The latter incident strikingly resembles the exploitation of a solar eclipse by Ramses' chief adversary, Herhor, high priest of Amon, in a culminating scene of the novel.

In both cases, a French king appears to have been motivated to found an order of chivalry to increase the prestige of the French royal court by the example of his chief political adversary.

He has been House Democratic whip since 1991, and a chief adversary of Speaker Newt Gingrich.

The new middle class, he writes, is not the engine of modernity but its chief adversary.

His chief adversary is Representative Dan Rostenkowski, the Illinois Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

His chief adversary, the Democratic Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, attacked the governor's promise as nothing more than a surreptitious bid to kill programs he opposes.

The Lieutenant: The lieutenant is the chief adversary of the priest.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany made a surprise private visit to East Berlin today and almost bumped into one of his chief political adversaries.

During the twelfth century, the Frangipani were the chief adversaries of the Pierleoni family in the baronial struggles in Rome.

Ready to fight one will desert, The chief adversary will obtain the victory: The rear guard will make a defense, The faltering ones dead in the white territory.