Additionally, since you're going to be hors de combat pretty soon with sprue, yaws, Delhi boil, the Granville wilt, liver fluke, bilharziasis, and a host of other complications of the hex you've aroused, you mustn't expect to be lionized socially.

Though he knew no more about military science and tactics than any other desk officer, he managed to get transferred to the combat forces.

But on Cemetery Hill, the I Corps could muster only a third of its men as effective for duty and the corps was essentially destroyed as a combat force for the rest of the battle ; it would be decommissioned in March 1864, its surviving units combined into other corps.

However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

There are stories that it would take 10 men to carry his sword, and that Afonso would want to engage other monarchs in personal combat, but no one would dare accept his challenge.

* Medium tanks-mid-sized, adequately armoured, respectably gunned, fairly mobile tanks ; intended to provide an optimum balance of characteristics for maneuver combat ; primarily used against hostile tanks and other AFV's.

Moscow quickly supplied Bulgaria with T-34 / 85 tanks, SU-100 guns, Il-2 attack planes and other new combat machinery.

Battles can be planned, encountered, or forced by one force on the other when the latter is unable to withdraw from combat.

A victory in the battle is achieved when one of the opposing sides forces the other to abandon its mission, or to surrender its forces, or routs the other, i. e., forces it to retreat or renders it militarily ineffective for further combat operations.

The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

While early initiatives in the Colombian peace process gave reason for optimism, the Pastrana administration also has had to combat high unemployment and other economic problems, such as the fiscal deficit and the impact of global financial instability on Colombia.

Sections and commissariats to combat counterrevolution were established in other cities.

In the US the term " combat engineer vehicle ( CEV )" is used, in the UK the term " Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers ( AVRE )" is used, while in Canada and other commonwealth nations the term " armoured engineer vehicle ( AEV )" is used.

Another type of CEVs are armoured fighting vehicles which are used to transport sappers ( combat engineers ) and can be fitted with a bulldozer's blade and other mine-breaching devices.

While the Amorphs have the ability to move fast, quietly, and sprout appendages at will, they excel at ' closer-than-melee-range combat, primarily " meme-toxins " against other Amorphs.

According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".

In other words, by the simple fact that he was regarded as a hero, de Gozon was identified with a category, an archetype, which equipped him with a mythical biography from which it was impossible to omit combat with a reptilian monster.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

The other called for the Council to find means to study the relations of language to public policy, to keep track of, publicize, and combat semantic distortion by public officials, candidates for office, political commentators, and all those who transmit through the mass media.

On the other hand, for some cultures and military organizations the dagger symbolizes courage and daring in combat.

It has about 579 combat aircraft and 149 armed helicopters as it continues to fly extensively upgraded MiG-21s, F-7 Skybolts, F-4 Phantoms, Dassault Mirage Vs, and the C-130 Hercules among other planes.

This will sometimes make combat last longer than in other games.

EverQuest allows players to interact with other people through role-play, joining player guilds, and dueling other players ( in restricted situations -- EQ only allows Player versus Player ( PVP ) combat on the PvP-specific server, specified " arena " zones and through agreed upon dueling ).

The martial art of boxing was practiced in the ancient Mediterranean Sea | MediterraneanThe martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practices.

This is a later time period and practices a greater emphasis on elusiveness and simplified trapping unique to Bruce's later approach to combat.

Founded in 1973, ShoreBank sought to combat racist lending practices in Chicago's African-American communities by providing financial services, especially mortgage loans, to local residents.

The same kind of ritualistic actions are still widely used in order to achieve the psychological unity of participants in various religious practices, as well in military forces to prepare soldiers for the combat situations

His most notable surgical practices were performed on some sixteen Korean combat casualties who were loaded onto the Cayuga.

To combat the price of consumer goods the state took measures to decrease inflation and enact reforms on the internal practices of the factories.

It is rumoured that several top fire performers are forming a safety alliance to combat such practices.

* Martial artist, someone skilled in codified practices and traditions of combat

The numerous combat practices and tank drives have had a grave impact on the vegetation.

Martial arts – systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat.

This category pertains to martial arts ( fighting systems or codified practices of combat ) but is meant as a super-category with only a few very general entries.

The Federal Trade Commission, for example, has used the FTC Act to combat an array of unfair trade practices in the art market.

Sanshou is a martial art which was originally developed by the Chinese military based upon the study and practices of traditional Kung fu and modern combat fighting techniques ; it combines full-contact kickboxing, which include punches and kicks, with wrestling, takedowns, throws, sweeps, kick catches, and in some competitions, even elbow and knee strikes.

William E. Fairbairn and later Rex Applegate enumerated many of the early combat pistol practices developed during their training of Office of Strategic Services and British Commando troops in World War II.

The term awareness raising is used in the Yogyakarta Principles against discriminatory attitudes and LGBT stereotypes, as well as the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to combat stereotypes, prejudices, and harmful practices toward people with disabilities.

Standard Canadian Forces practices calls for combat arms and combat support arms members to undergo a least two weeks of winter warfare training, in addition to yearly refresher course.

This is often employed to combat fraudulent practices such as violin forgery and other forms of misrepresentation.

To combat these and other such practices, the buyer may do well to consult an authenticator to confirm the maker, date, quality and price before purchasing an instrument, particularly when there are huge sums of money at stake.

A few groups are training historical combat such as longsword dueling and dussack fighting at universities, but the majority of combat reenactment groups are battlefield reenactment groups, some of which have become isolated to some degree because of a strong focus on authenticity ( some groups refuse to fight groups representing different or wider periods, even if the combat practices would be entirely compatible otherwise ).

In its N. F. P. S days, the society consisted of some thirty core members, including the ' Odin Guard ' an elite combat group maintaining Norse Heathen religious practices and values, but which eventually left the society during the leadership of Gerry East, whose recruitment tactics eventually took the membership into the three hundred plus bracket.

Responding to questions about slavery, the Polisario has acknowledged the survival, " to a limited extent, of certain practices related to antiquated thinking " and said it was " determined to combat and eradicate them whenever they emerge and no matter what shape they take.