Given Chrétien's known tendency to create new stories and characters, being the first to mention the hero Lancelot and his love affair with Queen Guinevere for example, the name might also be entirely invented.

Given that the dispute with Pizarro over Cuzco had kept intensifying, Almagro spent a great deal of time and money equipping a company of 500 men for a new exploration south of Peru.

Given the limited success of the Charity School, however, Wheelock intended his new College as one primarily for whites.

Given these, a new term Anthropocene, is specifically proposed and used informally for the latest part of this epoch since approximately synchronous lithospheric evidence, or more recently atmospheric evidence, of human impacts have been found on the Earth and its ecosystems ; these impacts may be considered of global significance for future evolution of living species.

Given MLB's refusal to consider expansion, Kirksey, Cullinan, Smith, and Hofheinz joined forces with would-be owners from other cities and announced the formation of a new league to compete with the established National and American Leagues.

Given the opportunity to get away from the Sultan and visit new lands, he readily accepted.

Given civilian status, he recovered his teaching position at Lycée Pasteur near Paris, settled at the Hotel Misgiven a new position at Lycée Condorcet, replacing a Jewish teacher who had been forbidden to teach by Vichy law.

Given a simple mathematical or functional description of an input or output to a system, the Laplace transform provides an alternative functional description that often simplifies the process of analyzing the behavior of the system, or in synthesizing a new system based on a set of specifications.

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

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

Given that the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco have long been competitors in economic, cultural, and political arenas, the new venue in California became fertile ground for rivalry transplantation.

Given the British origins of the majority of uitlanders and the ongoing influx of new uitlanders into Johannesburg, the Boers recognised that granting full voting rights to the uitlanders would eventually result in the loss of ethnic Boer control in the South African Republic.

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 a series with values in a normed abelian group G and a permutation σ of the natural numbers, one builds a new series, said to be a rearrangement of the original series.

Given a set of training examples, each marked as belonging to one of two categories, an SVM training algorithm builds a model that assigns new examples into one category or the other.

Given that the U. S. is still home to the world's largest economy, there's no reason it shouldn't have the most vibrant equity markets — unless regulation is holding back the creation of new public companies.

Given his minority status, the new Augustus ruled under the regency of his mother Galla Placidia, one of whose first acts was to install Felix as the Magister utriusque militiae in the west.

About the new markets, Ergen said, " Given the assets we've been accumulating, I don't think it's hard to see we're moving in a different direction from simply pay-TV, which is a market that's becoming increasingly saturated.

Given this new danger, the United States participated in an arms race with the Soviet Union that included development of the hydrogen bomb, as well as intercontinental strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

The school staff is also proposing a new name for this technique: " Given that ' piercing ' is an unfortunate mistake in the veneering world, we chose to use the word " Fusion " instead, by which term the artist expresses his intention of sanding through the veneer as a decorative, textural effect, not as a mistake.

Given the demands on a new wife, and the learning curve in her new role, it was prudent to provide her some reserve time with quilts already completed.

Given a primitive, this stage discards it, or generates one or more new primitives.

Given constant migrations, changing allegiances, and new cultural appropriations, all that remained constant was their Gothic name.

Given the bad economy and infrastructure of the town ; the new trend is the majority of Turkish Cypriots moving to other places in the north part of Cyprus ( mainly Nicosia and Kyrenia ).

Given a color name to match the name of amber mutants, ochre mutant viruses had a similar property in that they recovered infectious ability within certain suppressor strains of bacteria.

Given the currently keen interest in biotechnology and the high levels of funding in that field, attempts to exploit the replicative ability of existing cells are timely, and may easily lead to significant insights and advances.

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.

* Toys: Given their ability to counteract the force of gravity at close range, magnets are often employed in children's toys, such as the Magnet Space Wheel and Levitron, to amusing effect.

Given the extent and central location of his original holding from the Mill Seat Tract, and the fact that most of the town's pre-1944 building lots are to, Bare's ability to shape the size and extent of development in Roaring Spring was substantial.

Given the finite supply of natural resources at any specific cost and location, agriculture that is inefficient or damaging to needed resources may eventually exhaust the available resources or the ability to afford and acquire them.

Given the open-ended aspect of gameplay and the ability to play through multiple character scenarios, heavy emphasis is placed upon the replay value of SaGa games.

Given a fire of sufficient duration and intensity, the pressure being generated by the boiling and expanding gas can exceed the ability of the valve to vent the excess.

Given that the post-apocalyptic world no longer possesses the ability to refine oil, Tenrec modifies his cars to run on dinosaur guano.

Given his young age ( 17 ), size, and ability to quickly adapt to the more physical style of hockey in North America, Bonk became a " can't miss " prospect.

Given his considerable martial ability, a result of hard and dedicated training, he was able to develop a unique and outstanding version of lion dance.

Given the ability to knock down, in essence, any gene of interest, RNAi via siRNAs has generated a great deal of interest in both basic and applied biology.

Given projected growth, and the limited ability to expand Terminal 2, the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation began construction of Terminal 3 in 2004.

Given his newfound ability, Lightning Lord decided to turn to a life of crime.

Given that she is a scientific genius, some or all of her powers may be generated by her costume ( despite having shown, during her Dark Avengers tenure, the ability to project concussive blasts while in civilian clothing ).

Given an Kawasaki 50cc motocross on his eighth birthday, he demonstrated the ability to be able to race successfully.

Given the ability to geocode street addresses and other features, one can create a lot of interesting spatial analysis, location-based service, political campaigning apps and localised search services.

Given the ability to update the token bucket every S milliseconds, the number of tokens to add every S milliseconds

Given the lack of ability to inspect merchandise before purchase, consumers are at higher risk of fraud on the part of the merchant than in a physical store.

Given its unusual ability to " fly " tools around a work site, it has many possible applications, including stone carving, ship building, bridge construction, inspection, pipe or beam fitting and welding.

Given that every nation on the League of Nations council had veto power, Japan promptly vetoed the resolution, severely limiting the LN's ability to respond.

Given the Cylons ' artificial nature, they had the ability to infect computer networks.

Given a rapidly changing technological and market environment, many in the public policy area question the government's ability to make and maintain meaningful regulation that doesn't cause more harm than good.

Given the attitude of Aes Sedai and non-channelers in the Third Age it is not likely that all leaders of the Hall of Servants could summon the Nine Rods, but that this power was linked to the individual's ability rather than his or her station as First Amongst Servants.

Given the widely recognized importance of proteins as cellular catalysts and recognition elements, the ability to precisely control the composition and connectivity of polypeptides is a valued tool in the chemical biology community and is an area of active research.