Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

With powerplants such as these, vertical takeoff and landing combat aircraft could be built.

Analyses such as these four will simultaneously combat the assumptions that tone is impossible and that it is simple.

The new year might see some house-cleaning, either genuine or token, depending upon developments, to give Davis an opportunity to combat some of these criticisms.

Many of these drugs combat the side effects of opioid analgesics, an added bonus.

Many militias and irregular forces adapt civilian vehicles into AFVs ( armored fighting vehicles ) and troop carriers, and in some regional conflicts these " technicals " are the only combat vehicles present.

However, the lack of manoeuvrability of the British forces, combined with lack of open-field tactics to command these numbers, put them at a disadvantage to the Romans, who were skilled at open combat due to their superior equipment and discipline.

The game's extensive rules – which cover diverse subjects such as social interactions, magic use, combat, and the effect of the environment on PCs – help the DM to make these decisions.

Advanced networking features in switches and routers combat these issues through means including spanning-tree protocol to maintain the active links of the network as a tree while allowing physical loops for redundancy, port security and protection features such as MAC lock down and broadcast radiation filtering, virtual LANs to keep different classes of users separate while using the same physical infrastructure, multilayer switching to route between different classes and link aggregation to add bandwidth to overloaded links and to provide some measure of redundancy.

Because of the importance of air superiority, since the dawn of aerial combat armed forces have constantly competed to develop technologically superior fighters and to deploy these fighters in greater numbers, and fielding a viable fighter fleet consumes a substantial proportion of the defense budgets of modern armed forces.

The most powerful of these forces are the Honored Matres, a violent society of women bred and trained for combat and the sexual control of men.

" In order to combat these issues, several organizations have stepped in to set up shelters for physically and sexually abused women, notably the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq ( OWFI ) and MADRE, among others.

As a direct result of these findings traps baited with this cheese have been utilized in strategic locations in some parts of Africa to combat the epidemic of malaria.

The principle is best exemplified by the story of Johnson handing a team of design engineers a handful of tools, with the challenge that the jet aircraft they were designing must be repairable by an average mechanic in the field under combat conditions with only these tools.

However, these are usually intended to provide a vehicle for roleplayed combat, and not as the main objective of the game.

Although these spontaneously created popular forces had participated in several major wars of the Russian Empire, including in combat, they were not obligated to serve for more than one year, and notably departed for home during the 1813 campaign in Germany.

With these grievances, two years of combat ( 1186 – 1188 ) followed, but the situation remained unchanged.

Even with these measures being taken, developers struggle to combat software cracking.

As these operations became more involved in direct combat, a further need for search and rescue and armed escort helicopters was evident.

Wearing swim suits, fins, and dive masks on combat operations, these " Naked Warriors " saw action across the Pacific in every major amphibious landing including: Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Angaur, Ulithi, Peleliu, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Zambales, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Labuan, Brunei Bay, and on 4 July 1945 at Balikpapan on Borneo, which was the last UDT demolition operation of the war.

Using these new diving, swimming, and combat skills, these foreign SEALs took part in combat operations such as the liberation of the capital city.

Rickover found himself frequently and loudly in bureaucratic combat with these senior naval officers, to the point that he almost missed becoming " Admiral " Rickover: Two admiral-selection boards — exclusively made up of admirals — passed over Captain Rickover for promotion, even while he was in the process of becoming famous.

NU acts as a charitable body, helping to fill in many of the shortcomings of the Indonesian government in society ; it funds schools, hospitals, and organizes communities or kampungs into more coherent groups in order to help combat poverty.

Since the tank was never intended to be used in actual combat, it was plagued by weapon and armour shortcomings through its entire life.

This single action led then, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to study British air base defense policy and in condemning memo to the Secretary of State for Air and to the Chief of the Air Staff dated June 29, 1941, Churchill stated he would no longer tolerate the shortcomings of the Royal Air Force ( RAF ) in which half a million RAF personnel had no combat role.

To combat this, they included a digital signature protection method which prevented unauthorized 7800 games from being played on the system.

The bicycle is not suited for combat, but it has been used as a method of reconnaissance as well as transporting soldiers and supplies to combat zones.

Playing Capoeira is both a game and a method of practicing the application of Capoeira movements in simulated combat.

All we know is that it is based on a method of combat used by the precolonial Canarian people.

In some cases, the firearm can be used directly as a weapon without firing a projectile, although this is virtually always a secondary method of attack used in close combat.

He served in the IDF for about 20 years, during which time he developed and refined his unique method for self-defense and hand-to-hand combat.

Some critics of point sparring feel that this method of training teaches habits that result in lower combat effectiveness.

In the case of Thailand, muay Thai evolved from the older muay boran ( ancient boxing ), an unarmed combat method which would have been used by Siamese soldiers after losing their weapons in battle.

To combat the threat of frost, a method developed in Burgundy involves aggressive pruning just prior to budburst.

George Silver ( 1599 ) explains techniques of short staff combat, and states that the use of other polearms and the two-handed sword are based on the same method.

* Kernel-based: This method is difficult both to write and to combat.

Force structuring is the method by which personnel and the weapons and equipment they use are organized and trained for military operations, including combat.

The great Hawaiian warrior king Kamehameha I had an elite force of men armed with very long spears who seem to have fought in a manner identical to European pikemen, despite the usual conception of his people's general disposition for individualistic dueling as their method of close combat.

In America, the Irish code eventually supplanted the usual method of brutal hand-to-hand combat and gave the combat a respectable feel.

The traditional European warfare method of hand-to-hand combat between knights ended in catastrophe when it was deployed against the Mongol forces, as the Mongols were able to keep a distance and advance with superior number.

Psychological research has shown that anonymity increases unethical behavior through what is called: “ the online disinhibition effect .” Many website and online communities have attempted to combat trolling, and not only has there not been a single effective method to discourage anonymity, but arguments exist claiming that removing Internet user ’ s anonymity is an intrusion of their privacy and violates the first amendment.

To provide another method of delivering jeeps and artillery guns by air, the Royal Air Force started experimenting with how to use parachutes to drop them into combat, the jeeps and guns being carried in the large bomb bays of bombers.

To provide another method of delivering jeeps and artillery guns by air, the air force started experiments on parachuting them into combat, carrying the jeeps and guns in the aircrafts ' large bomb bays.

Trial by combat ( also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel ) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses or a confession in which two parties in dispute fought in single combat ; the winner of the fight was proclaimed to be right.

Some of the game rule changes include a count-up system, as opposed to a " combat round " type of in-game time-keeping method.

The combat system is in part based on a rock-paper-scissors method of fighting, as each weapon type has both an advantage and a disadvantage against other types.

Another method which may be used by internet service providers, by specialized services or enterprises to combat spam is to require unknown senders to pass various tests before their messages are delivered.