Given good circumstances one might be able to discern the result of some human activity such as the changing of the Netherlands ' coast or the partial drying out of the Aral Sea, but even that would not be easy.

( Please note that Japan has a guideline of a limit of 1 % of GDP on defense spending, however, Japan defines a number of activities as non-defense spending ) Given these circumstances, some have viewed Article 9 as increasingly irrelevant.

Given the grim circumstances, Chiang's staff and even Chiang himself also resigned themselves to this reality.

Given the circumstances, most commentators still rate Kramnik the stronger player in the match.

Given the circumstances under which Máel Morda had been appointed, it is not surprising that he launched an open rebellion against Brian's authority.

Given the circumstances, most commentators rate Kramnik the stronger player in the match.

Given these circumstances, some pro-choice advocates expected Roe to be overruled.

Given that some of their prey are considered pests, hornets may be considered beneficial under some circumstances.

Given his history with the Ruthvens, and that he owed them a great deal of money, James's account of the circumstances was not universally believed.

Given pressing circumstances, a reasonable person may not always act in a manner similar to how she would have acted in a more relaxed setting.

Given how special these circumstances are, the " noble " thing to do is employ the allotted several decades of human life towards understanding that universe.

Given the circumstances during a pilot whale hunt, the whaling knife is considered the safest and most effective equipment with which to kill the whales.

Given the difficult economic circumstances of the Soviet peasantry in the late 1920s and 1930s, chastushki overwhelmingly took an anti-government form, with the singing of anti-Soviet couplets a common practice at peasant festivals of the period.

Jael says, “ Given a reasonable variation, we are the same racial type … what you see is essentially the same genotype, modified by age, by circumstances, by education, by, diet, by learning, by God knows what ”( 161 ).

Given that her lord's kinsmen ( þæt monnes magas ) are described as taking measures to separate the speaker from him, a probable interpretation of the speaker's initial circumstances is that she has been entered into an exogamous relationship typical within the Anglo-Saxon heroic tradition, and her marital status has left her isolated among her husband's people, who are hostile to her, whether due to her actions or merely due to political strife beyond her control.

Given the circumstances under which he operated, he put together an imposing war machine and masterminded a sophisticated strategy that suggest he had a keen grasp of the economic, political, and geographic contexts in which he operated.

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 the circumstances at the time Constantius may well have divided the military command of Britannia Superior in two with an eastern province named Britannia Caesariensis and a western one named Britannia Prima.

Given the circumstances at the time Constantius may well have divided the military command of Britannia Superior in two with an eastern province named Britannia Caesariensis and a western one named Britannia Prima.

Given the grim circumstances, Chiang's staff and even Chiang himself had resigned themselves to this reality.

: Given these circumstances, I have no option but to leave the group.

Given the dire economic circumstances and the crisis atmosphere of the early 1930s, Martin ’ s first gubernatorial campaign was remarkable in its moderation.

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 that A was the rational choice, how can one defend doing B under exactly the same circumstances?

: Given any family of nonempty sets, their Cartesian product is a nonempty set.

Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.

Given a field F, the assertion “ F is algebraically closed ” is equivalent to other assertions:

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

" Given that Thomas Aquinas died six years before Albertus Magnus ' death, this legend as stated is unlikely.

Given Ealdred's known support of Godwin's family, John of Worcester is probably correct.

* Given any Banach space X, the continuous linear operators A: X → X form a unitary associative algebra ( using composition of operators as multiplication ); this is a Banach algebra.

* Given an R-module M, the endomorphism ring of M, denoted End < sub > R </ sub >( M ) is an R-algebra by defining ( r · φ )( x ) = r · φ ( x ).

Given the other ZF axioms, the axiom of regularity is equivalent to the axiom of induction.

After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.

Given its " blue-water " bias, the navy is even less inclined to become involved in counterdrug operations than the army or air force.

Given any element x of X, there is a function f < sup > x </ sup >, or f ( x ,·), from Y to Z, given by f < sup > x </ sup >( y ) := f ( x, y ).

Given this, the bidding is said to start at the one-level when contracting for a total of seven tricks, at the two-level for eight tricks and so on to the seven-level to contract to take all thirteen tricks.

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 a ket of norm 1, the orthogonal projection onto the subspace spanned by is

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 points P < sub > 0 </ sub > and P < sub > 1 </ sub >, a linear Bézier curve is simply a straight line between those two points.

Given the then GDP ($ 7. 095 bln ) of the country, military spending is roughly estimated to be about $ 300 million.

Given some encrypted data (" ciphertext "), the goal of the cryptanalyst is to gain as much information as possible about the original, unencrypted data (" plaintext ").

Given the federal nature of the holiday, celebrating Canada Day can be a cause of friction in the province of Quebec, where the holiday is overshadowed by Quebec's National Holiday, on June 24.

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 such a sweeping definition, it is apparent that cognition is involved in everything a human being might possibly do ; that every psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon.