") He was determined not to fight until he thought there had been sufficient preparation for a decisive victory, and put into action his beliefs with the gathering of resources, detailed planning, the training of troops — especially in clearing minefields and fighting at night — and in the use of 252 of the latest American-built Sherman tanks, 90 M7 Priest self-propelled howitzers, and making a personal visit to every unit involved in the offensive.

Some blamed him for not doing enough against the Japanese forces in the lead-up to, and during, the Second Sino-Japanese War, preferring to withhold his armies for the fight against the Communists, or merely waiting and hoping that the United States would get involved.

He spends the night holding vigil over his armor, where he becomes involved in a fight with muleteers who try to remove his armor from the horse trough so that they can water their mules.

This did nothing for her popularity in Christendom – as did the blame affixed to her baggage, and the fact that her Aquitainian soldiers had marched at the front, and thus were not involved in the fight.

The Kuomintang was extensively involved in the Kham region, recruiting the Khampa people to both oppose the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government, fight the Communist Red Army, and crush the influence of local Chinese warlords who did not obey the central government.

In custody, he is involved in a fight where another inmate is badly hurt.

" According to Carr, an important advantage was that " if Soviet Russia had eventually to fight Hitler, the Western Powers would already be involved.

Those troops along with various paramilitary forces are involved in a protracted fight against extremists in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

UU's were and are still very involved in the fight to end racism in the United States.

She becomes involved with Logan Cale ( Michael Weatherly ), an underground cyber-journalist with the alias Eyes Only, who recruits her to help fight corruption in the post-Pulse world, while at the same time she makes a living as a bicycle messenger at a courier company named Jam Pony along with her friends Original Cindy ( Valarie Rae Miller ), Herbal Thought ( Alimi Ballard ), and Sketchy ( Richard Gunn ).

A third method, developed by Funk and Buchman, and refined by others, classifies electronic games into six categories: general entertainment ( no fighting or destruction ), educational ( learning or problem solving ), fantasy violence ( cartoon characters that must fight or destroy things, and risk being killed, in order to achieve a goal ), human violence ( like fantasy violence, but with human rather than cartoon characters ), nonviolent sports ( no fighting or destruction ), and sports violence ( fighting or destruction involved ).

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

La Tomatina () is a festival that is held in the Valencian town of Buñol, a town located 30 km from the Mediterranean, in which participants throw tomatoes and get involved in this tomato fight purely for fun.

The names of the beings involved in this flooding include Ua-nui ( terrible rain ), Ua-roa ( long-continued rain ), Ua-whatu ( fierce hailstorms ), and Ua-nganga ( sleet ); after these, their children in turn took up the fight: Hau-maringi ( mist ), Hau-marotoroto ( heavy dew ), and Tōmairangi ( light mist ) ( Grey 1956: 10-11, Grey 1971: 5 ).

He had to vacate the title when he was involved in a car crash and he said that doctors told him he'd never fight again.

In the early days of his film career, Hung was involved in a street fight outside a Kowloon nightclub, and was stabbed with a broken cola bottle.

Two years later, in 1887, it was involved in the bloodiest county seat fight in the history of the American West.

In the fight, Robinson, who only a month before had been involved in a 10 round brawl with Artie Levine, was knocked down by Bell.

Arthur's main protagonist in the fight is Bedwyr, later known as Sir Bedivere, and an earlier reference in the poem indicates that the euhemerized god Manawydan is involved as well.

The heroes began to fight communists, and some got involved in the Korean War.

Fans didn't seem to care that no world title belt would be involved that afternoon, and they packed the fight venue when Zarate and Zamora met in the LA suburb of Inglewood, California, at the Fabulous Forum on April 23 of ' 77.

After retiring, he and Saddler involved in a series of exhibition bouts, and in 1980, Pep sued Sports Illustrated for running a story suggesting that he threw his fight with Perez.

Downey was involved in a fight in a nightclub in Denmark in February, and Gorham was suffering from drug-induced exhaustion.

This was followed by another pub fight in North Belfast in March and this time the UVF members returned armed and shot and killed both Goatley and Fulton, who had been involved in the earlier fight.

`` I ain't going to fight you no more ''.

This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.

Because of the split in the Conservative Party and because of Disraeli's unpopularity, arising from the budget fight of 1852, which is outlined above, no Conservative reconciliation remained possible so long as Disraeli remained leader in the House of Commons.

Accidental fouls that cause injury ending a bout may lead to a " no contest " result, or else cause the fight to go to a decision if enough rounds ( typically four or more, or at least three in a four-round fight ) have passed.

: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.

For ten minutes after the explosion there was no firing ; sailors from both sides were either too shocked by the blast or desperately extinguishing fires aboard their own ships to continue the fight.

Following the Isshi Incident, Iruka's adherents dispersed largely without a fight, and Naka no Ōe was named heir apparent.

Mrs. Phelps has a husband named Pete who was called in to fight in the upcoming war ( and believes that he'll be back in a week because of how quick the war will be ) and thinks having children serves no purpose other than to ruin lives.

As a result, only 7, 000 to 10, 000 troops participated in the Finnish Civil War, of which no more than 4, 000, in separate smaller units of 100-1, 000 men, could be persuaded to fight in the front line.

Since Ritchie had virtually no armoured units left fit to fight, the infantry positions would be defeated in detail.

So the gladiator, no matter how faint-hearted he has been throughout the fight, offers his throat to his opponent and directs the wavering blade to the vital spot.

With understanding, compassion, and tenderness he explains that he cannot personally refuse to fight, and comforts her with the idea that no one can take him until it is his time to go.

For if they won't fight, we can do no more.

The Prince of Wales, the Legion's patron, made a much-publicized speech at the Legion's annual conference in June 1935 stating he could think of no better group of men than those of the Legion to visit and carry the message of peace to Germany, and stated that he hoped that Britain and Germany would never fight again.

If all of the rounds expire with no knockout then the fight is scored by a team of 3 judges.

The response arrived on 21 February, but the proposed terms were so harsh that even Lenin briefly thought that the Soviet government had no choice but to fight.

Some doubt has been cast on this final battle, as the Hyoho senshi denki has Musashi saying he is " no lord's vassal " and refusing to fight with his father ( in Lord Ukita's battalion ) in the battle.

First, the failure of the previous status quo seemed self-evident to a generation that had seen millions die fighting over scraps of earth — prior to the war, it had been argued that no one would fight such a war, since the cost was too high.

Almost by definition opponents of the Vikings were ill prepared to fight a force that struck at will, with no warning.

Professors Saikrishna Prakash and John Yoo point out, with respect to the ratification of the Constitution, that " no scholar to date has identified even one participant in the ratification fight who argued that the Constitution did not authorize judicial review of Federal statutes.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

A no disqualification match can still end by countout ( although this is rare ); typically, a match must be declared a " no holds barred " match, a " street fight " or some other term, in order for both DQs and countouts to be waived.

When Hasdrubal finally made it to the scene, he was in no position to fight the Roman army and merely caught their navy personnel off-guard, killing some of them in the process.