His strength lay in a combination of unusual shrewdness, burning ambition, and servile loyalty to Hitler.

Hybrid offspring of two species may exhibit unusual growth due to the novel combination of imprinted genes.

The combination of aspirated voiceless alveolar plosive and voiced retroflex plosive is particularly unusual, while the consonants < D > and < r > () can be realized as and, respectively.

The Mesa compiler type-checks all uses of imported entities ; this combination of separate compilation with type-checking was unusual at the time.

Pembroke is unusual in having its recreational rooms named as " parlours " rather than the more standard " combination room ".

The combination of the earthquake, Yugoslav social planning, and UN funded plans created an environment in Skopje for some unusual building projects from the mid-1960s onwards.

Ancel / Antel even offers a bundle of cellular Internet access and ADSL, an unusual but potentially attractive combination for home ADSL users who also want to have Internet access on the go.

Because of this combination of high mountains and Mediterreanean air, it is not unusual that the region frequently has some of the lowest winter temperatures and some of the hottest summer temperatures in France.

The Mission church of San Luis Obispo is unusual in its design in that its combination of belfry and vestibule is found nowhere else among the California missions.

The unusual combination made the series an immediate hit with thrill-seeking youngsters, and a cult favorite on high-school and college campuses.

From 1960 to 1961, the combination of poor planning during the Great Leap Forward, political movements incited by the government, as well as unusual weather patterns and natural disasters resulted in widespread famine and many deaths.

In practice, it entails an unusual combination of discipline and detachment to suspend, or bracket, theoretical explanations and second-hand information while determining one's “ naive ” experience of the matter.

Since the speed of light is so great, and as material bodies pass through the aether without obvious friction or drag, the aether was assumed to have a highly unusual combination of properties.

Their use of exotic percussion, a three-piece horn section, unconventional scales and harmony and surrealistic imagery was an unusual combination.

In the last decade, it has promoted laws permitting parents to grant children either surname or either combination of their surnames in the hope that the more unusual ones will be chosen.

" The band's quirky take on the New Wave sound of their era was a combination of dance and surf music set apart from their contemporaries by the unusual guitar tunings used by Ricky Wilson and thrift-store chic.

Inevitably a few in the local community would become more interested in the area for its own sake, exploring the area for new and unusual routes, typically looking for a combination of challenge, safety, and elegance of line, the last being a subjective quality that is nevertheless easy for climbers to agree upon.

His close friend, Noam Federman, said Netanel was " an interesting and unusual combination, the type of person who stood out as a leader.

The combination of instruments is unusual, but not without precedent: Walter Rabl had composed for it in 1896, as had Paul Hindemith in 1938.

The most pejorative terms for white people in Brazil, both for locals and foreigners, even used by brancos morenos against fair-skinned White Brazilians, are branquelo (, literally ) and the even more disparaging leite azedo (,, in reference to the combination of an unusual light complexion, almost white as the milk, and the negative stereotype of the bad smell in Westerners — in most of Brazil, including White-majority states of Centro-Sul such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the normative social habit is to take at least one bath per day year-round, and Westerners are said to generally be not used to this — still the term is so common that in some regions it does not carry more the same negative connotation it carried in the past, although without losing its disparaging meaning ).

1985 Merkur XR4Ti, showing front panel also used by pre-facelift Ghia models, and the three-door XR4's unusual combination of short side doors from a five-door model, with the five-door model's rear quarterlight

The music was extremely eclectic and revealed a combination of musical styles that was very unusual, especially for the mid-1980s: hardcore punk, Crazy Horse-style garage rock, Black Sabbath-style metal riffs, folk rock, twangy country-rock and gothic music.

The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars ; an emission nebula ( the lower, red portion ), a reflection nebula ( the upper, blue portion ) and a dark nebula ( the apparent ' gaps ' within the emission nebula that cause the trifid appearance ; these are also designated Barnard 85 ).

Structure 4, an unusual palace-temple combination

# Special talents, achievements and awards in a particular field, such as visual and performing arts, communication or athletic endeavors ; special skills, such as demonstrated written and oral proficiency in other languages ; special interests, such as intensive study and exploration of other cultures ; experiences that demonstrate unusual promise for leadership, such as significant community service or significant participation in student government ; or other significant experiences or achievements that demonstrate the student's promise for contributing to the intellectual vitality of a campus.

" He also praised the game's " team concept " where " throughout the game, characters would join a player's team in order to help him / her win, each bringing unusual skills or magical talents.

Scouts never doubted his talents, but rather his unusual pitching mechanics.

He displayed such unusual talents that he became second in command when he had been there but a comparatively short time.

Her plots often involve unusual young people not recognized for their talents by ordinary lower or middle-class people but supported by the educated, rich, and upper-class, to the anger, resentment, and puzzlement of their relatives.

Concertation owes much to the talents of Maurizio Fabrizio, and exploits unusual instruments for pop music: dulcimer, Pan flute, lute, clarinet, among others-mixed with more standard guitar, bass and drums.

* Kaos, the son of mad scientist Desty Nova in Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita appears as a very unusual psychometrist in that not only can he read the memories of objects but he can also absorb the talents and skills necessary for their creation.

According to Ms Lortel's wishes the Theatre's mission was aimed at presenting works of an unusual and experimental nature, existing as a sanctuary from commercial pressures, a place where writers could take a chance with their plays and where actors could stretch their talents.

The goal of the project was to investigate people with reputed paranormal abilities, such as ESP, or unusual talents in other areas, including those with an exceptional green thumb.

It is somewhat unusual for directors to be credited co-editors, although the Coen Brothers and Robert Rodriguez have both directed and edited nearly all of their films.

Jensen was denied reprints of his work by his publisher and was not permitted to reply in response to letters of criticism — both extremely unusual policies for their day.

The Lipponen cabinets set the stability record, and were unusual in the respect that both moderate ( SDP ) and radical left wing ( Left Alliance ) parties sat in the government with the major right-wing party ( National Coalition ).

However, he allowed both Plectrude and the young Theudoald to live and treated them with kindness — unusual for those times, when mercy to a former gaoler, or a potential rival, was rare.

Its reproductive success is partly because of opportunistic feeding: it has a diet, unusual among anurans, of both dead and living matter.

Early in the 20th century, Columbus also was home to a number of pioneering car manufacturers, including Reeves, which produced the unusual four-axle Octoauto and the twin rear axle Sextoauto, both around 1911.

This acclaimed work was presented over two discs ( unusual at the time ) and it took the idea of thematically based albums to a much higher appreciation by both critics and the public.

These salamanders are much larger than any others in their endemic range, they employ an “ unusual ” means of respiration ( which involves cutaneous gas exchange through capillaries found in their dorsoventral folds ), and they fill a particular niche — both as a predator and prey — in their ecosystem which either they or their ancestors have occupied for around 65 million years.

However, in a few unusual and specific domains, such as immune systems, it seems that humans prefer others who are unlike themselves ( e. g., with an orthogonal immune system ), since this will lead to a baby that has the best of both worlds.

It was not unusual for Oxford and Cambridge cricketers to wear similar caps while batting, as both Jardine and MCC captain Percy Chapman did so on this tour, although it was slightly unorthodox to wear them while fielding.

Mummies of humans and other animals have been found all around the world, both as a result of natural preservation through unusual conditions, and as cultural artifacts.

The Jalapa dialect of Mazatec is unusual in contrasting both with modal voice in a three-way distinction.

The history of San Marino is both very European and typical for the Italian Peninsula, and yet helps explain its unusual characteristics as the sole remaining Italian microstate.

Proline and glycine are sometimes known as " helix breakers " because they disrupt the regularity of the α helical backbone conformation ; however, both have unusual conformational abilities and are commonly found in turns.

The official commission report notes that it was unusual for both Rowland and Page to be working downtown on Memorial Day, when most stores and businesses were closed.

Because strong, healthy blacks in their prime working and reproductive years were seen and treated as highly valuable commodities, it was not unusual for free blacks — both freedmen ( former slaves ) and those who had never been slaves — to be kidnapped and sold into slavery.

It is not unusual, however, for individual plants to bear both male and female flowers.

It is not unusual to hear the tin whistle used in praise music and film soundtracks, and published scores suitable for tin whistle performance are available in both of these genres.

It has an unusual double tide that is both favourable to maritime activities as well as a hazard with its strong tidal movements and quickly changing sea states.

While not a de jure example of electoral fusion, it was an unusual example of both major parties joining against a candidate.

The Long Valley volcano is unusual in that it has produced eruptions of both basaltic and silicic lava in the same geological place.

Tickle torture is an unusual form of torture which nevertheless has been documented, and can be both physically and psychologically painful.

This hypothesis is lent credence by the fact that the two outer movements, " Mars " and " Neptune ", are both written in rather unusual quintuple metre.

In an unusual ruling, they declared that Thorpe was co-champion with Bie and Wieslander, although both of these athletes had always said they considered Thorpe to be the only champion.

Unlike most European court system ( in both common law and civil law countries ), it is unusual in American state courts to reserve very serious crimes for a court different than the one that handles all other felony cases in a given county.