Given the limited budget for schools, it is claimed that a voucher system would weaken public schools while at the same time not necessarily providing enough money for people to attend private schools.

Given that bodhisattvas are known to incarnate at will as living people according to the sutras, the princess Miaoshan is generally viewed as an incarnation of Avalokitesvara.

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

* Named entity recognition ( NER ): Given a stream of text, determine which items in the text map to proper names, such as people or places, and what the type of each such name is ( e. g. person, location, organization ).

* Speech recognition: Given a sound clip of a person or people speaking, determine the textual representation of the speech.

* Speech segmentation: Given a sound clip of a person or people speaking, separate it into words.

Given the number of homes, it seems likely that no more than fifty people lived in Skara Brae at any given time.

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

Given that multiple people often consume food from the same source, it is common for more than a single person to be affected simultaneously.

Given this belief, the hypothesis that the Seri people transplanted it is doubtful.

Given the reputed humorous character of Valencians, it was natural that they began to burn figurines depicting people and events of the past year.

Given that the peace treaties with the Maroon people granted them title to the lands, there have been international court cases that negated the right of the Surinam government to grant these claims.

Given a set A of N people, it has 2 < sup > N </ sup > possible subsets.

Given the display of imperial power Henry III had inflicted on the Romans in intervening against Pope Gregory VI and installing Clement II, it is not surprising that on Christmas Day of 1047, an emissary was sent by the Roman people bringing news of Clement II's death to Henry III and asking him, in his position as Patricius of the Romans, to appoint a successor.

Given the dangerous and clandestine criminal nature of people smuggling operations, smuggled persons are sometimes at risk of becoming victims of other crimes.

Given the clandestine but booming nature of people smuggling operations-especially in places like Mexico-drug cartels have also begun tapping into the smuggling network.

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 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 concern about human rights abuses in Bahrain, this gift attracted controversy, with calls for the jewels to be sold, and the proceeds used for the benefit of the Bahraini people.

Denis MacShane, a former Foreign Office minister, said: “ Given the appalling suffering and repression of the Bahraini people, it would be a fitting gesture for the Countess of Wessex to auction these trinkets and distribute the proceeds to the victims of the regime .”

Theodosius ( from the Greek " Θεοδόσιος ", " Given by god ") is a name which might refer to one of several people:

Given the ( particularly modern ) prevalence of crowd events, and the potential safety issues associated with such large gatherings of people, the topic is receiving increasing attention from agencies responsible for crowd management and also from governments.

Given the magnitude of the disaster, reconstruction and economic recovery will remain the primary focus of the Salvadoran Government for some time to come.

Given the radically different motivating assumptions, it may come as a surprise that ESSes and Nash equilibria often coincide.

Given that specialized phutball boards are hard to come by, the game is usually played on a 19 × 19 Go board, with a white stone representing the football and black stones representing the men.

Given the union's commitment to international solidarity, its efforts and success in the field come as no surprise.

Given his high status as a supervillain, he has also come into conflict with Superman and other superheroes in the DC Universe.

Given this fact, it should come as no surprise that many immigrants welcomed the impending assimilation brought on by their host country.

Given the detrimental effects avian brood parasites can have on their hosts ' reproductive success, host species have come up with various defenses against this unique threat.

Given the precision of Brown's calculations, it must have come as a great disappointment to have to introduce this arbitrary adjustment.

Given the fact that September 29 would be a holiday for most laborers, simultaneous uprisings would occur, beginning with the cell in Camuy, and following with the ones in various other points ; reinforcements would come in through a ship, " El Telégrafo ", and the cells would be reinforced by more than 3, 000 mercenaries.

Given that ( A ) the Georges are among the most rational, principled and educated persons on the planet, and ( B ) their differences from normal humans are purely physical, they conclude that in any situation where the Three laws would come into play, their own orders should take priority over that of a regular human.

Given the total mass and the scalars r and v at a single point of the orbit, one can compute the specific orbital energy, allowing an object orbiting a larger object to be classified as having not enough energy to remain in orbit, hence being " suborbital " ( a ballistic missile, for example ), having enough energy to be " orbital ", but without the possibility to complete a full orbit anyway because it eventually collides with the other body, or having enough energy to come from and / or go to infinity ( as a meteor, for example ).

Given its superior strength, durability and long life relative to the more expensive composite fillings, it will likely be around for many more years to come.

Given the limits on firm-level adaptation, most of these broader changes thus come from the entry and selective replacement of organizations.

* Given the weather, anyone appearing at the window and doing something horrifying enough to instantly kill someone would have had to trample the flowerbed, which is still intact, and come right up to the window ;

Given the fact that these meeting dates are well-established, it is a normal practice for senior DoD personnel interested in the particular study topics for that year to come to the last day of the meeting and be briefed in person on the study findings to-date.

Given that the Tenn-Tom Waterway has an estimated lifetime of well over 50 years, the Waterway is expected to play a significant role in southern interstate trade for years to come.

Given that psychologists, such as Elizabeth Loftus, have shown that it is possible to implant false memories in individuals, it is possible to ' come to doubt the validity of therapeutically recovered memories of sexual abuse ... confabulations '.

Given this success, it may come as a nasty shock that it seems to be very difficult, mathematically speaking, to construct rotating stellar models in which a perfect fluid interior is matched to an asymptotically flat vacuum exterior.

According to Peter C. Newman ’ s analysis financing could not have come from investors, “ who would have had to be kept in ignorance of the project ’ s significance .” The government had the mine immediately “ drained and cemented … and employed prospectors to search for additional uranium deposits .” The miners hired to reopen Eldorado were screened by the RCMP and sworn to secrecy Given this notion it seems secrecy was conducted the same way uranium contracts had been allocated ; efficiency and development of an atomic weapon took precedent over political concerns like communist attitude amongst the workforce or homage to Britain.

' Given Lee's stature as the venerated albeit authoritarian founding father of independent Singapore, these words helped set the tenor for official policy on homosexuality for many years to come.

Given the continuing and constant US presence in Antarctica since that date, " Operation Deep Freeze " has come to be used as a general term for US operations in that continent, and in particular for the regular missions to resupply US Antarctic bases, coordinated by the United States military.

Given the details of the mission, Beckett requests that an additional man, a spotter, must come with him.

Given that this town has had rumours of the paranormal, nothing has yet been proven or researched enough in order to tell what exactly happens or why these rumours have come about without any evidence to back them up.

Given the avalanche of canon material which has come since the mid-1980s-the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise, several subsequent theatrical films and a library of novelisations-FASA's interpretation of Star Trek has largely been forgotten except by a handful of die-hard fans.