A force, frightening and unseen, howled in the wind and merged with the encompassing darkness, blotting out the hunter's moon that had blazed so brightly the night before.

At the highest energies, like those immediately after the Big Bang, perfect symmetry prevails, and all the forces of nature merge into one.

Their progress seemed nearly effortless, as they stood there, yet moved through the swirls of darkness, jets of chaos, and unseen and intertwined webs where the two forces merged.

Since 2005 the insurgent forces have largely merged around several main factions, including the Islamic Army in Iraq and Ansar al-Sunna.

Physicists believe that at very high interaction energies, the forces should all merge, or unify, into a single universal force.

This force merged with about 500 soldiers commanded by Diarmait .

The French State's distinct forces L.V.F. and French Milice merged to become a full division of the German army.

This force merged with about 500 soldiers commanded by Diarmait and marched to Wexford (Loch Garman).

The force merged again with Inverness-shire Constabulary on 16 November 1968 to form the Inverness Constabulary.

There, the fundamental forces governing the structure of matter merged into a single superforce.