Most ancient naval battles were fought by fast ships using the battering ram to sink opposing fleets or steer close enough for boarding in hand-to-hand combat.

Most modern combat aircraft can carry a pair of basic air-to-air missiles and some of the larger fighters such as the Sukhoi Su-27 can carry as many as 12.

Most MUDs restrict player versus player combat, often abbreviated as PK ( Player Killing ).

Most historians believe that the purges significantly impaired the combat capabilities of the Red Army.

Most awards denote excellence in a specific pursuit such as local service, arts and sciences, and combat.

Most markedly real-time strategy games ( such as StarCraft ) deal with combat nearly exclusively, but the gameplay-enhancing conventions of the genre also destroy realism.

Most military combat aircraft have an angle of attack indicator among the pilot's instruments, which lets the pilot know precisely how close to the stall point the aircraft is.

Most of the Allied crews had gained extensive combat experience in the Napoleonic Wars, which had only ended 12 years previously, and were service professionals.

Most of its uses are to combat insects where the adult is the pest, including mosquitoes, several fly species, and fleas.

Most infantry combat, on every scale, is based in some fashion on this military tactic and it is commonly used by aircraft as well.

Most of the post-World War II era air forces have been reluctant to develop fixed-wing combat aircraft specifically for ground-attack.

Most jian today are flexible tai-chi or wushu jian used mainly for ceremonial or performance purposes and not for actual combat.

Most Soviet WWII snipers carried a combat load of 120 rifle cartridges in the field.

Most of the Deacons were war veterans with combat experience from the Korean War and World War II.

Most immediate was a combat pay bonus paid for every strike sortie flown.

Most of his service with the 4th U. S. was in the Pacific Northwest, starting with a topographical survey mission to the Willamette Valley in 1855, during which he became involved with the Yakima War and Rogue River Wars, gaining experience in leading small combat teams, being wounded ( a bullet grazed his nose on March 28, 1857, at Middle Cascade, Oregon Territory ), and some of the diplomatic skills needed for negotiating with Indian tribes.

Most probably the wings were worn only during parades and not during combat, but this explanation is also disputed.

Most tickling is done by parents, siblings and friends and is often a type of rough-and-tumble play, during which time children often develop valuable defensive and combat moves.

Most monsters are contained in " magic portals " and combat will not begin until the player character approaches the portal and releases the monsters inside.

Most tanks of the time did not have this capability, providing the Panzer III with a potential combat advantage.

Most speed and combat models omit the landing gear in the interest of drag and weight reduction, and are hand-launched.

Most other combat organization in-theater continued to operate with both wing and group headquarters or with group headquarters only.

Most believed that he had flown as a fighter pilot in China, although stories that he was a combat ace are probably apocryphal.

Most economists favor the use of automatic stabilization over active or discretionary use of deficits to fight mild recessions ( or surpluses to combat inflation ).

Most of the film took place at night and the filmmakers shot most of the film during the summer when the days were longest and the nights were the shortest.

Most of these conspiracies took place before Claudius ' term as Censor, and may have induced him to review the Senatorial rolls.

Most Acadian fishing activities were overshadowed by the comparatively enormous seasonal European fishing fleets based out of Newfoundland which took advantage of proximity to the Grand Banks.

Most military accidents took place while clearing the minefields in the immediate aftermath of the 1982 conflict or in the process of trying to establish the extent of the minefield perimeters, particularly where no detailed records existed.

Most of them took refuge in the proximity of the nearby Chapel of San Roque, possibly hoping for a rapid reconquest of Gibraltar, which never materialised.

Most trips end up embarrassing because Garfield will pig out, or Jon will do something stupid, including wearing an ugly shirt, which happened one night when he took Liz on a date.

Most accounts of the hanging indicate that it took ten to twenty minutes for Ribbentrop to die.

Most of the army of Jerusalem marched north with Philip, Raymond III, and Bohemond III to attack Hama, and Saladin took the opportunity to invade the kingdom.

Most economists today also contest that the value of capital is limited to the " congealed labor " that it took to build the capital when that capital can increase the productive capability of labor much more than that.

Most of her life, she was known as Maria Feodorovna (), the name which she took when she converted to Orthodoxy immediately before her 1866 marriage to the future Emperor Alexander III.

Most striking was the productivity surge in capital, as Milken … and others took the vast sums trapped in old-line businesses and put them back into the markets.

It is safe to say that there is not one sentence in the New Testament in which the is wholly uniform .” Most of the variation took place within the first three Christian centuries.

Most of these took elements of Marxist economic analysis, but combined them with a more cultural or ideological emphasis.

Most scholars therefore believe that the settlement of the Philistines took place in two stages.

Most of the filming took place in the farmhouse, which was filled with furniture constructed from animal bones and a latex material used as upholstery to give the appearance of human skin.

Most sources agree that Tizoc took power in 1481 ( the Aztec year " 2 House "), succeeding his older brother.

Most of the amalgamations took place in 1967 and the municipality in its present form was created in 1971.

Most probably the fiercest battle took place on August 8 at the eastern gate when the Hungarians tried to invade the fort in large numbers.

Most of them took traditional female jobs.

Most of the featured entertainment took place in the following venues: La Place des Arts ; Expo Theatre ; Place des Nations ; La Ronde and Automotive Stadium.

Most importantly, they sought new domestic trading partners, and took advantage of the political power of Jedidiah Huntington, the Custom Collector.

Most of the foreign civilians, which included a large number of missionaries and businessmen, took refuge in the British legation, the largest of the diplomatic compounds.

Most of the rebels took refuge in Naples, which was besieged in July, but despite the poor health conditions within the city, Roger was not able to take it, and returned to Messina late in the year.

Most of the conflict took place in Catalonia, although the first episode took place in the frontier of Navarre and Aragon.