Personality is thought to be determined largely by genetics and biology, by environment and experiences, or by some combination resulting thereof.

The Oath itself came from a combination of three sources, and was largely the work of Michael Collins in the Treaty negotiations.

This was largely a matter of circumstance, as Wales had none of the needed materials in suitable combination, and the forested, mountainous countryside was not amenable to industrialisation.

The American bison ( Bison bison ), also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds, became nearly extinct by a combination of commercial hunting and slaughter in the 19th century and introduction of bovine diseases from domestic cattle, and has made a recent resurgence largely restricted to a few national parks and reserves.

McMahon and Mondt were a successful combination, and within a short time, they controlled approximately 70 % of the NWA's booking, largely due to their dominance in the heavily populated Northeast region.

The poem, itself a combination of different poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom.

Thanks largely to a combination of Greene's tactics, and Kościuszko's bateaux and accurate scouting of the rivers ahead of the main body, the Continentals safely crossed each one in its path, including the Dan River.

This view of man was largely Hobbesianman is a system deterministically controllable by a suitable combination of reward and punishment, and the ends of government are to ensure the maximisation of pleasure.

The term muckraker refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United States after 1900 and continued to be influential until World War I, when through a combination of advertising boycotts, dirty tricks and patriotism, the movement, associated with the Progressive Era in the United States, came to an end.

The US victory came largely from the toughness of the fighting force, Spruance's combination of coolness plus his caution at just the right moments, and large doses of plain luck.

The modern form of wassoulou is a combination of hunter's songs with sogoninkun, a type of elaborate masked dance, and the music is largely based on the kamalengoni harp invented in the late 1950s by Allata Brulaye Sidibí.

According to Michael C. Macmillan, Bourassa's political thought was largely a combination of Whig liberalism, Catholic social thought, and traditional Quebec political thought.

Whether isolated or used in combination with nonfigural ornamentation or figural representation, geometric patterns are popularly associated with Islamic art, largely due to their aniconic quality.

A combination of the " Siberian high ": cold, high-pressure systems in the east, together with wet, cold cyclonic systems in the west largely determined the overall weather patterns.

Because of its combination of decades long scheduled service and length of time spent at supersonic speeds, the main user of supercruise was Concorde, with more time spent in supersonic, largely supercruise, flight than all of the other aircraft put together.

Though the siege ultimately failed, what early success the allies enjoyed was largely due to the combination of cool-headed leadership and dashing bravado of Bayard.

The combination of the sisters ' vocals and violins is the essence of the Sephira sound, which is largely classical / crossover with traditional Irish influences.

He is frequently mystified that his management style — a combination of bad production ideas, offbeat health fads and slogans he picked up from management books but largely fails to understand or to apply correctly — fails to rouse office morale.

A combination of medieval, middle-eastern, contemporary classical, and popular influences, the soundtrack is largely the result of British film-score composer Harry Gregson-Williams.

Huntington is largely credited with vision and the combination of developments which created and built a vibrant and progressive community.

Modern Barbadian music is thus largely a combination of English and African elements, with Irish, Scottish, and modern American and Caribbean ( especially Jamaican ) influences as well.

It is largely a software concern ; when software, hardware, or a combination of hardware and software, is used to enable use of a computer by a person with a disability or impairment, this is known as Assistive Technology.

On the other hand, the number of guerrillas probably never exceeded a few thousand, and the combination of action by the security forces and the offers of amnesties had largely ended the threat by the early 1980s.

In France and French-speaking countries, it is not unusual for people to have a combination of both male and female given names, such as Jean-Marie, Marie-Jean, Marie-Pierre, and Julie-Pierre.

However, with the immiserisation and proletarianisation of much of the petit bourgeois world, and the growth of finance capitalism, middle class came to refer to the combination of labour aristocracy, professionals and white collar workers.

The words, having initially been taken from the English language, are either actual English words in Korean context, like 모터사이클 ( motorcycle ), or are made from a combination of Korean and / or English words ( such as Officetel 오피스텔 Office + Hotel ) which are not used in English-speaking countries.

A combination of these two styles gave birth to de Spookrijders, a three-man hip-hop group founded in 1996.

The combination of hushed reverence, chromatic harmonies and sexualized imagery in Richard Wagner's late opera Parsifal gave new significance to the grail theme, for the first time associating the grail – now periodically producing blood – directly with female fertility.

" EH 4. 29. 6 mentions the Diatessaron: " But their original founder, Tatian, formed a certain combination and collection of the gospels, I know not how, to which he gave the title Diatessaron, and which is still in the hands of some.

All this activity gave renewed encouragement to political ambitions and in September 1915 a combination of Octobrists and Kadets in the Duma demanded the forming of a responsible government.

According to musician and author Albin Zak, the combination of the studio — engineered by Bill Porter, who experimented with close miking the doo-wop backup singers — production by Foster, and accompanying musicians, gave Orbison's music a " polished, professional sound ... finally allow ( ing ) Orbison's stylistic inclinations free rein ".

The mix gave Theseus a combination of divine as well as mortal characteristics in his nature ; such double fathers, one immortal and one mortal, was a familiar feature of Greek heroes.

A few years later, Ziegler discovered that a combination of TiCl < sub > 4 </ sub > and Al ( C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 5 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub > Cl gave comparable activities for the production of polyethylene.

This gave rise to the town itself through a combination of a good harbor, proximity to the sea routes, vast timber resources, and a river capable of supporting mills.

The combination of guerrilla warfare and tropical disease killed half his expedition before he gave up.

The combination of mostly British chassis and American V8 engines gave rise to the popular and spectacular Can-Am series in the 1960s and 1970s.

Coltrane's modal explorations gave rise to an entire generation of saxophonists ( mostly playing tenor saxophone ) that would then go on to further explore modal jazz ( often in combination with jazz fusion ), such as Michael Brecker, David Liebman, Steve Grossman, and Bob Berg.

He adopted his stage name, Martin Sheen, from a combination of the CBS casting director, Robert Dale Martin, who gave him his first big break, and the televangelist archbishop, Fulton J. Sheen.

The meeting at Berlin, on September 18, 1828, of a newly formed scientific association, of which he was elected president, gave him the opportunity of setting on foot an extensive system of research in combination with his diligent personal observations.

The combination of the tradition of landscape gardening and emerging city planning that gave Landscape Architecture its unique focus to serve these needs.

They are sometimes considered to be the two primordial elements, the combination of which gave rise to the other two elements of earth and air.

Together, this combination gave a profound religious symbolism to the bird.

The combination of these elements in one art form gave birth to tragedy.

The combination of the two appointments gave him extensive influence over the Church of England.

This combination of lateral rotation and flexion of the hip and flexion of the knee gave tailors particularly enlarged sartorius muscles.

These stories were key points in the Future History, so Heinlein gave a rough description of Nehemiah Scudder which made his reign easy to visualize — a combination of John Calvin, Girolamo Savonarola, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Huey Long.

While previous studies of multimodality therapy ( combinations of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy ) gave mixed results, the Intergroup 0116 ( SWOG 9008 ) study showed a survival benefit to the combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy in patients with nonmetastatic, completely resected gastric cancer.

The combination of land reform and devolved local government gave Irish nationalists an economic political base on which to base their demands for self-government.

According to traditional rabbinic biblical chronology, Moses was 80 years old when the Exodus occurred, the Israelites had been in Egypt for 210 years in total, and thus in combination with the rabbinical claim that Jochebed was born on the border of Egypt, as her parents had entered it, this would require Jochebed to have been 130 years old when she gave birth to Moses ; rabbinical literature regards this to have been alluded to by the biblical description of the dedication of the Israelite altar, at which 130 shekel weight of silver was offered.

So the business came a combination car yard and surf shop, and in time the cars gave way to the surfboards and it became a dedicated surf shop, one of the first in Australia.