Given the tendency for real negotiations in Japan to be conducted privately ( in the nemawashi, or root binding, process of consensus building ), the shingikai often represented a fairly advanced stage in policy formulation in which relatively minor differences could be thrashed out and the resulting decisions couched in language acceptable to all.

Given Orr / Alex's desire to remain within the world of the Bridge, a world where he is well treated and lives a fairly pampered life, his attempts to stonewall and block the doctor's attempts to cure him are understandable.

Given its basal position in Tringa, it is fairly unsurprising that suspected cases of hybridisation between this species and the Common Sandpiper ( A. hypoleucos ) of the sister genus Actitis have been reported.

Given the population of the town to be about 3000 this is a fairly high murder rate.

Given their multifarious functions, their levels are under fairly tight metabolic control.

Given that National Education is France's largest employer, and employs more than half of the French state civil servants, the position is traditionally a fairly strategic one.

Given the diversity of CNN processors and the momentum that CNN research has gained, it is plausible that these unique analog CNN development efforts will be fairly common in the near future.

Given a derivative with payoff when the stock price moves up and when it goes down, we can price the derivative via

Given that five different types of rolling stock were converted to Q Stock, the resulting hybrid trains looked bizarre-with the older carriages having flat sides and clerestory roofs, whilst the Q38 had flared sides at floor level.

→ Given a fixed stock of labor, the impact on output of the last unit of capital accumulated will always be less than the one before.

Given MIT's prominence, allegations of research misconduct or improprieties have received substantial press coverage.

Given the presence of the KULeuven, an important European institution for academic research and education, much of the local economy is concentrated on spin-offs from academic research.

At that point, two wealthy Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania businessmen, Hay Walker, Jr., and Thomas H. Given, financed the formation of National Electric Signaling Company ( NESCO ) to carry on Fessenden's research.

Given the consistent failures in this research literature to disprove the null hypothesis, the burden of empirical proof is on those who argue that the children of sexual minority parents are worse off than the children of heterosexual parents.

Given research in cognitive psychology, some educators believe that schools should focus on teaching their students critical thinking skills and cultivation of intellectual traits.

Given the fact that Puerto Rico has 78 municipalities, there was enough material to show and research over the program's six-year run.

Given this reality, scholars are continually challenged to research and understand how online communities are comprised, how they function, and how they are connected to offline social life.

Given the seriousness that drug resistant pathogens have now become, there is increasing research into PDT as a new antimicrobial therapy.

Given that the outputs of much of the work that is undertaken in advance of development work is not published in peer reviewed journals, the people that perform the actual research are often anonymous and unrecognized.

Given the New York Central's axle load limits, the Pacific type could not be made any larger ; a new locomotive type would be required to carry the larger boiler that Kiefer's research indicated was needed.

Given other research on beliefs in a just world, it would be expected that observers would derogate and blame victims of bullying.

Given that breast cancer is a large killer of women and a very high percentage of young women use underarm deodorants, I think we should be carrying out properly funded, further investigations into parabens and where they are found in the body ," says Philip Harvey, an editor of the Journal of Applied Toxicology, which published the research.

" Given the complete lack of citations to this research in GeoRef, JSTOR, Web of Knowledge, and other scientific bibliographic databases, neither the data collected from nor the interpretations and conclusions made as a result of this expedition very likely have been publicly reported in a scientific venue where their credibility can be openly evaluated.

In January 2010, William and Julie Clark asked a judge to order the University of Washington to release records from the 2007 effects of television viewing study, citing, “ Given that other research studies have not shown the same outcomes, we would like the raw data and analytical methods from the Washington studies so we can audit their methodology, and perhaps duplicate the studies, to see if the outcomes are the same.

Given the uncertain effects of low-level and very-low-level radiation, there is a pressing need for quality research in this area.

Given this, the Toenepi Stream-a small sub-catchment of the Piako River-has been extensively used to research the impact of intensive farming on water quality.

Given the time taken to fully research answers, researchers are typically known to earn under the national average wage.

Given the choice between funding technological research at the oldest university in the nation or an independent and adolescent institution, potential benefactors were indifferent or even hostile to funding MIT's competing mission.

Given its fundamental nature, exploratory research often concludes that a perceived problem does not actually exist.

Given that it seems to require extraordinary visuo-spatial abilities and memory, this form of chess has led to considerable research in psychology, starting with the research of Alfred Binet in 1893, continuing with the work of chess grandmaster and psycho-analyst Reuben Fine in 1965, and culminating in the last two decades with several scientific articles describing experiments on the psychology of blindfold chess.

Given the widely recognized importance of proteins as cellular catalysts and recognition elements, the ability to precisely control the composition and connectivity of polypeptides is a valued tool in the chemical biology community and is an area of active research.

Given that Classical scholarship was more widespread among the potential audience for his paintings during his lifetime than in the present day, meticulous research of detail was important in order to attain a standing as an artist in this genre.

Given that this is the only colonial era mention of this place and that at the time it was already in ruins, perhaps a pre-revolt estancia which was located there gave its name to the area.

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 the casual tone in which the Hittites are mentioned in most Old Testament references, Biblical scholars before the age of archaeology traditionally regarded them as a smaller tribe, living in the hills of Canaan during the era of the Patriarchs, including Abraham.

Given the low performance systems of the era and the need for high-performance rendering, OpenGL was generally considered to be much more " powerful " for 3D programming.

Given the clue of " hand-writing " that terminates the " oral phase " one expects " printing " to terminate the manuscript phase and the " electrifying " to bring an end to the Gutenberg era.

Given that the Mughals had historically symbolized Indo-Persian culture to one degree or another, the overthrow of Bahadhur Shah Zafar and the institution of the British Raj in 1858 may be considered as marking the end of the Indo-Persian era, even if, after 1857, Persian would still retain an audience and even produce commendable literature such as the philosophical poetry of Muhammad Iqbal ( d. 1938 ).

Given the small memory sizes and slow speeds of machines of the era, however, even the small overhead of MacApp was considered a bother, and developer uptake was not particularly widespread.

Given its close proximity to the stockyards, the area's physical environment and economic life were shaped by livestock and meatpacking from the 1860s until the industry's decline in the postwar era.

Given that it was thus never protected by being buried during its nearly nineteen centuries of existence, the arch entered the modern era in extraordinary condition.

Given the cancellation of Shada, he was thus the final writer of the Graham Williams era on the program.