The defender often finds himself in difficulty, since he cannot counter all threats.

A popular movement was formed to counter this difficulty in a typically Roman manner: wealthy citizens, either alone or in groups, decided to show their patriotism and finance the construction of one ship apiece.

A ROM update was released, reducing the " extra shot power " and " extra shot speed " powerup bonus for Warrior and Wizard, and adding a new points-based difficulty counter to the game.

The difficulty counter caused the game to become more difficult, in 16, 384-point steps, which removed more designated food from the levels, and made the monsters respawn faster.

His reasons for withdrawing were that without artillery support to counter the heavy Boer artillery fire, there was no possibility of defending the position and the extreme difficulty of digging trenches on the summit of Spion Kop left the British soldiers completely exposed.

To counter the difficulty of keying a type-in, some magazines developed checksum programs.

This is the main cause of the player's difficulty in fighting Agents, since when the player is outside bullet time the Agents are able to dodge and counter all hand-to-hand attacks.

Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) labor delegates had a brief, spontaneous lunch counter sit-in during their 1947 Columbus, Ohio convention ..

They had trouble answering the standard security questions, so the counter agent repeated the questions very slowly until the men gave the correct answer.

Schilling and Capdeville counter that it is his function of presiding over the return to peace that gave Janus this epithet, as confirmed by his association on March 30 with Pax, Concordia and Salus, even though it is true that Janus as god of all beginnings presides also over that of war and is thus often called belliger bringer of war as well as pacificus.

The pulpit of St Mary's, the University church, was no longer closed to him, but the success of Balliol in the schools gave rise to jealousy in other colleges, and old prejudices did not suddenly give way ; while a new movement in favour of " the endowment of research " ran counter to his immediate purposes.

The purge gave the warlords an opportunity to rebuild their armies and counter the now weakened Kuomintang.

In April 1935, he gave a series of radio speeches designed to counter Aberhart's popular radio program, Back to the Bible Hour.

To counter their strengthening Muslim neighbours, the Count gave the Knights Hospitaller large stretches of frontier land in 1144.

However, what gave the dictator such great control over Rome was his lack of a colleague to counter him.

The body ’ s first conclusion in 1879 gave way to the defensive Dual Alliance between Austria-Hungary and Germany to counter potential Russian aggression.

The Italians had primitive gas masks, gave no counter fire and had given the Germans all the weather information they needed over their radio.

Since the VF-1's thermonuclear turbofans were not ready for mass production, UN Spacy commanders gave the go ahead to produce a conventionally powered VF in limited numbers as a stop-gap measure to counter the growing Anti-UN Alliance threat.

Motivations of territorial aggression and counter aggression are as old as tribal societies, but the instance of revanchism that gave these furious groundswells of opinion their modern name lies in the strong desire during the French Third Republic to regain Alsace-Lorraine-which France had held since the time of King Louis XIV in the 17th century and which were taken away in the Treaty of Frankfurt, following Emperor Napoleon III's crushing defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 ..

In a masterly move to counter the influence of the grand empress dowager and Temüder, Shidebala appointed the 22-year-old Baiju, a Jalayir and grandson of Antong, who had illustrious family background and good Confucian education, as the grand councillor of the left in the summer of 1320, which gave Shidabala several political advantages.

While the bulk of Army Group Centre was being forced, by the advance of the 1st Ukrainian Front, to withdraw along its lines of communication to the south-west towards Czechoslovakia, the southern flank of 4th Panzer Army had some local successes counter attacking north against the 1st Ukrainian Front, Hitler gave orders which showed that his grasp of military reality had gone.

This gave the Indonesian right-wing some confidence that they would be able to counter PKI militarily.

The British commander gave the order to counter march, which the half trained recruits misinterpreted as a march to the rear.

The advent of proper missile and electronic counter measure technologies gave birth to the idea that, because a missile is far more accurate than a shell and can penetrate even the most heavily armored ship hulls, warships should now be designed to outmaneuver their enemies and get to a better position first.

They come into play with a certain number of + 1 /+ 1 counters, and instead of taking damage, have one counter removed ( But cards that gave a phantom a toughness boost or a + 1 /+ 1 counter, allowed them to stay around as long as the effect is active on the creature.

Nero gave the V Macedonica, the X Fretensis and the XV Apollinaris to Titus Flavius Vespasianus to counter the revolt.

The Indonesian side accepted the proposal in its entirely, but the Dutch gave only partial agreement and put forward 12 counter proposals.

To counter this, Atchison proposed that the area be organized and that the section of the Missouri Compromise banning slavery there be repealed in favor of popular sovereignty, under which the settlers in each territory would decide themselves whether slavery would be allowed.

The contestants will try to dodge each other's blows and then get ready to counter.

Their critics counter that sedevacantists are not one, forming numerous splinter groups, each of them in disagreement with the rest.

At mating, the angle between the banks and the angle between the crankshafts can be varied so that the balancer shafts cancel each other 90 ° V6 ( larger counter weights ) and the even firing 60 ° V6 with 60 ° flying arms ( smaller counter weights.

Center counter symmetry allows either player to decide whether to switch his King and Withdrawer (" Queen ") around, and then corner counter symmetry requires each player to decide which of his " Rooks " will be turned upside down.

For instance, the concrete semantics of an imperative programming language may associate to each program the set of execution traces it may produce – an execution trace being a sequence of possible consecutive states of the execution of the program ; a state typically consists of the value of the program counter and the memory locations ( globals, stack and heap ).

ENIAC used ten-position ring counters to store digits ; each digit used 36 vacuum tubes, 10 of which were the dual triodes making up the flip-flops of the ring counter.

VoIP receivers counter jitter by storing incoming packets briefly in a " de-jitter " or " playout " buffer, deliberately increasing latency to improve the chance that each packet will be on hand when it is time for the voice engine to play it.

Despite having superiority of numbers, McClellan's attacks failed to achieve force concentration, allowing Lee to counter by shifting forces and moving interior lines to meet each challenge.

A large variety of examples and counter examples have resulted in multiple approaches to the formal modeling of context, each with specific strengths and weaknesses.

Usually a single-chip 4017 decade counter is used to decode the transmitted multiplexed PPM signal to the individual " PWM " signals sent to each RC servo.

In judo, jujitsu and Shodokan Aikido, among others, it most often refers to one-on-one sparring where partners attempt to resist and counter each other's techniques.

Each time a pulse is applied to a control electrode, a glow discharge moves to a step electrode ; by providing ten electrodes in each tube and cascading the tubes, a counter system can be developed and the count observed by the position of the glow discharges.

The board eventually was embroiled in counter lawsuits by board members and listener-sponsors, and after global settlement of the lawsuits in November 2001, an interim board was formed to craft new bylaws, which it did in two tumultuous years of national debates among thousands of listener-sponsors and activists, finally giving listener-sponsors the right and responsibility to elect new Local Station Boards at each of the five Pacifica stations.

In parallel flow, both fluids move in the same direction while transferring heat ; in counter flow, the fluids move in opposite directions ; and in cross flow, the fluids move at right angles to each other.

The crown wheel gear is attached to the differential carrier or cage, which contains the ' sun ' and ' planet ' wheels or gears, which are a cluster of four opposed bevel gears in perpendicular plane, so each bevel gear meshes with two neighbours, and rotates counter to the third, that it faces and does not mesh with.

Meanwhile, the UNPROFOR commander has arranged false information to be passed to both Bosnian and Serb troops, to make them believe their enemies will be trying to reoccupy the trench at night ( which each side would try to counter with an artillery barrage that presumably will kill Cera and obliterate the evidence ).

It involves a common breakdown of group communication in which each member mistakenly believes that their own preferences are counter to the group's and, therefore, does not raise objections.

The Allies attempted to counter this by launching brigade-sized amphibious assaults, one each by 7th and 8th Armies, on 15 August.

In each of these cases there are other ways for Black to counter White's threat, but the Pickaninny move is the only one that doesn't give White a new mate ( for example, after 1. exf3, Bg6 prevents White's threats, but is not any good because it allows 2. Rxe6 #).

This common counter results in similar interval relationships of more or less equidistant steps between each of the gongs.

This however is still largely dependent upon the number and optimal spacing of gear ratios for each unit, and whether or not the elimination of spooldown / accelerator lift off represent a significant enough gain to counter the slightly higher power consumption of the automatic transmission itself.