Given its lack of a D ' Oyly Carte or Savoy connection, Thespis has a tenuous claim to be a " Savoy Opera.

Given the reputation of oat grain to have invigorating properties and the obvious connection between plant seeds and human " seed ", it is not surprising that the meaning of the phrase shifted towards more or less explicitly referring to the destructive sexual liaisons of an unmarried young male, possibly resulting in unwanted children born out of wedlock.

Given this connection, she suggests the major war should have been called " The Great Cheyenne War ".

Given that the police had no evidence against " Thomas ", either at Leatherslade Farm or connection with either of the two gangs, Butler was prepared to let him go.

Given the conventions of the day, within which journalism was seen as a disreputable profession for a gentleman, Burke was publicly reticent about his connection with The Annual Register.

Given that John the Baptist was executed before the defeat of Herod by Aretas IV of Nabatea in the AD 36, and based on the scholarly estimates for the approximate date of the marriage of Herod Antipas and Herodias AD 28-35, Josephus establishes a key connection between the time frame of the ministry of Jesus and his execution.

Given vector fields and lying in the tangent bundle, the affine connection describes how to differentiate the vector field along the direction.

Let E be a rank k vector bundle over a smooth manifold M and let ∇ be a connection on E. Given a piecewise smooth loop γ: → M based at x in M, the connection defines a parallel transport map P < sub > γ </ sub >: E < sub > x </ sub > → E < sub > x </ sub >.

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 an exterior connection D satisfying this compatibility property, there exists a unique extension of D:

Given this historical connection, the Free Democratic Party ( FDP, Freie Demokratische Partei ) was founded on 11 December 1948 in Heppenheim.

Given the village connection with St. Edith it is perhaps surprising that the parish church, Saxon in origin, is however dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

Given the connection to the Hessische Ludwigsbahn ( railway ) with the Darmstadt-Mainz stretch in 1858 and the Frankfurt am Main-Mannheim stretch in 1879 ( the Riedbahn ), a multifaceted industrial life sprang up.

Given a fertile mind and boundless energy, he pursued other fields of interest: growing vegetables in Puerto Rico ; owning a beautician school, restaurants, lounges, a marina, marine dredging, data processing services, multi-level marketing of vitamins and cosmetics, cement block manufacturing, country-western music publishing and recording studios, telecommunications companies, a high-end boutique shop, general insurance agency, internet connection and data center, a walk-in medical clinic, wholesale gasoline and diesel fuel distribution operation, a travel agency, home security monitoring, mail order medical and diabetic supply company, a Big & Tall men's clothing store, an AM radio station, a mobile medical screening company, a book publishing company, a warehouse fulfillment and distribution company, an advertising media consulting firm, television stations, mobile home parks, a 225 room hotel in Nassau, Bahamas, a 500, 000 square foot commercial warehouse complex in Las Vegas, and a five-star 23 story resort hotel and residences on Ft. Lauderdale Beach.

Given the alpha wave's connection with relaxed mental states, many people have latched onto the idea of utilizing this state through a technique called biofeedback training.

Given its bidirectional connection between the Broca's and Wernicke's speech areas it could have a role in language.

Given his call for a " Black Pythagoras ," however, a connection seems likely.

Given its mythical connection with sailing and orchids, the name Pleione is often associated with grace, speed and elegance.

: 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 an algebraic number, there is a unique monic polynomial ( with rational coefficients ) of least degree that has the number as a root.

Given two subspaces with, this leads to a definition of angles called canonical or principal angles between subspaces.

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 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 the opportunity, adults eat hatchlings, which may be protected by separating the two groups with a net, breeding box or separate tank.

Love and Erlandson continued to pursue with the band, and released the single " Be A Man "— an outtake from the Celebrity Skin sessions — for the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday ( 1999 ).

Given that many journeys are for relatively short distances, there is considerable scope to replace car use with walking or cycling, though in many settings this may require some infrastructure modification, particularly to attract the less experienced and confident.

Given an asymmetric subunit on a triangular face of a regular isosahedron, with three subunits per face 60 such subunits can be placed in an equivalent manner.

Given the bias of the Victorian age, female students were denied direct study in anatomy and could not attend drawing classes with live models ( who were often prostitutes ) until a decade later.

Given the small population of the region ( compared with the Central Canadian provinces or the New England states ), the regional economy is a net exporter of natural resources, manufactured goods, and services.

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 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 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 Mountbatten's determination, Nehru and Patel's inability to deal with the Muslim League and lastly Jinnah's obstinacy, all Indian party leaders ( except Gandhi ) acquiesced to Jinnah's plan to divide India, which in turn eased Mountbatten's task.

Given this kind of data, the estimated coefficient on Years of Education in the equation above reflects both the effect of education on wages and the effect of other variables on wages, if those other variables were correlated with education.

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 Guatemala's large expatriate community in the United States, it is the top remittance recipient in Central America, with inflows serving as a primary source of foreign income equivalent to nearly two-thirds of exports.

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 the differences of opinion within the Lord Aberdeen cabinet over the direction of foreign policy with regard to relations between Britain and the French under Napoleon III, it is not surprising that debate raged within the government as Louis Bonaparte, now assuming the title of Emperor Napoleon III of France.

Given a finite dimensional real quadratic space with quadratic form, the geometric algebra for this quadratic space is the Clifford algebra Cℓ ( V, Q ).

Given the limited amount of good quality agricultural land to begin with, that policy has resulted in continual deforestation and subsequent erosion.

On poverty, Hoover said that " Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation ", and promised, " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land ," but within months, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and the world's economy spiraled downward into the Great Depression.