Given the conceptual context within which ancient thought thrived, how could anyone have questioned this principle??

Given our political differences, people are sometimes surprised how close Ronnie and I have been to the Kennedy family.

Given that both A and not-A are seen to be “ true ,” Kant concludes that it ’ s not that “ God doesn ’ t exist ” but that there is something wrong with how we are asking questions about God and how we have been using our rational faculties to talk about universals ever since Plato got us started on this track!

Given that companies are collections of projects and markets, individual areas can be judged on how successful they are at adding to the corporate net profit.

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

Given the importance of these concepts in Moral Politics, it is important to consider their meaning along with how each view suggests and is justified by a corresponding view of the nature of child rearing, morality, and justice.

Given the simpleness of the design, and high usability with some people ( e. g. those owning an orchard ), some people have started building their own do-it-yourself ( DIY ) fruit press and have uploaded detailed instructions on how to do so.

Given a closed system in an initial state, if work is done on the system in an adiabatic ( i. e. no heat transfer ) way, and given the final state after a process, the amount of work required to be transferred to the system is the same, irrespective of how this work is performed.

Given that our understanding of how living memory actually works is incomplete, it is unlikely this scenario will become reality in the near future.

" Given that abstract thought is thus limited, he went on to consider how historical formations give rise to different philosophies and ways of thinking.

# Given an artifact whose performance has been evaluated, it is important to determine why and how the artifact worked or did not work within its environment.

Given the evidence of A. C. Elias about the acrimony of Swift's departure from the Temple household, evidence from Swift's Journal to Stella about how uninvolved in the Temple household Swift had been, and the number of repeated observations about himself by the Tale's author, it seems reasonable to propose that the digressions reflect a single type of man, if not a particular character.

Given pressing circumstances, a reasonable person may not always act in a manner similar to how she would have acted in a more relaxed setting.

Given this reality, scholars are continually challenged to research and understand how online communities are comprised, how they function, and how they are connected to offline social life.

Given how different the four foundational styles of Kajukenbo are it is impossible to fully incorporate everything and some specialization is inevitable.

Given a positive integer n, it is not at all a routine matter to determine how many isomorphism types of groups of order n there are.

Given the lack of surviving objects, we cannot know how common the techniques employed were, but the quality of the execution suggests that the binder was experienced in them.

" He similarly defended his use of gay jokes and the word " fag ": " Given how intermingled the gay and punk subcultures were, it was assumed by anyone involved that open-mindedness, if not free-form experimentation, was the norm.

* Given two different minds and the same facts, how different are the products!

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

Given how special these circumstances are, the " noble " thing to do is employ the allotted several decades of human life towards understanding that universe.

Given that Barbados is the second most densely populated country in the Americas ( behind only Bermuda ), there is little chance that the railway would ever be recreated in Barbados.

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

Given their relative isolation, the cult participants generally have little knowledge of modern manufacturing and are liable to be skeptical about modern explanations.

Given that the 49th was in poor shape when Brock took command they saw little of the actual combat.

Given its date, there is little available legal precedent ( particularly in American law ).

: Little Hope Given Brain-Damaged Man ( A brain-damaged man is unlikely to recover, or a brain-damaged man is causing another situation to have little hope of resolution, or someone gave a brain-damaged man to a small girl named Hope.

Given the disarmament of Germany there seemed little offensive threat.

Given that the level of hyperforin was not ascertained at the beginning of the study, and levels of both hyperforin and hypericin were well below that used in other studies, little can be determined based on this study alone.

Given the focus on intramodal competition and the lack of intermodal competition, there was little concern about statutory or regulatory language that set different regulatory burdens for different technology modes.

Although the German Command expected another Allied landing in the Mediterranean, the advancing Red Army and the Allied Landing at the Normandy required all German resources, so little was done to improve the condition of Army Group G. Given the advancing Allied forces in northern France, the German Command deemed a realistic defense in the South impossible.

Given the massing of the Muslim armies at Yarmouk, however, Vahan had little choice but to respond in kind.

Given little say by the new Peronist government, which, instead saw its policy shift from populism to erratic crisis management measures, Frondizi initially supported the 1976 coup against Perón's successor ( his hapless widow, Isabel Perón ).

Given this fundamental logical difficulty, there has been very little experimental investigation by parapsychologists of retrocognition.

Given its focus on English-language programming in a predominantly Cantonese-speaking market, ATV World carries relatively little advertising and is subsidised by ATV Home.

Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire, but miracolously the fire did not do harm her.

Given little chance by anyone to beat coach Wally Butts ' Georgia Bulldogs in Jacksonville, Kynes inspired his two-way linemen to their outstanding effort of the season, stopping the Bulldogs ' running game on defense, and blocking for Hunsinger on offense.

Given the state of urban planning in 1821, little thought was given to the growth of the city.

Given that Renault ’ s 603 cc, 747 cc and 845 cc engines all shared the same cylinder stroke and were all of the same basic design, it is likely that there was very little difference between the manufacturing costs of the basic engine block between the three.

Given little time, Mark seeks a second opinion from New York City neurosurgeon, Dr. Burke, which proves more positive.

Given his support among many Republican state senators, he long faced little opposition in holding onto his State Senate seat, even though the Memphis suburbs were becoming increasingly Republican.

Ned Raggett argues that McMillen's appearance " Given how Cop Shoot Cop had evolved its own unique sound out of the basses, drums, and samplers from the original members, becoming more of a straight-ahead rock group inevitably made the band a little less special.

Given little chance of winning, Tarver took a weight-drained Jones the distance and lost the fight and WBC title by a majority decision on November 8, 2003, in Las Vegas ( Tarver had relinquished the IBF title a few days earlier in anticipation of being unable to make a mandatory defense.

Given the nature of Usenet forums, parodic translation is prevalent in flame wars, where remarks such as " Translation: ' I do not have a clue and am throwing mud '" are used to imply — on very little ground — that another poster is not making any appreciable contribution to the subject.

Given that he offered little offensively, with his defense diminished, his value as a player became drastically reduced.