To compete, all the combatants have been stockpiling patents, in something of an arms race.
The combatants have only until 2014 to work out their answer and build it.
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Battles in Thousand Arms take place on 2D backdrops, with the combatants rendered in hand-drawn anime style.
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This spat will not be the last, and the combatants in future tussles will include old offline powers.
To add to the theatre, the combatants wear masks and boast names such as Molotov or Latin Lover.
The combatants include biggies like IBM (NYSE:IBM), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) and SAP (NYSE:SAP).
Should be fun, but don't look for any of the combatants to speak for the realities of today's women.
As bullets fly and an airship rains lasers down upon the combatants, a lime-green Kia Soul enters the fray.
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In any event, a decisive victory by one side or the other, or a settlement between the combatants, seems sadly unlikely.
It certainly warrants the creative attention of the big powers, the states in the region and the combatants on the ground in Syria.
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization urged the combatants to avoid damage to the sites, which were added to the agency's World Heritage List in 1988.
Only one rebel group signed a peace deal earlier this year, and this incomplete truce has served to further fracture the combatants and widen the conflict.
Because Connor is fighting a completely different war (one against the Templars) than the combatants around him, some of his enemies happen to be dressed in blue rather than red.
The first - well documented in the excellent Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed - was when World War I threatened to crash the national banking systems of the combatants.
The combatants: the favorite New England Patriots, who haven't lost in a year, and the New York Giants, who looked unfit to compete for the title as recently as about six weeks ago.
However he spent only a few months having set up a facility called Soldiers House which offered some relaxation for the combatants before most of the YMCA staff were withdrawn via China and Japan.
One of the combatants was the ferocious Islanders defenseman Travis Hamonic, but the other was Evgeni Malkin, the highly skilled Pittsburgh forward who hadn't been in a regular-season or postseason fight in the NHL in nearly four years.
Nevertheless, it's not exactly shocking to see a newer graphics card outgun one that's been on the shelf a moment or so, but we're still holding out for a finalized unit before making any final judgments on the combatants.
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The fight will live long in the memory for the atmosphere, the courage and skill of the combatants, and especially for the drama, the final act of which - the announcement of the unanimous verdict - was a reminder of why sport, at times, cannot be surpassed for producing moments of ecstasy.
And the Mehdi Army and Badr Brigades -- the principal combatants in the Basra region -- are hardly the only militias at arms in Iraq.
Many of the top combatants are at the top of their games, such as PGA Championship winner Rory McIlroy and Fed Ex Cup champion Brandt Snedeker.
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Even if the two combatants knew that the fight was nothing more than a "good ol' boy" disagreement, the way the statute is written could allow a gun to be used if the observer reasonably and actually believed that great bodily harm could occur.
The most obvious casualties are the formal combatants, those seeking to kill each other on the battlefield.
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The Public Bill Committee will convene under the chairmanship of the Conservative Gary Streeter, and includes some of the prominent combatants from last Tuesday's second reading debate, David Burrows the Conservative backbencher who organised the vote against on the Tory benches, and former minister turned awkward squaddie Tim Loughton will be ranged against prominent supporters of the bill, like Labour's Chris Bryant.
One study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that 32.6% of the adult male combatants surveyed in the Liberian conflict had experienced sexual violence.
From a sports perspective, it was a nice change to finally have a single sentence that includes the real object of the affections by the labor combatants.
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Two of the three new surface combatants that the Navy announced in 2001 have been canceled, and the third is still a long way from proving its warfighting utility.
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The legal basis to detain enemy combatants under the law of war remains the same, meaning they can be held until the end of hostilities.
Britain, France and Sweden are sending their foreign ministers to Colombo this week to put pressure on Sri Lanka's government to ensure that the remaining non-combatants are not treated with the cruel disregard they were shown while trapped in the war zone.
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