It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

A combination of miscalculation, misfortune, and an attack of English fire ships on 29 July off Gravelines which dispersed the Spanish ships to the northeast defeated the Armada.

: Combined with Shaka's " buffalo horns " attack formation for surrounding and annihilating enemy forces, the Zulu combination of iklwa and shield -- similar to the Roman legionaries ' use of gladius and scutum -- was devastating.

The P51 Mustang was the subject of a 30 minute episode entitled " The Cadillac of the Skies " in reference to its exceptional performance and how it started off as a British purchase as a low level attack fighter into the powerful long range bomber escort that it would eventually become in the Air War in Europe through a combination of being fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin and the fitting drop tanks that allowed to escort the bombers of the United States 8th Air Force all the way into occupied Europe and back.

: Combined with Shaka's " buffalo horns " attack formation for surrounding and annihilating enemy forces, the Zulu combination of iklwa and shield -- similar to the Roman legionaries ' use of gladius and scutum -- was devastating.

An attack may utilize a combination of these methods in order to magnify its power.

Defending against Denial of Service attacks typically involves the use of a combination of attack detection, traffic classification and response tools, aiming to block traffic that they identify as illegitimate and allow traffic that they identify as legitimate.

* Sherif Ali – A combination of numerous Arab leaders, particularly Sharif Nassir — Faisal's cousin — who led the Harith forces involved in the attack on Aqaba.

Historian Michael Morrison argues that from 1820 to 1846 a combination of " racism and veneration of the Union " had prevented a direct northern attack on slavery.

They are not usually commenced until one to two weeks after an acute attack has resolved, due to theoretical concerns of worsening the attack, and are often used in combination with either an NSAID or colchicine for the first three to six months.

In the 1991 Gulf War a mix of strikes by fixed-wing aircraft including carpet bombing and precision bombing was used in combination with large numbers of strikes by attack helicopters.

They can range from a simple " Mate in one " combination to a complex attack on the opponent's king.

In 1067 rebels in Kent launched an abortive attack on Dover Castle in combination with Eustace II of Boulogne.

The cause of death was reported as heart attack resulting from a lethal combination of sleeping pills and cocaine.

# The French battleship Scipion ( 80 guns ), behind De Rigny's Sirène ( 60 ), immediately came under intense attack, by a combination of Egyptian frigates on both sides, the shore batteries and a fireship.

The term " human wave attack " was often misused to describe the Chinese short attack — a combination of infiltration and the shock tactics employed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army ( PLA ) during the Korean War.

In the main attack on the right, the British infantrymen either flung themselves to the ground, huddled in the canal, or were mowed down by a combination of musket fire and grapeshot from the Americans.

" These ' troops in the wood ' were the Grassins, a combination of light infantry and light cavalry who tenaciously defended the position against the Allied attack.

A combination of bad weather, the arguments of his generals, and a breach of security when the details of the original plan fell into Allied hands, eventually led Hitler to agree to postpone the attack until early 1940, when it was again delayed by the invasion of Denmark and Norway.

The increase in lift may be accomplished by increasing the angle of attack of the wings, by increasing the thrust of the engines to increase speed ( thereby increasing lift ), by increasing the surface area or shape of the wing to produce greater lift, or by some combination of these techniques.

These moves require the input of a special combination of two parts: they are activated by pressing all three attack buttons together, and if it connects, the player has the chance of extending the combo with a character-specific sequence, which must be input during the attack.

The Western Allies in 1944 broke through the incomplete Atlantic Wall with relative ease through a combination of amphibious landings, naval gunfire, air attack, and airborne landings.

The analyses were performed on two maps that have had the foregrounds removed as best as is possible: the " internal linear combination " map of the WMAP collaboration and a similar map prepared by Max Tegmark and others.

In addition to jumps performed singly, jumps may also be performed in combination or in sequence.

Because of this, the only two jumps that can be performed as the second or third jump in a combination are toe loops and loops, because they take off from the right back outside edge.

In pair skating, spins may be performed side by side with both partners doing the same spin or combination spin at the same time.

Lavani is a combination of traditional song and dance, which particularly performed to the enchanting beats of ' Dholaki ', a drum-like instrument.

Foster and Elcock's Absys ( 1969 ), on the other hand, employed a combination of equations and lambda calculus in an assertional programming language which places no constraints on the order in which operations are performed.

This compound title is merely a common combination of two elementary offices: leader ( imam ) of the congregational prayer, which in larger mosques is performed at the times of all daily prayers ; and preacher ( khatib ) of the sermon or khutba at the required congregational prayer on Friday.

There, the input is performed by two sets of three keys plus a space bar ( as in the Perkins Brailler ), while output is via a refreshable braille display consisting of a row of electromechanical character cells, each of which can raise or lower a combination of six ( or in some cases, eight ) round-tipped pins.

Fixation is usually performed by incubation in a solution of a buffered chemical fixative, such as glutaraldehyde, sometimes in combination with formaldehyde and other fixatives, and optionally followed by postfixation with osmium tetroxide.

In the earlier days of the web, server-side scripting was almost exclusively performed by using a combination of C programs, Perl scripts, and shell scripts using the Common Gateway Interface ( CGI ).

The plays were performed by a combination of professionals and amateurs and were written in highly elaborate stanza forms ; they were often marked by the extravagance of the sets and ' special effects ', but could also be stark and intimate.

Spin positions performed in immediate succession without checking out of the spin are referred to as combination spins.

If composed before being performed, music can be performed from memory, through written musical notation, or through a combination of both.

This compound title is merely a common combination of two elementary offices: leader ( imam ) of the congregational prayer, which in larger mosques is performed at the times of all daily prayers ; and preacher ( khatib ) of the sermon or khutba at the required congregational prayer on Friday.

At the height of Petipa's strict academicism, the public was taken aback by Pavlova's style, which was a combination of a gift that paid little heed to academic rules: she frequently performed with bent knees, bad turnout, misplaced port de bras and incorrectly placed tours.

* The combination of different observations taken under different conditions as notably performed by Roger Joseph Boscovich in his work on the shape of the earth and Pierre-Simon Laplace in his work in explaining the differences in motion of Jupiter and Saturn.

He also recorded and performed, in combination with other artists, under group names such as The Hard Brothers, Hard Trax ( with his brother Matthew Hawtin ), 0733, Cybersonik ( with Daniel Bell and John Acquaviva ), Final Exposure ( with Joey Beltram and Mundo Muzique ), Just For Fun ( with Holger Wick ), Narod Niki ( with Akufen, Cabanne, Dandy Jack, Daniel Bell, Luciano, Ricardo Villalobos, Robert Henke and Thomas Franzmann ), Two Guys In The Basement ( with John Acquaviva ), Spawn ( with Fred Giannelli and Daniel Bell ) and States Of Mind ( with Acquaviva ).

This is performed with a combination of geochemical analysis of the source rock ( to determine the type of kerogens present and their maturation characteristics ) and basin modelling methods, such as back-stripping, to model the thermal gradient in the sedimentary column.

" Such methods are commonly referred to as concept testing and have been performed using field surveys, personal interviews and focus groups, in combination with various quantitative methods, to generate and evaluate product concepts.

Examples of hazing, often performed in combination, include Spanking ; tickling ; being hosed by sprinkler, buckets or hoses ; covered with dirt or with ( sometimes rotten ) food ; engaging in lengthy, tedious cleaning of toilets ; waiting on others ; being made to eat or drink too much ( to the point of intoxication and vomiting ); wearing humiliating clothing such as diapers, underwear, an apron, jockstrap, loincloth or duct tape ; performing calisthenics and other physical tests.

* Colley Cibber, Love Makes a Man ; or, The Fop's Fortune: A comedy ( published ; performed 13 December 1700 ); a combination of two plays by Beaumont and Fletcher: The Custom of the Country and The Elder Brother

The mystic links that are forged by way of these initiations, which typically occur at puberty ( although they could in truth be performed as and when the Ifá oracle demands if they have not already been done at a period beyond this stage ), are the conduits that are used by adherents to attempt to achieve what can be seen as the equivalent of the Buddhist enlightenment by way of a combination of personalized meditations, reincarnations and spirit possessions.

Kmoch wrote, " The following game, a stunning masterpiece of combination play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies.