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middle and ground
Lincoln insisted the moral foundation of the Republicans required opposition to slavery, and rejected any " groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong ".
The first digit, called the hallux, was short and only the other three contacted the ground, with the third ( middle ) digit longer than the rest.
The equinoxes might be expected to be in the middle of their respective seasons, but temperature lag ( caused by the thermal latency of the ground and sea ) means that seasons appear later than dates calculated from a purely astronomical perspective.
* Binary opposition, polar opposites, often ignoring the middle ground
In doubles, players generally smash to the middle ground between two players in order to take advantage of confusion and clashes.
In the background is the village of Blindheim | Blenheim ; in the middle ground are the two water mills that Rowe had to take to gain a bridgehead over the Nebel.
There was much speculation and fear about the prospect of a Labour government, and comparatively little about a Liberal government, even though it could have plausibly presented an experienced team of ministers compared to Labour's almost complete lack of experience, as well as offering a middle ground that could get support from both Conservatives and Labour in crucial Commons divisions.
They occupy the middle ground of human temperament.
The Confucian idea of " Rid of the two ends, take the middle " is a Chinese equivalent of Hegel's idea of " thesis, antithesis, and synthesis ", which is a way of reconciling opposites, arriving at some middle ground combining the best of both.
This means that the Doric order was the order of the ground floor, the Ionic order was used for the middle story, while the Corinthian or the Composite order was used for the top story.
Evangelicalism may sometimes be perceived as the middle ground between the theological liberalism of the mainline denominations and the cultural separatism of fundamentalism.
Effective public shelters can be the middle floors of some tall buildings or parking structures, or below ground level in most buildings with more than 10 floors.
Galen was very interested in the debate between the rationalist and empiricist medical sects, and his use of direct observation, dissection and vivisection represents a complex middle ground between the extremes of those two viewpoints.
The Methodists formed somewhat of a middle ground, as they were not as experimental as the Empiricists, nor as theoretical as the Rationalists.
* Pastitsio: an oven-baked layer dish: Bechamel sauce top, then pasta in the middle and ground meat cooked with tomato sauce at the bottom.
This comical ceremony was inspired by the rumour that Geelong's premiership players of 1937 had buried a magpie in the middle of the ground after their premiership win over Collingwood that year.
A possible middle ground position has been suggested, based on the observation that " hacking " describes a collection of skills which are used by hackers of both descriptions for differing reasons.
The Cleric arms himself with a combination of both melee and ranged capabilities, being a middle ground of sorts between the other two classes.
A few instead find a middle ground by recognizing both and as distinct notations differing only in which argument is conjugate linear.
Those who held the middle ground in the ideological struggle became the central figures.
While Clinton could steer a middle ground between his Democratic supporters and the Republican Congress on monetary issues, Reno's job was at the center of a variety of intractable cultural conflicts.
The presentation of a false choice often reflects a deliberate attempt to eliminate the middle ground on an issue.
The fallacious sense of " slippery slope " is often used synonymously with continuum fallacy, in that it ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to category B.

middle and Allied
In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.
When word of that atrocity reached the Dominion fleet, in the middle of a fierce battle with Allied forces, the Cardassian ships switched sides and aided the Alliance fleet.
Germany was protective of the synchronizer system, instructing pilots not to venture over enemy territory in case they were forced down and the secret revealed, but the basic principles involved were already common knowledge, and by the middle of 1916 several Allied synchronizer gears were already available in quantity.
Allied Armies in Italy, commanded by Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, was the title of the highest Allied field headquarters in Italy, during the middle part of the Italian campaign.
The other recognised Unions at BWIA were: Airline Superintendents Association ; the Aviation, Communication and Allied Workers Union, which represented ground staff and flight attendants, and the Communication, Transport and General Workers Union which organised middle management and engineers.
By the middle of September 1944 the three Western Allies Army groups, the British 21st Army Group ( Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery ) in the north, the United States U. S. 12th Army Group ( General Omar Bradley ) and to the south the Franco-American Southern Group of Armies ( Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers ) that had liberated southern France after landing on the French Mediterranean coast — formed a broad front under the Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his headquarters SHAEF.
This situation changed, however, by the middle of September, as Allied forces came into contact with the German frontier and the Siegfried Line and encountered considerable German resistance, with German forces beginning to set up organized defensive positions and the Allied advance slowing.
A view of the causeway, blown up after the Allied retreat, with the visible gap in the middle

middle and cavalry
As long as pikemen fought other pikemen, the halberd remained a useful supplemental weapon for " push of pike ", but when their position became more defensive, to protect the slow-loading arquebusiers and matchlock musketeers from sudden attacks by cavalry, the percentage of halberdiers in the pike units steadily decreased, until the halberd all but disappeared from these formations as a rank-and-file weapon by the middle of the sixteenth century.
In the ensuing battle Constantine spread his forces into a line, allowing Maxentius ' cavalry to ride into the middle of his forces.
Double Bridges being the site where two bridges spanned either side of Owen's Island in the middle of the Flint River ; a brief Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ) cavalry skirmish took place there.
A small group of Imperial cavalry began circling the Protestant forces, driving them to the middle of the battlefield.
The Macedonian line was arrayed with the heavy Phalanxes in the middle, and cavalry on either side.
In the town, Pizarro prepared an ambush to trap the Inca: the Spanish cavalry and infantry occupied three long buildings around the plaza, while some musketeers and four pieces of artillery were located in a stone structure in the middle of the square.
After a lot of tricky undercover work, the cavalry arrives, and there is a final confrontation in the middle of the pirate's lair.
Even though Poland probably had the best cavalry in Europe, their infantry was inferior, however, Ukrainian Cossacks posed the best infantry during the middle 1600s.
The Macedonian line was arrayed with the heavy Phalanxes in the middle, and cavalry on either side.
But for a generation before the war broke out, the system had disciplined and trained the middle classes of the nation ( who furnished the bulk of the rebel infantry, and later, of the cavalry also ) to centre their will on the attainment of their ideals.
With the invention of accurate and quick firing repeating rifles in the middle of the 19th century, cavalry started to become increasingly vulnerable.
In October he was appointed commander of the allied cavalry, and attacked the Plevna line of communication to Orkhanie with a large mixed force, captured Gorni-Dubnik, Telische and Vratsa and, in the middle of November, Orkhanie itself.
The spectator is in the middle of the battlefield, surrounded by an attacking Russian regiment, smoking shells, a doctor and a nurse, the attack of the Turkish cavalry, burning fires in the city, and the Russian General Mikhail Skobelev conducting an attack against the Ottoman fortification.
Armes formed a defensive " hollow square " with the cavalry mounts in the middle.
Armies of the middle republic would consist of two legions of Roman citizens and two legions of " ala ", with the ala supplying thirty turmae of cavalry per legion, whereas the Roman provided only ten turmae.
Baba Novac led a determined resistance in the middle of the line with his cavalry, but it was not enough to turn the tide of the battle.
Burkas were adopted by Russian cavalry, and worn as part of the Russian military uniform from the middle of the 18th century until the 1850s, during the Caucasus War.
Most of Banks's men, accompanied by a large, poorly trained, cavalry force would march north toward the middle river.
* Sometime after the middle of March, Union cavalry moved through Romney.
On January 20, with the sunrise, Gen Bulnes marched with his four divisions to Yungay, whilst Santa Cruz deployed his army by the Ancash river, with Herrera's division on the right wing, in the middle was set the artillery and behind it the cavalry led by General Perez de Urdinea.

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