Given that practices similar to courtly love were already prevalent in Al-Andalus and elsewhere in the Islamic world, it is very likely that Islamic practices influenced the Christian Europeans.

Given that Brigid's cross is a prevalent swastika-like image in Ireland, there may be further links here between Verbeia, imported Gaulish cults, and the swastika image.

Given the nature of Usenet forums, parodic translation is prevalent in flame wars, where remarks such as " Translation: ' I do not have a clue and am throwing mud '" are used to imply — on very little ground — that another poster is not making any appreciable contribution to the subject.

Idealists are skeptics about the physical world, maintaining either: 1 ) that nothing exists outside the mind, or 2 ) that we would have no access to a mind-independent reality even if it may exist ; the latter case often takes the form of a denial of the idea that we can have unconceptualised experiences ( see Myth of the Given ).

Given the repressive nature of the regime of Napoleon III, Bartholdi took no immediate action on the idea except to discuss it with Laboulaye.

Given that hearing impairments can vary by frequency and that audiograms are plotted with a logarithmic scale, the idea of a percentage of hearing loss is somewhat arbitrary, but where decibels of loss are converted via a recognized legal formula, it is possible to calculate a standardized " percentage of hearing loss " which is suitable for legal purposes only.

Given these objections to creole as a concept, articles such as Against Creole Exceptionalism and Deconstructing Creole have arisen which question the idea that creoles are exceptional in any meaningful way.

Given the introduction of ligand concept, he was also able to further derive the idea of bite angle and other aspects of chelation.

Given that human languages share many common traits, the idea is that humans share a universal grammar which is built into our brain structure.

Given that other philosophers claim that scientific accounts of our mental lives, particularly in the cognitive sciences, need this idea, this claim of McDowell's has provoked a great deal of discussion.

Given the historical associations of the project's name ( see Masada ), the Hebrew titles of the compositions, and the Jewish imagery on the covers of the associated albums, Zorn was clearly exploring his Jewish roots, stating, " The idea with Masada is to produce a sort of radical Jewish music, a new Jewish music which is not the traditional one in a different arrangement, but music for the Jews of today.

Given the outlandish idea that a blind man could be a detective, in the introduction to the second Carrados book The Eyes of Max Carrados Bramah compared his hero ’ s achievements to those of real life blind people such as Nicholas Saunderson, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, Blind Jack of Knaresborough the road builder, John Fielding the Bow Street Magistrate of whom it was said he could identify 3, 000 thieves by their voices, and Helen Keller.

Given that we know today that the North Pole was covered with thick ice for much of the period, the idea of the Open Polar Sea seems patently ridiculous.

Given that the seizure of so much of Central and Eastern Europe, and the accompanying violence directed against various Slavic groups, Jews, Communists, homosexuals, prisoners of war, and so-called partisans, was part and parcel of the Nazi idea of the German nation, and that the forced departure of German settlers and ethnic Germans ( the Volksdeutsche ) living in the extended Reich before the advance of the Red Army was amongst its consequences, the memory of the violence accompanying German occupation and then evacuation of that land is another abiding element of this struggle.

Given the fundamental idea of a rational function on a general variety V, or in other words of a function f in the function field of V,

Given the small size of the first Macintosh screens, this product had some use and the idea was widely copied.

Given the difficulty of this task as proven in Book I, Socrates in Book II leads his interlocutors into a discussion of justice in the city, which Socrates suggests may help them see justice not only in the person, but on a larger scale, " first in cities searching for what it is ; then thusly we could examine also in some individual, examining the likeness of the bigger in the idea of the littler "

Given the variances of demography within the City of Atlanta, the idea that a one-size fits all system of community governance would successfully reflect each community's view is unrealistic.

Given that authors of documents try to formulate sentences which contain a single idea, or cluster of related ideas within neighboring sentences or organized into paragraphs, there is an inherent, relatively high, probability within the document structure that words used together are related.

Given Heinlein's carefully cultivated public persona as a curmudgeon, it is amusing that much of the humor in the book consists of riffs on the idea that Ginny is the hothead, while Robert is the easygoing one, e. g., in a shipboard incident at the captain's table, Robert continues eating his dessert after being doused in salad during a food fight started by Ginny.

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 alpha wave's connection with relaxed mental states, many people have latched onto the idea of utilizing this state through a technique called biofeedback training.

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 parallel morphisms f and g, the equaliser of f and g is just the kernel of g − f, if either exists, and the analogous fact is true for coequalisers.

Given that Melampus had two sons, Abas and Mantius, different sources made Coeranus, father of Polyeidos, son or grandson of either of the two.

* Given a point and a circle, to draw either tangent.

Given that the police had no evidence against " Thomas ", either at Leatherslade Farm or connection with either of the two gangs, Butler was prepared to let him go.

Given any neighborhood of, we can choose a small positive and a small of either sign to get values both greater and less than.

Given a table of costs and revenues at each quantity, we can either compute equations or plot the data directly on a graph.

Given names resonant of qualities which are perceived to be either masculine or feminine are frequently given, with males being linked with strength and firmness and females with beauty and flowers.

Given that no majority supported either a leader or a split, a registration campaign, enabling membership for only 20 euros, and a closed primary was organized, which Ségolène Royal won.

Given the statement, " All of Peters friends either like to dance or like to go to the beach ", we can identify key aspects and rewrite using symbols including quantifiers.

Given that anencephaly is a fatal condition, parents receive the option of abortion either in the second or third trimester of pregnancy, depending on the abortion laws in the state.

Given two normed vector spaces V and W ( over the same base field, either the real numbers R or the complex numbers C ), a linear map A: V → W is continuous if and only if there exists a real number c such that

The specific problems are: Given two, three or four points on a straight line, find another point on it such that its distances from the given points satisfy the condition that the square on one or the rectangle contained by two has a given ratio either ( 1 ) to the square on the remaining one or the rectangle contained by the remaining two or ( 2 ) to the rectangle contained by the remaining one and another given straight line.

Given the fact that overseas learners of Mandarin are not taught Tongyong Pinyin either, there are few people in the world who use it in any practical sense.

Given that most university study is subsidized ( either because it takes place at a state or public university, or because the student receives government loans or grants ), this type of underemployment may also be an ineffective use of public resources.

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 Likert Scale's ordinal basis, summarizing the central tendency of responses from a Likert scale by using either the median or the mode is best, with ‘ spread ’ measured by quartiles or percentiles.

Given that the archaeological record demonstrates Irish settlement on the Llŷn Peninsula however and possible raids as far west as Wroxeter by the late 4th century, it is difficult to conceive of either Roman or allied British forces having presented an effective defence in Wales.

The original problem was stated in the form that has become known as the Euclidean Steiner tree problem or geometric Steiner tree problem: Given N points in the plane, the goal is to connect them by lines of minimum total length in such a way that any two points may be interconnected by line segments either directly or via other points and line segments.

Given his positive reference to Genesis, Longinus has been assumed to be either a Hellenized Jew or readily familiar with the Jewish culture.

Given the choice of either apologizing to the Centauri or losing his command, Sheridan decided to apologize.

Given the paucity of the remains of either, the demarcation between the two is hard to make.

Given the difficulty of scoring directly from the point due to the distance to the goal, goals scored from the point are typically either on screens, or are tipped goals.