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.

The / 150 in combination with a VT105 terminal was also sold as MiniMINC, a budget version of the MINC-11.

Although sold as a thriller in the mould of McGoohan's previous series, Danger Man ( US: Secret Agent ), the show's combination of 1960s countercultural themes and surreal setting had a far-reaching effect on science fiction / fantasy programming, and on popular culture in general.

QPW 5 sold well also, though the Microsoft Excel + Word combination was gaining steam.

In Italy the first combination is still available, sold under the brand name Parmodalin ( 10 mg of Tranylcypromine and 1 mg of Trifluoperazine ).

In 1965 a Methaqualone / antihistamine combination was sold as the sedative drug Mandrax, by Roussel Laboratories ( now part of Sanofi-Aventis ).

Home theater designs and layouts are a personal choice, and the minimum set of requirements for a home theater are: a television set or video projector CRT ( no new models sold in U. S .), LCD, DLP, plasma display, organic light-emitting diode ( OLED ), SXRD, Laser TV, rear-projection TV, video projector, SDTV, HDTV, or 3DTV at least 27 " inches measured diagonally, an AV receiver or preamp ( surround processor ) and amplifier combination capable of at least stereo sound but preferably 5. 1 Channel Dolby Digital and DTS audio, and something that plays or broadcasts movies in at least stereo sound such as a VHS HI-FI VCR or LaserDisc player ( no new stand-alone models of either are available ; VHS VCRs are usually bundled in combo decks with DVD players ), a DVD player and / or a Blu-ray Disc player, cable or satellite receiver, video game console, etc.

The combination was short lived: Warner sold The Franklin Mint in 1985 to American Protection Industries Inc. ( API ) for $ 167. 5 million.

The follow-up game, Heart of Africa, appeared in 1985 and was followed by Robot Rascals, a combination computer / card game that had no single-player mode and sold only 9, 000 copies, and 1988's Modem Wars, one of the early games played by two players over a dialup modem.

The fibers were sold under the brand name " Calidria ", a combination of " Cal " and " Idria.

The drug is an ingredient in several products sold as sleep aids, either alone or in combination with other ingredients such as acetaminophen ( paracetamol ).

Typical NSAIDs used for hip dysplasia include carprofen and meloxicam ( often sold as Rimadyl and Metacam respectively ), both used to treat arthritis resulting from dysplasia, although other NSAIDs such as tepoxalin ( Zubrin ) and prednoleucotropin (" PLT ", a combination of cinchophen and prednisolone ) are sometimes tried.

The Astoria was sold in June 2006 by Compco Holdings to property group Derwent Valley Central for £ 23. 75m, who were rumoured to be planning to convert the site into a combination of shops, flats and offices to take advantage of an increase in property prices for the 2012 Olympics.

Lincoln Financial also sold its Charlotte radio stations to Braintree, Massachusetts-based Greater Media, thus breaking up Charlotte's last co-owned radio / television combination.

The combination oxycodone / aspirin is also sold under the brand name Endodan.

In everyday usage within its subculture, marijuana is sold using a combination of metric and American customary units.

The Gordini was able to reach and was sold with paint schemes comprising a solid pastel colour ( there were several to choose from ) with double white stripes added on, the most famous combination being French Blue with stripes.

It is usually sold in a concentrated solution, either on its own or in combination with the antibiotics penicillin and streptomycin.

In 1939, Savage introduced the Model 24 combination gun ( a configuration uncommon in the U. S .), which sold over a million copies.

Two types of icicle lights are sold at Halloween: all-orange, and a combination of purple and green known as " slime lights.

A standard set consists of 14 golf clubs, and while there are traditional combinations sold at retail as matched sets, players are free to bring any combination of 14 or fewer legal clubs.

CoolBrands had previously sold its operating business in 2007 and since that time had been looking for the right business combination whereby the shareholders of CoolBrands and the surviving company could benefit from the strength of CoolBrand's balance sheet coupled with the fact that CoolBrands was publicly traded.

This bill requires 50 percent of new cars sold in the United States by 2012 ( and 80 percent of new cars sold by 2015 ) to be flexible-fuel vehicles capable of running on any combination of ethanol, methanol or gasoline.