Given the rigorous admission process it is not surprising that CUNY BA boasts a 70 % graduation rate within an average of 2. 2 years and that 60 % graduate with academic honors.

Given the high value of these areas for wildlife species, close to 70 % of this big-tree old growth forest is protected in reserves, and will never be eligible for harvest.

Given the large lake in the heart of the reservation, its total land area,, is only about 70 % of the reservation's surface area.

Given the distance to the epicenter of the Loma Prieta ( roughly 70 miles or 113 kilometers south of San Francisco ), there was great surprise at the localized destruction around the Bay Area.

" Given that there's a gulf of 100, 000, 000 light years, he checks his diary to find out what he had been doing that day, and finds out that it was something he wished to hide.

Given its dimensions ( 10, 000 kilometers in diameter ) it is more like Banks ' Culture Orbitals ( though much smaller ) than Niven's behemoth.

Given that there were 25, 000 people working on Shuttle operations, the payroll alone was the Shuttle's single biggest operating cost.

Given current trends in the UMC — with overseas churches growing, especially in Africa, and U. S. churches collectively losing about 1, 000 members a week — it has been estimated that Africans will make up at least 30 % of the delegates at the 2012 General Conference, and it is also possible that 40 % of the delegates will be from outside the U. S. One Congolese bishop has estimated that typical Sunday attendance of the UMC is higher in his country than in the entire United States.

Given this they would have qualified as Corbett summits had they been under 3, 000 feet.

) Given that the telephone system nominal voiceband ( including guardband ) is 4, 000 Hz, the required digital sampling rate is 8, 000 Hz ( see Nyquist rate ).

Given the traditional account of the Kali Yuga lasting 432, 000 years and having started in 3102 BCE, which makes these claims problematic.

Given a more realistic yield of 36 tonnes / hectare ( 3834 US gal / acre ) the area required is about 152, 000 square kilometers, or roughly equal to that of the state of Georgia or of England and Wales.

" Given that Edison, as much a businessman as an inventor, spent approximately $ 24, 000 on the system's development and went so far as to build a facility expressly for moviemaking before his U. S. patent was awarded, Rausch's interpretation is not widely shared by present-day scholars.

Given the impoverishment of Francis, the couple were forced to survive on Mary Adelaide's small Parliamentary allowance of £ 5, 000 per annum, supplemented by income from her mother, The Duchess of Cambridge.

Given that there are around 700, 000 live births in Britain each year, Meadow argued that a double cot death would be expected to occur once every hundred years.

Given that many chansons from the late twelfth century on extended to over 10, 000 verses or more ( for example, Aspremont comprises 11, 376 verses, while Quatre Fils Aymon comprises 18, 489 verses ), it is conceivable that few spectators heard the longest works in their entirety.

Given that only 2, 000 of the 785, 000 copies sold worldwide were sold in the United Kingdom, this lead numerous scholars to cite the case as an example of libel tourism.

Given this scenario, a Super Deal winner could win as much as $ 30, 000 in cash and prizes.

Given the city's central position in both Israeli nationalism ( Zionism ) and Palestinian nationalism, the selectivity required to summarise more than 5, 000 years of inhabited history is often influenced by ideological bias or background ( see Historiography and nationalism ).

Given that both companies have a work force of approximately 100, 000 employees, and a U. S. employment base of roughly 20, 000 H-1B holders, this indicates that roughly 1 / 5 of the Indian workforce of Infosys & Wipro applied for a visa in 2006.

Given the outlandish idea that a blind man could be a detective, in the introduction to the second Carrados book The Eyes of Max Carrados Bramah compared his hero ’ s achievements to those of real life blind people such as Nicholas Saunderson, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, Blind Jack of Knaresborough the road builder, John Fielding the Bow Street Magistrate of whom it was said he could identify 3, 000 thieves by their voices, and Helen Keller.

Given its length and a basin that covers an area of 102, 000 km², it is one of the largest rivers of the Caucasus.

Given Poole's exposure to the vacuum of outer space beginning in 2001, his body had been flash-frozen and freeze-dried so that it was mostly intact after 1, 000 years.

Given its small staff of only 24 men, the Einsatzgrupppe Ägypten would have needed as much help as possible from the local Arabs and from the Afrika Korps to kill the roughly 50, 000 Jews of Egypt, to say nothing of the half million or so Jews of the Yishuv.

Given the distance that these troops had to march in order to make contact with the enemy, it was clear to the two Corps commanders that they would be unable to attack at 4: 00 as ordered.

Given command of the 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Bell's most successful conquest was the capture of Es Salt, and the later successful evacuation of British troops from the stronghold.

Given that many Hungarian units were controlled by the German army, it is unclear whether orders, if issued, ever reached most of the line troops.

" Given the massing troops in 2008, perhaps such a transborder reserve would create not only a demilitarized buffer zone in which any future demarcation can be amicably undertaken, but a recognition of the added ecological and cultural aspects of an area which both Cambodia and Thailand may still save from the destructive and exploitative impacts of rapid development so often suffered in other ASEAN countries.

Given the nature of Arthur's activities, he was always in the spotlight of the local police and crossed paths with several regular and occasional characters:

Given the importance that the Japanese navy had in supplying the army as it advanced along the Korean peninsula and prepared to invade China, Toyotomi Hideyoshi made it absolutely imperative to his commanders that the naval situation must be brought under control, the Korean fleets destroyed and the supply routes through the Yellow Sea secured.

Given the proximity of Gateshead to Newcastle, just south of the River Tyne from the city centre, it is sometimes referred to as being a part of Newcastle.

Given command of the Army of the Cumberland, he fought against Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg at Stones River, and later outmaneuvered him in the brilliant Tullahoma Campaign, driving the Confederates from Middle Tennessee.

Given 25, 000 men, he was ordered to clear Confederate obstacles on the Mississippi River.

* Dennis Lehane-American Author of Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and the Given Day

Given the hydrological connection of the Humboldt River and Sink to the Carson Sink during flood years ( as recently as 1998 ), it is not surprising that beavers were historically extant on eastern Sierra watercourses.

Given that Liverpool was a major trans-Atlantic port and due to the building's proximity to the River Mersey, the lower floors of the Cunard Building were allocated to provide space for cruise liner passengers, both prior to and after sailing.

* Chesley " Sully " Sullenberger: Given on January 16, 2009, for his courage in his successful emergency water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River.

Given under my hand and the public seal of the Orange River Colony at Bloemfontein, this 13th day of September 1907.

Given the outstanding success of the Zeppelin design, the term zeppelin in casual use came to refer to all rigid airships.

Given Rickover's single-minded focus on naval nuclear propulsion, design and operations, it came as a surprise to many when in 1982, near the end of his career, he testified before the U. S. Congress that, were it up to him, he " would sink them all.

Given the choice between an AdLib card or a fully compatible Sound Blaster card that came with a game port, saved a slot, and included the " DSP " for not much more in price, many consumers opted for the Sound Blaster.

Given the very rapid technological changes underway in propulsion ( from coal to oil, from boilers to turbines ), ordnance ( with better fire directors, and new high explosives ) and armor and emergence of new craft such as destroyers and submarines, Mahan's emphasis on the capital ship and the command of the sea came at an opportune moment.

Given the financial situation during this period, over-production had to be avoided and thus the notion of Pull ( build to order rather than target driven Push ) came to underpin production scheduling.

Given his years of promoting baseball in Canada while a member of the Blue Jays, Whitt remained active as an ambassador of Canadian baseball Indeed, Whitt's coaching career first came to prominence in his capacity as manager of the Canadian national baseball team.

Given an element of a disjoint union A + B, it is possible to determine whether it came from A or B.

Given the utility of the design in combat in China, the Imperial Japanese Army was therefore content to retain the Type 94, although the design, and indeed the concept of the tankette, came to be regarded as obsolescent in Western armies.

Given what later came to light, however, Wooden granted that he may have had " tunnel vision " and that he perhaps " trusted too much ".

Given the preceding jurisprudence regarding due process, Chief Justice Taney was not entirely breaking ground in his Dred Scott opinion when, without elaboration, he pronounced the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because an " act of Congress that deprived a citizen of his liberty or property merely because he came himself or brought his property into a particular territory of the United States, and who had committed no offence against the laws, could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law.

Given was part of the teams who came runners-up in the 1998 and 1999 FA Cup campaigns, and was named in the Premier League Team of the Season for 2001 – 02 and 2005 – 06.

Given that many governments cannot be legally bound by a non-governmental document such as the World Anti-Doping Code, they are implementing it by individually ratifying the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport, the first global international treaty against doping in sport, which was unanimously adopted by 191 governments at the UNESCO General Conference in October 2005 and came into force in February 2007.

Given this situation, the alleged letters from some of the most venerable Roman bishops fabricated by the forgers ' workshop came as a godsend.

Given that Proto-Semitic would have been an Afroasiatic language, some believe that the first prehistoric speakers of the ancestral Proto-Semitic language came from Ethiopia, which would have been the Proto-Semitic homeland.

Given a high-profile spot on the all-star compilation Roll Wit tha Flava as their first recording opportunity, Zhane lived up to the pressure and came away with one of the hip-hop party anthems of all time, " Hey, Mr. D. J.

Harper came close to dislodging Given on numerous occasions, most notably in the 1998 – 1999 season.

Given the association of the NL with Nazism BUF organiser Alexander Raven Thomson even suggested a plan for Mosley to publicly denounce the League as traitors in an attempt to present a more patriotic image although Defence Regulation 18B came into force before this could be attempted.

Given Omar's circumstances of enslavement " among the Christians " and the possibilities of lobbying for his freedom that only came with confessing Christianity, his conversion can be argued to have been made under duress.

Given that this came days after a series of attacks on U. S. embassies in the Middle East, in response to the anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims, the French government decided to increase security at certain French embassies, as well as to close the French embassies, consulates, cultural centers, and international schools in about 20 Muslim countries.

Given the depth of their music you would think that Wave have been working together for years but in truth their chemistry came together quickly and has already spawned a number of incredible hits.

Given only three weeks to raise the necessary funds to compete for the upcoming 2007-08 season, fans of the club and local business Jelson Homes came together to save the club once again.