When granulated motifs are desired, small beads are made traditionally by using precious metal wire or fine sheet to start with, which is cut up in small pieces mixed with flux and placed in the small holes of a pitted block of charcoal ( or any other suitable refractory material ) and are then melted with a blowpipe ( or today with a blowtorch ), after which the bits of wire curl up and take a natural spherical like shape to end up in minuscule grains which slightly differ one from the other.

The 1988 campaign pitted the coalition of minority students, the Third World Coalition, against the candidates put forth by members of Greek system ( this antagonism continues today ).

Near the end of the War of Wrath that pitted Morgoth ’ s hosts against the Host of the Valar, Morgoth sent Ancalagon leading a fleet of winged dragons from the fortress of Angband to destroy the Dark Lord ’ s enemies.

The next year, 1973, Cuero sent a turkey and a delegation of handlers to Worthington, to be pitted against a Worthington bird in what was billed as the Great Gobbler Gallop on Worthington ’ s 10th Street.

McGee offers the example of Richard Nixon ’ s attempt to defend his decision not to turn over documents to Congress during the Watergate investigation by invoking “ the principle of confidentiality .” Recognizing that his refusal to submit to Congress could be seen as a violation of the “ rule of law ,” Nixon pitted “ the principle of confidentiality ” against the “ rule of law ,” despite the fact that these two ideographs would, in the abstract, not likely be seen as in conflict with one another ..

In the game ’ s early years, except during World War I, the Rose Bowl always pitted a team — not necessarily the conference champion — from the Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC ), the predecessor of the current Pacific-12 Conference, against an opponent from the Eastern U. S. During the last two years of World War I, teams from military bases met in the Rose Bowl.

It is along these lines that Hanslick became one of Brahms ’ s champions ( although he did not rave about every piece, notably the Third Symphony ), and often pitted him against Wagner.

The garrison consisted of only 180 soldiers, 50 European volunteers, 60 European militia, 150 Armenian and Portuguese militia, 35 European artillery-men and 40 volunteers from ships and was pitted against the Nawab ’ s force of nearly 50, 000 infantry and cavalry.

* Rictaxis punctostriatus ( C. B. Adams, 1840 ) Adam ’ s baby bubble, pitted baby bubble

Rather, some within MAB felt that the organisation ’ s anti-war activities had pitted it too publicly and forcefully against the British establishment, taking it away from what they considered its primary purposes – religious and cultural.

The final trial pitted the prosecution ’ s 40-year-old version of events, which held that Rideau lined up his victims before shooting them and that Ferguson begged for her life, against the defense ’ s contention that Rideau reacted impulsively-first, when a phone call interrupted the robbery, and then when employee Dora McCain jumped from the car and ran and the other two employees followed suit, and that the killing was done in panic rather than premeditatively.

The modern history of the Federation Council begins during the 1993 Constitutional Crisis that pitted President Boris Yeltsin ’ s unpopular neoliberal and governmental structure reforms against the increasingly radical Congress of People ’ s Deputies, then the nation ’ s legislature.

Developing solidarity between the groups include critical dialogue on shared and disparate experiences as disempowered and excluded groups in society and ‘ deconstructing ’ the experiences that pitted these groups against one another economically and socially.

However, experiments that pitted Portias against " convincing " artificial spiders with arbitrary but consistent behavior patterns showed that Portia ’ s instinctive tactics are only starting points for a trial-and-error approach from which these spiders learn very quickly.

In 2006, Dynamite Entertainment published a cross over that pitted Darkman against Sam Raimi ’ s Ash Williams of the Evil Dead / Army of Darkness franchise.

The MCC stated that " the OHRC has become the virtual organ of Canada ’ s Islamist organizations and that it has taken sides in the bitter struggle within Canada ’ s Muslim community where sharia-supporting Islamists are pitted against liberal and secular Muslims " and that " the OHRC decision had the finger prints of its pro-Islamist commissioners who have close association with the Canadian Islamic Congress.

However it is necessary to check periodically the maximum opening gap of the breaker ( s ), using a feeler gauge, since this mechanical adjustment affects the " dwell " time during which the coil charges, and breakers should be re-dressed or replaced when they have become pitted by electric arcing.

This second resurgence of the Hook and Cod wars pitted Jacqueline, her third husband Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and the party of the Hooks, against the Cods, represented by a coalition of John IV, his cousin Philip the Good, and John III of Hainaut.

The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail.

By the end of 1946, the Communist Democratic Army of Greece had been formed, pitted against the governmental National Army, which was backed first by Britain and after 1947 by the United States.

Voight played a blunt, autocratic football coach, pitted in a test of wills against his star player, portrayed by James Van Der Beek.

This was predicated by an attempt on Luthor's part to link Superman to a kryptonite asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth, claiming that he had ' evidence '- which he declined to share while claiming that it would make the public laud his actions if they knew it-that the asteroid was being drawn to Earth by Superman, offering a billion dollar reward for Superman's capture that pitted Superman and Batman against an army of villains, all of whom they defeated.

The Champaran agitation pitted the local peasantry against their largely British landlords who were backed by the local administration.

* 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.

Olives can also be flavoured by soaking in a marinade or pitted and stuffed.

The conflict was decided by the Battle of Bouvines on 27 July 1214, which pitted Otto, allied to King John of England against Philip II Augustus.

The Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels, initiated by Michael Avallone and Valerie Moolman, but authored anonymously, ran to over 260 separate books between 1964 and the early 1990s and invariably pitted American, Soviet and Chinese spies against each other.

The UC / Bechtel led corporation-Los Alamos National Security, LLC ( LANS )-was pitted against a team formed by the University of Texas System partnered with Lockheed-Martin.

The battle pitted Frankish and Burgundian forces under Austrasian Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel, against an army of the Umayyad Caliphate led by ‘ Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Governor-General of al-Andalus.

These pitted surfaces further reduce the flow of water through the xylem by as much as 30 %.

After President Zafy's impeachment by the National Assembly in 1996 and the short quasi-presidency of Norbert Ratsirahonana, the 1997 elections once again pitted Zafy and Ratsiraka, with Ratsiraka this time emerging victorious.

In 1937, Avery pitted Porky against a plucky black duck who soon was christened Daffy and who became the studio's biggest star ( until he himself was replaced by Bugs Bunny ).

It pitted a 4, 787-man contingent led by Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest against an 8, 100-strong Union force led by Brigadier General Samuel D. Sturgis.

On 22 September 1957, presidential elections pitted Louis Déjoie, a mulatto land-owner and industrialist from the north of Haiti, against Duvalier, who was backed by the military.

It was followed up by another series Robin II: Joker's Wild which pitted Tim against his predecessor's murderer the Joker.

Planned by promoters Bob Arum and Don King, it pitted WBC world champion Oscar de la Hoya, a Mexican-American, versus Puerto Rican IBF world champion Félix Trinidad.

This conflict pitted the forces of the old order against those inspired by the French Revolution and the Rights of Man.

The Lalitavistara Sutra ( a Mahayana Buddhist work ) recounts a contest including writing, arithmetic, wrestling and archery, in which the Buddha was pitted against the great mathematician Arjuna and showed off his numerical skills by citing the names of the powers of ten up to 1 ' tallakshana ', which equals 10 < sup > 53 </ sup >, but then going on to explain that this is just one of a series of counting systems that can be expanded geometrically.

Similarly, his 1990 track " Vane ", which pitted two different versions of the song " You're So Vain " ( the Carly Simon original and a cover by Faster Pussycat ) against each other, was a blueprint for the contemporary pop subgenre, ' glitch pop ' or ' mashup ( music )'.

The war also spread to Tripoli and Antioch, where the Embriaco family, descended from Genoese crusaders, were pitted against Bohemond VI of Antioch, who supported the Venetians.

In a high profile chart battle, Williams ' album was pitted against X Factor 2008 runners-up JLS who released their debut album the same day.

On August 3, 2012, Eastwood attended a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, stating that Romney would boost the country and " restore a decent tax system ... so that there's a fairness and people are not pitted against one another as who's paying taxes and who isn't.

Foot racing competitions evolved from wagers between aristocrats, who pitted their footman against that of another aristocrat in order to determine a winner.

Creon is pitted against Antigone who holds up the will of the gods and the honor of her family above all else, and thus he appears to be against these values.

A bitter strike in the 1940s pitted union workers against the railroad and scab labor who were still feeling the effects of the Great Depression.

This business arrangement pitted the band and CD Presents in a pitched battle against San Francisco-based promoter Bill Graham, who negotiated with concert venue owners and San Francisco government officials to deprive PiL of a concert location.

Plunkett was also a veteran of the Pennamite-Yankee War which pitted settlers from Connecticut to the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania against those who had been established in Pennsylvania prior to the Connecticut settlers arrival.

Joan Comay, co-author of Who's Who in the Bible: The Old Testament and the Apocrypha, The New Testament, believes that the biblical story of Samson is so specific concerning time and place that Samson was undoubtedly a real person who pitted his great strength against the oppressors of Israel.

The vestments controversy pitted Cranmer, who supported the wearing of clerical garments, against Hooper, Martyr and Jan Laski, the pastor of the Stranger church in London.

" Rednecks " began with a description of segregationist Lester Maddox pitted against a " smart-ass New York Jew " on a TV show, in a song that criticizes both southern racism and the complacent bigotry of Americans outside of the south who stereotype all southerners as racist yet ignore racism in northern and midwestern states and large cities.

Fought on August 21, 1981, at the Caesars Palace hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, it pitted Wilfredo Gómez, a Puerto Rican who had a record of 32 wins, 0 losses, 1 draw, and all his wins by knockout, and who was the world's Jr. Featherweight champion, against the lesser known Salvador Sánchez, who hailed from Mexico with a record of 40 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw.

( The Colonel reappears in " Dog Gone South ", this time pitted against Charlie Dog, and accompanied by a bulldog named Belvedere, who resembles Hector the Bulldog ).

His first match pitted him against pro wrestler and longtime RINGS Fighting Network competitor Yoshihisa Yamamoto, who he finished by TKO at 2: 44 of the first round.

UK racing journalist Gavin Trippe envisioned a racing event that would prove who the best motorcycle racer was and from 1980 to 1985, he organized a yearly event called " The Superbikers ," which pitted the top road racers and motocross racers against one another on specially modified bikes raced on special tracks on the television show.

The Immortals were pitted against the Celts who they defeated.

A feature length animated telefilm, Jonny's Golden Quest, was produced by HannaBarbera for USA Network in 1993, which again pitted the Quest team against Dr. Zin, who murders Jonny's mother in the film.