Given a small ball or marbles, he would invent games and play by himself for hours.

Idealists are skeptics about the physical world, maintaining either: 1 ) that nothing exists outside the mind, or 2 ) that we would have no access to a mind-independent reality even if it may exist ; the latter case often takes the form of a denial of the idea that we can have unconceptualised experiences ( see Myth of the Given ).

Given the large number of U. S. military personnel and their dependents residing in Europe, it was expected that over 7 % of donors would be deferred due to the policy.

Given more time to prepare for trial, Kidd likely would have been able to find the deposition Palmer gave when he was captured in Rhode Island two years earlier.

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 good circumstances one might be able to discern the result of some human activity such as the changing of the Netherlands ' coast or the partial drying out of the Aral Sea, but even that would not be easy.

Given enough of it, the inhabitants of planet Earth would have nothing to fight about.

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.

Given earlier debates by Christian authors about the existence of Jesus, e. g. in Justin Martyr's 2nd century Dialogue with Trypho, it would have been expected that the passage from Josephus would have been used as a component of the arguments.

Given that spinning a Dyson Sphere would result in the atmosphere pooling around the equator, the Ringworld removes all the extraneous parts of the structure, leaving a spinning band landscaped on the sun-facing side, with the atmosphere and inhabitants kept in place through centrifugal force and 1000 mile high perimeter walls ( rim walls ).

Given that different groups in society have different beliefs, priorities, and interests, to which group would the media tailor its bias?

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 infinite space, there would, in fact, be an infinite number of Hubble volumes identical to ours in the universe.

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 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 the anarchy which would follow, the new policy was a success.

" Given that science continually seeks to adjust its theories structurally to fit the facts, i. e., adjusts its maps to fit the territory, and thus advances more rapidly than any other field, he believed that the key to understanding sanity would be found in the study of the methods of science ( and the study of structure as revealed by science ).

Given Cerion's extensive geographic diversity, Gould later lamented that if Christopher Columbus had only cataloged a single Cerion it would have ended the scholarly debate about which island Columbus had first set foot on in America.

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 that in such a case pits the freedom of an innocent child against the freedom of the evil-doer, it is not clear why God would not intervene for the sake of the child.

Given this view, the difficulty or impossibility of finding a plausible explanation for evil in a world created by God is to be expected, and so the argument from evil is assumed to fail unless it can be proven that God's reasons would be comprehensible to us.

Similarly, Hare refers to “ the crude caricature of act utilitarianism which is the only version of it that many philosophers seem to be acquainted with .” Given what Bentham says about second order evils it would be a serious misrepresentation to say that he and similar act utilitarians would be prepared to punish an innocent person for the greater good.

:" Given that the structure of an econometric model consists of optimal decision rules of economic agents, and that optimal decision rules vary systematically with changes in the structure of series relevant to the decision maker, it follows that any change in policy will systematically alter the structure of econometric models.

Given that the toxins alter acetylcholine transmission which causes the paralysis, some patients have been successfully treated with cholinesterase inhibitors such as physostigmine or neostigmine, but success is variable and may be species dependent as well.

After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.

Given here is the Greek text of and the Latin text used in the Catholic Latin liturgy.

In May 2006, the International Methodist-Catholic Dialogue Commission completed its most recent report, entitled " The Grace Given You in Christ: Catholics and Methodists Reflect Further on the Church ," and submitted the text to Methodist and Catholic authorities.

* Coreference resolution: Given a sentence or larger chunk of text, determine which words (" mentions ") refer to the same objects (" entities ").

* 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 ).

* Optical character recognition ( OCR ): Given an image representing printed text, determine the corresponding text.

* Relationship extraction: Given a chunk of text, identify the relationships among named entities ( e. g. who is the wife of whom ).

* Sentence breaking ( also known as sentence boundary disambiguation ): Given a chunk of text, find the sentence boundaries.

* Topic segmentation and recognition: Given a chunk of text, separate it into segments each of which is devoted to a topic, and identify the topic of the segment.

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 a manuscript copy, several or many copies, but not the original document, the textual critic seeks to reconstruct the original text ( the archetype or autograph ) as closely as possible.

Given typesetters of sufficient skill, experienced proofreaders familiar with their typesetters ' work can accurately scan their pages without reading the text for errors that neither they nor their typesetters are responsible for.

Given the difficulties with the original plot, a revised version, with text changes by Arrigo Boito, was first performed at La Scala, Milan on 24 March 1881.

Given a document, we construct an example for each unigram, bigram, and trigram found in the text ( though other text units are also possible, as discussed below ).

Given this fluidity, it is especially important to consult the most current critical edition or translations of the text, since earlier editions will likely not reflect the advances of the past century.

' Given the nature of the most famous of texts from both groups, ZAMM, is of the latter nature style of title ( and, rather than in ) one must ask if ZAMM is not a product of the archery text, but rather, an ' unintended ' or ' inadvertent ' ( and unknown to Pirsig during writing and publication

The Speech, and Its Context: Jacob Blaustein's Speech " The Meaning of Palestine Partition to American Jews " Given to the Baltimore Chapter, American Jewish Committee, February 15, 1948 ( 2011 ), 212 pp. Includes full text of speech, and some history of AJC perspective on Palestine and Israel.

Given the absolute necessity of a complete text for liturgical use, it is likely that Mozart spliced in movements from his earlier Masses for the premiere.

) Given the fact the novel's text is described as having been translated from " a language that has not yet achieved existence ", the substance referred to may not in fact be mercury, although its properties would seem to suggest that it is.