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Both groups wanted you to side with them; you were either with them or against them.
No one could argue against that.
It pushes against the dough from the inside, trying to escape through the cookie walls like Ridley Scott's chest-bursting alien.
In J.R.R.'s world, Gandalf is one of five wizards sent by the Valar to guide the inhabitants of Middle Earth in their struggles against the dark force of Sauron.
The numbers are against us.
But when he couldn't compete against the strong athletes at his college using the standard high jump techniques of the time, Fosbury tried to jump a different way: backwards.
But nowadays, the millions of queen bees distributed in commercial hives are bred from just a few original queens, which raises the worry about a lack of genetic diversity which could weaken bees' defenses against pathogens and pests.
I had to start listening to that man on the inside that went against everything that I had been trained to do.
So how can we protect ourselves against this destructive force of nature?
If you run water into the right ventricle from a tap (the left also works, but less spectacularly), you'll see that the ventricular valve tries to close against the incoming stream.
Over time, they also close against each other with very little wear and tear, which explains how this mechanism continues to work seamlessly for more than 2 billion beats a heart gives in its lifetime.
Here in Bermuda, my team and I embarked on the deepest manned dives ever conducted in the region, and we were looking for places where the sea level used to lap up against the shoreline, many hundreds of feet below current levels.
And he had been left with a commission to paint 12 apostles against a decorative background in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, which would look like every other ceiling in Italy.
Adam leaps to the eye, a light figure against a dark background.
By selling them, kings enriched their own realms, and strengthened them against neighboring enemies.
But the two judges who ruled against us, did so for completely different reasons.
Because lefties are a minority to begin with, both right-handed and left-handed competitors will spend most of their time encountering and practicing against righties.
So when the two face each other, the left-hander will be better prepared against this right-handed opponent, while the righty will be thrown off.
The body's unique physical structure gives us the ability to stand up straight against the pull of gravity.
The newly liberated proteins bump up against their neighbors and start to form new bonds with each other, more and more as the heat increases, until finally, they're so entangled that they gel into a solid mass, a boiled egg.
Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.
Scientists have offered several explanations, including rapidly stretching ligaments, and in severe cases, actual bones grinding against each other.
York's criticism of their inept handling of the war against France led to his exclusion from court and transfer to Ireland.
His young son took up the claim and was crowned Edward IV. Edward enjoyed great military success against the Lancasters.
Warwick allied with the Lancasters, turned Edward's jealous younger brother, George, against him, and even briefly managed to restore Henry as King, but it didn't last.
The Great Wall began as multiple walls of rammed earth built by individual feudal states during the Chunqiu period to protect against nomadic raiders north of China and each other.
To defend against them, the Emperor expanded the small walls built by his predecessors, connecting some and fortifying others.
During World War II, China used sections for defense against Japanese invasion, and some parts are still rumored to be used for military training.
We have to have a unified view of how to go about this: the struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions, all has a single, very simple solution.
The mayor of Bamako, who witnessed the event, called the burning of the manuscripts "a crime against world cultural heritage."
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