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unusual facts about Adversary



Accuser

Satan, whose name means "accuser" (or "adversary") in Hebrew

Aggressor squadron

The success of formalized Dissimilar air combat training (DACT) led to transition of Navy Instrument Training Squadrons equipped with the A-4 into Adversary Squadrons at each Master Jet Base.

With the exception of the NSAWC aircraft, all the US Navy and US Marine Corps adversary squadrons are Reserve Component units and aircraft belonging to the Navy Reserve and the Marine Corps Reserve.

The Canadian Forces Air Command operated CF-5 (both single- and two-seat) aircraft in the "adversary" role, by 419 Squadron at Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake, Alberta.

Condign merit

This early-scholastic distinction and terminology, which is already recognized in concept and substance by the Fathers of the Church in their controversies with the Pelagians and Semipelagians, were again emphasized by Johann Eck, the adversary of Martin Luther.

Daniel Pontillas

Other characters in the stories include Daniel's faithful accomplice Grognard and his lawman adversary Inspector Justin Ganimard.

Daniil Kholmsky

The result of this event was the deposition of Ivan III's adversary and his replacement by the Moscow-friendly Möxämmädämin.

David Tom

He played Whitey, Tobey Maguire's adversary in the Reese Witherspoon/Tobey Maguire movie Pleasantville in 1998.

Dhruv Pratap Singh

In the 2003 state elections, Bhartiya Janta Party nominated him again but from a different constituency, Vijayraghavgarh as the party felt that he was more suited and could give stiff competition to the Congress candidate, Satyendra Pathak, who apart from being a state minister was a powerful adversary.

Emmanuel Broutin

Because of a duel and his adversary belonging Napoleon III's court, he had to leave the French army, at the end of 1863.

Emmanuel Carrère

L'Adversaire (The Adversary) (2000), nonfictional account of the life of the murderer Jean-Claude Romand, after the author corresponded with the criminal in jail (1993), and watched his trial (1996).

Intrusion detection system evasion techniques

In the past, an adversary using the Unicode character could encode attack packets that an IDS would not recognize but that an IIS web server would decode and become attacked.

Khalid bin Sultan

Yemen data claimed terrorist positions in a place when in actuality the place was the office of General Ali Mohsen Al Ahmar, a political adversary to President Saleh.

Kull Warrior

According to executive producer Robert C. Cooper, the Kull Warriors were conceived as a much more powerful adversary than the Jaffa, and one that would be more "palatable" to fight.

Lennox Lewis vs. Michael Grant

The contract Lewis signed prior to his fight with Holyfield stated that Lewis' first defense of his newly won championship would have to come against the WBA's number one contender, who at the time was Lewis' previous adversary Henry Akinwande but because of illness was later changed to John Ruiz.

Madam Tinubu

Madam Efunroye Tinubu was an active adversary of the British Colonial Government of what is now Nigeria that was banished by it from Lagos to her native Abeokuta.

Naval Air Station Fallon

In addition to transferring the NSAWC squadron, a Navy Reserve adversary squadron, Fighter Squadron Composite THIRTEEN (VFC-13), the "Saints," was also permanently relocated from its former base at NAS Miramar to NAS Fallon.

Obfuscation

In white-box cryptography, obfuscation refers to the protection of cryptographic keys from extraction when they are under the control of the adversary, e.g., as part of a DRM scheme.

Old Fortress, Corfu

The Fortress was the location of a scene from the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only in which the Mercedes of the evil adversary of Bond, Emile Locque, gets pushed off a cliff by Bond.

Operation Vigorous

The French Fleet and the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet dominated the only potential and credible adversary, Italy's Regia Marina.

Penny Plunderer

Though he is a classic adversary of Batman, he has recently been ret-conned out of Batman's rogue gallery.

Piero Vettori

An adversary of the House of Medici, after the deat of the Republic and the establishment of the Duchy of Florence in 1530, Vettori retired to San Casciano Val di Pesa, where he wrote the Trattato delle lodi et della coltivazione de gli ulivi ("Treaty of the pleas and the cultivation of olive trees").

Seeking Whom He May Devour

In this case, it is a biblical quotation from the First Epistle of Peter (5:8): Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

The Adversary

Pratidwandi, known internationally as The Adversary, a 1972 Indian Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Instead of revealing a new companion, the third door (labeled "The Pusher") brings a new adversary to Roland: Jack Mort, a sociopath who takes sadistic pleasure in injuring and killing random strangers — and the man responsible for the head trauma that created Odetta Holmes's alternate personality, the loss of Odetta/Detta's legs, and the death of Jake Chambers.

The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss

The film was to pit Lee against "The Western Adversary" played by James Bond star George Lazenby.

Tiara Tahiti

Some time after the war, Aimsley's comfortable exile in Tahiti is rudely interrupted by the arrival of his old adversary, now director of a hotel chain looking to expand into the burgeoning South Seas market.

Veera Ballala II

However, Kulothunga Chola III, who also held the Pandya country and Eelam, modern Sri Lanka, proved to be a strong adversary and he inflicted a defeat on Ballala II.

VFC-111

The Sun Downers operate as part of the U.S. Navy Reserve's fleet adversary program, providing dissimilar air combat training to fleet strike fighter and Marine fighter attack squadrons, as well as U.S. Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard fighter squadrons.

VFC-13

VFC-13 provides adversary training for Navy and Marine Corps Active and Reserve fleet and replacement squadrons, carrier air wings and Marine aircraft groups, USAF units, to include Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, and Canadian Forces.

These three elements of the Saints combine to fly over 5,000 adversary sorties per year in support of US Navy Fighter squadrons and their air wings, as well as USAF, USMC and Canadian Forces.


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