If they are wrong, the prosperous combination could come apart.

They believed, in their wisdom, that this unlikely combination could never come about.

The proposed combination should not have come as a surprise to investors.

The combination of circumstances could not have come at a worse time for the kosher food industry.

"The whole combination came together, and I saw this wasn't working for me or my family," she said.

This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence.

"But a special combination of things came together to create the tipping point."

Such a combination does not often come our way.

The combination came unglued in the 50's and seems impossible today.

However, the two banks had very different cultures and the combination did not come easily.