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.

Men qualified for the broader task of marketing manager are even more scarce due to the demanding combination of qualifications called for by this type of management work.

Supporters believe that by the late 20th century those they characterized as " ruling elites " sought to harness the expansion of world markets for their own interests ; this combination of the Bretton Woods institutions, states, and multinational corporations has been called " globalization " or " globalization from above.

* phenolic substances ( such as phenol ( also called " carbolic acid "), cresols ( called " Lysole " in combination with liquid potassium soaps ), halogenated ( chlorinated, brominated ) phenols, such as hexachlorophene, triclosan, trichlorophenol, tribromophenol, pentachlorophenol, Dibromol and salts thereof ),

The standard works are printed and distributed by the LDS Church in a single binding called a quadruple combination and as a set of two books, with the Bible in one binding, and the other three books in a second binding called a triple combination.

Rolls of 4, 6, 8, and 10 are called " hard " or " easy " ( e. g. " six the hard way ", " easy eight ", " hard ten ") depending on whether they were rolled as a " double " or as any other combination of values, because of their significance in center table bets known as the " hard ways ".

Dishes called " curry " may contain meat, poultry, fish, or shellfish, either alone or in combination with vegetables.

The combination of TV, telephone and Internet access is commonly called triple play regardless of whether CATV or telcos offer it.

The combination of facts and dimensions is sometimes called a star schema.

Models of the human ear-brain combination incorporating such effects are often called psychoacoustic models.

There are three prominent hypotheses on nonbaryonic dark matter, called Hot Dark Matter ( HDM ), Warm Dark Matter ( WDM ), and Cold Dark Matter ( CDM ); some combination of these is also possible.

Most professional performers, as well as instructors, use a combination called a puckered smile.

A third type of cloning called replacement cloning is a theoretical possibility, and would be a combination of therapeutic and reproductive cloning.

Those containing less than or equal to 15 mg per dosage unit in combination with paracetamol or another non-controlled drug are called hydrocodone compounds and are considered Schedule III drugs.

In the U. S., hydrocodone is always found in combination with other drugs such as paracetamol ( also called acetaminophen ), aspirin, an NSAID, ibuprofen, an antihistamine, an expectorant, or homatropine methylbromide due to compounding regulations.

The Japanese language is written with a combination of three scripts: Chinese characters called, and two syllabic ( or moraic ) scripts made of modified Chinese characters, and.

A third method, called combination knitting, goes through the front of a knit stitch and the back of a purl stitch.

* Compounding also called composition is the combination of lexemes into a single word.

A combination retail and residential complex immediately south of Cooley Law School Stadium ( formerly Oldsmobile Park ) called " The Stadium District ", was completed in 2007.

While this drink was not called a Mojito at this time, it was still the original combination of these ingredients.