Wildly bucking horses would make the position difficult to defend against charging warriors.

No more could he defend himself against them.

To this end, the first and longest section of the tract cites all the laws enacted since the Revolution to defend England against the `` Arbitrary Power of a Popish Prince ''.

There is even some question whether the U.S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left.

In 1116, though already terminally ill, he conducted a series of defensive operations in Bythinia and Mysia to defend his Anatolian territories against the inroads of Malik Shah the Seljuq Sultan of Iconium.

The means by which they marshaled the forces to defend against marauders also left the Anglo-Saxons vulnerable to the Vikings.

Nor did his piety prevent him from expropriating strategically sited church lands, especially estates along the border with the Danelaw, and transferring them to royal thegns and officials who could better defend them against Viking attacks.

In 490 BC, Aeschylus and his brother Cynegeirus fought to defend Athens against Darius I's invading Persian army at the Battle of Marathon.

Some believe that Luke ’ s gospel can be seen to mirror the Jewish apologetic literature of the time which served to “ defend Jews against misunderstanding and persecution .” Acts is said to be a:

Naval armour has fundamentally changed from the Second World War doctrine of thicker plating to defend against shells, bombs and torpedos.

This was the preferred method for protein consumption over animal husbandry, as it required much more work to defend the kept animals against American Indians or the French.

* 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

The Navy would require a long-range, long-endurance interceptor aircraft to defend carrier battle groups against this threat.

Drives and pushes may be played from the midcourt or forecourt, and are most often used in doubles: they are an attempt to regain the attack, rather than choosing to lift the shuttlecock and defend against smashes.

If a pair is forced to lift or clear the shuttlecock, then they must defend: they will adopt a side-by-side position in the rear midcourt, to cover the full width of their court against the opponents ' smashes.

Borland, under Kahn's leadership took a position of principle and announced that they would defend against Lotus ' legal position and " fight for programmer's rights ".

In the past, the Bishop of Durham, known as a prince bishop, had extensive viceregal powers within his northern diocese — the power to mint money, collect taxes and raise an army to defend against the Scots.

Anti-aircraft batteries are used much more extensively to defend against incoming aircraft than interceptors.

The previous decree against the Jews cannot be annulled, but the king allows the Jews to defend themselves during attacks.

Though the Boers accepted British rule without resistance in 1877, they fought two wars in the late 19th century to defend their internationally recognized independent countries, the republics of the Transvaal ( the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, or ZAR ) and the Orange Free State ( OFS ), against the threat of annexation by the British Crown.

In plants, cyanides are usually bound to sugar molecules in the form of cyanogenic glycosides and defend the plant against herbivores.

This proved unpopular with soldiers, in spite of being proven to defend against a three-ounce ( 100 g ) shrapnel round fired at a distance of one hundred yards ( 90 m ).

Knife resistant armours are designed to defend against knife attacks, some of these use layers of metal plates, mail and metallic wires.

The Ming Chinese also mounted over 3, 000 cast bronze and iron cannon on the Great Wall of China, to defend against the Mongols.

* planoforming spacecraft, which are crewed by humans telepathically linked with cats to defend against the attacks of malevolent entities in space, who are perceived by the humans as dragons, and by the cats as gigantic rats, in " The Game of Rat and Dragon ".

Galaxy Quest is a 1999 science-fiction comedy parody about a troupe of human actors who defend a group of aliens against an alien warlord.

In the comic Han and Chewie recruit 5 other aliens from different backgrounds to help defend a city from a band of marauders called the Cloud Riders.

It was established by the successor to the modern United Nations in order to defend Earth from a possible attack by hostile aliens, and was involved in Space War I against an extraterrestrial race called the Zentradi.

The government soon found itself under increasing pressure to intern suspect aliens to prevent the formation of a fifth column and to allow the population to take up arms to defend themselves against an invasion.

A voiceover comments, " There are consequences to open borders beyond the 20 million aliens who have come to take our jobs ... the price we pay for spineless politicians who refuse to defend our borders against those who come to kill.

The show's main cast of characters are members of a secret, high technology international agency called SHADO ( an acronym for Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defence Organisation ) established to defend Earth and humanity against the mysterious aliens and learn more about them.

She reported that she was brought in this context, to defend illegal aliens.

Along the way Jetman has to defend himself from the planet's aliens, and for bonus points collect valuable resources which occasionally fall from the sky.

Quasar helps defend the universe from aliens called Infinities.

The basic idea so far is that the characters on the ring ( Halo ) must defend the universe from invasion by a group of 2-dimensional aliens.

Were aliens to attack, or the Arctic glaciers to melt, the world would be able to use its communicative technologies to band societies together and defend itself at large.

It quickly becomes clear that Frank has become the best weapon FUNERAL has to defend against the aliens, which leaves Ryu torn between revenge and the desire to protect his comrades.

Bell called on all " Englishmen to cherish and defend themselves, and to hurt and grieve aliens for the common weal ".

There, he is confronted by 2 laser-armed trucks, and then the Super X, a piloted VTOL craft constructed in secret to defend Tokyo in case of emergency, in particular a nuclear attack.

From the 1870s, social reformers in other countries had begun to defend homosexuality, but their identities were kept secret.

Rank was one of Freud's six collaborators brought together in a secret " committee " or " ring " to defend the psychoanalytic mainstream as disputes with Adler and then Jung developed.

He is very patriotic, sometimes chauvinist, and empowered by superpowers that help him to defend his country against a secret organization called '" Anti-France ", a sectist and terrorist organization that wants to destroy France.

It follows the adventures of an all-female secret task force known as the Imperial Assault Force — Flower Division as they defend the Imperial Capital Tokyo against evil.

Yan was aware of the threat posed by the Japanese ; and, in order to defend against the impending Japanese invasion of Shanxi, Yan entered into a secret " united front " agreement with the Communists in November 1936.

He did not have any reason to defend the judgment of 1894, for he had had nothing to do with it, and learned for the first time the contents of the secret dossier.

After 1765 the major American cities saw the formation of secret groups set up to defend their rights.

Since the Norden was considered a critical wartime instrument, bombardiers were required to take an oath during their training stating that they would defend its secret with their own life if necessary.

Coupled with the secret and sudden evacuation of British soldiers, women and children from Penang, there was the uneasy realisation that the colonial masters could not be relied upon to defend the locals.

Lee Hsien Loong ( then Second Minister for Defence ) stated that " If there is a conflict, if the SAF is called to defend the homeland, we do not want to put any of our soldiers in a difficult position where his emotions for the nation may be in conflict with his religion " and in The Roar of the Lion City ( 2007 ), military analyst Sean Walsh claimed that " official discrimination against the Malay population remains an open secret ".

The National Organization of the Anvil or simply El Yunque ( in English: The Anvil ) is the name of a purported secret society of Mexican regional origin but alleged to now be a national political force and whose purpose, according to the reporter Álvaro Delgado, " is to defend the Catholic religion and fight the forces of Satan, whether through violence or murder " and establish the kingdom of God in the land that is subject to the Mexican Government to the mandates of the Roman Catholic Church through the infiltration of all its members at the highest levels of political power.

Bakunin continued to defend the young radical he called " my tiger cub ," and even advised Nechayev to form a secret society which used " Jesuit methods or even entanglement " against enemy societies and the government.

A detailed analysis has been done about ganas in chapter 108 of Shanti Parva in which Yudhisthira asks Bhisma about the ganas that how ganas increase, how they defend themselves from the dividing-policy of enemies, what are the techniques to conquer enemies and making the ganas friends, how they hide their secret mantras being in majority.

Together, the characters of Poltergeist: The Legacy search and uncover a secret world of terror as they resolve to defend the world against evil and darkness.

Oliver's enemy Arnaut de Cervole, otherwise known as the Archpriest, is approaching the Dordogne to lay siege and Oliver wants the secret to defend La Roque.

Unable to defend itself from the Gamibia incursion, Sardun sends Major Zara ( Persis Khambatta ) and General Byrne-White ( Edward Mulhare ) to ask the help of MegaForce – a secret mercenary army composed of international soldiers of fortune, equipped with advanced weapons and vehicles.

While meeting in his secret bunker under Berlin, Hitler's chief staff members offered personnel to defend the Oder.

In an attempt to confront the Invaders and defend the planet, an elite but highly secret organization of peace-keepers called the Alien Exterminating Global Intercept System ( more commonly known as A. E. G. I. S.

The information and expertise needed for atomic development was bound by a pact of secrecy between allies ( the secret Quebec agreement of 1943 ) and thus not devoted to peaceful processes but instead as a weapon to defend against other countries developing and using the same such weapons.

The Whiteboys () were a secret Irish agrarian organization in 18th-century Ireland which used violent tactics to defend tenant farmer land rights for subsistence farming.