The American Library Association issued a recommendation to libraries still holding Alms for Jihad: " Given the intense interest in the book, and the desire of readers to learn about the controversy first hand, we recommend that U. S. libraries keep the book available for their users.

Given their intense recording schedules, the brothers decided to build their own recording studio in Nashville.

Given the intense interest in ethnicity, genetic genealogists and other scientists have studied population groups.

Given the intense political climate between Pakistan and India, the FIH decided to move the tournament elsewhere.

Given inconsistencies and the lack of reliable data and completely contradicting and unpredictable behavior, the true nature of ball lightning is still unknown and was often regarded as a fantasy or a hoax.

Given inconsistencies and the lack of reliable data, the true nature of ball lightning is still unknown.

Given good circumstances one might be able to discern the result of some human activity such as the changing of the Netherlands ' coast or the partial drying out of the Aral Sea, but even that would not be easy.

Given the above, the 39 melakhot are not so much activities as " categories of activity.

Given that question time is the only time of day when all members of Parliament are in their respective chambers, the appearance of question time can be rowdy and boisterous compared to the normally sedate activity during the rest of the day.

Given The Holy Land lies around the Great Rift, which causes occasional volcanic activity due to continental drift, the most logical explanation for fire and brimstone is the fire and sulfur emitted by live volcanoes and the lake of fire being the caldera.

Given the military-industrial requirements of the Cold War, the authors of the then secret National Security Council Report 68 ( NSC-68 ) proposed the US government undertake a massive permanent national economic expansion that would let it “ siphon off ” a part of the economic activity produced to support an ongoing military buildup to contain the Soviet Union.

Given the occasional suppression of the party and resultant lapses in its activity, the position was at times vacant.

Given the increasing seismic and volcanic activity, Johnston and the other volcanologists working for the USGS in its Vancouver branch prepared to observe any impending eruption.

* U. S. surveillance: the Los Angeles Times reported on 27 October 2004: " Given the size of the missing cache, it would have been difficult to relocate undetected before the invasion, when U. S. spy satellites were monitoring activity.

Given that almost one fourth of its inhabitants are concentrated in the city of Vienna and its adjacent suburbs, the nation is also naturally unipolar in terms of both economic and cultural activity.

Given the combination of employees at the plant and secondary jobs created by Indian Point ’ s economic activity, the plant is responsible for 2, 500 jobs in Westchester, Orange, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess counties .”

Given its proximity to North Korea, it has served as a base for intelligence activity by South Korea ..

: Given any set X of pairwise disjoint non-empty sets, there exists at least one set C that contains exactly one element in common with each of the sets in X.

Given this, the bidding is said to start at the one-level when contracting for a total of seven tricks, at the two-level for eight tricks and so on to the seven-level to contract to take all thirteen tricks.

Given a surface through which a metal wire passes, electrons move in both directions across the surface at an equal rate.

Given a function f ∈ I < sub > x </ sub > ( a smooth function vanishing at x ) we can form the linear functional df < sub > x </ sub > as above.

Given the age of the Rig Veda being at least 1500 BC or before, this must rank as the earliest practice of beating of the war drum in the history of mankind.

Given that a natural language such as English contains, at any given time, a finite number of words, any comprehensive list of definitions must either be circular or rely upon primitive notions.

Given the limited budget for schools, it is claimed that a voucher system would weaken public schools while at the same time not necessarily providing enough money for people to attend private schools.

* Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti – Given at the World's Fair in Chicago, January 1893.

Given away at theatrical showings was a comic herald that told a simplified version of the film.

Given a complex-valued function ƒ of a single complex variable, the derivative of ƒ at a point z < sub > 0 </ sub > in its domain is defined by the limit

Given the state at some initial time ( t = 0 ), we can solve it to obtain the state at any subsequent time.

Along with a hand-picked escort led by Given Campbell, Davis and his wife were captured on May 10, 1865, at Irwinville in Irwin County, Georgia.

Given civilian status, he recovered his teaching position at Lycée Pasteur near Paris, settled at the Hotel Misgiven a new position at Lycée Condorcet, replacing a Jewish teacher who had been forbidden to teach by Vichy law.

Given that bodhisattvas are known to incarnate at will as living people according to the sutras, the princess Miaoshan is generally viewed as an incarnation of Avalokitesvara.

Given the choice between nylon and gut, many luthiers prefer to use gut, as it conforms more readily to the sharp angle at the edge of the fingerboard.

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 printing practices at the time ( which included type-setting from dictation ), no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same.

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 the task of overhauling the Cardinals by owner Gussie Busch, Herzog was looking to trade Templeton when he was approached by Padres General Manager Jack McKeon at the 1981 baseball winter meetings.

Given prevailing views on homosexuality at the time, circulation of the diaries helped undermine support for clemency for Casement.

Given their wide historical distribution, red wolves probably utilized a large suite of habitat types at one time.

Given the amount of damage, and the travel time to Jupiter Station, Archer decides that it is time for someone to help them out for once, and orders Ensign Sato to send a general distress-call.

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 that the validity of conclusions drawn from a statistical analysis depend on the validity of any assumptions made, it is clearly important that these assumptions should be reviewed at some stage.

Given the date of his publication and the widespread, permanent distribution of his work, it appears that he should be regarded as the originator of the concept of space sailing by light pressure, although he did not develop the concept further.

Given how little we can know for sure, our focus should be on this earth and life ; beauty, justice, love.

Given an ongoing rift in the sport during the 1860s between the northern professionals and Surrey, MCC feared the loss of its authority should Grace " throw in his lot with the professionals " so it was considered vital for them and their interests to get him onside.

Given his socialist agenda in Egypt, the Ba ' ath should have been his natural ally, but Nasser was hesitant to share power.

Given the sensitivity of STEREO's COR2 coronagraph, anything larger than in diameter should have been detected.

Given these inconsistencies, the role of ultrasound in the treatment of CTS is debatable and it should be considered an experimental treatment.

Given these assumptions, the following forces should be taken into account:

Given an adequate supply of food, larvae should pupate and weave a silken cocoon within 1 – 2 weeks after 3 larval stages.

Given that " production could be carried on without any organization is, firm at all ", Coase asks, why and under what conditions should we expect firms to emerge?

Given that the absolute vorticity is positive ( negative ) in the Northern ( Southern ) hemisphere, the threshold value should be taken as positive ( negative ) north ( south ) of the equator.

Given the associated safety risks, the TGA concluded " efforts should be made to curb the illegal availability of colloidal silver products, which is a significant public health issue.

Given this connection, she suggests the major war should have been called " The Great Cheyenne War ".

Given that the plants above ground are readily distinguishable, and chiefly because their habitats rarely overlap, it is unlikely that the toxic plant's root should be found beneath the foliage of the edible one's.

Given the general rule in British law that a wife automatically takes her husband's rank upon marriage, Mrs Simpson consequently should have been addressed, upon marriage to the duke, as Her Royal Highness.

Given the death of Princess Charlotte without surviving children, should the Ord or Lowe links be substantiated, the line descended through them would join a large number of claimed surviving descendants of King George IV.

Given the prevalence of childhood sexual abuse, even if only a small proportion are repressed and only some of them are subsequently recovered, there should be a significant number of corroborated cases.

Given that reasoning, Jones and several members argued that the group should commit " revolutionary suicide " by drinking cyanide-laced grape flavored Flavor Aid ( not Kool-Aid despite the popular phrase ).

Given that the endgame ( yose ) contains fewer possible moves than the opening ( fuseki ) or middle game, one could suppose that it was easier to play, and thus that computers should be easily able to tackle it.

Given this Scriptural principle, the UPCI teaches that one should live a life that demonstrates Christ's attributes.

* Given the weight of the train and the gradients on the line, both brake-vans should have been at the rear of the train

Given Weyoun's untrustworthy nature, it is unclear which information should be believed.

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