Given the tendency for real negotiations in Japan to be conducted privately ( in the nemawashi, or root binding, process of consensus building ), the shingikai often represented a fairly advanced stage in policy formulation in which relatively minor differences could be thrashed out and the resulting decisions couched in language acceptable to all.

Given its heavy dependence on imported energy, Japan has aimed to diversify its sources.

( Please note that Japan has a guideline of a limit of 1 % of GDP on defense spending, however, Japan defines a number of activities as non-defense spending ) Given these circumstances, some have viewed Article 9 as increasingly irrelevant.

Given the uniqueness of the style in modern Japan, the Sumo Association employs specialist hairdressers called tokoyama to cut and prepare sumo wrestlers ' hair.

Given that every nation on the League of Nations council had veto power, Japan promptly vetoed the resolution, severely limiting the LN's ability to respond.

Given " Japan manufactures many consumer products.

Given its high ranking among educational institutions in Japan, the entrance examination to University of Tsukuba is highly competitive.

Given the cost, only a few were produced and many of the engineers who worked on the project in Japan were moved to PlayStation development.

Given that the dispute with Pizarro over Cuzco had kept intensifying, Almagro spent a great deal of time and money equipping a company of 500 men for a new exploration south of Peru.

Given limited defense budgets, air forces tended to be conservative in their aircraft purchases, and biplanes remained popular with pilots because of their agility, and remained in service long after they had ceased to be competitive.

Given a trigonometric series f ( x ) with S as its set of zeros, Cantor had discovered a procedure that produced another trigonometric series that had S ' as its set of zeros, where S ' is the set of limit points of S. If p ( 1 ) is the set of limit points of S, then he could construct a trigonometric series whose zeros are p ( 1 ).

Given that Gable and Cukor had worked together before, in Manhattan Melodrama and Gable had no objection to working with him then, and given Selznick's desperation to get Gable for Rhett Butler, if Gable had any objections to Cukor, certainly they would have been expressed before he signed his contract for the film.

" 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 civilian status, he recovered his teaching position at Lycée Pasteur near Paris, settled at the Hotel Misgiven a new position at Lycée Condorcet, replacing a Jewish teacher who had been forbidden to teach by Vichy law.

It is described as " the ancient grayhound .. that had been with Lugh of the Mantles, / Given him by the sons of Tuireann Bicreann ;.."

Given that the authors were the primary developers of the Unix operating system, it is natural that QED had a strong influence on the classic UNIX text editors ed, sed and their descendants such as ex and sam.

Given that by this time it was common for castles to be built in stone, and that many barons had expanded or refortified their castles, this was not an easy task.

Given the use of similar symbols on the Roman standard, this depiction also conveyed another victory, namely that of the Christian faith: the Roman soldiers who had once arrested Jesus and marched him to Calvary now walked under the banner of a resurrected Christ.

The Fascist government had direct rule only over the Benadir territory Given the defeat of the Dervish movement in the early 1920s and the rise of fascism in Europe, on 10 July 1925, Mussolini gave the green light to De Vecchi to start the takeover of the north-eastern sultanates.

Given that starters knew only the target recipient's name and address, they had a seemingly impossible task.

Given Cerion's extensive geographic diversity, Gould later lamented that if Christopher Columbus had only cataloged a single Cerion it would have ended the scholarly debate about which island Columbus had first set foot on in America.

Given a color name to match the name of amber mutants, ochre mutant viruses had a similar property in that they recovered infectious ability within certain suppressor strains of bacteria.

Given his age, the king probably had very powerful advisers, presumably including General Horemheb, the Vizier Ay, and Maya, the " Overseer of the Treasury ".

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

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 to Graham with the working title " Ballet for Martha ," it was named by her for the scenario she had in mind, though Copland often said he was thinking of neither Appalachia nor Spring while he wrote it.

Given the type of warfare that had been carried out in the conflict — wherein highly mobile groups of soldiers and rebels continued to move to and from on the desert terrain, retreating at a time and then suddenly attacking to regain control of small towns and villages in the Eastern rebel held parts of Libya — had led to the technical becoming a vehicle of choice for both sides.

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 the overwhelming superiority of the English forces, Captain Cevallos surrendered the castle on March 24, two days after resisting.

Given the disparity in power between Hungary and the Allies, Hungarian chances for victory were slim at best.

Fallacious evaluation: " Given that the counterattacks against Germany occurred only after they had conquered the greatest amount of territory under their control, regression to the mean can explain the retreat of German forces from occupied territories as a purely random fluctuation that would have happened without any intervention on the part of the USSR or the Western Allies.

Given Newfoundland's strategic location in the Battle of the Atlantic, the Allies ( especially the United States of America ) built many military bases there.

Given the imminent liberation of Paris by the Allies, they need only delay the train for a few days — still, it is an extremely dangerous operation and it must be done in such a way that does not risk damaging the priceless cargo.

: Given any set X of pairwise disjoint non-empty sets, there exists at least one set C that contains exactly one element in common with each of the sets in X.

Given this, the bidding is said to start at the one-level when contracting for a total of seven tricks, at the two-level for eight tricks and so on to the seven-level to contract to take all thirteen tricks.

Given a surface through which a metal wire passes, electrons move in both directions across the surface at an equal rate.

Given a function f ∈ I < sub > x </ sub > ( a smooth function vanishing at x ) we can form the linear functional df < sub > x </ sub > as above.

Given the age of the Rig Veda being at least 1500 BC or before, this must rank as the earliest practice of beating of the war drum in the history of mankind.

Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or rely upon primitive notions.

Given the limited budget for schools, it is claimed that a voucher system would weaken public schools while at the same time not necessarily providing enough money for people to attend private schools.

* Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti – Given at the World's Fair in Chicago, January 1893.

Given away at theatrical showings was a comic herald that told a simplified version of the film.

Given a complex-valued function ƒ of a single complex variable, the derivative of ƒ at a point z < sub > 0 </ sub > in its domain is defined by the limit

Given the state at some initial time ( t = 0 ), we can solve it to obtain the state at any subsequent time.

Along with a hand-picked escort led by Given Campbell, Davis and his wife were captured on May 10, 1865, at Irwinville in Irwin County, Georgia.

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.

Given the choice between nylon and gut, many luthiers prefer to use gut, as it conforms more readily to the sharp angle at the edge of the fingerboard.

Given the need for such fine regulation of Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > signaling, it is perhaps unsurprising that dysregulated mitochondrial Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > has been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, while the catalogue of tumor suppressors includes a few that are enriched at the MAM.

Given printing practices at the time ( which included type-setting from dictation ), no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same.

Given a year to complete the work, Gibson undertook the actual writing out of " blind animal terror " at the obligation to write an entire novel – a feat which he felt he was " four or five years away from ".

Given the task of overhauling the Cardinals by owner Gussie Busch, Herzog was looking to trade Templeton when he was approached by Padres General Manager Jack McKeon at the 1981 baseball winter meetings.

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

Given their wide historical distribution, red wolves probably utilized a large suite of habitat types at one time.