Given Ireland's ( Northern Protestant and Southern Catholic ) historically conservative sexual values, Magdalene asylums were a generally accepted social institution until well into the second half of the 20th century.

Given the multiplicity of Protestant sects, the Netherlands were the first country in the Western world to establish a policy of religious tolerance.

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

Given the philosophical definition that knowledge differs from belief ( knowledge is often defined as a justified, true belief ), Dorff's works explicitly analyze epistemological questions.

Given that totemistic belief systems had proved to be relatively durable over the course of human history, many scholars asked whether it was useful, as Lévi-Strauss had advocated, to dispose of totemism as a " mere " social construct.

Given the philosophical definition that knowledge differs from belief ( knowledge is often defined as a justified, true belief ), Gillman's works explicitly analyze epistemological questions.

Given the general belief that Camulos was indeed the original setting, D. W. Griffith shot portions of his 1910 silent film at the rancho, using the chapel, the adobe and patio, and the nearby mountains as backdrops.

Given current understanding of the physical world, where human knowledge has increased dramatically ; Hitchens, Dawkins, and Onfray contend that continuing to hold on to these belief systems is irrational and no longer useful.

Given some statement P, it appears reasonable to ask for a justification for P. If that justification takes the form of another statement, P ', one can again reasonably ask for a justification for P ', and so forth.

Given the logic of arguments concerning principles of uncertainty and randomness, skepticism towards knowledge merely becomes skepticism towards valid justification.

Given that drug poisoning causes a large portion of patients in a coma, hospitals first test all comatose patients by observing pupil size and eye movement, through the vestibular-ocular reflex.

Given a surface through which a metal wire passes, electrons move in both directions across the surface at an equal rate.

Given that genes are universal to living organisms, genetics can be applied to the study of all living systems, from viruses and bacteria, through plants and domestic animals, to humans ( as in medical genetics ).

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 an arbitrary group G, there is a related profinite group G < sup >^</ sup >, the profinite completion of G. It is defined as the inverse limit of the groups G / N, where N runs through the normal subgroups in G of finite index ( these normal subgroups are partially ordered by inclusion, which translates into an inverse system of natural homomorphisms between the quotients ).

# Given an array of values to be sorted, set up an auxiliary array of initially empty " pigeonholes ," one pigeonhole for each key through the range of the original array.

Given a particular wing and its velocity through the air, debates over which mathematical approach is the most convenient to use can be misperceived by novices as differences of opinion about the basic principles of flight.

Given a set of points in Euclidean space, the first principal component corresponds to a line that passes through the multidimensional mean and minimizes the sum of squares of the distances of the points from the line.

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 that Historic U. S. Route 66 runs through Elk City, a sprawling museum complex has developed, which includes the National Route 66 Museum, the Old Town Museum, the Transportation Museum, the Farm and Ranch Museum, and the Blacksmith Museum.

Given decree powers, he was able to abate the economic crisis the country was going through, by devaluing the currency and resorting to expansive budgetary policies.

Given two points A and B, with A not lower than B, there is just one upside down cycloid that passes through A with infinite slope, passes also through B and does not have maximum points between A and B.

Given a unit vector n in R < sup > 3 </ sup > and an angle φ, let R ( φ, n ) represent a counterclockwise rotation about the axis through n ( with orientation determined by n ).

Given the above, for every point in this ball there is a rotation, with axis through the point and the origin, and rotation angle equal to the distance of the point from the origin.

* Given 27 same-size cubes whose nominal values progress from 1 to 27, a 3 × 3 × 3 magic cube can be constructed such that every row, column, and corridor, and every diagonal passing through the center, is composed of 3 cubes whose sum of values is 42.

Given the death of Princess Charlotte without surviving children, should the Ord or Lowe links be substantiated, the line descended through them would join a large number of claimed surviving descendants of King George IV.

* Given its distance from Earth and visual magnitude, 3C 273 is the most distant celestial object average amateur astronomers are likely to see through their telescopes.

# Given two points p < sub > 1 </ sub > and p < sub > 2 </ sub >, there is a unique fold that passes through both of them.

# Given a point p < sub > 1 </ sub > and a line l < sub > 1 </ sub >, there is a unique fold perpendicular to l < sub > 1 </ sub > that passes through point p < sub > 1 </ sub >.

# Given two points p < sub > 1 </ sub > and p < sub > 2 </ sub > and a line l < sub > 1 </ sub >, there is a fold that places p < sub > 1 </ sub > onto l < sub > 1 </ sub > and passes through p < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Given two points p < sub > 1 </ sub > and p < sub > 2 </ sub >, there is a unique fold that passes through both of them.

Given a point p < sub > 1 </ sub > and a line l < sub > 1 </ sub >, there is a unique fold perpendicular to l < sub > 1 </ sub > that passes through point p < sub > 1 </ sub >.

Given two points p < sub > 1 </ sub > and p < sub > 2 </ sub > and a line l < sub > 1 </ sub >, there is a fold that places p < sub > 1 </ sub > onto l < sub > 1 </ sub > and passes through p < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Given the use of similar symbols on the Roman standard, this depiction also conveyed another victory, namely that of the Christian faith: the Roman soldiers who had once arrested Jesus and marched him to Calvary now walked under the banner of a resurrected Christ.

Given his departure from radicalism, and his attempts to have former fellow travellers prosecuted, it is unsurprising that less successful contemporaries who kept the faith attacked Southey.

Given the use of similar symbols on the Roman standard, this depiction also conveyed another victory, namely that of the Christian faith: the Roman soldiers who had once arrested Jesus and marched him to Calvary now walked under the banner of a resurrected Christ.

Given the Necromongers ' apparent faith in and respect for the power of the Quasi-Dead, this is a very impressive feat.

Given that the directors can not ensure corporate success, the business judgment rule specifies that the court will not review the business decisions of directors who performed their duties ( 1 ) in good faith ; ( 2 ) with the care that an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would exercise under similar circumstances ; and ( 3 ) in a manner the directors reasonably believe to be in the best interests of the corporation.

Given that one cannot be motivated by reason alone, requiring the input of the passions, Hume argued that reason cannot be behind morality.

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

Given that any proposition containing conjunction, disjunction, and negation can be equivalently rephrased using conjunction and negation alone ( the conjunctive normal form ), we can now handle any compound proposition.

Given any such interpretation of a set of points as complex numbers, the points constructible using valid compass and straightedge constructions alone are precisely the elements of the smallest field containing the original set of points and closed under the complex conjugate and square root operations ( to avoid ambiguity, we can specify the square root with complex argument less than π ).

Given a moment alone, Traherne and Lucilla confess their love for each other.

Given that the level of hyperforin was not ascertained at the beginning of the study, and levels of both hyperforin and hypericin were well below that used in other studies, little can be determined based on this study alone.

" Given the massive undertaking in creating 11 volumes over 50 years, errors and incompleteness were inevitable by Durant's own reckoning ; but no other historical survey matches let alone exceeds the breadth and depth of his project, he claimed.

Given this flow rate and the 96 metre fall it is easy to calculate that the Inga Falls alone has a potential to generate ~ 39. 6 GW of mechanical energy and nearly as much electrical energy.

Given the meaninglessness of theistic claims, Ayer opined that there was " no logical ground for antagonism between religion and natural science ", as theism alone does not entail any propositions which the scientific method can falsify.

Given the number of inquiries it is likely that even some of these are due to chance alone.

Given that all significant political parties and both the UK and Irish Governments support the " Principle of Consent " the final choice is one for the people of Northern Ireland, alone, to decide.