Any abilities I may have were achieved in their present shape from experience in sharing in the growth and control of my business, coupled with raising my family.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

Heat during the Atlanta campaign, coupled with unsuitable clothing, caused individual irritation that was compounded by a lack of opportunity to bathe and shift into clean clothing.

Continuing technical problems involved in the use of this fuel, coupled with significant improvements in aircraft range through other means, have now raised serious questions about the value of the high-energy fuel program.

Jet -- which I coupled with the Deerstalker carbine as one of the year's two biggest developments -- few significant innovations appeared among 1961's handguns.

At the same time, Roosevelt's Federal Housing Administration, coupled with Henry Morgenthau's cheap-money policy, permitted ordinary lower-middle-class families to build their own homes.

His music shows a sensuality coupled with an eerie quality that suggest somehow a blood-kinship with Dappertutto in Offenbach's Hoffman.

The result, coupled with the salesmanship for which American industry is famous, is considerable expenditure of funds and efforts in marginal areas.

But it coupled with this a requirement that Indians must bring their pelts to Mobile and thus save all costs of transportation into and out of the Indian country.

Australia reached a cricketing peak in the 1990s and early 2000s, coupled with a general decline in England's fortunes.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus exhorts us to " Observe in Alcaeus the sublimity, brevity and sweetness coupled with stern power, his splendid figures, and his clearness which was unimpaired by the dialect ; and above all mark his manner of expressing his sentiments on public affairs ," while Quintilian, after commending Alcaeus for his excellence " in that part of his works where he inveighs against tyrants and contributes to good morals ; in his language he is concise, exalted, careful and often like an orator ;" goes on to add: " but he descended into wantonnness and amours, though better fitted for higher things.

What expands the qualities of further bodily response is a very subtle nod forward to counteract a common backward startle pattern, coupled with an upward movement of the head away from the body that lengthens the spine.

The huge ratio of length vs cross sectional area coupled with velocity made the arrow orders of magnitude more powerful than any other hand held weapon until firearms were invented.

The shelter provided by these two mountainous ridges has produced a " micro climate " which provides relatively mild temperatures for the region and, coupled with the fertile glacial sedimentary soils on the valley floor, the region is conducive to growing vegetable and fruit crops.

Its small 37 mm gun and light armor was seen as a flaw, but was produced in such a large volume and, coupled with its off-road capability, that this shortcoming was largely overlooked.

In the direct elemental analysis of solid samples, the new leaders are laser-induced breakdown and laser ablation mass spectrometry, and the related techniques with transfer of the laser ablation products into inductively coupled plasma.

In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.

Often these procedures are coupled with legislation or other common law doctrines that establish standards for proper rulemaking.

A linear charge coupled device ( CCD ) array with 200 pixels is used as the detector.

Metal acetylides can be coupled with primary alkyl halides.

Beethoven wrote this piece in triple time, but it is punctuated in a way that, when coupled with the speed of the metre, makes it sound as though it is in quadruple time.

This incident, coupled with Stalin's demands for the restitution of the Turkish provinces of Kars, Artvin and Ardahan to the Soviet Union ( which were lost by Turkey with the Russo – Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, but were regained with the Treaty of Kars in 1921 ) was one of the main reasons why Turkey decided to give up its general principle of neutrality in foreign affairs.

Desperation set in at the RLM, who had no other designs " in the pipeline " to fill the gap left if Bomber B did not work, even though some minor designs like the Henschel Hs 130, usually powered with two DB 603 or 605 engines, and the Dornier Do 317, itself being tried with the " coupled " DB 606 or 610 " power systems " in some airframes, roundly derided in August 1942 by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring as " welded-together engines ", were being considered.

This combination of events, coupled with an ongoing decline in British military and economic support to the region as the Home Office favoured newer colonial endeavours in Africa and elsewhere, led to a call among Maritime politicians for a conference on Maritime Union, to be held in early September 1864 in Charlottetown-chosen in part because of Prince Edward Island's reluctance to give up its jurisdictional sovereignty in favour of uniting with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single colony.

" As early as 1883, the Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston Railway served Brownsville as evidenced by an old lithograph of the Three Towns showing a diamond stacked locomotive coupled to four passenger cars, ready for a northward move, sitting on the track close to the Snowden House and the United States Post Office.

With the funding of the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research, in 2008, MIT chemist and head of the Solar Revolution Project Daniel G. Nocera and postdoctoral fellow Matthew Kanan attempted to circumvent this issue by using a catalyst containing the cheaper and more abundant elements cobalt and phosphate .< ref name = Kanan > The catalyst was able to split water into oxygen and protons using sunlight, and could potentially be coupled to a hydrogen-producing catalyst such as platinum.

This victory was seen as the result mainly of Abdullah's personal popularity and the strong recovery of Malaysia ’ s economy, which has lifted the living standards of most Malaysians to almost first world standards, coupled with an ineffective opposition.

) It was in part through the enthusiasm that they excited, coupled with the Impressionists ’ taste for popular entertainment, like the circus and the music-hall, as well as the new bohemianism that then reigned in artistic quarters like Montmartre ( and which was celebrated by such denizens as Adolphe Willette, whose cartoons and canvases are crowded with Pierrots )— it was through all this that Pierrot achieved almost unprecedented currency and visibility towards the end of the century.

This added premium, coupled with the availability of more secure ports in neighboring countries, will likely result in reduced throughput in Yemen ’ s ports in the near future.

Sheldon Richman, editor of the libertarian journal, The Freeman, also sees the IMF imposing “ corporatist-flavored ‘ neoliberalism ’ on the troubled countries of the world .” The policies of spending cuts coupled with tax increases give “ real market reform a bad name and set back the cause of genuine liberalism .” Paternalistic supranational bureaucrats foster “ long-term dependency, perpetual indebtedness, moral hazard, and politicization, while discrediting market reform and forestalling revolutionary liberal change .” Free market economist Richard M. Salsman goes further and argues the IMF “ is a destructive, crisis-generating global welfare agency that should be abolished .” “ In return for bailouts, countries must enact such measures as new taxes, high interest rates, nationalizations, deportations, and price controls .” Writing in Forbes, E. D. Kain sees the IMF as " paving the way for international corporations entrance into various developing nations " and creating dependency.

It was through Rachel ’ s constant acts of kindness and compassion coupled with the contents of her six diaries that this program, which promotes kindness, has successfully swept across schools in America http :// www. rachelschallenge. org /.

Using computer equipment coupled with an electronic incarnation of the player piano, they created re-performances of Tatum ’ s first four commercial tracks, from March 21, 1933, and the nine tracks from the April 2, 1949 live concert at Los Angeles ' Shrine Auditorium.

These events were coupled with a gradual population decline, culminating with the site ’ s abandonment by the end of the 10th century.

Pursuing Te Kooti as an officer and commander in the colonial militia, while perfecting his ability to destroy Te Kooti ’ s rebellious “ Jews ” Fairweather paradoxically finds his feelings of humanity expanding to include Englishmen, colonials and Māoris, coupled with a growing resentment of racism and injustice.

They also fielded a powerful artillery corps equipped with Soviet 122 mm howitzer 2A18 ( D-30 ) and 130 mm towed field gun M1954 ( M-46 ) pieces, along with truck-mounted BM-11 130 mm and towed BM-12 ( Chinese Type 63 ) 107 mm MBRLs, coupled by Man-portable, shoulder-launched Soviet SAM-7 ‘ Grail ’ AA missiles which were used to bring down two Lebanese Air Force Hawker Hunter fighter jets during the 1983-84 ‘ Mountain War ’.

Counterexamples in which the theorem fails are known in spacetime dimensions higher than four ; in the presence of non-abelian Yang-Mills fields, non-abelian Proca fields, some non-minimally coupled scalar fields, or skyrmions ; or in some theories of gravity other than Einstein ’ s general relativity.

Inspired by the both Darwinian principles of natural evolution and Dawkins ’ notion of a meme and viewed as a form of population-based algorithm coupled with individual learning procedures capable of performing local refinements.

During his final years, Torquemada ’ s failing health and advancing age, coupled with widespread complaints, caused Pope Alexander VI to appoint four assistant inquisitors in June 1494 to restrain the Spanish Inquisition.

That record ’ s acceptance, coupled with the band ’ s already notorious live shows, got them a deal with Epic Records.

In 1972 the government set up a steering group to examine the need for future short-term and long-term improvements to the railway given the growth in freight and passenger traffic to China, coupled with the government ’ s plans to construct large new towns at Sha Tin, Tai Po, Sheung Shui and Fan Ling in the New Territories that would further increase domestic travel demand.

On the school's website its mission is stated as ' The School ’ s commitment to Catholic Higher Education in the Christian Brothers ’ Tradition coupled with our AACSB – International ( Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business ) accreditation assures that the student is at the core of everything we do.

His quiet, easy-going and reassuring style, coupled with the catchy slogan " Let ’ s back Jack!

However, disputes between the GPC and the JMP in 2007 over election law amendments, coupled with the JMP ’ s opposition to President Saleh ’ s proposed democratic reform measures, have halted initial attempts to forge a dialogue between the two parties.

al-Shaybānī was the chief justice at the time, and his defense of ash-Shafi ' i, coupled with ash-Shafi ' i ’ s own eloquent defense, convinced Harun ar-Rashid to dismiss the charge, and he directed al-Shaybānī to take ash-Shafi ' i to Baghdad.

In this workshop, he produced a small vertical single cylinder gas engine of, running at 600 rpm This was coupled directly to a dynamo, which Lanchester used to light the Company ’ s office and part of the factory.

An agency is coupled with interest when the agent himself has an interest in the subject-matter of the agency, e. g., where the goods are consigned by an upcountry constituent to a commission agent for sale, with poor to recoup himself from the sale proceeds, the advances made by him to the principal against the security of the goods ; in such a case, the principal cannot revoke the agent ’ s authority till the goods are actually sold, nor is the agency terminated by death or insanity ( illustrations to section 201 );

Many believe that the organization ’ s accusations coupled with the Kerry campaign ’ s slow reaction to them were a significant factor in Kerry ’ s November defeat.