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

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 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.

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 one last chance by the bullying, intimidating Hunsecker, he schemes to plant a false rumor in a rival column that Dallas is a dope-smoking Communist, then encourages Hunsecker to rescue Dallas's reputation, certain that the headstrong boyfriend will reject Hunsecker's favor and end up looking bad to Susan.

Given the chance, people will substitute the sort of religion they naturally prefer, over the Gospel, see also Cafeteria Christianity.

Given the chance, I will go where the people are,

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

" 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.

Given a chance to direct, Del Lord was responsible for a number of very successful comedies for Keystone and directed two feature films for Universal Pictures.

Given the chance to repeat some futile behavior endlessly, people can notice the futility of it, and by an act of free will do something else.

Given their standing in the party, only Chamberlain and Long had a realistic chance of success and though Balfour had intended Chamberlain to succeed him, it became clear from an early canvass of the sitting MPs that Long would be elected by a slender margin.

Given his chance by the injuries to other players, he became the linchpin of the England team in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

Given the chance to show their mettle in July 1916, they assaulted High Wood, which they attacked forcefully in the midst of a murderous field of fire without shelter.

Given half a chance, he will dull the seamstress's needles, hide her thimbles, and tangle her sewing threads.

Given a chance, gulls readily attack the eggs and young of other breeding seabirds.

Given her past successes and the importance of the telephone exchange, she is given another chance.

Given this dire prognosis, he left the hat-making business to explore the American West, afraid this would be his only chance to see it.

Given the number of inquiries it is likely that even some of these are due to chance alone.

Given the chance to lower the Brood's numbers further, they discovered that the Annihilation event had caused the interstellar ecosystem to destabilize, since the Brood, dangerous as they are, served as natural predators for even worse species.

Given a chance to relate the difficulties he had faced, and correct some misapprehensions, it appears Potts was able to mollify Rowell.

Given a second chance, Sutton soon went to work on reviving the Cowboys, and his coaching career.

Given the situation above, there is a higher chance that the interests of the two sons not employed in the family business may be different than the interests of the two sons who are employed in the business.

In a critical statement published in 1955, he asserted that " Given the modern conceptions of the beautiful in literature, given at the very least these essential conceptions, if a work is realistic it has many chances of being good ; if not, supposing even that it has formal qualities, it risks lacking resonance, profundity, that of which all literature has the greatest need -- the human ; from which it follows that it has much less chance of being good -- if only it had some -- than a realistic work.

Given young brood the bees have a second chance to raise a new queen if the first one fails.