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 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 the growing problem of identity theft and the importance of the Social Security number as a personal identifier in the United States, it might seem unusual that these identifiers are released publicly.

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.

Given the United States ' large size it has numerous regional variations.

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.

Given a fixed budget, this can allow an increased sample size.

Given its roughly constant size, the encyclopaedia has needed to reduce or eliminate some topics to accommodate others, resulting in controversial decisions.

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.

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

Given the diversity of functions performed by neurons in different parts of the nervous system, there is, as expected, a wide variety in the shape, size, and electrochemical properties of neurons.

Given the vast size of the area, such a change has the potential to affect areas well outside of the region.

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

* Aggregate signature-a signature scheme that supports aggregation: Given n signatures on n messages from n users, it is possible to aggregate all these signatures into a single signature whose size is constant in the number of users.

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

Given the extent and central location of his original holding from the Mill Seat Tract, and the fact that most of the town's pre-1944 building lots are to, Bare's ability to shape the size and extent of development in Roaring Spring was substantial.

Given the borough's small size, as well as the county's small population, the presence of business and government remain limited.

Given the size of Merchant's capital outlay — including construction in Boswell of the world's largest tipple, a central business district and a high school — the company planned big things for Boswell.

: Given two sets, A and T, of equal size, together with a weight function C: A × T → R. Find a bijection f: A → T such that the cost function:

Given the observation space, the state space, a sequence of observations, transition matrix of size such that stores the transition probability of transiting from state to state, emission matrix of size such that stores the probability of observing from state, an array of initial probabilities of size such that stores the probability that. We say a path is a sequence of states that generate the observations.

Given the small size of the Netherlands, the latter co-operation is not likely to be symmetrical.

Given the size of the book, this story is most likely apocryphal.

Given the age of the current Justices, this allowed a Supreme Court size of up to 15 Justices.

Given a bin size and a list of items with sizes to pack, find an integer and a-partition of such that for all.

Given that G. atlantica is a small and G. stehlini a giant species, and that it is also not known when exactly the later evolved its large size, the ancestral lizards which colonized the central and western islands may have been still small or already large.

Given that average size of a peasant family was 5, land reforms program brought freedom to approximately 9 million people, or 40 % of Iran's population.