Given the importance of the seasonal gift-giving to the U. S. economy, one driven largely by consumer spending, and with the music industry making at least 40 percent of its annual revenue in the fourth quarter culminating at Christmas, demands for increased revenues motivates the shift.

Given little say by the new Peronist government, which, instead saw its policy shift from populism to erratic crisis management measures, Frondizi initially supported the 1976 coup against Perón's successor ( his hapless widow, Isabel Perón ).

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.

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 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 our political differences, people are sometimes surprised how close Ronnie and I have been to the Kennedy family.

* Named entity recognition ( NER ): Given a stream of text, determine which items in the text map to proper names, such as people or places, and what the type of each such name is ( e. g. person, location, organization ).

* Speech recognition: Given a sound clip of a person or people speaking, determine the textual representation of the speech.

* Speech segmentation: Given a sound clip of a person or people speaking, separate it into words.

Given the number of homes, it seems likely that no more than fifty people lived in Skara Brae at any given time.

Given that there were 25, 000 people working on Shuttle operations, the payroll alone was the Shuttle's single biggest operating cost.

Given that multiple people often consume food from the same source, it is common for more than a single person to be affected simultaneously.

Given this belief, the hypothesis that the Seri people transplanted it is doubtful.

Given the reputed humorous character of Valencians, it was natural that they began to burn figurines depicting people and events of the past year.

Given that the peace treaties with the Maroon people granted them title to the lands, there have been international court cases that negated the right of the Surinam government to grant these claims.

Given a set A of N people, it has 2 < sup > N </ sup > possible subsets.

Given the display of imperial power Henry III had inflicted on the Romans in intervening against Pope Gregory VI and installing Clement II, it is not surprising that on Christmas Day of 1047, an emissary was sent by the Roman people bringing news of Clement II's death to Henry III and asking him, in his position as Patricius of the Romans, to appoint a successor.

Given the dangerous and clandestine criminal nature of people smuggling operations, smuggled persons are sometimes at risk of becoming victims of other crimes.

Given the clandestine but booming nature of people smuggling operations-especially in places like Mexico-drug cartels have also begun tapping into the smuggling network.

Given the simpleness of the design, and high usability with some people ( e. g. those owning an orchard ), some people have started building their own do-it-yourself ( DIY ) fruit press and have uploaded detailed instructions on how to do so.

Given the chance, people will substitute the sort of religion they naturally prefer, over the Gospel, see also Cafeteria Christianity.

Given the chance, I will go where the people are,

Given concern about human rights abuses in Bahrain, this gift attracted controversy, with calls for the jewels to be sold, and the proceeds used for the benefit of the Bahraini people.

Denis MacShane, a former Foreign Office minister, said: “ Given the appalling suffering and repression of the Bahraini people, it would be a fitting gesture for the Countess of Wessex to auction these trinkets and distribute the proceeds to the victims of the regime .”

Theodosius ( from the Greek " Θεοδόσιος ", " Given by god ") is a name which might refer to one of several people:

Given the ( particularly modern ) prevalence of crowd events, and the potential safety issues associated with such large gatherings of people, the topic is receiving increasing attention from agencies responsible for crowd management and also from governments.

Given that white is the most effective color in terms of facilitating the reflection of ground light, the hypothesis that straight hair could have been adaptively favorable, cannot be fully discounted in this regard.

Given a color name to match the name of amber mutants, ochre mutant viruses had a similar property in that they recovered infectious ability within certain suppressor strains of bacteria.

Given 100 balls, some of them red and some blue, a human with normal color vision can easily separate them into red ones and blue ones.

Given a color ( R, G, B ) where R, G, B

Given three mutually tangent circles (< font color =" black "> black </ font >), what radius can a fourth tangent circle have?

Given a perfect graph G, Lovász forms a graph G * by replacing each vertex v by a clique of t < sub > v </ sub > vertices, where t < sub > v </ sub > is the number of distinct maximum independent sets in G that contain v. It is possible to correspond each of the distinct maximum independent sets in G with one of the maximum independent sets in G *, in such a way that the chosen maximum independent sets in G * are all disjoint and each vertex of G * appears in a single chosen set ; that is, G * has a coloring in which each color class is a maximum independent set.

Given a graph G and given a set L ( v ) of colors for each vertex v ( called a list ), a list coloring is a choice function that maps every vertex v to a color in the list L ( v ).

Given that some Tyrannidae are alleged to taste bad, the color may also be an aposematic warning of noxious chemicals contained in the birds ' meat.

Given its Classical Revival style of architecture along with the fact that its color is white, the Capitol was the double for the exterior shots of The White House featured in the movie The Contender.

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 the fact that the Lakeport area has an economy that is based somewhat on agricultural activities occurring in the Big Valley and Scotts Valley area which involve the growing and harvesting of food and nut crops as well as the increasing wine industry, there are a significant number of transient and seasonal farm workers.

Given the demands of his career in the Navy and NASA, Pete and Jane spent a great deal of time apart, and Pete saw less of his boys growing up than he would have liked.

Given a strictly increasing integer sequence / function ( n ≥ 1 ) we can produce a faster growing sequence ( where the superscript n denotes the n < sup > th </ sup > functional power ).

Given this controversy, the investigation appeared unlikely to mollify Canada, which was growing increasingly impatient with Iran's unwillingness to " clearly demonstrate that officials are not allowed to act with impunity " ( Foreign Minister Bill Graham, news conference ).

Given the goals of the first Five Year Plan, the state sought increased political control of agriculture, hoping to feed the rapidly growing urban areas and to export grain, a source of foreign currency needed to import technologies necessary for heavy industrialization.

" Given the ubiquity of keyboards and the growing expectation that secondary school pupils and university students will type their essays and coursework, I think it ( touch typing ) is one the most useful skills a child can learn-at any age from seven upwards.

Given this pressure, the collapse of Taligent, and the growing problems with the existing operating system, after System 7. 5 was released in autumn 1994, Apple management decided that the decade-old operating system had run its course.

Given the rapidly growing popularity of the 2-door Holiday hardtop, 1950 was the last year for the pillared Club coupe.

Given the prestige of the other graduates, Calvert's was the last awarded, but his presence in such company signalled his growing stature.

Given the growing number of people working in the city, the commerce and the first industries began to appear.

Given the transformations influenced by globalization, there is a growing necessity to expand beyond this rather limited view of social work to better suit the needs of modern society.

Given the growing wealth of the region with the discovery of silver to the north, especially in Nueva Vizcaya, Guadalajara became the seat of the second mainland Audiencia of New Spain in 1548.

Given the fairly unsophisticated stock research of the era, the company appeared to be growing without bound, and its share prices rose.

Given its geographical restrictions, Central Otago will never become a vast wine growing region, but if it can build upon its growing reputation for wines ( particularly Pinot Noir ) of exceptional elegance and longevity, it appears well-poised to carve itself an important and profitable niche in the world market.

Given the positive advancement of coffee growing in Colombia, an important group of coffee growers, dedicated to the export of the beans, organized an association to regulate the market.

Given that individuals ' personal data also seems to be growing at an alarming rate, these archiving issues affecting professional repositories will soon be manifest in small organisations and even the home.

Given a fertile mind and boundless energy, he pursued other fields of interest: growing vegetables in Puerto Rico ; owning a beautician school, restaurants, lounges, a marina, marine dredging, data processing services, multi-level marketing of vitamins and cosmetics, cement block manufacturing, country-western music publishing and recording studios, telecommunications companies, a high-end boutique shop, general insurance agency, internet connection and data center, a walk-in medical clinic, wholesale gasoline and diesel fuel distribution operation, a travel agency, home security monitoring, mail order medical and diabetic supply company, a Big & Tall men's clothing store, an AM radio station, a mobile medical screening company, a book publishing company, a warehouse fulfillment and distribution company, an advertising media consulting firm, television stations, mobile home parks, a 225 room hotel in Nassau, Bahamas, a 500, 000 square foot commercial warehouse complex in Las Vegas, and a five-star 23 story resort hotel and residences on Ft. Lauderdale Beach.

Given the uncertainty about which layer of the hide is in fact the klaf, there is a growing movement for insisting on a return to gevil in Torah scrolls-in order to avoid all doubts.

Given the growing size and frequency of changes and additions to the TGN, hard-copy publication was deemed to be impractical.

Given its position in the western Pacific, Singapore had long been recognised as being strategically important for the Royal Navy in order to counter the growing influence of the Japanese, who were regarded as being the logical threat to Britain ’ s interests in the Far East and the Pacific.

Given the growing problem of identity theft and the importance of the Social Security number as a personal identifier in the United States, it might seem unusual that these identifiers are released publicly.

Given that social conditions can contribute to the clustering, form and progression of disease at the individual and population level, there is growing interest in the health sciences on syndemics.