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.

It was really a May and December combination.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Perhaps his most important private activity was the combination of reading, discussion with a few -- if we can trust his writings to Diodati and the younger Gill, very few -- congenial companions.

The current stereotype of straight news reporting was probably invaluable in protecting the press and its readers from pollution by that combination of doctored fact, fancy, and personal opinion called yellow journalism which flourished in this country more than a generation ago.

It was an odd combination a strange pair to stumble upon the wreck of the Trinidad.

The answer is that it was a combination of circumstances.

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

During the same period as the building of the Erechtheum, a combination of sacred precincts including the temples of Athena Polias, Poseidon, Erechtheus, Cecrops, Herse, Pandrosos and Aglauros, with its so-called the Kore Porch ( or Caryatids ' balcony ), was begun.

" Yokum " was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965 – 1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price.

The AIM-54 / AWG-9 combination was the first to have multiple track capability ( up to 24 targets ) and launch ( up to 6 Phoenixes can be launched nearly simultaneously ); the large missile is equipped with a conventional warhead.

The combination of Scriptural study and of Greek learning was characteristic of the famous Alexandrian School, of Clement, Origen, Dionysius and Theognostus.

However, this intention was thwarted by a combination of ethnic antagonism, aesthetic controversy and political struggles over the institutional control of public art.

A return to New Zealand was accompanied by a desire to avoid the controversy of 1930 and so red replaced blue for the jersey with the resultant kit being that which is still worn today, the combination of red jersey, white shorts and green and blue socks, representing the four unions.

The eventual joint company effort, named Borland Office for Windows ( a combination of the WordPerfect word processor, Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Paradox database ) was introduced at the 1993 Comdex computer show.

Bronze was especially suitable for use in boat and ship fittings prior to the wide employment of stainless steel owing to its combination of toughness and resistance to salt water corrosion.

In their study they found that neither agent alone seemed deadly, but a combination of the virus and Nosema ceraneae was always 100 % fatal.

Their analysis revealed that sufficient lift was generated by " the unconventional combination of short, choppy wing strokes, a rapid rotation of the wing as it flops over and reverses direction, and a very fast wing-beat frequency ".

It was powered by a two-chamber Armstrong Siddeley Stentor Mark 101 rocket engine, burning a combination of hydrogen peroxide and kerosene.

This taste for structural clarity worked its way into the world of music, moving away from the layered polyphony of the Baroque period, towards a style where a melody over a subordinate harmony — a combination called homophony — was preferred.

Traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) is based on Yinyangism ( i. e., the combination of Five Phases theory with Yin-yang theory ), which was later absorbed by Daoism.

In 1929, the linear combination of atomic orbitals molecular orbital method ( LCAO ) approximation was introduced by Sir John Lennard-Jones, who also suggested methods to derive electronic structures of molecules of F < sub > 2 </ sub > ( fluorine ) and O < sub > 2 </ sub > ( oxygen ) molecules, from basic quantum principles.

It is uncertain where it was first discovered that a combination of hydrated non-hydraulic lime and a pozzolan produces a hydraulic mixture ( see also: Pozzolanic reaction ), but concrete made from such mixtures was first used by the Ancient Macedonians and three centuries later on a large scale by Roman engineers.

While the use of paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and other NSAIDS concurrently with weak to mid-range opiates ( up to about the hydrocodone level ) has been said to show beneficial synergistic effects by combatting pain at multiple sites of action, several combination analgesic products have been shown to have few efficacy benefits when compared to similar doses of their individual components.

It should also be said that an overarm motion would allow more effective combination of the aspis and doru if the shield wall had broken down, while the underarm motion would be more effective when the shield had to be interlocked with those of one's neighbours in the battle-line.

The latter hypothesis seems the more plausible evolution determinant as the surface area of the head is minute compared to the remainder of the body, thus the energy required in producing long hair for the express purpose of " optical " amplification of UV light reflected from the snow seems counterproductive ( however, it's very likely that the trait was sustained due to a nuanced combination of multiple influences, given that human hunting-skills and ingenuity were such by 50, 000 years ago that said benefits in terms of ' comfort ' could have alternatively been derived from constructing head and ear warmers of fur from prey, etc .).

The combination of off-centered wraparounds and angled walls was, Pei said, designed to provide " a sense of tumultuous youthful energy, rebelling, flailing about ".

The core of the planet Jupiter could be said to be held together by a combination of metallic bonding and high pressure induced by gravity.

In such cases, it is said that the parasites in combination have a synergistic effect.

Designer Herman F. Zimmerman has said regarding interior design, " the Romulans have possessed advanced technology a lot longer than the Federation, so the look was a combination of art deco and medievalism meets high tech.

Unlike the others, he said lowering taxes, increasing defense spending, and balancing the budget was an impossible combination.

One possible definition is that a random vector is said to be k-variate normally distributed if every linear combination of its k components has a univariate normal distribution.

If I < sub > static </ sub > is source code designed to run inside said interpreter, then partial evaluation of the interpreter with respect to this data / program produces prog *, a version of the interpreter that only runs that source code, is written in the implementation language of the interpreter, does not require the source code to be resupplied, and runs faster than the original combination of the interpreter and the source.

The combination of being a war-god, and being associated with the easternmost edge, lead to Sopdu being depicted as an Asiatic warrior, with a shemset girdle and long axe, and more generally being said to guard Egypt's borders.

As I said, Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes.

Though certainly not denying the racist issues confronted in the play, Sackler once said in an interview, " What interested me was not the topicality but the combination of circumstances, the destiny of a man pitted against society.

Two-character mings may be chosen for each character's separate meaning and qualities, but the name remains a single unit which is almost always said together even when the combination no longer ' means ' anything.

When asked about his band, leader John Sebastian said it sounded like a combination of " Mississippi John Hurt and Chuck Berry ," prompting his friend, Fritz Richmond, to suggest the name " Lovin ' Spoonful " from a line in Hurt's song, " Coffee Blues ".

The third and most important process results from the fact that the combination between stimulus and power may be weak or strong ; if weak, then tile two elements are said to be movable, and they may flow over from one to another of the already formed psychical products.

The name is not taken from Boston, Massachusetts, where this combination is unknown, but from an establishment on Boston Boulevard in Detroit, where it is said to have been invented.

Invasion ( sometimes interchangeable with Conquest ) is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces of one geopolitical entity aggressively entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of either conquering, liberating or re-establishing control or authority over a territory, forcing the partition of a country, altering the established government or gaining concessions from said government, or a combination thereof.

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

Survivors said the gas at first smelled of sweet apples ; they said people died in a number of ways, suggesting a combination of toxic chemicals ( some of the victims " just dropped dead " while others " died of laughing "; while still others took a few minutes to die, first " burning and blistering " or coughing up green vomit ).

Thus, early knowledge of lenses and the availability of lenses for spectacles from the 13th century onwards through the 16th century means that it was possible for many individuals to discover the principles of a telescope using a combination of concave or concave and convex lenses ; in the 13th century, Robert Grosseteste wrote several scientific treatises between 1230 and 1235, including De Iride ( Concerning the Rainbow ), in which he said:

Krist Novoselic said in a 2001 interview with Rolling Stone that the band had played a tape in their tour van that had an album by The Smithereens on one side and one by the thrash metal band Celtic Frost on the other, and noted that the combination probably played an influence as well.

Stevens later said that they had intended to push Ken Clarke, Michael Heseltine, Chris Patten and other pro-Europeans in the Conservative Party into " an SDP-style breakaway, in combination with the Liberal Democrats ".

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 ).