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.

Dr David Waldron and Christopher Reeve suggest that a fierce electrical storm recorded by contemporary accounts on that date, coupled with the trauma of the ongoing Reformation, may have led to the accounts entering folklore.

This, coupled with his two top 40 successes, ' Burning Up ' and ' To The Limit ', and more than 20 remixes entering the UK top 40, proves what a ground breaking star he was.

For all seven modules, the unwanted background effects of particles or photons entering from the rear was suppressed by a " phoswich " design, in which the active NaI detecting element was optically coupled to a layer of CsI on its rear surface, which was in turn optically coupled to a single photomultiplier tube for each of the seven units.

Filters are used to prevent spikes entering or leaving the equipment through wires, and the devices coupled electromagnetically to space ( such as radio-frequency pick-up coils in MRI scanners ) are protected by shielding.

The projector featured an automatic control mechanism designed by Disney engineers that was coupled to a variable anamorphic lens, which allowed the picture to switch between its Academy standard aspect ratio of 1. 33: 1 to the wide ratio of 2. 35: 1 in twenty seconds without a break in the film.

In music, boys ' voices, before they ' break ' being of a soprano register ( specifically known as treble ) unlike adult men ( in a choir usually tenor and bass ), have been most sought-after, especially where female voices were considered inappropriate as often in church and certain theatrical music-this even led to the practice of physically trying to prevent their ' angelical ' voices ever to break by surgically cutting short the hormonal drive to manhood: for centuries, castrato singers, who coupled adult strength and experience with a treble register, starred in contratenor parts, mainly in operatic styles.

In 1973 Jackiw and Johnson and Cornwall and Norton studied the possibility that a ( non-vectorial ) gauge interaction of fermions can break itself ; i. e., is strong enough to form a Goldstone boson coupled to the gauge current.

With Admiral Ukhtomsky's division firing, coupled with Poltava's rejoining of the fight, Mikasa and Asahi began taking too many hits, and upon the urging of his chief of staff, Togo used his superior speed to break contact, race ahead of Vitgeft's fleet, and try to re-establish contact again under more favorable conditions.

The two coupled together and used by anti-aircraft batteries, placed along the flight path of German V-1 flying bombs on their way to London, are credited with destroying many of the flying bombs before they reached their target.

Ground planes can also be placed on adjacent layers to power planes, creating a large parallel plate decoupling capacitor that prevents noise from being coupled from one circuit to another through the power supply.

Several prominent academics like Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Addison Gayle, Jr., established a new “ Black Aesthetic ” that “ placed the sources of contemporary black literature and culture in the communal music and oral folk tradition .” This new respect coupled with a growing Black Feminism led by Mary Helen Washington, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and others would create the space for the rediscovery of Hurston.

This, coupled by the constant demand placed on his muscles by over one hundred pounds of adamantium, grants him some degree of superhuman strength.

However, the two instruments could also be coupled together, the ottavino being placed over the strings of the larger virginals ( once the jackrail was removed ), so that the jacks of the latter passed through a slot in the bottom of the ottavino.

The building was placed under new management in 1999, and with regular maintenance reinstated and gradual restoration, coupled with council, provincial, and government initiatives to rehabilitate Hillbrow, it is beginning to find some shine again.

By contrast, in a capacitively coupled plasma ( CCP ), the electrodes are often placed inside the reactor and are thus exposed to the plasma and subsequent reactive chemical species.

The Chardack-Greatbatch pacemaker used Mallory mercuric oxide-zinc cells ( mercury battery ) for its energy source, driving a two transistor, transformer coupled blocking oscillator circuit, all encapsulated in epoxy resin, then coupled to electrodes placed into the myocardium of the patient's heart.

The most remarkable disabilities under which women were still placed in 1910 were the exclusion of female heirs from succession to real estate, except in the absence of a male heir ; and the fact that a husband could obtain a divorce for the adultery of his wife, while a wife could obtain it only for her husband's adultery if coupled with some other cause, such as cruelty or desertion.

His test career ( 17 wickets at 54. 88 ) was ultimately unremarkable, but his 156 One Day International wickets at 26. 84 coupled with useful lower-order batting placed him among Australia's best one-day players.

The company built only four steam locomotives ( each one having vertical cylinders, placed at the back and each side of the furnace, with grasshopper beams and connecting-rods from them to the crankpins in the four coupled wheels ).