Hoosiers the mysterious term Indianans go by have always been willing to vote for Democrats, such as Mr Bayh or his son, Evan, who served as governor and now sits in the Senate.
When India was partitioned in 1947, the major Deobandi party in Pakistan, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, began to call for "Islamization" (a mysterious term no one quite knew how to define at the time).
The Khmer Rouge government adopted the mysterious term Angkar, or "the organisation" and, until 1977, the identities of its leaders remained confidential.
But while El Niño and La Niña events alternate every couple of years or so, a more mysterious long-term effect known as Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) is at work as well.
Further exploration of this possible application of ENM methods has focused on the mysterious long-term reservoir of the filoviruses (Ebola and Marburg viruses) by comparing African mammal distributions with those of filovirus-caused disease outbreaks (33 ).
The professor searched for the origins of the building method in Scandinavia, Germany and Canada before concluding that the best place to find old cordwood is probably Door County, Wis. Nick Hylla, who lives in Custer — in "the bull's-eye center of Wisconsin," he said — thinks about cordwood's mysterious origins in terms of natural history.
A theory of "penal satisfaction," which claims to answer theological questions but remains meaningless or mysterious in human terms, is simply unsatisfactory.
She creates a universe in a raindrop: abstract yet pregnant with meaning and feeling, which many commentators, at a loss for words, have termed mysterious.
The records from various doctors over the past 23 years are filled with mysterious-sounding medical terms: peripheral neuropathy, peripheral motor axonal polyneuropathy, xerosis and hammer toes.
