The winning project, called Meadowlands Xanadu, promises a mixture of entertainment, sports, shopping, lodging and offices that its supporters believe will draw crowds.
Joe Gallivan's Rainforest Initiative, featuring the English saxophonists Evan Parker and Elton Dean, promises a mixture of Hawaiian chanting and free improvising -- not your run-of-the-mill gig.
The producers promise a mixture of big-name rock bands and rising stars.
In recent weeks ordinary people have reacted to the government's promises with a mixture of scepticism and incredulity.
Every other consideration was subordinated to this obligation, even to the point at which the Spanish ambassador in Rome, Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimental, conde-duque de Olivares, intervened in three successive conclaves in order to assure, by a mixture of promises and threats, the election of popes congenial to his master (conclaves in 1590 91 of Urban VII, Gregory XIV, and Innocent IX).
If the station lacked focus in its early years when it promised an enervating mixture of archive and album tracks, it now pursues a different mantra, "celebrating the alternative spirit in popular music since the 1960s".
"The art of getting on at school," Connolly wrote, in Enemies of Promise, "depends on a mixture of enthusiasm with moral cowardice and social sense".
In other countries, such as Poland and the Baltic states, it looked different: one occupation gave way to another.The promised communist nirvana brought a mixture of mass murder, lies and latterly the grey reality of self-interested rule by authoritarian bureaucrats.
It was able to extract concessions with a mixture of promises and threats.
If bipartisanship means enforcing total discipline in your own party and bludgeoning one or two Democrats to join your side with a mixture of promises and threats, Mr. Bush could still win as the Senate moves today toward adoption of a budget resolution.
Hollande, who campaigned on an anti-austerity platform, has promised to conjure thirty billion euros with a mixture of cuts and taxes.
