In that oddball combination of two contests, chess-boxing, particularly popular in eastern Europe and Russia, three-minute rounds with the gloves on are interspersed with three minutes at the chess board.
"It looks like a combination of a beauty contest between myself and Sharon combined with internal primaries in Labor between myself and Peres.
But the protesters have continued unabated, including a recent ACT UP disruption of a "Most Original Stoli Guy" national finals -- a combination of a talent contest, "originality" and, naturally, an Andrew Christian underwear competition -- at the Marquee nightclub in New York City.
The other two-thirds comes from a combination of traditional ads; contests like the Barneys event; and sponsored sets, like the one posted four months ago by Calvin Klein, titled "Soft+Flirty," whose elements (all sold at CalvinKlein.com) were quickly assimilated by users into their own sets.
Szurpicki sees the contest as a combination of a grant process and a public design competition.
It is something to do with the combination of intended and accidental drama, the contest of forces of nature and of human creation and destruction.
For Mr. Gephardt, the key to negotiating the rigors of a hard-fought contest is a combination of healthy eating and long periods of silence, anathema to any politician.
The party believes it can do even better in the presidential contest, through a combination of strong public feeling against conventional politicians and Mr McGuinness's profile.
The idyllic Matticook College Summer Arts Conference is a combination of group therapy and dick-measuring contest, with a note of isolated romance a last-day-at-summer-camp feeling wafting in on the ocean breeze.
It was an uneven performance by Fiorentina, who raced into a 3-0 lead but allowed themselves to be dragged back into a contest through a combination of complacency and sloppy defending.
