United were the vastly superior team in all aspects except central defence which, combined with a pinch of bad luck, proved their undoing at the Liberty stadium.
Distinctive features include large thumb spikes, which were possibly used for defence against predators, combined with long prehensile fifth fingers able to forage for food.
In a 2008 report, the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute ("IBAHRI") claimed that the "slim likelihood" of a successful defence to defamation, combined with high damages awarded in cases involving PAP officials, "sheds doubt on the independence of the judiciary in these cases".
Throughout, this robust defence of the most excluded was combined with an intense defence of the primacy of the pope.
His contract as Wales defence coach, which he combined with his Wasps job, expired after the World Cup.
But the scientists warned that natural flood defences would need to be combined with conventional prevention techniques.
Andy Kelly's Wolfhounds again played with spirit and enterprise but they were not quite as clinical as in last Wednesday's shock win against Samoa, and were eventually worn down by the Fijians' combination of brilliant attacking skills combined with some brutal defence.
But they then ran out of ideas and sloppy forward play from Ireland, combined with solid defence from Romania, kept the hosts at bay.
That way, they believe, people will gain more control over their lives.It is an article of faith for Mr Blair and New Labour that the party helped to make itself unelectable because its response to Thatcherism was a knee-jerk defence of public-sector unions combined with unthinking hostility to the privatisation of the old state monopolies.
Scarlets opened their Heineken Cup campaign with a thrilling win as three superb tries, combined with dogged defence, overcame Harlequins in London.
