Given their long range, high survivability and ability to carry many medium-and long-range nuclear missiles, submarines were credible and effective means for full-scale retaliation even after a massive first strike.

Given its great distance, the daytime " guest star " observed by the Chinese could only have been a supernova — a massive, exploding star, having exhausted its supply of energy from nuclear fusion and collapsed in on itself.

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 its proximity to the Asian continent, Australia has had, and continues to witness, a massive immigration of Chinese and other Asians.

Given the apparent impracticality of massive retaliation strategy, Army Chiefs of Staff Matthew Ridgeway and his successor Maxwell Taylor argued within JCS that deterrence, instead of the " worst case " scenario of a full-scale nuclear war, should be the focus.

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 RAF Kenley's importance, the Luftwaffe attempted to destroy it by means of a massive bombing raid on 18 August 1940.

Given his stature as a figure of power, his proclamation sparked massive riots.

Given the team's massive budget, its early results were disappointing but a form reversal in 2006 saw the team finish 2nd in the teams ' standings.

Given that a far greater proportion of species and individual organisms became extinct during the former, doubt is cast on the significance of a meteor impact in creating the latter.

Given the shortage of workers and consequent price rises the Ordinance of Labourers 1349 and the Statute of Labourers 1351 attempted to suppress sources of wage inflation by banning workers organisation, creating offences for any able-bodied person that did not work, and fixing wages at pre-plague levels.

Recent findings suggest to differentiate between three types of hoarding, that is: pure hoarding, hoarding plus OCD ( i. e., comorbid OCD ), and OCD-based hoarding Given the aforementioned distinction, it was proposed to increase coverage of compulsive hoarding in the forthcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition ( DSM-V ), both by creating a distinct category for compulsive hoarding, provisionally named, Hoarding Disorder ( either in the main manual under " obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders " or in the appendix ), and by including hoarding as a potential symptoms of OCD.

Given the San Gabriel Valley's burgeoning population of Asian Americans ( specifically Chinese Americans ), several business districts were developed to serve their needs creating a collection of Southern California Chinatowns loosely connected along the Valley Boulevard Corridor.

Given free rein, he set about creating costumes that rivaled the work of his contemporaries, such as Travis Banton and Adrian.

Given the way FitNesse works, creating tests easily involves three factors:

Given how much trouble it was to deal with the Enforcers once they stopped being useful, since they could hardly be passed off as normal humans, they begin the project Adonai, creating a non-cyborg human who will have the qualities they want and be easier to control, not to mention kill if necessary.

Given that many chansons from the late twelfth century on extended to over 10, 000 verses or more ( for example, Aspremont comprises 11, 376 verses, while Quatre Fils Aymon comprises 18, 489 verses ), it is conceivable that few spectators heard the longest works in their entirety.

Given the need for such warheads to reenter the atmosphere swiftly and retain hypersonic velocities to sea level, researchers developed what are known as SHARP materials, typically hafnium diboride and zirconium diboride, whose thermal tolerance exceeds 3600 C. SHARP equipped vehicles can fly at Mach 11 at 30 km altitude and Mach 7 at sea level.

Given the empty string, 00 ( or 11 ), 01 and 10 are distinguished extensions resulting in the three classes ( corresponding to numbers that give remainders 0, 1 and 2 when divided by 3 ), but after this step there is no distinguished extension anymore.

Given the nature of post 9 / 11 counter terrorism strategies employed by the United States of America the operations of the Special Collections Service have experienced significant growth in scale and complexity.

Given some standard notions from mathematical logic and some suggestions in Bostock ( 1997: 83, fn 11, 12 ),

Given this historical connection, the Free Democratic Party ( FDP, Freie Demokratische Partei ) was founded on 11 December 1948 in Heppenheim.

Given under my Hand and the Great Seal of Australia on 11 November 1975.

Given Mexico's large area of water ( 3, 149, 920 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) and extensive coastline ( 11, 122 km ), the Navy's duties are of great importance.

Given a historical endowment performance of 10 – 11 %, and a payout rate of 5 %, around half of the endowment ’ s income is reinvested.

Given a score of 22 — a singly even number — one has a game shot for double 11.

* Walks Given Up by Pitcher: 11, Rudy May ( Sept. 17, 1973-12 inn.

With a new MLB TV contract signed, again excluding FX, the last such broadcast was scheduled for October 11, 2006, but that night's NLCS game between the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets was rained out, making the Detroit Tigers-Oakland Athletics game in the ALCS a national broadcast ; FX aired the movie Any Given Sunday instead.

Given infinite space, there would, in fact, be an infinite number of Hubble volumes identical to ours in the universe.

Given all of the original files except for one ( for example, f2 ), it is possible to create the missing f2 given all of the other original files and any one of the parity volumes.

Given any x and any y, if all the molecules in y are perfectly elastic and spherical, possess equal masses and volumes, have negligible size, and exert no forces on one another except during collisions, then if x is a gas and y is a given mass of x which is trapped in a vessel of variable size and the temperature of y is kept constant, then any decrease of the volume of y increases the pressure of y proportionally, and vice versa.

" Given its general release in January 1931, City Lights proved to be a popular and financial success — eventually grossing over $ 5 million.

Given the large number of U. S. military personnel and their dependents residing in Europe, it was expected that over 7 % of donors would be deferred due to the policy.

Given that the ColecoVision could produce near arcade-quality ports, industry magazines like Electronic Games were unanimous in their enthusiasm over the console.

Given any vector space V over a field F, the dual space V * is defined as the set of all linear maps ( linear functionals ).

Given that the dispute with Pizarro over Cuzco had kept intensifying, Almagro spent a great deal of time and money equipping a company of 500 men for a new exploration south of Peru.

* Given any set X, there is an equivalence relation over the set of all possible functions X → X.

* Given a transformation group G over A, there exists an equivalence relation ~ over A, whose equivalence classes are the orbits of G.

Given these origins, there have been various suggestions over the years to rename the town ( for example, to " Invernevis ").

Given a field K, the corresponding general linear groupoid GL < sub >*</ sub >( K ) consists of all invertible matrices whose entries range over K. Matrix multiplication interprets composition.

Given the differences of opinion within the Lord Aberdeen cabinet over the direction of foreign policy with regard to relations between Britain and the French under Napoleon III, it is not surprising that debate raged within the government as Louis Bonaparte, now assuming the title of Emperor Napoleon III of France.

On poverty, Hoover said that " Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation ", and promised, " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land ," but within months, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and the world's economy spiraled downward into the Great Depression.

Given a vector space V over the field R of real numbers, a function is called sublinear if

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 that the cost of replacing an executive can run over 100 % of his or her annual salary, any investment of time and energy in re-recruitment will likely pay for itself many times over if it helps a business retain just a handful of key players that would have otherwise left.

Given a function ƒ defined over the reals x, and its derivative ƒ < nowiki > '</ nowiki >, we begin with a first guess x < sub > 0 </ sub > for a root of the function f. Provided the function is reasonably well-behaved a better approximation x < sub > 1 </ sub > is

The Fascist government had direct rule only over the Benadir territory Given the defeat of the Dervish movement in the early 1920s and the rise of fascism in Europe, on 10 July 1925, Mussolini gave the green light to De Vecchi to start the takeover of the north-eastern sultanates.

Given any vector space V over K we can construct the tensor algebra T ( V ) of V. The tensor algebra is characterized by the fact:

Given a particular wing and its velocity through the air, debates over which mathematical approach is the most convenient to use can be misperceived by novices as differences of opinion about the basic principles of flight.

" Given their 3: 00 a. m. start time and non-inclusion ( at frontman John Fogerty's insistence ) in the Woodstock film, members have expressed bitterness over their experiences at the famed festival.

Given two affine spaces and, over the same field, a function is an affine map if and only if for every family of weighted points in such that

Given that radio communication channels are allocated by agencies such as the Federal Communication Commission giving a prescribed ( maximum ) bandwidth, the advantage of QPSK over BPSK becomes evident: QPSK transmits twice the data rate in a given bandwidth compared to BPSK-at the same BER.

A Clifford algebra Cℓ ( V, Q ) is a unital associative algebra over K together with a linear map satisfying for all defined by the following universal property: Given any associative algebra A over K and any linear map such that