of Sabellius is drawn mostly from the polemical writings of his opponents.

Throughout the century that followed, it was the villagers and other peasants who were to prove the greatest opponents of Christianisation, while missionaries often received the support of the edhilingui and other noblemen.

The book — written in the aftermath of the Democrats ' heavy losses in the 1938 mid-term elections — assumes that by 1938 – 39 Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal had failed due to the constant attacks by his opponents, that in the 1940 elections Roosevelt would prove unelectable, that his downfall would drag the Democratic Party to ruin and that a sharp drift to the Right would culminate in an extreme-right dictatorship in the late 1940s — which would, however, prove short-lived and after which the pendulum would swing sharply to the Left again.

His opponents claim that, as a robot, he has no civil rights, but Byerley counters that they must first prove that he is a robot, before they can deny his rights as a human — including his right not to submit to physical examination.

Team Shaolin, which had steamrolled their earlier opponents, are brought back to reality when Team Evil's amazing capabilities prove more than a match for them.

The Appeals Court " upheld a federal judge's finding that opponents of the mine failed to prove they were likely to prevail on claims the mine would cause visual harm to Mount Tenabo and create a substantial burden on the tribes ' ability to exercise their religion " but ruled the U. S. Bureau of Land Management ’ s previous environmental review of water and air pollution impacts " was inadequate under the National Environmental Policy Act " and ordered the District Court to provide " appropriate " injunctive relief while the Bureau of Land Management conducted further study.

Nevertheless, as Yoh becomes increasingly powerful as a shaman, he becomes able to draw out more of Amidamaru's strengths and the two prove to be challenging opponents to defeat.

The movie revolves around aliens from the planet Zoran, sent to Earth to fight against professional wrestlers from the United States and the Soviet Union, who prove actually to be man-eaters who devour their opponents upon defeating them in a wrestling match.

Whenever Welsh attempted to go on the attack to prove critics wrong, he often forgot his defence and allowed his opponents in at close quarters, though some sources state that Welsh disliked knocking out other fighters, especially those at the beginning of their careers.

John Barratt noted that the Royalists had failed in " what might prove to have been their best chance to destroy the principle field army of their opponents, and hopes of a crushing victory which would bring down the Parliamentarian ' war party ' lay in ruins ".

At least 4, 500 of those people must prove their citizenship to regain their right to vote, but opponents say that could be an impossible burden to meet.

The Russian Team was a professional wrestling team in the 1980s that attempted to prove their Soviet dominance over their opponents.

The telescope appeared to prove that a multitude of life was reasonable and an expression of God's creative omnipotence ; still powerful theological opponents, meanwhile, continued to insist that although the Earth may have been displaced from the center of the cosmos, it was still the unique focus of God's creation.