The American Library Association issued a recommendation to libraries still holding Alms for Jihad: " Given the intense interest in the book, and the desire of readers to learn about the controversy first hand, we recommend that U. S. libraries keep the book available for their users.

Given Juwayni's polemical aims, and the fact that he burned the Ismaili libraries which may have offered much more reliable testimony about the history, scholars have been dubious about his narrative but are forced to rely on it given the absence of alternative sources.

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 military strength of the Great Powers, these interventions were nearly always decisive and quickly ended the civil wars.

Given that the ColecoVision could produce near arcade-quality ports, industry magazines like Electronic Games were unanimous in their enthusiasm over the console.

Given the geographic diversity of the various sub-regions within the Maritimes, policies to centralize the population and economy were not initially successful, thus Maritime factories closed while those in Ontario and Quebec prospered.

Given their speed and maneuverability, clippers frequently mounted cannon or carronades and were used for piracy, privateering, smuggling, or interdiction service.

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 that the bulk of family chores fell to women, and that they were five times more likely than men to head a single-parent family, the shortcomings of Finland's child day-care system affected women more than it did men.

Along with a hand-picked escort led by Given Campbell, Davis and his wife were captured on May 10, 1865, at Irwinville in Irwin County, Georgia.

Given the realities of the Cold War, German reunification and recovery of lost territories in the east were not realistic goals as both of Stalin's notes specified the retention of the existing " Potsdam "- decreed boundaries of Germany.

Given his record, it is not surprising that the other Party leaders were suspicious of Beria's motives.

Given that Fine Gael normally received 25 % of the election result, and were reduced to third place this was an achievement in itself.

Given that most French supporters of phrenology were liberal, left-wing or socialist, it was an objective of the social elite of France who held a restrained vision of social change that phrenology remain on the fringes.

Given that the authors were the primary developers of the Unix operating system, it is natural that QED had a strong influence on the classic UNIX text editors ed, sed and their descendants such as ex and sam.

Given the medieval medicine's main theory of humorism, spices and herbs were indispensable to balance " humors " in food, a daily basis for good health at a time of recurrent pandemics.

Given that there were 25, 000 people working on Shuttle operations, the payroll alone was the Shuttle's single biggest operating cost.

Given the versatility of both vegetables, they were usually boiled or steamed, and eaten by itself or as ingredients in soups and strews.

Given two school classes, one with 20 students, and one with 30 students, the grades in each class on a test were:

Given inefficiencies in the heat transfer, the actual NERVA designs were planned to produce about 5 GW, which would make them the largest nuclear reactors in the world.

Given the difference between their roles and emphases, some scholars have speculated that the interactions between the Æsir and the Vanir reflect the types of interaction that were occurring between social classes ( or clans ) within Norse society at the time.

Given that many businessmen and bankers were terrified of Bryan's populist rhetoric and support for ending the gold standard, Hanna had few problems in raising record amounts of money.

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 their long range, high survivability and ability to carry many medium-and long-range nuclear missiles, submarines were credible and effective means for full-scale retaliation even after a massive first strike.

BONUS: " Given a pair of resistors, give their equivalent resistance if they were connected in parallel with each other.

Given the biogeography and appearance of the subgenus Olor it seems likely that these are of a more recent origin, as evidence shows by their modern ranges ( which were mostly uninhabitable during the last ice age ) and great similarity between the taxa.

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 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 a syscall that does nothing, a full round-trip under BSD would require about 40μs, whereas on a user-space Mach system it would take just under 500μs.

Given concerns about the previous programs using nuclear-tipped interceptors, in the 1980s the U. S. Army began studies about the feasibility of hit-to-kill vehicles, i. e. interceptor missiles that would destroy incoming ballistic missiles just by colliding with them head-on.

Given a diagram F: J → C ( thought of as an object in C < sup > J </ sup >), a natural transformation ψ: Δ ( N ) → F ( which is just a morphism in the category C < sup > J </ sup >) is the same thing as a cone from N to F. The components of ψ are the morphisms ψ < sub > X </ sub >: N → F ( X ).

Given the low efficiency of the laser amplification process ( about 1 to 1. 5 %), and the losses in generation ( steam-driven turbine systems are typically about 35 % efficient ), fusion gains would have to be on the order of 350 just to break even.

" Given the fact that it's the third film in the series, you couldn't just end with them obtaining the object.

Given on 16 October 1732, they amounted only to recreating his first expedition, but with the added task of heading east and finding North America ( a feat which had in fact just been completed by Mikhail Gvozdev, though this was not known at the time ).

Given parallel morphisms f and g, the equaliser of f and g is just the kernel of g − f, if either exists, and the analogous fact is true for coequalisers.

Given this s, we can compute the coordinates of 2 ( 2P ), just as we did above: 4P =( 259851, 116255 ).

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 two points A and B, with A not lower than B, there is just one upside down cycloid that passes through A with infinite slope, passes also through B and does not have maximum points between A and B.

Given his fondness for words, maybe he just liked the sound of his own home town's name.

Given the proximity of Gateshead to Newcastle, just south of the River Tyne from the city centre, it is sometimes referred to as being a part of Newcastle.

Given that we have and are everything, and there's nothing we have to do, there are an infinite number of ways to experience this, not just the one way we may have chosen so far.

Given concerns about the previous programs using nuclear tipped interceptors, in the 1980s the U. S. Army began studies about the feasibility of hit-to-kill vehicles, where an interceptor missile would destroy an incoming ballistic missile just by colliding with it, the so-called " Kinetic Kill Vehicles ", or KKV.

Given F, there is, up to isomorphism, just one field F < sub > k </ sub > with

Given an m × n matrix, the number of connectors needed to address the display is m + n ( just like in passive matrix technology ).

Apart from the very rare “ Kirill of Turov ’ ( even when this designation occurs, it tends to be just one of several variant readings ), the headings in ‘ his ’ manuscripts include “ Kirill the monk ,” “ Kirill the philosopher ,” ‘ Saint Kirill ,” “ The Blessed father Kirill ,” “ the blessed monk Kirill ,” “ Kirill the unworthy monk ,” “ the venerable Kirill .” Given this variety of labels, ‘ Kirill ’ s ’ texts invite several candidates for being their more likely authors ( writers whose existence has been substantiated with historical facts ).

Given this preexisting pattern, having a preference for longer and more colorful tails gives an advantage just as having a longer and more colorful tail does.

Given SRK's performance, it is all the more important to take note of Saif, whose Rohit Patel will be remembered just as much as his Sameer in Dil Chahta Hai.

Given other research on beliefs in a just world, it would be expected that observers would derogate and blame victims of bullying.

Given the fact that European powers controlled the majority of Earth's land surface at the time, such an event could have meant the end of capitalism not just in Europe, but everywhere.

Given this fundamental equality, it was just as reasonable for them to represent their gods in animal form ( Gilbert, Qtd.

Given the size of the county it is perhaps just as surprising that there are so few castles, as that there are so many Abbeys up the Witham.