The campaign was a bipartisan effort enlisting a daunting combination of parents, babies, doctors and nurses.

The Steelers finished the season as the N.F.L.'s top-ranked defense with a daunting combination of allowing a league-low 74.7 rushing yards a game while punishing quarterbacks with a league-leading 55 sacks.

War Plus Famine Colonel Mengistu faces a daunting combination - two insurgencies, famine, and substantial reductions in aid from Eastern Europe, while the rebels can no longer rely on either Iraq, their principal foreign supplier, or their main supply route through the Sudan, which is left vulnerable by civil war there.

At the Guggenheim, a hunk of sharp white Vermont cheddar served in rough-hewn blocks and a single perfect apple are elegant in their simplicity, and preferable to such daunting combinations as chicken medallions with avocados and pasta flecked with this or that.

Part of the museum's mystique is the difficulties it presents: long lines, crowded galleries, a daunting combination of quantity and quality.

It is a human and a moral task, as much as an esthetic one, and it calls for a daunting combination of qualities.

She credits a curriculum approach that uses what sounded like a daunting combination: whole language, guided reading and phonics techniques.

The colony consisted of a dozen sunburned wooden cottages squeezed in between some unimpressive hills and a daunting forest-and-brook combination that to kids from Rego Park, Queens, might as well have been the Amazon.