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The opposing aircraft continued to come on.
But the fact that 70,524 other Americans gave the same measure of devotion to an opposing concept served Liberty-and-Union in other essential ways.
Rifle fire often kept the opposing gunners from manning their pieces.
They, in effect, have compromised the opposing positions of the nineteenth century.
But the real beginnings of this development in him go back to the opposing of grammar school, and probably if it had not been this occasion and these Latin lines it would have been some others, such as the first prolusion, that set off this streak in him of unbridled and scathing verbal attack on an enemy.
He's telling them now to write letters to their Congressmen opposing the disarmament of Germany.
In a broad sense, it would reaffirm the Monroe Doctrine by opposing Communist interference in the Western Hemisphere.
Mr. Claude is a specialist in torso development and he has long favored the now-famous Weider Push-Pull Super-Set technique in which one exercise of the Super-Set is a pressing or `` pushing '' movement which accents one sector of a muscle group in a specific way, followed by a `` pulling '' exercise which works the opposing sector of the same muscle group.
Twice during the Civil War it was saved from destruction by the opposing armies by the pleas and prayers of a local minister.
Again Reverend Corder saved the bridge when Union soldiers planned to destroy it, after filling its two lanes with hay and straw -- but for what reason is not recorded nor remembered, certainly not because of pressure from an opposing Confederate force.
Antisubmarine warfare does not involve clashes between large opposing forces, with the decision a result of a single battle.
Furthermore, the middle number of the Lo Shu is not only the physical mean between every opposing pair of the other numbers, by reason of its central position ; ;
it is also their mathematical mean, since it is equal to half the sum of every opposing pair, all of which equal 10.
He was known for his " free soil " stance of opposing both slavery and abolitionism.
After an opposing witness testified seeing the crime in the moonlight, Lincoln produced a Farmers ' Almanac showing the moon was at a low angle, drastically reducing visibility.
Foner argues that Lincoln was a moderate in the middle, opposing slavery primarily because it violated the republicanism principles of the Founding Fathers, especially the equality of all men and democratic self-government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
In coining the word Altruism, as stated above, Comte was probably opposing this Thomistic doctrine, which is present in some theological schools within Catholicism.
The opposing view is ethical egoism, which maintains that moral agents should always act in their own self-interest.
Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
With an intact check reflex, the patient will check and activate the opposing triceps to slow and stop the movement.
He wrote in his essay " The Rebel " that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom.
This often means that the only individuals who are capable of opposing a character are from his or her family, a fact that leads to much suspicion and intrigue.
Other groups opposing the Trinity are not necessarily Arian.
In addition to opposing the ADA on grounds of cost, church groups like the National Association of Evangelicals testified against the ADA's Title I ( employment ) provisions on grounds of religious liberty.
In 1284, Alexander invested the title of Lord of the Isles in the head of the Macdonald family, Angus Macdonald, and over the next two centuries the Macdonald lords operated as if they were kings in their own right, frequently opposing the Scottish monarch.

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