Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or rely upon primitive notions.

Given the overwhelming superiority of the English forces, Captain Cevallos surrendered the castle on March 24, two days after resisting.

Given the extremely disadvantaged position in which the English were, Vernon ordered a retreat but not before throwing some 300 bombs on the city.

Given that Papua New Guinean anglophones almost invariably refer to Tok Pisin as Pidgin when speaking English, it may be considered something of an affectation to call it Tok Pisin, much like referring to German and French as Deutsch and français in English.

Given the more widespread social use, in the English language, of the word condom, it is interesting to note that the town is located on the river Baïse ; baise, without the diaeresis, is a French vulgarism for a sexual act.

* Santa Cruz ( Indefatigable ) Island ( Galápagos ) – Given the name of the Holy Cross in Spanish, its English name derives from the British vessel HMS Indefatigable.

Given its heritage, MCC continues to participate in the administration of English cricket, and in 2010 offered Lord's as a neutral venue for Pakistan to stage a " home " Test match, as scheduled by the ICC, versus Australia ; although the outcome of that game proved controversial the club's initial offering was made with the intention that Pakistan, whose terrorist-stricken country had rendered it a no-go area for international cricket, could remain within the international cricketing fold.

Given its theological leanings and geography, seventeenth century Saffron Walden found itself at the center of the Eastern Association during the decade of the English Civil War.

Given that the bards depended on aristocratic support to survive, and that this power and patronage was shifting towards the new English rulers, this thorough condemnation of their moral values may well have contributed to their demise as a caste.

Given the many differing dialects and languages of succeeding European colonists, the term in English became Indians.

" die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen " ( usual English translation: " On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude ") is a seminal 10-page paper by Bernhard Riemann published in the November 1859 edition of the Monatsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.

* On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude ( English translation of Riemann's article )

An attempt by Adrian Davies to launch parallel proceedings in Belgium without notifying the Belgian Court of English proceedings was blocked by a landmark anti-suit injunction granted by Miss Sarah Asplin QC on 20 May 2011, where she stated " Given that the present defendants had submitted to the hearing of that issue and allowed costs to be incurred, in my judgement such conduct is vexatious and oppressive ".

Given the content of the book, the title is likely to imply both connotations ( the same way as the word " Antichristianity " would in English ).

Given the Armenian Diaspora, many ethnic Armenians read the abridged English edition for years, which, ironically, lacked many of the scenes of Armenian life.

Rob Overseer ( born Robert George Howes ) is an English DJ / producer, born in Leeds whose works have been included in soundtracks for Animatrix, Snatch, Any Given Sunday and The Girl Next Door, as well as video games like Need for Speed: Underground, SSX 3, NFL Gameday 2004, several Matchstick Productions ski films, and Stuntman, among others.

Given the rise to dominance of Hebrew as a means of communication among Jewish communities in the Middle East, and the increasing prestige of English, as well as the economic importance of local vernaculars ( especially Turkish ), the situation appears grim.

Given the flexible method of counting syllables in Spanish verse, where an " octosyllabic " line could easily have seven or nine syllables ( as normally counted ), in writing a décima in English it would seem not unreasonable to write in iambic pentameter ( theoretically ten syllables ), which comes more naturally to English verse.

Given the important command at Guisnes, he distinguished himself during the Tournai campaign in 1513 and then in the missions ( he had had some earlier experiences in negotiating, chiefly with Burgundy ) to the French King about the English withdrawal and the several royal marriage treaties.

Given the size of the Quebec market ( the film saw limited release in English Canada ), a $ 6 million box office is the approximate equivalent of over $ 250 million for a domestic U. S. release.

Given these origins, there have been various suggestions over the years to rename the town ( for example, to " Invernevis ").

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 his generous notion of what constituted an Aryan race ( Evola was convinced of the Hyperborean origins of most Europeans, the indigenous peoples of North and South America, as well as those of the Indian subcontinent ), those candidate races Evola considered to be truly ' alien ' were never explicitly catalogued — except in terms of Semites and the deeply pigmented peoples of sub-Saharan Africa ( see Evola, ' Psicologia criminale ebraica ,' Difesa della Razza 2, no.

Given the origins of the cardinal tetra, namely blackwater rivers whose chemistry is characterised by an acidic pH, low mineral content and the presence of humic acids, the species is adaptable to a wide range of conditions in captivity, though deviation from the soft, acidic water chemistry of their native range will impact severely upon breeding and fecundity.

Given the sport's origins, Irish-bred and trained horses remain a dominant force in national hunt racing today.

Given here are the ethnic origins of Canadian residents ( citizens, landed immigrants, and non-citizen temporary residents ) as recorded by them on their 2006 census form.

Given its origins in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the name has gone through some transformations, mainly through Magyarization.

Given that there was no evidence that either the U. S. or the U. S. S. R. had anything remotely like the UFOs reported, Sign personnel gradually began considering extraterrestrial origins for the objects.

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 the aforementioned, in the United States, vasectomy is utilized at less than half the rate the alternative female " tubal ligation ".

Given that the lapse rate is not a conservative quantity when the tropopause is considered for stratosphere-troposphere exchanges studies, there exists an alternative definition named dynamic tropopause.

Given the alternative of holding cash, and thus earning 0 %, rather than lending it out, profit-seeking lenders will not lend below 0 %, as that will guarantee a loss, and a bank offering a negative deposit rate will find few takers, as savers will instead hold cash.

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 that lupin seeds have the full range of essential amino acids and that they, contrary to soy, can be grown in more temperate to cool climates, lupins are becoming increasingly recognized as a cash crop alternative to soy.

Given this, few alternative programs support the format.

Given that the eponymous Miss Lonelyhearts and his fellow protagonists are struggling for existential meaning and interpersonal relationships in the uncertain, threatening sociopolitical context of the Great Depression, Dick may have intended this citation as a parallel narrative to the similar alienation, existential and interpersonal crises of his own protagonists in a world on the brink of Nazi-Japanese nuclear war after the Axis won World War II in its alternative universe ( and, as an ironic contrast, our own ).

Given the nature of alternative journalism as a subculture, some staff members from underground newspapers became staff on the newer alternative weeklies, even though there was seldom institutional continuity with management or ownership.

Given the selective properties of gillnet fishing, alternative methods of harvest are currently being studied.

Given the current military balance, their only alternative to spending the remainder of their life in the bush is to accumulate enough money to assume a new identity, flee to a third country, and establish a new life there.

Given its considerable production cost economy, but lesser image quality, Techniscope was primarily an alternative format used by low-budget film makers, mainly in the horror and western genres.

* Given an algebraic number, there is a unique monic polynomial ( with rational coefficients ) of least degree that has the number as a root.

Given the United States ' large size it has numerous regional variations.

Given that Bozizé accuses Sudan of supporting the UFDR rebels who are actively fighting the Central African Government, the relation between the two countries has remained good.

If V is finite-dimensional, then V * has the same dimension as V. Given a basis

Given its roughly constant size, the encyclopaedia has needed to reduce or eliminate some topics to accommodate others, resulting in controversial decisions.

Given also a measure on set, then, sometimes also denoted or, has as its vectors equivalence classes of measurable functions whose absolute value's-th power has finite integral, that is, functions for which one has

Given the limited amount of good quality agricultural land to begin with, that policy has resulted in continual deforestation and subsequent erosion.

Given a set S with a partial order ≤, an infinite descending chain is a chain V that is a subset of S upon which ≤ defines a total order such that V has no least element, that is, an element m such that for all elements n in V it holds that m ≤ n.

Given its heavy dependence on imported energy, Japan has aimed to diversify its sources.

Given that non-violence has priority, all other principles yield to it whenever there is a conflict.

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 the need for such fine regulation of Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > signaling, it is perhaps unsurprising that dysregulated mitochondrial Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > has been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, while the catalogue of tumor suppressors includes a few that are enriched at the MAM.

Given the extraordinary competition and technological craftsmanship required for top search engine placement, the implication of the term " search engine optimization " has deteriorated over the last decade.

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 the immense expanse of the entire Universe, it has been argued that there is a higher probability that there exists ( or has existed ) another Earth-like planet that has yielded life ( geogenesis ) than not.

Given this is the feast day used by the Greek Orthodox Church, it has been argued that the discovery was probably made on 18 August, the feast day used by the Roman Catholic Church.

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 basic sound blocks, that a machine digitized, one has a bunch of numbers which describe a wave and waves describe words.

Given free rein to change the story however he wanted, Aki's version is a violent saga focused primarily on fighting and has Hitomi transforming into a " curvaceous nymph " that is the power source of the mecha Escaflowne.

Given the vast size of the area, such a change has the potential to affect areas well outside of the region.

Given current trends in the UMC — with overseas churches growing, especially in Africa, and U. S. churches collectively losing about 1, 000 members a week — it has been estimated that Africans will make up at least 30 % of the delegates at the 2012 General Conference, and it is also possible that 40 % of the delegates will be from outside the U. S. One Congolese bishop has estimated that typical Sunday attendance of the UMC is higher in his country than in the entire United States.