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

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 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.

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.

Given the elder Pei's history with the bank before the Communist takeover, government officials visited the 89-year-old man in New York to gain approval for his son's involvement.

Given this understanding, the Board withdrew the allegation of unsportsmanlike behaviour two days before the fourth Test, thus saving the tour.

Given the scale of most commercial operations and the lack of mechanized record-keeping and recording before the industrial revolution, it made sense for most owners of enterprises in those times to carry out management functions by and for themselves.

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 this sense of caution among key members of the British cabinet and of the army, it is even harder to understand why the British government went against the advice of its generals ( such as Wolsely ) to send substantial reinforcements to South Africa before war broke out.

Given Edward's unpopularity, the rumours spread considerably before Deydras ' eventual execution, and appear to have greatly upset Isabella.

Given the extremely disadvantaged position in which the English were, Vernon ordered a retreat but not before throwing some 300 bombs on the city.

Given that propensity to noble rot was a factor in Hungarian vineyard demarcations some 50 years before a messenger was supposedly mugged on his way to Schloss Johannisberg in Germany, the Hungarians probably have a better case.

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 that Maxwell's textbook was written before the discovery of the electron, it is understandable that Maxwell exhibits what ( in terms of modern knowledge ) is inconsistency in the use of the term " electromotive force ".

Given initial speed u, one can calculate how high the ball will travel before it begins to fall.

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 Deja had worked with three villains before, he was first offered Hades, but asked to animate the protagonist instead-" I knew if would be more difficult and more challenging, but I just needed that experience to have that in your repertoire.

Given that Cosgrave had never kept minutes before, it is understandable that Cosgrave's minutes, at least early on in the government, proved less than a thorough record of government decisions.

Given that over 90 per cent of the area of kauri forest standing before 1000AD was destroyed by about 1900, it is not surprising that recent records are of smaller, but still very large trees.

Given the current employment opportunities, it is not likely that the number of specialists in SA Indian languages will increase fast enough to document most of the surviving SA languages before they go out of use, as most of them unavoidably will.

Given a hill angle and launch angle as before, it can be shown that the range along the hill forms a ratio with the original range along the imaginary horizontal, such that:

Given the unexpected cost overruns, John By was recalled to London and questioned by a parliamentary committee before being cleared of any wrongdoing.

Given that greywater may contain nutrients, pathogens, and is often discharged warm, it is very important to store it before use in irrigation purposes, unless it is properly treated first.

" 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 a memex, a scholar could create her own knowledge tools as connections within reams of information, share these tools, and use complexes of tools to create yet more sophisticated knowledge that could in turn be deployed toward this work.

Given that the cost of replacing an executive can run over 100 % of his or her annual salary, any investment of time and energy in re-recruitment will likely pay for itself many times over if it helps a business retain just a handful of key players that would have otherwise left.

Given the above expression, evidently the result of her ( local ) measurement is that the three-particle state would collapse to one of the following four states ( with equal probability of obtaining each ):

Given her familiarity with the woods and marshes of the region, it is likely that Tubman hid in these locales during the day.

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 that male authors had limited knowledge of her rites and attributes, ancient speculations about her identity abound, among them that she was an aspect of Terra, Ops, the Magna Mater, or Ceres, or a Latin form of Damia.

Given a chance, it is believed that Miss Earhart could have landed her aircraft in this lagoon and swum or waded ashore.

Given the demands on a new wife, and the learning curve in her new role, it was prudent to provide her some reserve time with quilts already completed.

Given the go-ahead, Marston developed Wonder Woman, basing her character on both Elizabeth and Olive Byrne, to be the model of an conventional, liberated, powerful modern woman.

Although Ruth Bidgood was born near Neath in 1922, her first collection The Given Time appeared only in 1972.

Given any other paying outlet for her labor, there would very soon be no such thing as a blanket industry ... it is her one and only way of earning money.

Given Harry Evans Sr .' s destructive character, Mary Evans would often leave home with her sons to nearby Somerville, to stay with her sister Justine and the Epps family.

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 a force applied to the cue ball ( probably resulting from a player hitting the ball with his or her cue stick ), we want to calculate the trajectories, precise motion, and eventual resting places of all the balls with a computer program.

Given the general rule in British law that a wife automatically takes her husband's rank upon marriage, Mrs Simpson consequently should have been addressed, upon marriage to the duke, as Her Royal Highness.

Given the innately rich and personal world of fantasy he has left himself locked into, Morgan goes off the deep end, enacting a series of bizarre stunts in a campaign to win Leonie back, including putting a skeleton in her bed and crashing her wedding dressed as a gorilla, for which scene Reisz borrows clips from from the original King Kong film to illustrate Morgan's fantasy world.

" Given her numerous earlier romantic escapades, including an affair with the married George, Duke of Kent in her youth, this may have been a change in degree rather than basic predisposition.

Given the prospect of her dismissal, she unsuccessfully pleads for the sake of the child she nurses who will have separation anxiety as a result of her departure.