Given the Russian historical experiences of frequent invasions and the immense death toll ( estimated at 27 million ) and the destruction the Soviet Union sustained during World War II, the Soviet Union sought to increase security by dominating the internal affairs of countries that bordered it.

Given this rapid rate of construction, the GVN was unable to fully support or protect the hamlets or its residents, despite the immense funding by the United States government.

Given the size of the Catholic community at the time, the massive bluestone Gothic cathedral was an immense and very expensive undertaking, and there were long delays while funds were raised.

Given that New Zealand started regular public television-broadcasting for the first time in 1960, and instituted networked television in 1973 with only a single ( and State-owned ) channel available to viewers, the sole provider of television-broadcasting acquired a monopoly position of immense influence within the New Zealand mass media, and the name " Avalon " summarised and expressed that clout for many years.

Given the broad expanse of the Malvasia family, generalizations about the Malvasia wine are difficult to pin point.

Given the definition of morpheme as " the smallest meaningful unit " Nanosyntax aims to account for idioms where it is often an entire syntactic tree which contributes " the smallest meaningful unit.

Given a year to complete the work, Gibson undertook the actual writing out of " blind animal terror " at the obligation to write an entire novel – a feat which he felt he was " four or five years away from ".

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 that this is a plane wave, each vector represents the magnitude and direction of the electric field for an entire plane that is perpendicular to the axis.

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 two complexes M < sub >*</ sub > and N < sub >*</ sub >, a chain map between the two is a series of homomorphisms from M < sub > i </ sub > to N < sub > i </ sub > such that the entire diagram involving the boundary maps of M and N commutes.

Given the ferocity of the Russian defense, everyone was aware that such a move would cost the lives of thousands of Guardsmen, but it was thought that the presence of this prestigious unit would bolster the morale of the entire army for a final decisive push.

Given the choice, whether one believes that " the lives of entire peoples and societies have been decisively influenced by exceptional individuals " or, conversely, that whatever happens occurs as a result of impersonal forces oblivious to human intentions – Berlin rejected both options and the choice itself as nonsensical.

Given the number of sites on the internet, it is impossible to try and manually monitor the entire internet for pages that may affect your online reputation.

Given the current climate Palmair has been forced to cease its entire operations starting from Summer 2011.

Given the high cost, most individuals do not have enough savings on hand to pay the entire amount outright.

Given the rapid growth in absolute value of Γ ( z + k ) when k → ∞, and the fact that the reciprocal of Γ ( z ) is an entire function, the coefficients in the rightmost sum are well-defined, and locally the sum converges uniformly for all complex s and x.

Given a bipartite quantum state, the entropy of the entire system is, and the entropies of the subsystems are and.

Given so few bits to work with, one major design challenge of RDS-TMC was to find a way of using 16 bits ( about 65000 locations ) to describe an entire state or country.

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 name Dog, the storm moved northwestward for its entire duration.

Given the larger sized cars that made mechanical placements easier, conventional motors replaced the linear motor in order to reduce capital costs ( the linear motor requires an aluminum " fourth rail " for the entire line ).

Given the importance to international politics at that time of such battles between Christian and Muslim nations, in celebration of the victory Pope Callixtus III elevated the Transfiguration to a Feast day to be celebrated in the entire Roman rite.

Given that v < sup > 2 </ sup > ignores direction, it is logical to assume that the formula can be extended to the entire sample, replacing m with the entire sample's mass, equal to the molar mass times the number of moles n yielding

Given what had happened to the Marr family twelve days earlier, it seemed miraculous that she had slept through the entire attack and had no idea what had just occurred downstairs.

Given the relatively small geographical area and high population density of the UK, online DVD rentals have some differences from in the US, as a single shipping facility can serve the entire country.

Given that the data are collected from a select group of hospitals, a significant limitation of the RCSN is that the results may not be generalizable to the entire population of patients with acute stroke.

Given his wide range of appropriate skills and experience, Hetherington was invited to work with a group of undergraduate students ( ranging from second to fourth year ) from the ( then ) Department of Indonesian and Malayan Studies at the University of Sydney, over the entire three-term year of 1980, in the task of preparing them for a performance of " Irawan Rabi ", or " Irwan ’ s Wedding ", as it had been adapted for a western audience by James R. Brandon, in the manner of the traditional Javanese shadow puppet theatre ( or wayang kulit ) ( Day, 1981 ).

Given his high status as a supervillain, he has also come into conflict with Superman and other superheroes in the DC Universe.

Given the observing procedure, OTELO will allow studying a clearly defined volume of the Universe at a known flux limit.

* Given an algebraic number, there is a unique monic polynomial ( with rational coefficients ) of least degree that has the number as a root.

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

Given that Bozizé accuses Sudan of supporting the UFDR rebels who are actively fighting the Central African Government, the relation between the two countries has remained good.

If V is finite-dimensional, then V * has the same dimension as V. Given a basis

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

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 the limited amount of good quality agricultural land to begin with, that policy has resulted in continual deforestation and subsequent erosion.

Given a set S with a partial order ≤, an infinite descending chain is a chain V that is a subset of S upon which ≤ defines a total order such that V has no least element, that is, an element m such that for all elements n in V it holds that m ≤ n.

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

Given that non-violence has priority, all other principles yield to it whenever there is a conflict.

Given its limitations, however, NAALC has not produced ( and in fact was not intended to achieve ) convergence in employment, productivity and salary trend in North America.

Given the need for such fine regulation of Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > signaling, it is perhaps unsurprising that dysregulated mitochondrial Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > has been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, while the catalogue of tumor suppressors includes a few that are enriched at the MAM.

Given the extraordinary competition and technological craftsmanship required for top search engine placement, the implication of the term " search engine optimization " has deteriorated over the last decade.

Given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean sea deities such as Proteus and Nereus.

Given this is the feast day used by the Greek Orthodox Church, it has been argued that the discovery was probably made on 18 August, the feast day used by the Roman Catholic Church.

Given the role that many social groups have in the development of public policy and the extensive connections between state bureaucracies and other institutions, it has become increasingly difficult to identify the boundaries of the state.

Given basic sound blocks, that a machine digitized, one has a bunch of numbers which describe a wave and waves describe words.

Given free rein to change the story however he wanted, Aki's version is a violent saga focused primarily on fighting and has Hitomi transforming into a " curvaceous nymph " that is the power source of the mecha Escaflowne.

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