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.

Given the fact that the Lakeport area has an economy that is based somewhat on agricultural activities occurring in the Big Valley and Scotts Valley area which involve the growing and harvesting of food and nut crops as well as the increasing wine industry, there are a significant number of transient and seasonal farm workers.

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 a strictly increasing integer sequence / function ( n ≥ 1 ) we can produce a faster growing sequence ( where the superscript n denotes the n < sup > th </ sup > functional power ).

Given this controversy, the investigation appeared unlikely to mollify Canada, which was growing increasingly impatient with Iran's unwillingness to " clearly demonstrate that officials are not allowed to act with impunity " ( Foreign Minister Bill Graham, news conference ).

Given the shift of people of color growing in size that trends indicate will make them a majority, some argue that Caucasian-Americans should no longer be considered the majority.

Given the goals of the first Five Year Plan, the state sought increased political control of agriculture, hoping to feed the rapidly growing urban areas and to export grain, a source of foreign currency needed to import technologies necessary for heavy industrialization.

" Given the ubiquity of keyboards and the growing expectation that secondary school pupils and university students will type their essays and coursework, I think it ( touch typing ) is one the most useful skills a child can learn-at any age from seven upwards.

Given this pressure, the collapse of Taligent, and the growing problems with the existing operating system, after System 7. 5 was released in autumn 1994, Apple management decided that the decade-old operating system had run its course.

Given the rapidly growing popularity of the 2-door Holiday hardtop, 1950 was the last year for the pillared Club coupe.

Given the prestige of the other graduates, Calvert's was the last awarded, but his presence in such company signalled his growing stature.

Given the growing number of people working in the city, the commerce and the first industries began to appear.

Given the transformations influenced by globalization, there is a growing necessity to expand beyond this rather limited view of social work to better suit the needs of modern society.

Given the growing wealth of the region with the discovery of silver to the north, especially in Nueva Vizcaya, Guadalajara became the seat of the second mainland Audiencia of New Spain in 1548.

Given the fairly unsophisticated stock research of the era, the company appeared to be growing without bound, and its share prices rose.

Given its geographical restrictions, Central Otago will never become a vast wine growing region, but if it can build upon its growing reputation for wines ( particularly Pinot Noir ) of exceptional elegance and longevity, it appears well-poised to carve itself an important and profitable niche in the world market.

Given the positive advancement of coffee growing in Colombia, an important group of coffee growers, dedicated to the export of the beans, organized an association to regulate the market.

Given that individuals ' personal data also seems to be growing at an alarming rate, these archiving issues affecting professional repositories will soon be manifest in small organisations and even the home.

Given a fertile mind and boundless energy, he pursued other fields of interest: growing vegetables in Puerto Rico ; owning a beautician school, restaurants, lounges, a marina, marine dredging, data processing services, multi-level marketing of vitamins and cosmetics, cement block manufacturing, country-western music publishing and recording studios, telecommunications companies, a high-end boutique shop, general insurance agency, internet connection and data center, a walk-in medical clinic, wholesale gasoline and diesel fuel distribution operation, a travel agency, home security monitoring, mail order medical and diabetic supply company, a Big & Tall men's clothing store, an AM radio station, a mobile medical screening company, a book publishing company, a warehouse fulfillment and distribution company, an advertising media consulting firm, television stations, mobile home parks, a 225 room hotel in Nassau, Bahamas, a 500, 000 square foot commercial warehouse complex in Las Vegas, and a five-star 23 story resort hotel and residences on Ft. Lauderdale Beach.

Given the uncertainty about which layer of the hide is in fact the klaf, there is a growing movement for insisting on a return to gevil in Torah scrolls-in order to avoid all doubts.

Given the growing size and frequency of changes and additions to the TGN, hard-copy publication was deemed to be impractical.

Given its position in the western Pacific, Singapore had long been recognised as being strategically important for the Royal Navy in order to counter the growing influence of the Japanese, who were regarded as being the logical threat to Britain ’ s interests in the Far East and the Pacific.

Given that social conditions can contribute to the clustering, form and progression of disease at the individual and population level, there is growing interest in the health sciences on syndemics.

Euclid poses the problem: " Given two numbers not prime to one another, to find their greatest common measure ".

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 a recursively enumerable set A of positive integers that has insoluble membership problem, ⟨ a, b, c, d | a < sup > n </ sup > ba < sup > n </ sup > = c < sup > n </ sup > dc < sup > n </ sup >: n ∈ A ⟩ is a finitely generated group with a recursively enumerable presentation whose word problem is insoluble

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

Informally it solves the following problem: Given an integer N, find its prime factors.

Given a set of integers, FIND-SUBSET-SUM is the problem of finding some nonempty subset of the integers that adds up to zero ( or returning the empty set if there is no such subset ).

Given a set of integers, SUBSET-SUM is the problem of finding whether there exists a subset summing to zero.

Given the distance from the main body, our problem is to determine the form of the surface that satisfies the equipotential condition.

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 two bodies, one with mass m < sub > 1 </ sub > and the other with mass m < sub > 2 </ sub >, the equivalent one-body problem, with the position of one body with respect to the other as the unknown, is that of a single body of mass

With regard to African Americans, Gilman wrote in the American Journal of Sociology: “ The problem, is this: Given: in the same country, Race A, progressed in social evolution, say, to Status 10 ; and Race B, progressed in social evolution, say, to Status 4..

Formally, the problem of supervised pattern recognition can be stated as follows: Given an unknown function ( the ground truth ) that maps input instances to output labels, along with training data assumed to represent accurate examples of the mapping, produce a function that approximates as closely as possible the correct mapping.

# Retrieve: Given a target problem, retrieve from memory cases relevant to solving it.

* Rural postman problem: Given is also a subset of the edges.

Given the global nature of gonococcal and meningococcal diseases, the worldwide distribution of antibiotics, differing social practices in controlling and monitoring antibiotic availability, and geographical differences in treatment regimens, it is likely that the global problem of antibiotic resistance will continue in the foreseeable future.

The Mastermind satisfiability problem is a decision problem that asks, " Given a set of guesses and the number of colored and white pegs scored for each guess, is there at least one secret pattern that generates those exact scores?

Given the problem of defining death ( absence of EEG, heart beat, ...) it is hard to imagine a set of quantum parameters that could be used in constructing such superposition.

Given the informal setting, this might be unimportant ; however, teachers see this as a problem, fearing and claiming that contemporary young people are inappropriately and incorrectly extending the practice to academic homework and essays.

Given that the problem of high textbook prices is linked to the " broken " economics of the market, requiring publishers to disclose textbook prices to faculty is a solution pursued by a number of legislatures.

De Rationis Sectione sought to resolve a simple problem: Given two straight lines and a point in each, draw through a third given point a straight line cutting the two fixed lines such that the parts intercepted between the given points in them and the points of intersection with this third line may have a given ratio.

De Tactionibus embraced the following general problem: Given three things ( points, straight lines, or circles ) in position, describe a circle passing through the given points and touching the given straight lines or circles.