Alfonso's only brother, Ramiro, had been a Benedictine monk since childhood, and his commitment to the church, his temperament and vow of celibacy made him ill-suited to rule a kingdom under constant military threat and in need of a stable line of succession.

US military maps record an abatis by use of an inverted " V " with a short line extending from it to the right.

* 3rd line – military service ( ET, EA ...)

The company's car production at the Yokohama plant shifted towards military needs just a few years after the first passenger cars rolled off the assembly line, on April 11, 1935.

The train had only one telephone line, inadequate maps, and no signal detachment or radios with which to establish communication and relay military orders.

The American military left Iqaluit in 1963, as intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBM ) diminished the strategic value of the DEW line and Arctic airbases, but Frobisher Bay remained the government's administrative and logistical centre for much of the eastern Arctic.

Much later, he suggested that in modern times, the best scientists and engineers usually have to choose between either doing their work for more or less questionable business and military interests in a Faustian bargain, or not pursuing their line of work at all.

Conrad, who was now the nearest kinsman to Baldwin V in the male line, and had already proved himself a capable military leader, then married Isabella, but Guy refused to concede the crown.

The former NATO military base Naval Air Station Keflavik is used as a setting for an important story line in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.

The ceremony is more than just tourist spectacle, as this small military force is the front line of defence of the Monegasque royal family.

Omri (; short for ) was a king of Israel, successful military campaigner and first in the line of Omride kings that included Ahab, Ahaziah and Joram.

" The comment was described by the blog as " another in a long line of liberal media members bashing the military ," and likened to John Kerry's similar remark from 2006.

Young men were removed from production jobs to serve in military roles, and were replaced on the production line by women.

Steve Jackson Games produced numerous supplements for the line, including details for all of the major races, many of the minor races, interstellar trade, expanded world generation, the military forces of the Third Imperium, and starships.

The territory holds many diverse structures that help provide autonomy for the sovereign state, including a rail line and train station, heliport, post office, radio station ( with extraterritorial antennas in Italy ), military barracks, government palaces and offices, public plaza, part of an audience hall, old defensive wall marking the border, institutions of higher learning, cultural / art centers, and a few embassies.

A line of military trainer aircraft for the Finnish Air Force developed and manufactured by Valmet include the L-70 Vinka and L-90 Redigo.

This line of action became a negative consequences and evidently contributed in a resentment against the military government of East-Pakistan.

Based on the experiences of World War II, proposals were soon made on how to more effectively manage the large combined military establishment over which only the President had direct line authority.

Nevertheless, the United States government takes the place of the Speaker in the line of succession seriously enough that, for example, since shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Speakers have used military jets to fly back and forth to their districts and for other travel.

The novelty of the invention is the focus ; while the invention may in the end accomplish some good, that social end is usually far from the inventor's mind ... inventions seem to be either for the military, especially during World War I ( giant cannon, aerial warship, war tank, and air scout ) or for the wealthy, who buy the Swift Pigeon Special as a private plane, all contributing to the bottom line for Swift Enterprises ... invention is an avocation, a diversion, made possible by wealth and the already existing advanced technology.

Some military exhibition units and special forces units use " ram-air " parachutes, which offer a high degree of maneuverability and are deployed manually ( without a static line ) from the desired altitude.

The GE-600 line of computers was developed by a team led by John Couleur out of work they had done for the military MISTRAM project in 1959.

It was also, at the time the story was written and while Heinlein attended, the opening line for all classes at the military and naval academies ( as well as classes for officers at the various service schools ) in the United States.

At midnight on 10 August 1945, two Army lieutenant colonels arbitrarily selected the 38th parallel as the dividing line, and the division of the peninsula into military occupation zones was agreed by the two superpowers — a northern zone administered by the Soviet Union and a southern zone administered by the United States.

Contentious issues in the HKJIMAC principally concerned the divided city of Jerusalem, the Israeli Mount Scopus enclave, the Latrun salient ( sovereignty of the DMZ ), Arab infiltration across the armistice demarcation line and large scale Israeli military incursions into Jordanian territory.

* 1730-A Belgian Engineer, the Marquis of Verboom, Chief Engineer of the Spanish Royal Engineer Corps, who had taken part in the 1727 siege, arrived in San Roque commissioned by the Spanish government to design a line of fortifications across the isthmus.

The Maginot Line (, ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in light of its experience in World War I, and in the run-up to World War II.

Two telephone wires were placed parallel to the line of fortifications, providing redundancy in the event of a wire getting cut.

* The construction of the Limes, a line of Roman fortifications from the Rhine to the Danube, is begun.

The line of Roman frontier fortifications, the Limes Germanicus, was constructed in the Taunus not far north of Wiesbaden.

As a protection against German threats along the eastern border a strong line of fortifications was constructed between Verdun and Toul and between Épinal and Belfort.

Several archaeological digs in the castro of La Carisa ( municipality of Lena ) have found remnants of a defensive line whose main purpose was to protect the valleys of central Asturias from invaders who came from the Meseta through the Pajares pass: the construction of these fortifications reveals a high degree of organization and cooperation between the several Asturian communities, in order to defend themselves from the southern invaders.

Other factors were the increasing intensity of the anti-war movement in the U. S., the approaching presidential campaign in which Johnson was expected to seek re-election, and McNamara's support — over the objections of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — of construction along the 17th parallel separating South and North Vietnam of a line of fortifications running from the coast of Vietnam into Laos.

In 1838, the fort of Alexandria, renamed Navaginsky a year later, was founded at the mouth of the Sochi River as part of the Black Sea coastal line, a chain of seventeen fortifications set up to protect the area from recurring Circassian resistance.

French Armies lived off the land and when they were confronted by a line of fortifications which they could not out flank, they were unable to continue the advance and were forced to retreat once they had consumed all the provisions of the region in front of the lines.

However, it had no second line of fortifications, nor any fortress.

It features a bastion and fortifications that are part of the Defense line of Amsterdam and the Dutch Water Line.

The town was also defended by a line of fortifications from Elliot's Creek at Boone Hall to Copahee Sound.

The Assyrians built a line of frontier fortifications against the Hittites on the Balikh River.

The line of the town's star-shaped fortifications can still be traced by lines of tall poplar trees and in places by a moat.

He determined against storming this extensive double line of interlocking fortifications.

On 24 February 1917, the German army made a strategic scorched earth withdrawal from the Somme battlefield to the prepared fortifications of the Hindenburg Line, thereby shortening the front line they had to occupy.

The old city was triangular in shape, two sides being bounded by the Rhine and Mosel and the third by a line of fortifications.

The town proper, previously encircled by a continuous line of fortifications, now vanished.

Instead of a supposedly impenetrable defensive line, such fortifications emphasized defence in depth, so that as defenders were forced to pull back or were overrun, the lines of defenders behind them could take over the defence.

** The Molotov Line, a line of fortifications built by the Soviet Union in World War II following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

In a business context, this involves setting up fortifications such as barriers to market entry around a product, brand, product line, market, or market segment.

The Skåne Line (), popularly known as the Per Albin Line () after then-Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, was a 500 kilometer long line of light fortifications erected during World War II around the coast of southern Sweden to protect the country from a possible German or Soviet invasion.

Israel wished to disconnect the two Egyptian arms before it could construct and man strong fortifications along the new defense line.

Upon its discovery in the 19th century, Warren's shaft, part of a system which connects the spring to the city, has been cited as evidence for the plausibility of such a line of attack ; however, the discovery, at the turn of the 21st century, of a set of heavy fortifications, including towers, around the base of the Warren's shaft system and the spring, has made archaeologists now regard this line of attack as implausible, as it would be an attack against one of the most heavily fortified parts, and hardly a surprise.