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In chess, castling may only be carried out when both the king and the involved rook have not been moved, all the squares between them are free and not dominated by any opposing piece and the king is not in check and would not be put in check by castling.
We have opposing opinions about the matter.
We have opposing opinions on the matter.
It would demoralize the opposing team to give it the razz from the spectators' side.
He joined the opposing team.
The actions of the opposing party have been nothing but provocations.
I found out that the opposing counsel is planning on deposing three expert witnesses.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?
An aboriginal footballer was racially vilified by a member of the opposing team.
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I'd proclaim her if I could, for not opposing it.
In opposing my campaigns in the Baltic, you are worse than the Germans and the Livonians.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them.
Hearken, you who command the opposing armies.
I don't know, of course, how many have.reasons of their own for opposing it.
They must keep the opposing poles in balance and lift the machine.
Mr. Starbuck, are you opposing me?
Opposing counsel will please come closer to the bench. so that we can discuss this more privately.
With my greed and unscrupulousness' I'm literally opposing the mankind!
Well, now we know the Tardis is the opposing force, the question is which is the stronger?
So you let my 12 men act as an independent unit. attached to the opposing force.
But then, I've always felt that even in war, gentlemen, though they may be on opposing sides, still have much in common.
Captain, I do not wish to find myself opposing you.
When the first Archons came, they were free, out of control, opposing the will of Landru.
I'd put up with the inconvenience but there's a far more serious reason for opposing her.
For opposing and offending an officer.
He worked on opposing fractions like the Communist Party or the Secret Army establishing contacts between them and persuading them to cooperate.
My white brother is opposing to my decision?
I'm not voting, I'm just opposing!
We are in an opposing situation.
Don't try to capture the opposing general.
The court cannot disregard certain emotional implications. which apparently have remained undetected by opposing counsel.
Malle, like you, holds political views, Opposing views of George Evan.
I comes of opposing nature. a sort of madness.
When the first Archons came, they were free, out of control, opposing the will of Landru. Many were killed.
It has brought together opposing forces, provided crude instruments, in an effort to promote the most violent mode of conflict.
Touching an opposing colour deprives a contestant of one weapon.
We were once a people like yourselves, wildly emotional, often committed to irrationally-opposing points of view, leading, of course, to death and destruction.
Your Excellency, the wars between opposing star systems no longer prevail in our galaxy.
News and current affairs
I recently learned something interesting: American international finance economists and American domestically oriented macroeconomists have very different - indeed, opposing - views of the likely consequences of America's huge current-account deficit.
Far from opposing absolutist power as an impediment to religious democracy, they tried to persuade the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of the value of reform.
The fact that the International Monetary Fund, the US Department of Justice, and anti-poverty NGOs all joined in opposing the vulture funds is revealing.
Nemat Shafik, a deputy governor of the Bank of England, tried to position herself between these opposing positions.
Which side wins in any situation depends on the extent of debtor distress and the strength of the opposing creditor-debtor coalitions.
If not openly committed to opposing Western values and interests, China's interests in cowing Taiwan and in asserting regional hegemony across Asia certainly are not those of Europe and the West, not to mention Japan, India, and the rest of Asia.
But the 80,000 Russian soldiers opposing the rebels do have ammunition warehouses, from which arms are stolen and sold.
This is why one can hear many voices opposing the idea of a harmonized EU-wide bank levy or tax.
The Senate bill's provision on derivatives is a good litmus test: the Obama administration and the Fed, in opposing these restrictions, have clearly lined up on the side of big banks.
But the sad reality is that political, social, and economic pressures tend to push EU members and citizens in opposing directions; shared histories, it seems, are an insufficient basis for shared policies.
But the firm ended up opposing the draft legislation to create such a scheme, because it did not provide sufficient free carbon-emission permits for coal companies.
Ever since the question was first raised in 2011-2012, there have been two opposing views.
But Egypt's government is angry with Hamas for opposing the formation of a coalition government.
The two countries also found themselves in opposing camps over the war in Iraq, and, of course, in their attitudes about further political integration.
Here, too, it makes sense to have the ECB in charge as a neutral arbiter with respect to these opposing interests.
And, by opposing the inclusion of legally binding climate commitments, it weakened the global climate agreement that was reached this month in Paris, leaving compliance and implementation uncertain.
In the periodic short breaks, we sounded each other out enough to find out that we were definitely in opposing political camps.
This all happened when the Iron Curtain divided Europe - and the world - into opposing camps.
In an updated lesson in realpolitik, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently was happy to count Pope Francis as an ally in opposing American military intervention in Syria.
But the best way to prevent this is to create an environment in which opposing views can clash freely, enabling truth ultimately to triumph.
Alternatively, if the rules were left to domestic political processes, there could be more countervailing pressure from opposing stakeholders (even though financial interests are powerful at home, too).
What, then, can strike a balance between the opposing forces operating on the euro-dollar exchange rate?
Disappointingly, many Europeans have responded to this humanitarian crisis, which closely resembles the one that Europe endured a century ago, by opposing their countries' acceptance of any more refugees.
But, when assessing Lee's legacy, we should also heed the words of Kim Dae-jung, who was jailed and almost killed for opposing South Korea's dictatorship, before becoming the country's democratically elected president in 1998.
But it, too, will have to face strong opposition from domestic agricultural interest groups and manufacturing sectors, which might mobilize even more strongly than they did in opposing the FTA with the US.
Then, he (so far, it has always been a man, though France's Marine Le Pen would fit the pattern should she ever come to power) pursues an agenda opposing the European Union (when the country is a member) or other institutions of supra-national governance.
Since some of the groups opposing GM organisms destroy the field trials that could give us more knowledge, a more pertinent argument might be that many opponents do not want us to know more.
They are comfortable with protracted uncertainty about who is right even in bitter debates, conceding gaps in their knowledge and granting legitimacy to opposing views.
But should opposing the LDP really mean undoing 50 years of work on national security?
Financial institutions - and their trade bodies - are doing themselves no favors by vigorously opposing meaningful reform.