Given the task of overhauling the Cardinals by owner Gussie Busch, Herzog was looking to trade Templeton when he was approached by Padres General Manager Jack McKeon at the 1981 baseball winter meetings.

Given that realities of the North Atlantic in winter, however, the reinforcements would have to land in Nova Scotia, since the St. Lawrence begins to ice up in December.

Given the abundance of snow for several months in winter, it is a popular area for snowmobiling and four-wheel drive vehicles as well as for downhill and cross-country skiing.

Given the small size of these dwellings ( one room upstairs, two on the middle floor and one that would have flooded each winter in the basement ) it seems extraordinary that the 1891 UK census clearly records a family of three people and two lodgers living in one of the lodges.

Given BASIC's straightforward nature, it was a simple matter to type in the code from the magazine and execute the program.

While tests have been done to support this with fixed pieces of flat metal, the result is inconclusive with respect to the curved armour of the period. Given the following actions of the archers, it seems likely Froissart was correct.

Given the cosmological principle, Hubble's law suggested that the universe was expanding.

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.

The question concerned the educational value of pre-Christian classical thought: " Given that the body of knowledge of the pre-Christian Romans was heathen in origin, was it safe to teach it to Christian children?

Given away at theatrical showings was a comic herald that told a simplified version of the film.

" Given that there's a gulf of 100, 000, 000 light years, he checks his diary to find out what he had been doing that day, and finds out that it was something he wished to hide.

Given the toleration of Hinduism, such imperial leeway was not shocking.

Given its limitations, however, NAALC has not produced ( and in fact was not intended to achieve ) convergence in employment, productivity and salary trend in North America.

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

Given high fixed costs, the new price was below average total cost, resulting in a loss.

Given the ideals of Juche, North Korea chose to default on its loans and by the late 1980s its industrial output was declining.

Given a year to complete the work, Gibson undertook the actual writing out of " blind animal terror " at the obligation to write an entire novel – a feat which he felt he was " four or five years away from ".

Given these issues, Microsoft started to work in parallel on a version of Windows which was more future-oriented and more portable.

Given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean sea deities such as Proteus and Nereus.

Given this and other evidence, many scholars agree that Peter was martyred in Rome under Nero, although some scholars argue that he may have been martyred in Palestine.

Without doubt, the single most significant paper concerning the distribution of prime numbers was Riemann's 1859 memoir On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude, the only paper he ever wrote on the subject.

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 assumption, the evidence for the one-seed theory is the fact that a woman can conceive without coming to orgasm ( though this was still a matter of dispute in the ancient world and the Middle Ages ).

Given its location, Perth was perfectly placed to become a key transport centre with the coming of the railways, and its first station was built in 1848.

Given the number of unpleasant, harmful or even fatal consequences of coming out in world societies, it is questionable to call being closeted a choice.

Given that the landing package of NASA's Spirit rover mission rebounded off the surface in Gusev crater numerous times before coming to a standstill-taking much more time than anticipated-Beagle's timer may have been set to a too short time ( see Section 5. 4. 8 of the Inquiry Report );

Given the shifting political climate of Macau, some Macanese are coming to recognize and identify closer with a Chinese heritage.

Given the village's rich history, coastal location and close proximity to eastern U. S. cities, Cabot Cove was transformed from a small, sleepy fishing village to a tourist destination for the people coming from New York.

Given the difficulty of identifying the Messianic figure, Jews also pray for the coming of the prophet Elijah to serve as the Messiah's herald and to properly identify him.

On 3 December 2011, Guzan made his second Premier League appearance for Villa coming on for the injured Shay Given against Manchester United.

Given its historical underpinnings, we should not be surprised that the revolution in warfare that has been brought about both by the confluence of the aerospace and the electronic revolutions, and by the off-shoot of both — the precision guided munition — is one that has been a long-time coming, back to the Second World War, back, even, to the experimenters of the First World War who attempted, however crudely, to develop " smart " weapons to launch from airships and other craft.

Given the way both men had won their respective fights coming into this bout, the fight garnered significant media attention and fan interest around the world.

Given such, students were exposed to the deliveries of their teacher with additional teaching and reinforcement coming to an individual from classmates of both greater and lesser mental agilities.

Given the situation, it is little surprise that what remains of the command structure is unable to mount an effective defense even when warned in advance of the coming Invid threat.

Given this influence, it is unfortunate that many of the details of his life remain shrouded in mystery, perhaps forever ; even the only known picture of him, shown above, is heavily retouched, with a fake tie painted in by hand.

Given that many journeys are for relatively short distances, there is considerable scope to replace car use with walking or cycling, though in many settings this may require some infrastructure modification, particularly to attract the less experienced and confident.

Given the choice between nylon and gut, many luthiers prefer to use gut, as it conforms more readily to the sharp angle at the edge of the fingerboard.

Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy.

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 its continental origin as a fragment of Zealandia, unlike many of the islands of the Pacific such as the Hawaiian chain, New Caledonia is not of geographically recent volcanic provenance.

Given the poorly understood nature of the endocannabinoid system, it will take many more generations of progress to even scratch the surface of the extraordinarily complex mechanisms that control neurological development / degeneration.

Given any of the above definitions of " myth ", the myths of many religions, both ancient and modern, share common elements.

Given that by this time it was common for castles to be built in stone, and that many barons had expanded or refortified their castles, this was not an easy task.

Given the effects of segregation and discrimination into the 1960s, many Head Start programs served African-American children.

Given the difficulty in specifying exact distributions of sample statistics, many methods have been developed for approximating these.

Given the role that many social groups have in the development of public policy and the extensive connections between state bureaucracies and other institutions, it has become increasingly difficult to identify the boundaries of the state.

Given the limitations of older hardware, and even today's relative limitations, a fetch of a program, be it a single 4K record or many, is expensive.

Given the fact that many of the royal depictions of Akhenaten often featured such an elongated head, it is likely an exaggeration of a family trait, rather than a distinct abnormality.

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 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 the lack of evidence of many Freudian hypotheses, some scientific researchers proposed the existence of unconscious mechanisms that are very different from the Freudian ones.

Between 1998 and 2000, Diaz featured in many movies, such as Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Very Bad Things, Any Given Sunday, and the successful adaptation of Charlie's Angels.

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.

Given that Toutatis makes many close approaches the Earth, such as in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012, it is listed as a potentially hazardous object.

Given that many open source projects fail due to lack of developer support, exposure to such a large community of developers can continually breathe new life into a project.

Given this, many regarded RM2 as a toolkit for outfitting and developing one's own game.