He is confident and intelligent but also matter-of-fact and approachable – a winning political combination.
"Bloc", meaning a political combination, dates from the early 20th century, according to the Shorter Oxford.
George realized too late that his clumsiness had destroyed one political combination and made any other difficult to assemble.
For instance, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani appointed his deputy mayor, Ninfa Segarra, to be a board member, in what was widely perceived as a blatantly political combination, and then helped engineer her ascension to president.
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman has a simple way of preaching the value of centrism: he tells voters that his long record of moderation and years of working across party lines is the winning political combination that Republicans will not know how to counter.
As the SNP well knows, despite his Scots ancestry, Cameron not only gives off the whiff of very English privilege, but also personifies a malign political combination - leading a party once again fond of paying tribute to the blessed Margaret, with pronounced personal echoes of the hated Blair.
His army, still small but unsurpassed for its effective training, gave him the place formerly held by Sweden in the political and military combinations of the period.
Mr. Nauman's work unites the personal and the political in stimulating combinations, as did the painter Rudolph Baranick, whose somber "Napalm Elegies" is the main event at the Jersey City Museum.
I think that was well deserved because I combined hands-on work with people and political activism, a combination which I believe to be an absolute necessity in the social work field.
