Given Guatemala's large expatriate community in the United States, it is the top remittance recipient in Central America, with inflows serving as a primary source of foreign income equivalent to nearly two-thirds of exports.

Given the overall size of trade between Mexico and the United States, there are remarkably few trade disputes, involving relatively small dollar amounts.

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.

* Shay Given – former goalkeeper for both the Republic of Ireland and Newcastle United F. C ..

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

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.

Given these unique characteristics, for statistical purposes the county is included as a municipality within the Washington Metropolitan Area by the United States Census Bureau.

Given this outlook, whatever the level of affection Whistler may have felt for his own mother, one finds an even more divergent use of the image in the Victorian era and later, especially in the United States, as an icon for motherhood, affection for parents, and " family values " in general.

Given Ríos Montt's staunch anticommunism and ties to the United States, the Reagan administration continued to support the general and his regime, paying a visit to Guatemala City in December 1982.

Given the baseball's lack of popularity in the United Kingdom, the issues were unsuccessful.

Given that only 2, 000 of the 785, 000 copies sold worldwide were sold in the United Kingdom, this lead numerous scholars to cite the case as an example of libel tourism.

Given the choice of leaving the United States or being sent back to the Confederacy, Foote fled to Canada and later to London.

Given that bankruptcies and real estate prices did not fare as negatively in Central Canada as in the rest of Canada and the United States during the NEP, it is possible that the NEP had a positive effect in Central Canada.

Given its harbors and fortifications, Saint Thomas still retained a strategic importance, and thus, in the 1860s, during the American Civil War and its aftermath, the United States government considered buying the island and its neighbors from Denmark for $ 7. 5 million, but at the time failed to find domestic legislative support for the bid.

Given the preceding jurisprudence regarding due process, Chief Justice Taney was not entirely breaking ground in his Dred Scott opinion when, without elaboration, he pronounced the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because an " act of Congress that deprived a citizen of his liberty or property merely because he came himself or brought his property into a particular territory of the United States, and who had committed no offence against the laws, could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law.

His performances on loan impressed Kenny Dalglish, who had recently been appointed manager of Newcastle United, and prompted him to sign Given again.

The club also progressed to the final the following year, but Given was replaced by Steve Harper as Newcastle lost 2 – 0 in the final, this time to Manchester United.

Given submitted a written transfer request in December 2000, after failing to regain his place in the first-team from Steve Harper after a thigh injury had ruled him out of a match against Leeds United.

On 17 September 2006, Given suffered a one-centimeter tear in his bowel after a tackle by West Ham United striker Marlon Harewood.

Although the fee for Given was expected to be around £ 8 million, in February 2009 Newcastle United Managing Director Derek Llambias revealed at a supporters panel meeting that Given had been sold for an initial £ 5. 9 million.

He had previously coached Given at Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.

Given the nature of post 9 / 11 counter terrorism strategies employed by the United States of America the operations of the Special Collections Service have experienced significant growth in scale and complexity.

Given this rapid rate of construction, the GVN was unable to fully support or protect the hamlets or its residents, despite the immense funding by the United States government.

Given Newfoundland's strategic location in the Battle of the Atlantic, the Allies ( especially the United States of America ) built many military bases there.

Given the choice between being institutionalized and emigrating to the United States, he chose the latter.

She was critical of " the Obama administration's response to Israel's announcement that it will continue to build new homes for its expanding population in disputed territory ", calling it " hysterical ", and asked, " Given that the United States is supposed to be committed to the parties determining ultimate legal ownership of the land in final status negotiations, what is going on?

Given that the United States was born from revolution, Chase's words echo what had been stated by many legal scholars and politicians of the day, including Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster.

* Given the variant chivichanga, mainly employed in Mexico, another derivation would have it that immigrants to the United States brought the dish with them, mainly through Nogales into Arizona.

Given the importance of the Transit Center for ongoing international military operations in Afghanistan, the United States has agreed to provide $ 60 million per year in quarterly installments for use of the International Airport and facilities for the Transit Center and as reimbursement for mutually agreed logistics support.

Given the continuing and constant US presence in Antarctica since that date, " Operation Deep Freeze " has come to be used as a general term for US operations in that continent, and in particular for the regular missions to resupply US Antarctic bases, coordinated by the United States military.

Given the circumstances ( The loss of the Papal States was not yet accepted and the Pope was considering himself a ' Prisoner in the Vatican ') Martin felt the need of giving them unsparing support, whatever initiatives they took, especially through the journal Civiltà Cattolica ).

Given nutritional concerns, meat producers are eager to have their products considered as " white ", and the United States National Pork Board has positioned their product as " Pork.

Given that all 10 countries which previously were eligible for the Phare programme, are already Member States of the European Union, substantial changes are being made to the scope of the Phare programme.

) Given the exclusionary and ancestral conception of citizenship held by Greek city-states, a relatively large portion of the population took part in the government of Athens and of other radical democracies like it.

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 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.

We have seen a few cavities of the appropriate size and shape for ivory-bills, but these can be old, or exceptionally large Pileated Woodpecker cavities, or mammal-enlarged Pileated Woodpecker cavities .… Given the results, it is unlikely a population of any meaningful size of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers exists in south Florida.

The knapsack problem or rucksack problem is a problem in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each with a weight and a value, determine the number of each item to include in a collection so that the total weight is less than or equal to a given limit and the total value is as large as possible.

Given barely two months to assemble a large sea-going invasion fleet, the Kriegsmarine opted to convert inland river barges into makeshift landing craft.

Given their wide historical distribution, red wolves probably utilized a large suite of habitat types at one time.

Given the current size of the Web, even large search engines cover only a portion of the publicly available part.

Given typical workloads, Cray felt that the small cost incurred by being required to break large sequential memory accesses into segments was a cost well worth paying.

# Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.

Given that ipê trees typically grow in densities of only one or two trees per acre, large areas of forest must be searched and cut down to create paths to harvest and fill orders for boardwalks and, to a lesser extent, homeowner decks.

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.

The law states that " given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow "; or more formally: " Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone.

Given their large size, Great Danes continue to grow ( mostly gaining weight ) longer than most dogs.

Given the slow speed and the coarse resolution this was not a feasible technique for printing large images, but could usefully print a small logo onto a letterhead and then the following letter, all in a single unattended print run without changing the print element.

Kendall West is home to a large concentration of Colombians and Colombian Americans in the U. S. Given the local name " Little Bogota ".

Given that the businesses in Miami Springs had always relied upon the large disposable incomes of the employees of the large airline carriers, the bankruptcy of both corporations in the same year created a chain reaction, eventually causing many small businesses to close their doors.

Given the large amount of gold discovered in California from the late 1840s on, that mint handled the national needs of gold mint production.

Given a large enough audience, peers, readers and commentators, almost all problematic content will be quickly noticed highlighted and fixed.

Given the large force facing him and the defects of the fort's site, Montcalm opted for a strategy of defending the likely approaches to the fort.

Given the ( particularly modern ) prevalence of crowd events, and the potential safety issues associated with such large gatherings of people, the topic is receiving increasing attention from agencies responsible for crowd management and also from governments.

Given the large allowed error, it is not expected that this is too onerous a requirement.