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 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 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 proposition that ' a persons life prospects should not be decided by factors outside of their control or for which a person cannot claim personal credit ' ( i. e. social status, inherited wealth, race and other accidents of birth ) a meritocracy proposes a system where people are rewarded based on their efforts, and if everyone can start on equal footing with the same opportunity to advance, then the results are just.

Given Ely's wealth and ease, this promotion was clearly as much to do with status and consolidating the conspirators ' control in the north as with remuneration.

Given essentially free stocks, friends of the Erie Railroad grew rich ; that is, Drew had found a way to transfer Vanderbilt's wealth to his own friends.

Given its high price in the West, caviar is associated with luxury and wealth.

Given his wealth he preferred to effect social improvements himself, and preferred a seat in the House of Lords, which he achieved in 1891.

Given an initial condition in which wealth is unevenly distributed, several economic mechanisms for wealth condensation have been proposed:

Given the family's wealth, he probably attended the Boston Latin School.

Given the increase in wealth in recent decades, the improvement of roads and the widespread availability of cars, many outsiders see this exemption as an unjustified privilege, although it sustains several hundred jobs.

Given the tendency of self-interest to overpower the pleasure felt through sympathy, the eventual accumulation of wealth necessitated the development of some form of government, initially somewhat monarchical, to ensure that the rules of justice were followed.

Given the small population of the region ( compared with the Central Canadian provinces or the New England states ), the regional economy is a net exporter of natural resources, manufactured goods, and services.

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

Given her familiarity with the woods and marshes of the region, it is likely that Tubman hid in these locales during the day.

Given that it is surrounded on three sides by watery regions, it is not implausible that the entire region can be flooded, as described in the second book Gormenghast.

" Given that the parched region of the Gran Chaco ( largely uninhabited ) had been under dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay ever since the creation of both republics, each proceeded to establish a line of small garrisons ( fortines ), simply to establish a national presence and press their claims.

Given an action of a group G on a topological space X by homeomorphisms, a fundamental domain ( also called fundamental region ) for this action is a set D of representatives for the orbits.

# Given a slab subdivided into regions by non-intersecting segments that completely cross the slab from left to right, determine which region contains a given point.

: Given a function f that has values everywhere on the boundary of a region in R < sup > n </ sup >, is there a unique continuous function u twice continuously differentiable in the interior and continuous on the boundary, such that u is harmonic in the interior and u = f on the boundary?

Given the cultural, economic and political prestige which Latin enjoyed, the Gauls eventually abandoned their language in favor of Latin, which evolved in this region until eventually it took the form of Modern French.

Given its unique cultural and economic development, and linguistic differences ( Greater Sylhet region was a part of Assam and Surma Valley State for much of the British Raj in comparison to the rest of Bangladesh ), and given that Sylhet has, for most of its recent history, been a region of a larger entity.

Given the isolation of this region, the inhabitants tend towards self-sufficiency, and until recently lived in almost complete autarky.

* Given the name by the Seleucids after he fought in the region alongside Antiochus VII Sidetes against Phraates II of Parthia in 130 – 129 BCE, a campaign which resulted in the release of Antiochus ' brother Demetrius II Nicator from captivity in Hyrcania

Given this, and Jerome's familiarity with Semitic philology and the immediate region, Capper concludes that the " house of affliction " / " poor-house " meaning as documented by Jerome and in the Syriac New Testament usage is correct, and that this meaning relates to the use of the village as a centre for caring for the sick and aiding the destitute and pilgrims to Jerusalem.

Given the two-planet configuration of the system under the assumption that the orbits are coplanar and have masses equal to their minimum masses, an additional Saturn-mass planet would be stable in a region between 0. 9 and 1. 4 AU between the orbits of the two known planets.

Given that the terrain facilitates peripatric speciation, as evidenced by the high biodiversity of the Andean region, the physical attributes of the Chachapoyas are most likely reflecting founder effects, assortative mating, and / or related phenomena in an initially small population sharing a relatively recent common ancestor with other Amerind groups.

Given that the book deals with periods of history prior to the creation of Pakistan, it has been described as, point of fact, a history of the northern part of the entire South Asia with special emphasis on the region that presently is Pakistan.

Given the concentration of Brazil's economy in the Central-Southern region, where São Paulo is located, such flights make up the greatest share of the country's domestic air traffic.

Given a point in the feasible region, a constraint

Barron noted: Given the central position he occupied in the intelligence-gathering network for the Mid-Ulster region, this RUC officer's interview with the Inquiry was disappointing.

Given the lack of interest in Occidental Mexican archaeology, only a small number of substantial civic sites have been identified in the region, namely at Ixtapa, Valle, and Ixtlan del Rio.

Given that the colocynth grows wild in region of Israel, these symptoms would be consistent with the " wild gourd " mentioned in 2 Kings 4: 39-40.

Given the large tracts of virgin forests within the region, care will be taken to protect and enhance them.