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given and flexibility
In the end the programmer is given considerable flexibility in terms of where to place their code, collecting it along class lines where appropriate, and functional lines where it's not.
This nevertheless gave the Soviet Army greater strategic flexibility, given the large land area and long borders of the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact.
Foil becomes increasingly rigid with increasing thickness, so a thin foil layer is often surrounded by a layer of braided metal, which offers greater flexibility for a given cross-section.
She was instructed to support a reduction or withdrawal ( something which never happened ) of the U. N. Assistance Mission for Rwanda but was later given more flexibility.
Duties of volunteers are often less specialized than those of city firefighters, because it is less predictable who will be available for a given emergency, so more flexibility is needed.
To achieve flexibility and low bulk for a given warmth of suit, they are unlined inside, and the smooth surface of the neoprene is removed mechanically to reveal a rougher " open cell " surface which adheres closely to the skin and reduces flushing of the suit.
In his memoirs, Lamont recalls a senior Treasury civil servant answering his question on why Britain had joined the ERM as replying, " It's politics ," to which Lamont replied, " I don't think I would have given up the flexibility of the exchange rate.
* Many questions can be asked about a given topic giving considerable flexibility to the analysis.
Government regulations have given private education more flexibility and autonomy in recent years, notably by lifting the moratorium on applications for new courses, new schools and conversions, by liberalizing tuition fee policy for private schools, by replacing values education for third and fourth years with English, mathematics and natural science at the option of the school, and by issuing the revised Manual of Regulations for Private Schools in August 1992.
The occasional need to remove from their children's clothing dried-in bloodstains or ground-in swamp mud is generally seen by parents as more than compensated for by the broad education being received — a child's description of one of the classic battles from Ankh-Morpork's long history, for example, might be sufficiently vivid and detailed to make the parent think that the description could not have been improved upon if the child had actually seen the battle at first hand, ( which in fact he has, given the flexibility of time and space Susan has inherited from her grandfather.
Besides charging a higher interest rate to compensate for their risk, consumer finance companies are usually able to operate successfully because their employees are given more flexibility in structuring loans and in collections than banks.
This removal of the earlier misconception as to the meaning of judicial is thought to have given the judiciary the flexibility it needed to intervene in cases of judicial review.
By bypassing the GCE " O " level examinations, the students are supposedly given more time and flexibility to immerse themselves in a more broadly-based education.
This protocol is more complex and time consuming than the primary ( or direct ) protocol above, but it allows more flexibility because a variety of different secondary antibodies and detection techniques can be used for a given primary antibody.
However, while several methods can be used to extract evidence from a given computer the strategies used by law enforcement are fairly rigid and lacking the flexibility found in the civilian world.
VUL policies have a great deal of flexibility in choosing how much premiums to pay for a given death benefit.
States are given flexibility in designing their SCHIP eligibility requirements and policies within broad federal guidelines.
However, with perfect management, X-COM can outpower the entire City's military, while being richer than even Food Monopoly Company Nutrivend, then destroy the whole city and get away with it, given the game's superb flexibility.
UCC's research strategy involves creating " Centres of Excellence " for world class research in which the researchers and research teams would be given great freedom and flexibility to pursue their areas of research.
The Fund allows Ortiz the flexibility to donate to those children are in the most need at any given time, from Boston to the Dominican Republic and beyond.
John Zachman clearly states in his documentation, presentations, and seminars that, as framework, there is flexibility in what depth and breadth of detail is required for each cell of the matrix based upon the importance to a given organization.
However, given the low cost of a gamma camera and its additional flexibility compared to a dedicated PET scanner, this technique is useful where the expense and resource implications of a PET scanner cannot be justified.
The top drivers exceeded the limit almost regularly, but FISA had given the organizers a 10 percent flexibility.
Balancing these efforts in the context of maximizing your productivity is not a trivial task, but given a project of reasonable size, it can give great returns in flexibility and return on investment ( ROI ).

given and allusion
According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.
Clark's middle name is given variously as either Joseph or Jerome, the latter in allusion to creator Jerry Siegel.
Her nickname, Murasaki, was most probably given at a court dinner in an incident she recorded in her diary: in c. 1008 the well-known court poet Fujiwara no Kintō inquired after the " Young Murasaki "— an allusion to the character named Murasaki in Genji — which would have been considered a compliment from a male court poet to a female author.
While Asher was praised for bringing cases of factitious disorder to light, critics objected variously that a literary allusion was inappropriate given the seriousness of the disease ; that its use of the Anglicized form " Munchausen " showed poor form ; that the name linked the disease with Münchhausen himself, who did not have it ; and that the name's connection to works of humor and fantasy, and to the essentially ridiculous character of the fictionalized Baron, was disrespectful to patients suffering from the disorder.
This plant's genus name Liquidambar was first given by Linnaeus in 1753 from Latin liquidus, fluid, and the Arabic ambar, amber, in allusion to the fragrant terebinthine juice or gum which exudes from the tree.
His name has also been given as Prokop Holý or Prokopius Rasus-latin translation (" the Shaven ," in allusion to his having received the tonsure in early life ), Procopius the Great, and Andrew Procopius.
Later that evening, for example, in a marquee a couple of miles down the road, we attended a performance by the Druid Theatre Company from Galway in which the poem was given a dramatic presentation with all the boost and blast-off that song and music and topical allusion could provide.
His baptismal name was Guido, but entering the convent of the Reformed Dominicans at Fiesole, he took Giovanni as name in religion ; the surname Angelico ' angelic ' was afterwards given to him in allusion to the beauty of his works and purity of spirit.
A new version of the 1971 acoustic Shagrat song " Beautiful Deceiver " is tracklisted on the CD as " Syd's Wine " and a credit for guitar and other noises is given to one Crazy Diamond, an allusion to the 1975 Pink Floyd track " Shine On You Crazy Diamond ", written in tribute to Barrett.
The tale ends with the town becoming the site of a ritual to a pagan god whimsically given the name " Yottle ", possibly an allusion to the Mesoamerican god Yaotl, whose name means " the enemy ".
Mercutio's real name is an allusion to Adam the first man according to the Abrahamic religious tradition, especially given his plan to kill all his male classmates (" He who succeeds, breeds ").
Wise Men of Gotham is the early name given to the people of the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, in allusion to their reputed simplicity.
Production notes suggest that it was intended that her last name would be Gale, an allusion to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, given the fact that she was transported to Iceworld via a time storm.
The color of pyrargyrite is usually greyish-black and the lustre metallic-adamantine ; large crystals are opaque, but small ones and thin splinters are deep ruby-red by transmitted light, hence the name, from the Greek pyr and argyros, " fire-silver " in allusion to color and silver content, given by E. F. Glocker in 1831.
New York Daily News columnist Bob Raissman has given Waldman the derisive nickname " Georgie Girl ", an allusion to her close relationship with Steinbrenner ( and a play on the title of the 1960s hit song " Georgy Girl ").
Although Weber himself used the word ' agency ', in modern social science this term is often appropriated with a given acceptance of Weberian conceptions of social action, unless a work intends to make the direct allusion.
The phrase about " the valley of the shadow of death " is often taken as an allusion to the eternal life given by Jesus.
Making allusion to the Congregatio de Auxiliis, the debate concerned the respective role of grace and free will, Molinists ( i. e. Jesuits ) claiming that an " efficacious grace " was not necessary to save man, but only a " sufficient grace " bestowed by God to all men, while Thomists claimed that the " sufficient grace ," given to all men, had to be assisted by an " efficacious grace ," bestowed only to the select few ( in accordance also with Augustinism ).
The title Cypria, associating the epic with Cyprus, demanded some explanation: the epic was said in one ancient tradition to have been given by Homer as a dowry to his son-in-law, a Stasinus of Cyprus mentioned in no other context ; there was apparently an allusion to this in a lost Nemean ode by Pindar.
This is the main meaning given for katabasis by the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) which it describes as " A going down ; a military retreat, in allusion to that of the ten thousand Greeks under Xenophon, related by him in his Anabasis.

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