Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.

Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword.

Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, or combatants.

William the Breton also says in his column that the two lines of combatants were separated by a small space.

The strife in the divine realm extends beyond the two combatants.

The cases in which the combatants divide the kingdom, and the frequent association of the paired Horus and Set with the union of Upper and Lower Egypt, suggest that the two deities represent some kind of division within the country.

Both the dohyō-iri, or ring-entering ceremonies performed by the top two divisions before the start of their wrestling day, and in the rituals performed by both combatants immediately before a bout, are derived from Shinto.

In 2005, an estimated 11, 000 children were involved with left-wing guerrillas or right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia according to Human Rights Watch and " pproximately 80 percent of child combatants in Colombia belong to one of the two left-wing guerrilla groups, the FARC or ELN.

On hearing the noise, Adrastus hastened to them and separated the combatants, in whom he immediately recognised the two men that had been promised to him by an oracle as the future husbands of two of his daughters, for one bore on his shield the figure of a boar, and the other that of a lion, and the oracle was that one of his daughters was to marry a boar and the other a lion.

It looks in some ways like a cartoon, as the story unrolls -- two combatants Anglo-Saxon English, led by Harold Godwinson, recently crowned as King of England ( before that a powerful earl ), and the Normans, led by William the Conqueror fight a battle over the control of what was then England ( 1066 CE ).

The Geneva Conventions do not recognize any lawful status for combatants in conflicts not involving two or more nation states.

These terms thus divide combatants in a war zone into two classes: those in armies and organised militias and the like ( lawful combatants ), and those who are not.

On 4 June 2007, in two separate cases, military tribunals dismissed charges against detainees who had been designated as " enemy combatants " but not as " unlawful enemy combatants ".

On April 9, after two days of testimony, McCarty was found guilty of the murder of Sheriff Brady, the only conviction ever secured against any of the combatants in the Lincoln County War.

The game is played with two playing boards and counters representing the naval fleets and air forces of the two combatants.

They were based upon two principles: that war should be restricted to combatants and any means adopted which offended that principle should be proscribed ancient principle had been articulated by Honore Bonet in the 15th century and was based upon the proposition that war was a relation between state and state and not between man and man ; second was the principle that the means to attain victory in war were not unlimited.

Two Roman wrestlers were engaged in a particularly intense match and had been fighting for such a substantial length of time that the match had degraded to the two combatants doing little more than leaning into one another with their body weight.

The charge of the Heavy Brigade was anything but a charge – the brigade had launched uphill from a standing start, and the short distance between the two combatants had hardly allowed their horses to reach the trot.

One popular idea of the Flower Wars is that it was a special institutionalized kind of warfare where two enemy states would plan battles through mutual arrangement in order to satisfy the religious needs of both combatants for war captives to use in sacrificial rituals, but also, possibly, to train young warriors and enable social mobility which for the lower classes was primarily possible through military service.

British naval forces also returned to more usual levels, with two surface combatants, a tanker and a repair ship present in early July.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

Reference to two other concepts -- nationalism and sovereignty -- may help to reveal the contours of the new principle.

the two may in fact be identical.

They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

These illiterate boors conscripted from villages all across the Czarina's empire had, Suvorov may have told Lewis, just two things a commander could count on: physical fitness and personal courage.

This session, for instance, may have insured a financial crisis two years from now.

The military in Taiwan believe that the Communists have made two mistakes, which, together, may prove fatal.

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Results of this experiment include the frequencies of the two strong spectral lines by which OH may be identified in interstellar gas ; ;

Funds allotted in addition to their minimum allotment are apportioned to the two agencies as they may determine.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

A turnout may have two levers, one to actually move the switch points, the other to lock the points.

Westinghouse has a similar system, with two classifications representing various levels of competence on the strictly technical side: consulting engineer or scientist, as the case may be, and advisory engineer or scientist.

Occasionally, you may come across one or two bumblebees in the cold season, when you are turning over sods in your garden, but you have to be a really keen observer to see them at all.

Where boundary maintenance describes the boundaries or limits of the group, systemic linkage is defined `` as the process whereby one or more of the elements of at least two social systems is articulated in such a manner that the two systems in some ways and on some occasions may be viewed as a single unit.

Furthermore, it may be possible to estimate the error due to bias in method ( as distinguished from sampling error ) in each of these sources, on such subjects as fertility, mortality, and migration during a given interval by using information from two largely independent sources in conjunction.

Though the methods of deciding may be profound and diverse, the possible conclusions remain but two.

We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.

Any example of grand or exquisite diction may have been created by the poet who compiled numerous lays into the two works we possess or may be due to one of his completely unknown fellow-craftsmen.

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Proceeding in this way, from one to two and from two to three stages, we may gradually build up the policy for any number.