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 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 the proposition that ' a persons life prospects should not be decided by factors outside of their control or for which a person cannot claim personal credit ' ( i. e. social status, inherited wealth, race and other accidents of birth ) a meritocracy proposes a system where people are rewarded based on their efforts, and if everyone can start on equal footing with the same opportunity to advance, then the results are just.

Given the immense expanse of the entire Universe, it has been argued that there is a higher probability that there exists ( or has existed ) another Earth-like planet that has yielded life ( geogenesis ) than not.

" As Shelly Kagan says, “ Given the parameters of the actual world, there is no question that …( maximally )… promoting the good would require a life of hardship, self-denial, and austerity … a life spent promoting the good would be a severe one indeed .”

Given how little we can know for sure, our focus should be on this earth and life ; beauty, justice, love.

Given the abundance of such optimization problems in everyday life, a positive answer to the " P vs. NP " question would likely have profound practical and philosophical consequences.

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.

On 24 July 2003, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith stated, " Given the centrality of the celebration of the Eucharist in the life of a priest, one must proceed with great caution before admitting to Holy Orders those candidates unable to ingest gluten or alcohol without serious harm.

Given a pre-modern understanding of reason, rationalism is identical to philosophy, the Socratic life of inquiry, or the zetetic ( skeptical ) clear interpretation of authority ( open to the underlying or essential cause of things as they appear to our sense of certainty ).

Given that SAD impacts a wide variety of occupational performance areas in a person ’ s life as described in the aforementioned section, occupational therapists ( OTs ) play a key role in helping individuals cope with SAD.

Given this information, a timeline of roughly the years 15 – 98 CE can be established for his adult life.

Given real life prisons are same-sex communities, this fetish does lend itself to male on male or female on female activities and settings.

" Given the chance to relive his life by switching bodies with " a talentless 20 year-old wannabe rock star with all the looks and charm Rocky used to have ," the series deals with the subsequent soul-searching and reflection over such a decision.

When the measure was sent in May to the parliament they said " Given the damage it produces on those rules which allow the life in community, ensure the dignity of the person and equality between sexes, this practice, even if it is voluntary, cannot be tolerated in any public place ".

Given that humanity cannot exist except within a covenantal relationship with God, and all covenants use symbols to give us " the attestation of his grace ", he gives the tree, " not because it could confer on man that life with which he had been previously endued, but in order that it might be a symbol and memorial of the life which he had received from God.

Given the nature of this interrogation and the motive behind it, it is not known for certain what elements of Number Six's life so portrayed are real and which are fiction.

Given FishBase's success, there was a demand for a database covering forms of aquatic life other than finfish.

Given this Scriptural principle, the UPCI teaches that one should live a life that demonstrates Christ's attributes.

Given Orr / Alex's desire to remain within the world of the Bridge, a world where he is well treated and lives a fairly pampered life, his attempts to stonewall and block the doctor's attempts to cure him are understandable.

Given that Constitutional reforms in 2005 abolished life senators starting in 2006, Frei ran for an elected Senate seat in the December 2005 parliamentary elections and was victorious.

Given that this parasite spends part of its life cycle in two different hosts it must use a proportion of its available resources within each host.

* Coreference resolution: Given a sentence or larger chunk of text, determine which words (" mentions ") refer to the same objects (" entities ").

* Part-of-speech tagging: Given a sentence, determine the part of speech for each word.

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

Given the dangers, the maximum sentence was three months.

" Given the situation as I knew it in November, 1944, I thought it was my duty to this country to approve that sentence.

Given such a model, the sentence

Given Bonpensiero's middle adulthood, even the concept of facing the minimum thirty years in jail would have been an effective life sentence.

Given a method for establishing the satisfaction ( or not ) of every atomic sentence of the form A (... x < sub > k </ sub >...), the usual rules for truth-functional connectives and quantifiers yield a definition for the satisfaction condition of all sentences of the object language.

Given a life sentence, he died in prison on 29 May 2011.

" Given that Mein Kampf is 694 pages long, Dawidowicz's critics contend, she makes too much of one sentence.

Given the fact-based nature of certain sentence enhancements under the Guidelines — drug quantity, firearm enhancements, and extent of injury or loss to the victim — there was no reason juries could not make those determinations.

Given a structure or interpretation, a sentence will have a fixed truth value.

" Given that Thomas Aquinas died six years before Albertus Magnus ' death, this legend as stated is unlikely.

Pope Saint Adeodatus I or Deodatus I ( which is Given by God in Latin, also called Deusdedit, which is God Has Given ; both are now considered variants of the same name ) ( died 8 November 618 ) was Pope from 13 November 615 to his death.

Given that both Jonathan and Peleg Card were scheduled to be tried by the Vermont Committee of Safety ( Peleg died 6 Sep 1777, and it is unknown if the trial was actually held ) it is likely that Philo Card is, in reality, Peleg Card ( 1740 – 1777 ) --- and Stephen ( 1748 – 1798 ) -- ( Source: National Archives of Canada, WO 28 / 10, Reel B-2867, pp. 17 – 18.

Given the chronological information of the Imennik, Tervel would have died in 715.

Given Vanier's physical state, Pearson was hesitant to advise the Queen to act along those lines, but his worry was short lived, as the following day, after hearing the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and receiving Holy Communion in the chapel, the Governor General died.

Given the most barren land in Nova Scotia, many had died from the harsh winters there.

Given Earl and Otto Binder ceased to co-author stories in 1955, and that Earl died in 1965 and Otto in 1974, it seems unlikely any of these stories was a commissioned work.

Given that 67 % of northern Spotted Owls in Washington and Oregon that died from other causes were diseased, illness may increase the risk of mortality.

Given the unusually high demand for his performances, his health deteriorated and worsened by an episode of a major stroke in the late 1950s, he died on 1 May 1965.

Given the lack of details and the imprecision contemporary diagnosis and description, Viceroy Revillagigedo's statement official statement that Bodega died " of natural causes " is indisputable.