Given the unusual casting and production demands, Pacific Overtures remains one of the least-performed musicals by Stephen Sondheim.

* Given their strong position, the mercenaries inflate their demands and demand payment for the non-mercenary Libyan conscripts in the army as well.

Given the importance of the seasonal gift-giving to the U. S. economy, one driven largely by consumer spending, and with the music industry making at least 40 percent of its annual revenue in the fourth quarter culminating at Christmas, demands for increased revenues motivates the shift.

Given the demands of his career in the Navy and NASA, Pete and Jane spent a great deal of time apart, and Pete saw less of his boys growing up than he would have liked.

Given the state of the pharmacopoeia, and patients ' demands for something to take, physicians began making " blunderbuss " concoctions of various drugs, proven and unproven.

Given the demands of the Siege of Calais, no further men could be summoned for the defence of Northern England.

Given the strategic requirements of winning the war, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had no option but to accept the demands of their erstwhile ally, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam, argues retired diplomat Charles G. Stefan.

Given their newly strengthened bargaining position, the mercenaries vastly inflated their original demands, even requiring the extension of the payments to the Libyans whom Carthage had conscripted ( and who were not mercenaries ) as well as other Numidians and to the escaped slaves and the like who had joined their ranks against Carthage.

* Given their position, the mercenaries inflate their demands and demand payment for the non-mercenary Libyan conscripts in the army as well.

Cafferty courted controversy on September 23, 2004 while discussing terrorist demands for the release of two female scientists from an Iraqi prison and remarking: " Given the way these mutants treat women in their societies, the women are probably better off in U. S. custody.

Given this scenario, it is obvious newspapers must raise the quality of their news offerings to meet the demands and expectations of their readers.

Given El Progreso's location as a crossroads several fast food franchises have been established in the city to satisfy the demands of travelers.

Given this stance, it emphasises the practical teachings of subjects with a sound theoretical background, while at the same time actively adapting the lesson material and courses to the job market demands and the realities of today ’ s society.

* Given any topological space X, the continuous real-or complex-valued functions on X form a real or complex unitary associative algebra ; here the functions are added and multiplied pointwise.

Given the complexity of the calculations involved and the convoluted structure that a convertible bond can have, an arbitrageur often relies on sophisticated quantitative models in order to identify bonds that are trading cheap versus their theoretical value.

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.

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 the rugged terrain of Ngazidja and Nzwani, and the dedication of extensive tracts to agriculture on all three islands, population pressures on Comoros are becoming increasingly critical.

Given an asymmetric subunit on a triangular face of a regular isosahedron, with three subunits per face 60 such subunits can be placed in an equivalent manner.

Given this kind of data, the estimated coefficient on Years of Education in the equation above reflects both the effect of education on wages and the effect of other variables on wages, if those other variables were correlated with education.

* Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti – Given at the World's Fair in Chicago, January 1893.

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 both Einstein's equations and suitable equations for the properties of matter, such a solution consists of a specific semi-Riemannian manifold ( usually defined by giving the metric in specific coordinates ), and specific matter fields defined on that manifold.

Given the difficulty of finding exact solutions, Einstein's field equations are also solved frequently by numerical integration on a computer, or by considering small perturbations of exact solutions.

Given an equilateral triangle, the counterclockwise rotation by 120 ° around the center of the triangle " acts " on the set of vertices of the triangle by mapping every vertex to another one.

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 that this etymology does not appear in the usual scholarly works on etymology, this claim is usually dismissed as a false etymology.

Given the dual status of science as objective knowledge and as a human construct, good historiography of science draws on the historical methods of both intellectual history and social history.

Given a binary operation ★ on a set S, an element x is said to be idempotent ( with respect to ★) if

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

Along with a hand-picked escort led by Given Campbell, Davis and his wife were captured on May 10, 1865, at Irwinville in Irwin County, Georgia.

Given the repeated failures and frustrations of workers ' revolutions and movements, Marx also sought to understand capitalism, and spent a great deal of time in the reading room of the British Museum studying and reflecting on the works of political economists and on economic data.

Given that estimation is undertaken on the basis of a least squares analysis, estimates of the unknown parameters β < sub > j </ sub > are determined by minimising a sum of squares function

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 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 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 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 ).