Choosing what was possibly the continent's worst site for the first Spanish settlement in South America, in February 1536 Mendoza built a fort at a poor anchorage on the southern side of the Plata estuary on an inhospitable, windswept, dead-level plain where not a tree or shrub grew.

They've published a manual, " Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits ", and have a traveling " Cyber Cafe " demonstration of what free software can do for non-profits.

Choosing what he felt was best for Daventry, in an attempt to protect the land, he started sending innocent girls off to be sacrificed to the fire-breathing dragon, even consenting to the sacrifice of his only daughter, Rosella.

Choosing the codes used to modulate the signal is very important in the performance of CDMA systems.

Choosing a Cartesian coordinate system for a one-dimensional space — that is, for a straight line — means choosing a point O of the line ( the origin ), a unit of length, and an orientation for the line.

Choosing and installing the correct device drivers for given hardware is often a key component of computer system configuration.

Choosing inaccessible cliffs and entirely mammal-free islands protects them from terrestrial predators while laying eggs in burrows is effective in protecting them from egg-scavengers like gulls and ravens.

Choosing a constant is the same as choosing an element of the coset.

Choosing either two or three genders throughout the whole text is not a requirement either, so one may choose to write tida (“ the time ” f ) and boken (“ the book ” m ) in the same work.

Choosing a coordinate system such that instantaneously is in the z direction and is in the x direction, with the customary polar angles and defining the direction of observation, the general formula Eq.

Choosing an equivalence class of metrics on X is the additional datum of the conformal structure.

Choosing to default on such a loan despite being able to service it is called strategic default.

Choosing the smallest or simplest possible base cases is more elegant and usually leads to simpler programs, because there are fewer cases to consider and they are easier to solve.

Choosing surgery immediately is the most expensive option and is often not necessary for resolution of symptoms.

Choosing whether capturing is obligatory is usually done at the beginning of the game.

* Choosing a code that is reasonably efficient, whatever the data at hand.

* Choosing one from among several items ( e. g., one of three keys that unlocks a safe, one of three diamond rings that is genuine, one of three eggs that is raw, etc.

Although these days it is a purely ceremonial affair, every year at the parish church, on the first Monday after Saint Andrew's Day ( the first in December ), known as " Choosing Day ", the Freemen of Brightlingsea gather to elect the " Deputy of Brightlingsea " who is the representative of the Mayor of Sandwich in the Liberty.

Note: Choosing the right search terms is the key to finding the information you need.

Choosing the dimensions of one's identity is a special case, in which the assigning of weight to a dimension is partly self-constitutive.

Choosing a linear order is equivalent to choosing a first element, so there are exactly linear orders that induce a given cyclic order.

" Dr. Stefani Koorey in her Voice of Youth Advocates review maintained, " Unlike many sports novels, Choosing Up Sides does more than offer a mere glimpse of the grand old game of baseball — it takes a deeper look at faith, truth, and individuality ," going on to dub the tale a " well-designed study of personal choice.

Kulgan discovers Pug's talent for magic and takes him as his apprentice on Choosing Day.

Choosing an orientation for a forest produces a special kind of directed acyclic graph called a polytree.

*$ 315 million, Mega Millions, won November 15, 2005, by a group called " The Lucky 7 ", in Anaheim, California, Choosing cash, their prize was $ 175 million.

The national one was called " Choosing Our Future " and the San Francisco Bay Area organization was called " Bay Voice ".

After the FCC sided with broadcasters and renewed their licenses, Choosing Our Future then created an inclusive " community voice " organization called " Bay Voice ".

Choosing a blue livery, it was originally called Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines.

) Choosing an orange color for the 2 ¢ Grand Canyon tableau instead of the standard 2 ¢ carmine red, the Post Office departed from U. P. U. color-coding for the first time.

Choosing to look through the red filter intensified the images of the ghosts, while the blue filter " removed " them.

PopMod is used as one of the standard tools of the World Health Organization ’ s ( WHO ) CHOICE ( Choosing Interventions that are Cost-Effective ) program, an initiative designed to provide national health policy makers in the WHO ’ s 14 epidemiological sub-regions around the world with findings on a range of health intervention costs and effects.

Choosing s to measure up from the ground, the acceleration a must be in fact − g, since the force of gravity acts downwards and therefore also the acceleration on the ball due to it.

I slip under the radar of an awful lot of people because of that title, and it allows me to reach an audience who would most likely never pick up a book about religious based bigotry Up Sides or the cowardice of war the Wall or one that demonizes anti-environmental developers Boy Who Saved Baseball, and so on, if I didn ’ t write under the cover of baseball .” At this point, Ritter began to openly acknowledge and discuss the metaphorical underpinnings of Choosing Up Sides in schools and conferences across the country.

Choosing large areas or larger values of w makes it easy to find alignments of 20 or more points.

Choosing for himself freedom from the routines of office, as Lord Privy Seal he made appointments without regard for connections but perceived merit.

Choosing a design that favored himself and other White Sox pitchers, rather than hitters, Walsh made Comiskey Park a " pitcher's park " for its entire 80-year history.

Choosing to either tap or hold the A button will subsequently produce either " weak " or " strong " results once the move is performed, while a similar system is used for strikes.

# Choosing the preferred option — given the full understanding of all the problems and opportunities, all the consequences and the criteria for judging options.

Choosing a standard software package like DMFAS also decreases the need to maintain a full group of developers within the DMO ’ s IT department, there are only needs for maintenance and service for daily work, database management, and security procedures like regular backups.

Choosing S to be any of these central rows or columns, and removing S from the graph, partitions the graph into two smaller connected subgraphs A and B, each of which has at most n / 2 vertices.

Choosing not to organize its activity around a central square, as did many towns in New England, the South, and upper-Midwest, Shawnee represents a distinctly western model of urban development.

Choosing to have children may be the more selfish choice, especially when poor parenting risks creating many long term problems for both the children themselves and society at large.

Choosing 1560 ( the earliest choice ) as the starting year places the player in a Caribbean almost devoid of influence but that of Spain, while 1680 ( the latest choice ) provides a mature Caribbean with many non-Spanish colonies and an overall higher degree of activity in the region.

Choosing to stay away from the more explicit cannibal, slasher and zombie films of the time, these were generally tamer films such as The Monster Club and Dan Curtis television films, as well as many episodes of the Hammer House of Horror television series.

Choosing the optimum pit strategy of how many stops to make and when to make them is crucial in having a successful race.

Choosing the correct column type is important because the type of a column determines many of its properties, including its ordering for indexes.

He is author of Psychiatry in the Everyday Practice of Law, Fourth Edition ( Thomson / West ), Lovers, Killers, Husbands and Wives ( St. Martin's Press ), Fluke ( Permanent Press ), Choosing Lovers ( Glenbridge Publishing ) and The Lucrecia Borgia Cookbook ( Renaissance Press ), as well as author of articles for the Journal of American Medical Association, The Archives of General Psychiatry, The American Journal of Neuropsychiatry, Judicature, Journal of the California State Bar Association, Journal of the Hawaiian State Bar Association, and Journal of the American Bar Association, among many others.