Given Eastland's firm opposition, it seemed impossible that the bill would reach the Senate floor.

Given the composition of the current 41st Canadian Parliament, once the Official Opposition, the New Democratic Party, is finished, the next question comes from the only other officially-recognized opposition party, the Liberal Party.

Given that modern definition, a verse that condemns fornication ( such as which is often cited by conservative denominations as biblical opposition to pre-marital sex ) would appear to be clear.

Given the grievances with ruling regime in the Northeast and Rio Grande do Sul, Liberal Alliance opposition leader Getúlio Vargas chose as his vice-presidential candidate in 1930 João Pessoa of the Northeast state of Paraíba.

Given that their orders were to capture the ship intact at all costs, that kind of opposition proved most frustrating.

Given his support among many Republican state senators, he long faced little opposition in holding onto his State Senate seat, even though the Memphis suburbs were becoming increasingly Republican.

Given Bernstein's own opposition to software licenses, arguments for the validity of Bernstein's web pages as licenses may also strengthen the case for the validity of " click wrap " end-user license agreements, although this seems unlikely because the latter are contracts, whereas pure copyright licenses need never be seen by a user to be in force.

) Given Pratchett's fondness for setting things in opposition it might also be appropriate to refer to her as " Fortune ," the opposite of Fate-he cannot be cheated, but she cannot be beaten.

Given that Martino was the publicly recognized representative of the Green Party in Newfoundland and Labrador, it was important that she have her opposition to the Leader's action recognized and heard.

Given the strength of the opposition, this Australian team is often referred to as one of the best Australian teams ever assembled.

Given his passionate opposition to discrimination, he wanted to break into the man's world of river sport, by building a club for women.

Given the long orbit that TNOs have around the Sun, Huya comes to opposition in early May of each year at an apparent magnitude of 19. 3.

Given the strongly entrenched opposition the Greek Army faced, historian Richard Hall cites the Battle of Bizani and the fall of Ioannina as Greece's greatest military achievement in the First Balkan War.

Given the choice, who wouldn't rather believe their children are special and chosen for some high mission rather than that they have a brain disorder?

Given that Kent was under Frankish influence, while Bede sees the mission as being " Roman " in origin, the Franks were equally interested in converting their fellow Germans, and in extending their power and influence.

Given that the landing package of NASA's Spirit rover mission rebounded off the surface in Gusev crater numerous times before coming to a standstill-taking much more time than anticipated-Beagle's timer may have been set to a too short time ( see Section 5. 4. 8 of the Inquiry Report );

Given the mission to both bring Rosicrucian ideas back to America ( an early group had a settlement in Pennsylvania during the 17th century, but it had long been dissolved ), and to promote them in a modern way, Lewis established AMORC, becoming its first Imperator and writing what became the order's first canon of lessons in mysticism, and spending the rest of his life working on AMORC's behalf.

Given the wide breadth of its mission there was plenty of room for the CCLRC staff to promote different activities of the Council.

Lessig traces the simultaneous legal environment that permitted its genious: Given the challenge of deciding whether photographers would need to get per mission before taking aim, the legal system decided " in favor of the pirates .....

Given the situation there was no reason for the U. S. forces to stay in the field, their mission was complete and arguably a success.

Given the success of their mission Hornblower realises the loss of the Jolly Boat will not be held against him, but still regrets the inevitable death of Hales.

Given a choice of missiles, and starting with a training mission, the player is sent after an enemy aircraft carrier, an enemy base and finally must destroy an enemy space shuttle.

Given the choice between funding technological research at the oldest university in the nation or an independent and adolescent institution, potential benefactors were indifferent or even hostile to funding MIT's competing mission.

Given funds by new Chairman, Reg Brealey, Porterfield strengthened the team and achieved the first step of his mission at the first time of asking, winning the Fourth Division championship in his first season.

Given the mission to kill all members of the X-Factor team, Bolivar Trask designates Absorbing Man and Bastion to do the task for him.

Given this mission, the 1st Rangers undertook a twelve-mile night march through rugged terrain to reach the heights of Djbel Ank where, at dawn, the Rangers surprised the enemy from the rear, capturing two hundred prisoners and giving General Patton an opening though which he began the final and victorious battle in North Africa.

Given the details of the mission, Beckett requests that an additional man, a spotter, must come with him.

Given the distribution of Anglicans, this has tended to mean African mission partners joining Crosslinks.

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 their great antiquity, where and when they first existed is not known and perhaps unknowable.

Given more time to prepare for trial, Kidd likely would have been able to find the deposition Palmer gave when he was captured in Rhode Island two years earlier.

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 binary operation, an idempotent element ( or simply an idempotent ) for the operation is a value for which the operation, when given that value for both of its operands, gives the value as the result.

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 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 that most of these enzymes are destroyed when vegetables are cooked, Lee would try to consume them raw.

Given Rickover's single-minded focus on naval nuclear propulsion, design and operations, it came as a surprise to many when in 1982, near the end of his career, he testified before the U. S. Congress that, were it up to him, he " would sink them all.

Given the circumstances, the Ghent Altarpiece is a difficult work to use for comparison when assessing other attributions, especially as several other artists from the brothers ' workshops probably worked on it as well.

: Given that desegregation has not produced the predicted leaps forward in black educational achievement, there is no reason to think that black students cannot learn as well when surrounded by members of their own race as when they are in an integrated environment.

Given his role in the usurpation of Benedict IX, and his attitude towards Henry III, it is unsurprising that Boniface at first refused, advising Poppo when he entered Tuscany, " I cannot go to Rome with you.

Given that Papua New Guinean anglophones almost invariably refer to Tok Pisin as Pidgin when speaking English, it may be considered something of an affectation to call it Tok Pisin, much like referring to German and French as Deutsch and français in English.

:: Example: Given this option to reinstate the contract on its original terms when a plan is proposed, it may be anomalous to require the payment of interest at a market rate while a case is pending.

Given the nature of Richthofen's wounds, Popkin was in a position to fire the fatal shot, when the pilot passed him for a second time, on the right.

Given the time period when he was alive, Adelard ’ s biography is spotty in places and leaves some aspects open to interpretation.

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 that the 49th was in poor shape when Brock took command they saw little of the actual combat.

Given that the Liber historiae Francorum admits four years for Chlothar's reign, it remains possible that Chlothar began to exert some real authority when his mentors deemed him an adult, 669.

Given that the lapse rate is not a conservative quantity when the tropopause is considered for stratosphere-troposphere exchanges studies, there exists an alternative definition named dynamic tropopause.

Given that war is one of the worst evils suffered by mankind, the adherents of the School reasoned that it ought to be resorted to only when it was necessary in order to prevent an even greater evil.

) Given the diffusion of different Piers / Ploughman texts, it is usually not possible to be certain about what someone means to refer to when they mention " Piers Plowman " unless they provide specific identifying details — and most writers do not.

" Dietrich Bonhoeffer of the German Confessing Church framed the same characterization in less positive terms when he called Pietism the last attempt to save Christianity as a religion: Given that for him religion was a negative term, more or less an opposite to revelation, this constitutes a rather scathing judgment.