Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus ' style and under his name, attacking Athens, Sparta, and Thebes.

Using a more open and attacking style than usually used by Italian sides, he coached Italy to a second-place finish in Euro 2000, suffering an extra-time defeat at the hands of France in the final, when in the 90th minute of the game, Italy were 1-0 up and less than sixty seconds from winning the tournament before France scored to equalise and go to extra time.

Praising his portrayal of society while attacking his prose style, Flaubert once wrote: " What a man he would have been had he known how to write!

Both were advocates of a continental style of attacking football, and Wenger's decision to impose a strict fitness and health regime pleased Bergkamp.

He wowed fans by replacing the long ball style which had been so successful with a new " Samba style ", which saw the Town playing attacking football.

Part of this change was the new " diamond formation " which Ardiles implemented: a 4-4-2 style with left-sided, right-sided, attacking and defensive midfielders.

Their attacking quartet of Emilín, Galé, Herrerita and Isidro Lángara ( all represented Spain in this period ), as well as Casuco and Ricardo Gallart modernised the game with their pace and running off the ball tied with sharp passing and one-touch football, played in a style 30 / 40 years before its time, being dubbed Delanteras Eléctricas (" The electric forwards "); all this was connected with a rigid training and fitness regime started by a former manager of the club, English Fred Pentland.

" Big book, big evil " ( μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν, mega biblion, mega kakon ) is another of his verses, attacking long, old-fashioned poetry using the very style Callimachus proposed to replace it.

Although Steinitz became " world number one " by winning in the all-out attacking style that was common in the 1860s, he unveiled in 1873 a new positional style of play and demonstrated that it was superior to the previous style.

Depending on the style of play of a player in his mid-games he may wish to risk material or losing by attacking or may play defensively, digging in until the end game comes where he may feel more confident.

Widely regarded as a creative genius and the best attacking player of all time, he played in a daring, combinational style.

Ultimately though, Mayweather managed to adjust to Cotto's new rhythm of attacking in flurries and used his now-newly-tweaked counter-punching style to win a lot of the final rounds, in what people thought had secured Mayweather the decision victory.

The club greatest success was in the 1950s, where they were FA Cup semi – finalists in 1954 and won two divisional titles with Freddie Steele's " Iron Curtain " defence and then Norman Low's more attacking style.

Many journalists and coaches have called that style of play a brilliant counter attacking style.

Throughout the tournament, Germany impressed by playing an attractive, attacking style of football.

In his early days, he was known for a brilliant and sharp attacking style.

In his quarter-final against Ronnie O ' Sullivan, however, White reverted to his more familiar all-out attacking style and lost the first session 1 – 7.

In county cricket, Hobbs developed an attractive, attacking style of play where he scored quickly, and he was very successful in the years approaching the First World War.

B. Allen continued to write articles attacking trade unions and supporting De Leonist style Socialist Industrial Unions.

The result was The Analyst, conceived as a satire attacking the foundations of mathematics with the same vigor and style as ' free-thinkers ' routinely attacked religious truths.

Drop kicks are mandatory from the centre spot to start a half ( a kick-off ), from the centre spot to restart the game after points have been scored, to restart play from the 22-metre line ( called a drop-out ) after the ball is touched down or made dead in the in-goal area by the defending team when the attacking team kicked or took the ball into the in-goal area, and to score a drop goal ( sometimes called a field goal ) in open play, which is worth three points.

When a defender successfully stops an attacking player ( who loses the ball over a line ), the play is stopped and restarted by the attacking team from the spot of the infraction or on the nine-meter line.

A former high-ranking KGB officer, Securitate General Ion Mihai Pacepa stated in 2007 that Hochhuth's play and numerous publications attacking Pius XII as a Nazi sympathizer were fabrications that were part of a KGB and Eastern bloc Marxist secret services disinformation campaign, named Seat 12, to discredit the moral authority of the Church and Christianity in the west.

The First Test in Brisbane ended in the first tie in Test history, which came about after Benaud and Alan Davidson, rather than settle for a draw, decided to risk defeat and play an attacking partnership, which took Australia to the brink of victory.

It was hoped that the golden goal would produce more attacking play during extra-time, and would reduce the number of penalty shootouts.

Play ‘ Game of Domination ’ to attack all cells on given chess board with provided ( minimum possible ) number of chess pieces of a type, or play ‘ Game of Independence ’ to place maximum number of chess pieces of a type that can be put on given chess board without attacking each other.

Mao began a drive to regain power in 1965, which commenced by attacking a certain playwright who made a stage play that indirectly attacked him.

This tournament saw the return of free-flowing, attacking play after the physical battles of 1962 and 1966, and is considered by many to be the finest World Cup in history.

Individually, it refers to attacking the enemy's sword, breaking it, removing it from play, and a technique of controlling it through direct blade on blade contact.

Vol. 1 1485-1866 by Levy and O ' Connell ), opening move collections, or collections centered on tactical or strategic themes ( e. g. games featuring brilliant defense, attacking play, endgame technique, and so on ).

One riddle, as stated in Hauksbók, refers to " the weaponless maids who fight around their lord, the ever sheltering and the ever attacking him ," although there is controversy over whether the word weaponless refers to the maids or, as in other versions, to the king himself, which may support the argument that a " weaponless king " cannot take part in captures ( see # Balance of play ).

A power play resulting from a simple minor penalty ends if the attacking team scores.

* Dump or Quickie: a quick rollball to further attacking opportunities from the ensuing play.

It forces the attacking team to stop and restart play ( see rollball ).

The method was characterised by a defensive resilience, built as it was around the England internationals Bert Williams in goal and Billy Wright at half-back, but also incorporated quick movement of the ball and swift attacking support for the player in possession, particularly around the wing play of Johnny Hancocks and Jimmy Mullen.

In a match where Madrid's attacking play made headlines, he made several fine saves and exuded an air of calm solidity and confidence, particularly on crosses, earning a clean sheet in the process.

Bronstein wrote that Keres was ordered to draw his second cycle game with Smyslov, to conserve Smyslov's fading physical strength ; Keres, who still had his own hopes of winning the event, tried as White to win an attacking game, but instead lost because of Smyslov's excellent play.

With the rise of drilled and trained infantry, the mounted men-at-arms, now sometimes called gendarmes and often part of the standing army themselves, adopted the same role as in the Hellenistic age, that of delivering a decisive blow once the battle was already engaged, either by charging the enemy in the flank or attacking their commander-in-chief.

In 1860, Belgium formally adopted the song and music as its national anthem, although the then prime minister, Charles Rogier edited out lyrics attacking the Dutch Prince of Orange.

The offside trap is a defensive tactic designed to " trap " the attacking team into an offside position, pioneered in the early twentieth century by Notts County and later adopted by influential Argentinian coach Osvaldo Zubeldía.

Generally, the two adopted the Bosnian Muslim official nationalist view of Kusturica as a " traitor who crossed over to the enemy side thus turning his back on his city, his ethnic roots, and his nation ", often publicly attacking him along similar lines.

From then on the paper became the voice of the pro-war democratic left in the Labour Party, taking a position similar to that adopted by Gollancz in his famous edited volume attacking the communists for backing the Nazi-Soviet pact, Betrayal of the Left.

The U. S. Navy adopted the M1 helmet as protection for its gunners, particularly those engaged in anti-aircraft weapons operation due to the expectation that gunners would be exposed to hostile machine gun fire from attacking aircraft, ordnance, as well as falling shrapnel from their own anti-aircraft fire.

The Japanese adopted the same stubborn resistance as on Saipan, retreating during the day and attacking at night.

Sherman had at this point adopted a strategy of attacking the railroad lines into Atlanta, hoping to cut off his enemies ' supplies.

However, despite a brief return to Damascus he was not reconciled with al-Asad, and in 1978, after a meeting with him ended without agreement, he launched a press campaign against the Syrian government in power from his exile in Paris, attacking it in a new magazine which he entitled al-Ihyaa ' al -' arabi in an echo of the name he and Aflaq had first adopted almost forty years earlier.

She adopted a somewhat more congenial attitude towards Chief Minister Clare Martin than her predecessor and tended to be more subtle in her means of attacking Martin.

The area surrounding the town and the approaches was covered by scrub and the rebel strategy adopted was to advance under cover attacking the town simultaneously from several points.

Pe ' er originally played with a " counter-puncher " style, but by 2010 she had adopted a more attacking style of play.