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battle and broader
Since Pope Sixtus V gave his broader definition of regicide and excluding monarchs killed in battle, other regicides include:
Freed from political and war-time issues, Aristophanes focuses in The Clouds on a broader issue that underlies many conflicts depicted in his plays-the issue of Old versus New, or the battle of ideas.
The battle was significant as part of a broader Allied strategy — known as Operation Cartwheel — aimed at isolating and surrounding the major Imperial base at Rabaul.
A lengthy court battle ensues which quickly turns into a broader issue of race.
Another, relatively minor, controversy regarded the unopposed looting of still-working Iraqi weapons after the battle, including not only by the U. S. soldiers but also by Saudi civilians ( some of whom then allegedly sold assault rifles on the black market to buyers in the broader Middle East ), as there were no military police units deployed to guard the wreckage.
Most medieval European battle axes had a socketed head ( meaning that the broader, butt-end of the blade contained an opening into which a wooden haft was inserted ), and some included langets — long strips of metal affixed to the faces of the haft to prevent it from being damaged during combat.
Though the details of his creative works are currently undisclosed, it is rumored that the game will be similar to Magic: The Gathering to some extent, but with more of a focus on the broader life events of each character, beyond their particular skills in battle.
— Discussion of the Hotline vs. Hinkley legal battle in the broader context of intellectual property law in Australia.
He is described as broader than he is tall, heavily muscled, and wears a patch to cover an eye which he lost in battle with Orcs and Goblins.
Weart uses a broader definition of war than is usual in research on the democratic peace theory and includes any conflict causing at least 200 deaths in organized battle by political units against one another.

battle and sense
Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.
Ibn Idhari wrote that the name was suggested by Ibn Yasin in the " persevering in the fight " sense, to boost morale after a particularly hard-fought battle in the Draa valley c. 1054, in which they had taken many losses.
The sense of self-determination and national consciousness that had enabled revolutionary forces to defeat aristocratic regimes in battle became rallying points for resistance against the French Empire ( 1804-1814 ).
The United States ' response was " very different but just as deep an instinctual reaction ... the United States have an almost neurotic sense of vulnerability ... its two coastlines, its two theatres, its two navies are separated by the entire length of the New World ... she lives with ... the nightmare of having one day to fight a decisive sea battle without the benefit of concentration, the perpetual spectre of naval ' war on two fronts '.
Seemingly contradictory to the name, Honda's " battle " is not a competition in the traditional sense ; that is, no winner is crowned during the event.
Also significant is that on the first night of the battle, Shiver is unexpectedly slain in a Dream Duel with the Avatara Rabican, a victory owed to the advice of the Head ( who alerted them to Shiver's exaggerated sense vanity, which was exploited by Rabican ).
Historical discussion revolves around whether the American battle plan made any strategic or tactical sense.
The frieze represents the battle for supremacy of Gods and Titans, and employs many dramatic devices: frenzy, pathos and triumph, to convey the sense of conflict.
His first personal command in battle was at Rich Mountain, which he also won, but only after displaying a strong sense of caution and a reluctance to commit reserve forces that would be his hallmark for the rest of his career.
Public health advocates consider the ordinance to be a new front in a national battle against tobacco ; officials from the American Lung Association of California said " Belmont broke through this invisible barrier in the sense that it addressed drifting smoke in housing as a public health issue.
" He therefore responded in kind in Have With You To Saffron-Walden ( 1596 ) with various observations on Barnes: he was a bad poet, he had dreadful dress sense (..." getting him a strange pair of Babylonian britches, with a codpiece as big as a Bolognian sausage ...") and had been a coward on the field of battle during the wars in France.
After the war, The Red Badge of Courage described the chaos and sense of death which resulted from the changing style of combat: away from the set engagement, and towards two armies engaging in continuous battle over a wide area.
Edward was required to take no further action: for if Douglas refused to give battle, as caution and good sense demanded, Berwick would fall by default.
Such a battle cry is said to instil in the chosen bull such a feverish sense of anxiety that the spectacle will become much more fiercely-contested.
" Fred Allen's fourteen-year battle with radio censorship ," wrote the New York Herald-Tribune critic John Crosby, " was made particularly difficult for him by the fact that the man assigned to reviewing his scripts had little sense of humor and frankly admitted he didn't understand Allen's peculiar brand of humor at all.
The sense of suspended action before the moment of the battle is all the more potent because it is rendered in stone and metal, making it perpetual.
Miyamoto sketched out a fictional universe, but could not decide on a natural hero to convey a sense of an epic space battle.
Crucially Spengler talks about the final struggle with money also being a battle between Capitalism and Socialism, but again Socialism in a special sense: " the will to call into life a mighty politico-economic order that transcends all class interests, a system of lofty thoughtfulness and duty sense ".
In an excerpt of Brasidas ' brief pre-battle speech, he specially addressed the allied Lacedaemonian forces, whom he assigned under Clearidas ' leadership, while for himself he handpicked a hundred and fifty Spartan hoplites ; he said: ".. bear in mind that the three virtues of a good soldier are zeal in battle, sense of honor and obedience to the leaders .. and I will reveal that I will conduct myself in action following the advice I give to my comrades.
Though not a battle in the typical sense, if historical the event would represent the opening conflict in the coming Byzantine-Arab wars.
Freud concludes this book by expanding on his distinction between eros and thanatos: “ When an instinctual trend undergoes repression, its libidinal elements are turned into symptoms, and its aggressive components into a sense of guilt ”, and he ponders on how the eternal battle between these heavenly powers will play out in mankind.
A dramatic scene-fragment involving what appear to be asuras in battle gives a sense of the likely high quality of the carvings.
Firstly, the Karluks never in any sense remained opposed to the Chinese after the battle.

battle and may
With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.
`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.
We pointed out that emotional excitement may lead to psychosomatic disorders and neurotic symptoms, particularly in certain types of personality, but it is also known that the reliving of a strong emotion ( `` abreaction '' ) may cure a battle neurosis.
Today a battle cry may seem an anachronism, for in the modern Army, esprit de corps has been sacrificed to organizational charts and tables.
There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).
Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.
Whilst heavier armour provides better protection, it makes vehicles less mobile ( for a given engine power ), limits its air-transportability, increases cost, uses more fuel and may limit the places it can go-for example, many bridges may be unable to support the weight of a main battle tank.
Some authors have speculated that Ælle may have led the Saxon forces at this battle, while others reject the idea out of hand.
The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.
However, a battle may end in a Pyrrhic victory, which ultimately favors the defeated party.
The use of the term " battle " in military history has led to its misuse when referring to almost any scale of combat, notably by strategic forces involving hundreds of thousands of troops that may be engaged in either a single battle at one time ( Battle of Leipzig ) or multiple operations ( Battle of Kursk ).
To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.
These combats often take place within the time and space of a battle and while they may have an objective, they are not necessarily " decisive ".
The origin of this vessel, an abandoned and burning ship's boat laden with highly flammable material, is uncertain but it may have been launched from Guerrier as the battle began.
There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.
It may be that Ceawlin's overlordship of the southern Britons came to an end with this battle.
An entry in the Chronicon Scotorum under the year 904 may possibly contain a corrupted reference to this battle.
Uriah refuses to do so while his companions are in the field of battle and David sends him back to Joab, the commander, with a message instructing him to abandon Uriah on the battlefield, " that he may be struck down, and die.
Diocletian may or may not have been present at the battle, but he quickly divested himself of all responsibility.

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