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 its lack of a D ' Oyly Carte or Savoy connection, Thespis has a tenuous claim to be a " Savoy Opera.

Given the reputation of oat grain to have invigorating properties and the obvious connection between plant seeds and human " seed ", it is not surprising that the meaning of the phrase shifted towards more or less explicitly referring to the destructive sexual liaisons of an unmarried young male, possibly resulting in unwanted children born out of wedlock.

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 the conventions of the day, within which journalism was seen as a disreputable profession for a gentleman, Burke was publicly reticent about his connection with The Annual Register.

Given that John the Baptist was executed before the defeat of Herod by Aretas IV of Nabatea in the AD 36, and based on the scholarly estimates for the approximate date of the marriage of Herod Antipas and Herodias AD 28-35, Josephus establishes a key connection between the time frame of the ministry of Jesus and his execution.

Given vector fields and lying in the tangent bundle, the affine connection describes how to differentiate the vector field along the direction.

Let E be a rank k vector bundle over a smooth manifold M and let ∇ be a connection on E. Given a piecewise smooth loop γ: → M based at x in M, the connection defines a parallel transport map P < sub > γ </ sub >: E < sub > x </ sub > → E < sub > x </ sub >.

Given the hydrological connection of the Humboldt River and Sink to the Carson Sink during flood years ( as recently as 1998 ), it is not surprising that beavers were historically extant on eastern Sierra watercourses.

Given an exterior connection D satisfying this compatibility property, there exists a unique extension of D:

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

Given the village connection with St. Edith it is perhaps surprising that the parish church, Saxon in origin, is however dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

Given the connection to the Hessische Ludwigsbahn ( railway ) with the Darmstadt-Mainz stretch in 1858 and the Frankfurt am Main-Mannheim stretch in 1879 ( the Riedbahn ), a multifaceted industrial life sprang up.

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 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 its bidirectional connection between the Broca's and Wernicke's speech areas it could have a role in language.

Given his call for a " Black Pythagoras ," however, a connection seems likely.

Given its mythical connection with sailing and orchids, the name Pleione is often associated with grace, speed and elegance.

Given to Graham with the working title " Ballet for Martha ," it was named by her for the scenario she had in mind, though Copland often said he was thinking of neither Appalachia nor Spring while he wrote it.

Given what is known of Cathróe's own background, this probably means that she was of British (" Cumbrian ") or Scottish descent.

Given the appropriate rites, she helped the deceased into afterlife as an underworld shade ( Di Manes ), else their spirit might remain to haunt the living, as a wandering, vengeful ghost.

Given the choice, she chose Heracles over Zeus who went off in search of other pursuits.

Given that male authors had limited knowledge of her rites and attributes, ancient speculations about her identity abound, among them that she was an aspect of Terra, Ops, the Magna Mater, or Ceres, or a Latin form of Damia.

Given the early and constant association of Nekhbet with being a good mother, in later myths she was said to have adopted children.

Given the team's poor results in the last few years, which she attributes to Coach D ' Amato's " old-school methods ", she attempts to take a more hands-on approach to the team, including bringing in an innovative Offensive Coordinator Nick Crozier.

Given the prospect of her dismissal, she unsuccessfully pleads for the sake of the child she nurses who will have separation anxiety as a result of her departure.

Given the option to once again suppress her memory of killing, she chose to live with it instead (" The Seventh ").

Given a Vulcan's life expectancy of approximately 250 years, it is possible that she is still alive at the time of Star Trek: The Original Series and subsequent movies.

Given pressing circumstances, a reasonable person may not always act in a manner similar to how she would have acted in a more relaxed setting.

Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol said at the time, " Given that Reagan obviously couldn't be here, I think it was important to have Mrs. Thatcher because she and Reagan are really the great heroes of conservatism in the last few decades and still today.

Given to Irina in 2009 as part of he divorce settlement, she was approached on David Geffen's behalf by broker Merle Wood, with Geffen paying US $ 300 million to take ownership in 2011.

Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire, but miracolously the fire did not do harm her.

Given this situation, if an investor in the US deposits his / her money in a Chinese bank, the investor would get a higher return than that in the situation in which he / she deposits money in a US bank.

Given sufficient magic energy in her surroundings she has even effortlessly turned into a female copy of the Silver Surfer.

Given a choice of new classes she could take, she chose communications, in part because her father was a journalist and her mother an actress.

On the issue of the second home he wrote: " I have concluded that Mr MacKay was wrong to designate the Bromsgrove property as his main home Given that, it would be unreasonable to hold that Ms Kirkbride could not make legitimate claims from parliamentary resources for the home in her constituency which she had identified as her second home ".

Given her husband's weak physical and mental condition, she exerted a strong influence on imperial life, and was an active patron of Japanese Red Cross Society.

Given before her thirteenth birthday to a man who makes her a slave, she sheds her tears on the tree she planted, which bears the best fruit in the world.

Given the importance of these concepts in Moral Politics, it is important to consider their meaning along with how each view suggests and is justified by a corresponding view of the nature of child rearing, morality, and justice.

Given the great depth of Lake Tahoe, and the locations of the normal faults within the deepest portions of the lake, modeling suggests that earthquakes on these faults can trigger tsunamis.

Given the Lacerta Event, which suggests that the universe has the capability of unleashing unknown extreme dangers, Yatima has begun to share this viewpoint.

Given the lack of surviving objects, we cannot know how common the techniques employed were, but the quality of the execution suggests that the binder was experienced in them.

Given the excellent state of preservation of the body and the artifacts recovered from it, the absence of the photograph suggests that he may have reached the summit and deposited it there.

However, in his Travels With Charley, Steinbeck mentions wearing a naval officer's cap, ' Given me by a British torpedo boat captain, a very gentle gentleman and a murderer ,' which phrase suggests that Steinbeck may well have observed action at first hand.

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 fact that few stars are visible at night on most of Klinzhai due to cloud cover, they have a mystical reverence for " the naked stars " and believe they remember acts of courage performed under them, as this poem suggests: