Given this influence, it is unfortunate that many of the details of his life remain shrouded in mystery, perhaps forever ; even the only known picture of him, shown above, is heavily retouched, with a fake tie painted in by hand.

Given their great antiquity, where and when they first existed is not known and perhaps unknowable.

Given Chrétien's known tendency to create new stories and characters, being the first to mention the hero Lancelot and his love affair with Queen Guinevere for example, the name might also be entirely invented.

Given that bodhisattvas are known to incarnate at will as living people according to the sutras, the princess Miaoshan is generally viewed as an incarnation of Avalokitesvara.

* Sentence breaking ( also known as sentence boundary disambiguation ): Given a chunk of text, find the sentence boundaries.

Given that millions of organic compounds are known, rigorous use of systematic names can be cumbersome.

Given the CIA's purposeful destruction of most records, its failure to follow informed consent protocols with thousands of participants, the uncontrolled nature of the experiments, and the lack of follow-up data, the full impact of MKUltra experiments, including deaths, will never be known.

Given the structural similarities between bacterial flagella and bacterial secretory systems, it is thought that bacterial flagella may have evolved from the type three secretion system ; however, it is not known for certain whether these pores are derived from the bacterial flagella or the bacterial secretory system.

* Given control of the Eastern Empire, Avidius Cassius, the governor of Syria, crushes an insurrection of shepherds known as the boukoloi.

Given an encoding of the known background knowledge and a set of examples represented as a logical database of facts, an ILP system will derive a hypothesised logic program which entails all the positive and none of the negative examples.

Given their culture and traditions, this area became known as Little Dixie.

Given on 16 October 1732, they amounted only to recreating his first expedition, but with the added task of heading east and finding North America ( a feat which had in fact just been completed by Mikhail Gvozdev, though this was not known at the time ).

Given what is known of Cathróe's own background, this probably means that she was of British (" Cumbrian ") or Scottish descent.

Given that thousands of cuneiform tablets have been recovered at the site, relatively little is known about the history of Sippar.

Given their culture and traditions, this area became known as Little Dixie, and Randolph County was at its heart.

Given their culture and traditions, this area became known as Little Dixie and Howard County was at its heart.

Given their culture and traditions, this area became known as Little Dixie and Chariton County was at its heart.

Given their culture and traditions, this area became known as Little Dixie, and Callaway was at its heart.

Given that the probability p is known, past outcomes provide no information about future outcomes.

Given that Rothko had known in advance about the luxury decor of the restaurant and the social class of its future patrons, the exact motives for his abrupt repudiation remain mysterious.

Given that the oldest known waterfowl, Vegavis iaai, dates from the Late Cretaceous, galliform ancestors must also have roamed the Earth contemporaneously with animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex.

Given the subsequent emergence of organized fandom for comic books among adults who grew up reading them during Comics ' Golden Age, it is ironic Wertham at one point in Seduction ( pp. 89 – 90 ) asserts " I have known many adults who have treasured throughout their lives some of the books they read as children.

Given an inelastic reaction with total incoming energy larger than the total detected energy ( i. e. not all outgoing particles are detected in the experiment ), the invariant mass ( also known as the " missing mass ") of the reaction is defined as follows:

Given the variety of approaches, Economic Geography has taken to many different subject matters, including: the location of industries, economies of agglomeration ( also known as " linkages "), transportation, international trade, economic development, real estate, gentrification, ethnic economies, gendered economies, core-periphery theory, the economics of urban form, the relationship between the environment and the economy ( tying into a long history of geographers studying culture-environment interaction ), and globalization.

While tests have been done to support this with fixed pieces of flat metal, the result is inconclusive with respect to the curved armour of the period. Given the following actions of the archers, it seems likely Froissart was correct.

Given that the Qur ' an is vague regarding the punishment of homosexual sodomy, Islamic jurists turned to the collections of the hadith and seerah ( accounts of Muhammad's life ) to support their argument for Hudud punishment ; these are perfectly clear but particularly harsh.

Given prevailing views on homosexuality at the time, circulation of the diaries helped undermine support for clemency for Casement.

Given that the decree was issued at Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt, rather than Alexandria, the centre of government of the ruling Ptolemies, it is evident that the young king was anxious to gain their active support.

Given the same set of resources, IS-IS can support more routers in an area than OSPF.

Given that many businessmen and bankers were terrified of Bryan's populist rhetoric and support for ending the gold standard, Hanna had few problems in raising record amounts of money.

Given that many open source projects fail due to lack of developer support, exposure to such a large community of developers can continually breathe new life into a project.

Given that all Jews had been expelled from the province of Styria ( which includes Graz ) in the 15th century and were not allowed to return until the 1860s, scholars such as Ian Kershaw and Brigitte Hamann dismiss as baseless the Frankenberger hypothesis, which before had only Frank's speculation to support it.

Given the high level of support within the party for her leadership, MacPhail surprised many by choosing not to seek the party leadership in 2003.

Given postwar urban erosion of support, Lenin designed propaganda campaigns as a supplement to the New Economic Policy to further increase backing of the Bolsheviks.

Given Ríos Montt's staunch anticommunism and ties to the United States, the Reagan administration continued to support the general and his regime, paying a visit to Guatemala City in December 1982.

Given that the bards depended on aristocratic support to survive, and that this power and patronage was shifting towards the new English rulers, this thorough condemnation of their moral values may well have contributed to their demise as a caste.

Given the inter-tribal style of powwow music it may be viewed as less traditional or valuable though the music is also used to support tribal identity and display the value of a living culture.

Given this, few alternative programs support the format.

Given its harbors and fortifications, Saint Thomas still retained a strategic importance, and thus, in the 1860s, during the American Civil War and its aftermath, the United States government considered buying the island and its neighbors from Denmark for $ 7. 5 million, but at the time failed to find domestic legislative support for the bid.

Given the dwindling support for the NDP reflected in all the public opinion polls, the formation of a new party on the left could not be ignored.

Given that his reign lasted for, at best, only a few weeks after his acclamation and he does not seem to have secured significant military or political support Domitianus is more properly categorized as a Roman Usurper rather than an Emperor.

Given this lengthy support it was reasonable for Tyrconnell and Tyrone to try to solicit help from Philip III, but Spanish policy was to maintain its recent ( 1604 ) peace with England, and its European fleet had anyway been destroyed by the Dutch over four months earlier.

Given the military-industrial requirements of the Cold War, the authors of the then secret National Security Council Report 68 ( NSC-68 ) proposed the US government undertake a massive permanent national economic expansion that would let it “ siphon off ” a part of the economic activity produced to support an ongoing military buildup to contain the Soviet Union.

Given this rapid rate of construction, the GVN was unable to fully support or protect the hamlets or its residents, despite the immense funding by the United States government.

Given the size of the CAW with the Canadian labour movement, the CAW's support for the Liberals has caused significant problems for the CLC leadership in continuing to follow the Congress ' policy of NDP support.

The Government believes that it must remain so .” Given the prospect of " incineration without representation ", Canadians seemed to feel that the doctrine which most encouraged restraint was the strategically soundest one to support.

Given this additional support the scheme has expanded its reach to cover most children in primary schools in India.