Boxers need to move quickly in the ring, block or avoid their opponent's blows, get past his guard and then hit with power. |
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Harrison could well have finished it but the bell intervened to his opponent's relief. |
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By the middle rounds the boxer's punches had opened a cut above his opponent's right eye while his left eye was also swollen. |
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Competitors will now have to keep the foil's tip on their opponent's target area for a whole 15 milliseconds instead of two milliseconds. |
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And free-agent pickup Mike Sillinger will check the opponent's top line like nobody's business. |
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Such preparation serves to deter the use of biological weapons, because the opponent's original asymmetric advantage has been reduced. |
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A team's No.1 pitcher is supposed to be its stopper, and its ace often faces the opponent's top pitcher. |
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For instance, a light hit might glance off an opponent's armor, while a stronger or critical hit will stagger your enemy. |
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As usual in a showdown, the opponent's cards are exposed first and then you show your cards if they are better. |
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Cantus swung frantically, attempting to deflect his opponent's blows, one of his swipes finally scoring underneath Soren's defenses. |
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Try creating your opponent's lineup based on the privileged inside information you possess about your team. |
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This is a cue bid of the opponent's suit after your partner has opened the bidding. |
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The Sabres rarely forechecked aggressively, and Peca's biggest job was usually to shut down the opponent's top center. |
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It's the local reporter covering the race, wanting to know what you think of your opponent's recent attack on you. |
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The applicants neither filed a counterstatement nor a response to the opponent's evidence. |
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He had mastered the nuances of managing, planning ahead, anticipating an opponent's moves and countermoves. |
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The job of any general is to not only plan for an opponent's expected countermoves but also the unexpected countermoves. |
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A force that believes it is invulnerable might dismiss or underestimate an opponent's strength, will or commitment. |
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It was designed to concentrate firepower to disrupt and destroy the opponent's military capability. |
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This rough, loose, prickly coat allowed the Shar-Pei to wriggle out of its opponent's grasp while fighting in the dog pits. |
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Wong accused his lawyers of negligence and his opponent's lawyers of fiddling their charges. |
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The American also conceded the match on the last green to save his opponent's torture being prolonged. |
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She became infatuated with the handsome Fergus and he was able to elicit the secret of his opponent's strength. |
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He had to putt from three yards to tie when the other player picked up his opponent's ball marker rather than forcing him to putt out. |
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In the twelfth round, Gamble put in a tremendous facer, that split his opponent's nose, and the claret flew in all directions. |
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He then tackles his opponent's legs and Dude clotheslines him, knocking him unconscious when his head hits the ground. |
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In one of those games, against Boston in '04, he churlishly knocked the ball out of an opponent's grasp. |
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Throughout the fight, Greb displayed a tendency to wrestle, holding his opponent's head in chancery while he himself inflicted unfair punishment. |
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You have to react to the opponent's move, try to outguess his next move, and surprise him with a cunning countering action. |
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In making a short losing hazard into the right top pocket across the head of the board, Newman just grazed his opponent's ball with his cue. |
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When the Italian broke his opponent's serve in the third set to lead 3-2 it seemed victory was within his grasp. |
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When he'd killed, he either wasn't near enough or never saw his opponent's eyes. |
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A minute later he blundered when he attempted to bat down his opponent's delivery from 40 metres. |
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I will not exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. |
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Thus, in the context of a chess game, moving your queen to a square adjacent to your opponent's king counts as a check. |
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But the world featherweight champion knows how to control that anger, how to focus the energy of his rage on the point of an opponent's jaw. |
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He broke his opponent's opening service game easily, and then held serve with three aces to win seven out of eight of the first points played. |
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The team is so weak at cornerback that forcing the action in the opponent's backfield is the only way it can succeed. |
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The tit for tat was not blindly cooperative, however, as it met an opponent's competition with competition. |
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Pryce took his opponent's blow upon his shield, easily deflecting the downward stroke. |
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He opted for straight punches to counter his opponent's tactic which was to aim hooked body punches. |
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Thus composed, I was able to scramble for a double bogey on the final hole, beating my opponent's triple. |
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There's no place like home for Jays hitters, who believe no opponent's lead is safe, no matter how large. |
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If, on the other hand, your feet are touching the inside of your opponent's inner thighs then they are usually too shallow. |
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Striking below an opponent's event horizon is a sound tactical strategy, and a concept that underlies all of our training. |
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The opponent's leg can also be lifted to unbalance or to throw the opponent backward. |
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Don't get emotional, though it isn't necessarily bad to simulate some emotion in order to change an opponent's behavior. |
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Another useful technique is waki-gatame, an elbow lock where you clamp the opponent's arm against your body. |
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If you can get this arm lock against the opponent's elbow, you can easily break it. |
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He has won the argument, but there is no point in rubbing his opponent's nose in it. |
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All war is asymmetric in the sense that states engaged in conflict seek to fight each other on terms least conducive to their opponent's success. |
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With three sacks and 10 tackles for loss, Doss can disrupt the opponent's backfield. |
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The best way is to check your opponent's King with the obstructing piece, which forces a response. |
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Jack is a thief, he takes one card from the top of your opponent's deck and adds it to your hand. |
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A special case of discovered check is where the moving piece also checks the opponent's King. |
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And now these so-called friends of his are butting their way into his re-election campaign and attacking his opponent's combat record. |
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You never want to telegraph that you underestimate in any way, shape or form your opponent's strength. |
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She double-faulted on her first match point, but won on her next when her opponent's backhand went long. |
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Combat is handled through targeting a unit in your opponent's force, then rolling a die. |
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If responder does not have a five card suit nor stoppers in opponent's preempt, he is forced to cue bid spades and your defensive contract becomes uncomfortably high. |
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The presidential campaign was well known for its war room, not only responding very quickly to an opponent's attacks, but anticipating the attacks. |
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Thus, territorial male bullfrogs do not appear to assess an opponent's fighting ability based solely on the fundamental frequency of acoustic signals. |
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The object of the game is to checkmate your opponent's king. |
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Bend the toes of your right foot back, bend your knee, and let the sole of your right foot come lightly into contact with your opponent's abdomen. |
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His two best moves are an ankle lace and a gut wrench, techniques to use after takedowns or on offensive restarts to turn an opponent's shoulders to the mat for bonus points. |
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These throws take advantage of the inertia of the opponent's travel. |
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An athlete's aim in each is to prove their control of the bout by pinning an opponent's shoulders to the mat, a move known as a fall which automatically ends a match. |
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He was having a laugh, making mock of his opponent's stature and ranking. |
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The opening session finished level at 4-4 with an out of sorts Williams snatching the final two frames on the colours after O'Brien had capitalised on his opponent's errors. |
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He also excels at getting off his kicks in a hurry, achieving desirable hang time, placing the ball inside the opponent's 20-yard line and directional kicking. |
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A contestant shall be deemed to have been defeated when in such position on the floor, if said combatant cannot free himself from his opponent's arms within two seconds' time. |
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The home side's resolve refused to cower, although their way back into the game came from an opponent's indiscretion rather than their own invention. |
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At the same time, he puts the arm on the same side of his around his opponent's neck, forcing both to fall backwards, and the counter-attacker lands on top. |
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He first declared a state of rebellion in May 2001 after his opponent's supporters, armed with cudgels and sticks, attempted to come close to the presidential palace. |
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At 6-6, Agassi was a point away from breaking his opponent's serve. |
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Ancroe broke his opponent's sword with his axe and then decapitated him. |
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As frequently happens in such a situation, White does not have a diagonal for his dark Bishop, nor does he have any other diagonals from which to aim at his opponent's King. |
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Having captured a leg, and thus controlled the opponent's movement, a toe kick to the groin, inner thigh or lower abdomen could be easily applied. |
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The victorious fencer has his hand in seconda, his forte against the forte of his opponent, his left leg forward and his point in his opponent's belly. |
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From this position, the player can quickly access any part of the court to retrieve the opponent's next shot with a minimum of movement. |
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Push-polling hones in on an opponent's record, strip-mining it and often distorting or exaggerating it. |
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The players must volley a ball over a net and force it to hit the ground on the opponent's side. |
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Rabbits use their powerful back legs as weapons, kicking at an opponent's underside, as well as biting and scratching with the front paws. |
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Hitters use the open-handed tip to try to softly place the ball over the blockers or into other open areas of the opponent's court. |
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Even if you're giving up reach in order to infight, standing at the end of your opponent's punch isn't the way to do it. |
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The object of tlachtli was to keep the rubber ball from touching the ground while trying to push it to the opponent's endline. |
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The South African fight against Andries Steyn in Johannesburg was a mismatch with his opponent's corner throwing in the towel in the third round. |
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By hitting all of the opponent's stones, it removes opportunities for their getting multiple points, therefore defending the lead. |
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The stick may also be used to block and to tackle, although a player may not come down on an opponent's stick, a practice called hacking. |
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The scoring is also different, as a point is awarded for every shot that brings the ball closer to the target than any opponent's ball. |
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For instance, if a competitor has bowled two bowls closer to the jack than their opponent's nearest, they are awarded two shots. |
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In all, players shoot a cue ball so that it makes contact with the opponent's cue ball as well as the object ball. |
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In total, the Reds had 28 shots to their opponent's nine, and 15 corners to the Baggies' three. |
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Expert players can anticipate the opponent's shot a few tenths of a second before the average player, giving them a chance to react sooner. |
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In 2004, an opponent's team manager attempt to vandalize the rock during his team's walk through but he was stopped. |
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Ali Ibn Abi-Talib while engaged in a swordfight, also in the seventh century, struck his opponent's weapon out of his hand. |
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In Crash Tag Team Racing, players can combine their car with an opponent's mid-race to make a super-car equipped with a powerful turret gun. |
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It was the beauty of the opponent's sticky, stifling, halfcourt matchup defense. |
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Marvell's gift as an animadverter is the impression he gives of being able to voice his opponent's hidden intentions. |
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Unlike blocking, causing an opponent to miss a punch disrupts his balance, this permits forward movement past the opponent's extended arm and keeps the hands free to counter. |
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The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer. |
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The jousters, members of a professional re-enactment group, were using lances with balsa wood tips, designed to break off on impact with an opponent's shield. |
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In China, however, a player who stales his opponent's King, wins the game. |
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A player may also concede a frame while on strike if he or she thinks there are not enough points available on the table to beat the opponent's score. |
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These battles involved triremes or biremes as the standard fighting platform, and the focus of the battle was to ram the opponent's vessel using the boat's reinforced prow. |
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The angle-shooter here is hoping for a chance to steal the pot, but only if he sees that his opponent's hand is weak enough that she might not call a bet. |
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Beowulf is again saved from his opponent's attack by his armour. |
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Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick. |
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It is an offensive shot used to take preparation time away from the opponent, as it returns the ball into the opponent's court much faster than a standard volley. |
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During the debate, the candidate sighed at his opponent's obfuscations. |
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It's all very well, up to a point, to foreshorten and oversimplify your opponent's position in order to heighten your own rhetorical pizzazz and percussiveness. |
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The knight was unhorsed when his opponent's lance struck his shield. |
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The stick may also be used to block and to tackle, although a player may not bring their stick down on an opponent's stick, which is defined as hacking. |
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And the Swiss star looked almost proud of his opponent's blubbing. |
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My opponent's counter was moving much quicker round the board than mine. |
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Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. |
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They are prohibited from holding the ropes for support when punching, holding an opponent while punching, or ducking below the level of the opponent's belt. |
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It is sometimes best to wait to see how the turn affects you and opponent's possible hands but this leaves you vulnerable to someone outdrawing you. |
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