Given the emphasis on attainment of university places, administrators and governors may regard this policy as appropriate.

Given the very rapid technological changes underway in propulsion ( from coal to oil, from boilers to turbines ), ordnance ( with better fire directors, and new high explosives ) and armor and emergence of new craft such as destroyers and submarines, Mahan's emphasis on the capital ship and the command of the sea came at an opportune moment.

Given the open-ended aspect of gameplay and the ability to play through multiple character scenarios, heavy emphasis is placed upon the replay value of SaGa games.

Given the emphasis on fulfillment of the plan, managers may also hesitate to adopt new technology, since introduction of a new procedure might impede operations and even jeopardize plan fulfillment.

Given that the Plan for Renewed National Purpose resulted in the collapse of civilization in the USNA, the author's intent was to warn against the possible consequences of some policy choices made during the Reagan administration: specifically, a more aggressive foreign / military policy, the cutting of social welfare benefits to permit tax cuts, and an emphasis on religious values.

Given its rural location, much of the focus of the school has been on undergraduate studies in education and agriculture, although many other courses of study are offered, particularly in the liberal arts, and in recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on business, engineering, and music.

Given this and the subsequent emphasis on building strength at the Gazala position for an attack ( which had been forestalled by the Axis offensive ) it is likely that the defences at Tobruk had not been maintained in first rate condition.

Given that the book deals with periods of history prior to the creation of Pakistan, it has been described as, point of fact, a history of the northern part of the entire South Asia with special emphasis on the region that presently is Pakistan.

* Given any topological space X, the continuous real-or complex-valued functions on X form a real or complex unitary associative algebra ; here the functions are added and multiplied pointwise.

Given the complexity of the calculations involved and the convoluted structure that a convertible bond can have, an arbitrageur often relies on sophisticated quantitative models in order to identify bonds that are trading cheap versus their theoretical value.

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 the federal nature of the holiday, celebrating Canada Day can be a cause of friction in the province of Quebec, where the holiday is overshadowed by Quebec's National Holiday, on June 24.

Given the rugged terrain of Ngazidja and Nzwani, and the dedication of extensive tracts to agriculture on all three islands, population pressures on Comoros are becoming increasingly critical.

Given an asymmetric subunit on a triangular face of a regular isosahedron, with three subunits per face 60 such subunits can be placed in an equivalent manner.

Given this kind of data, the estimated coefficient on Years of Education in the equation above reflects both the effect of education on wages and the effect of other variables on wages, if those other variables were correlated with education.

* Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti – Given at the World's Fair in Chicago, January 1893.

Given also a measure on set, then, sometimes also denoted or, has as its vectors equivalence classes of measurable functions whose absolute value's-th power has finite integral, that is, functions for which one has

Given both Einstein's equations and suitable equations for the properties of matter, such a solution consists of a specific semi-Riemannian manifold ( usually defined by giving the metric in specific coordinates ), and specific matter fields defined on that manifold.

Given the difficulty of finding exact solutions, Einstein's field equations are also solved frequently by numerical integration on a computer, or by considering small perturbations of exact solutions.

Given an equilateral triangle, the counterclockwise rotation by 120 ° around the center of the triangle " acts " on the set of vertices of the triangle by mapping every vertex to another one.

Given these, a new term Anthropocene, is specifically proposed and used informally for the latest part of this epoch since approximately synchronous lithospheric evidence, or more recently atmospheric evidence, of human impacts have been found on the Earth and its ecosystems ; these impacts may be considered of global significance for future evolution of living species.

Given that this etymology does not appear in the usual scholarly works on etymology, this claim is usually dismissed as a false etymology.

Given the dual status of science as objective knowledge and as a human construct, good historiography of science draws on the historical methods of both intellectual history and social history.

Given a binary operation ★ on a set S, an element x is said to be idempotent ( with respect to ★) if

Given its heavy dependence on imported energy, Japan has aimed to diversify its sources.

Along with a hand-picked escort led by Given Campbell, Davis and his wife were captured on May 10, 1865, at Irwinville in Irwin County, Georgia.

Given the repeated failures and frustrations of workers ' revolutions and movements, Marx also sought to understand capitalism, and spent a great deal of time in the reading room of the British Museum studying and reflecting on the works of political economists and on economic data.

Given that estimation is undertaken on the basis of a least squares analysis, estimates of the unknown parameters β < sub > j </ sub > are determined by minimising a sum of squares function

Given that spinning a Dyson Sphere would result in the atmosphere pooling around the equator, the Ringworld removes all the extraneous parts of the structure, leaving a spinning band landscaped on the sun-facing side, with the atmosphere and inhabitants kept in place through centrifugal force and 1000 mile high perimeter walls ( rim walls ).

Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy.

Given since 1940, this prize recognizes major contributions to reproductive biology.

Given the ability to knock down, in essence, any gene of interest, RNAi via siRNAs has generated a great deal of interest in both basic and applied biology.

Given the widely recognized importance of proteins as cellular catalysts and recognition elements, the ability to precisely control the composition and connectivity of polypeptides is a valued tool in the chemical biology community and is an area of active research.

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 that one motive for the operational approach is stability, systems that relax the operational factor can be problematic, for several reasons, as the operational is a means to manage complexity.

Given the book's fluid and changeable approach to plot and characters, a definitive, critically agreed-upon plot synopsis remains elusive ( see Critical response and themes: Difficulties of plot summary below ).

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 abnormalities of the microvasculature and other side effects of diabetes, these wounds take a long time to heal and require a specialized treatment approach for proper healing.

Given developments in the studies of globalization and interculturalism, Comparative Literature, already representing a wider study than the single-language nation-state approach, may be well suited to move away from the paradigm of the nation-state.

Given his expertise and background in understanding the voice and in understanding the wonders of the human voice, it is not surprising, maybe, that his approach in his early years was away from the theatrical side and more focused on singers.

Given his " Mickey Mantlesque " approach to playing baseball in New York, and the celebrity status that comes with it, Hernandez became the poster-boy for the " party hard ; play harder " Mets of the ' 80s.

Given the geometric approach, the consideration of homogeneous equations and homogeneous co-ordinates is fundamental, for the same reasons that projective geometry is the dominant approach in algebraic geometry.

Given the Federal budget deficit, the Obama Administration moved to apply an " evidence-based approach " to government spending, including rigorous methods of program evaluation.

Given that Soviet success, the apparent inactivity on the most direct route of approach towards Warsaw, through the suburb of Praga, lasting through August and the first half of September, is to say the least puzzling.

Given the real dangers, it is no wonder mariners of old, many of whom also claimed to know some seasoned sea-dog who had sighted an imaginary sea creature at this very location, were afraid to approach this infamous cape.

Given the whole thing with Iran — I refuse to approach it.

Given their subject matter and lurid approach, Fisher's films, though commercially successful, were largely dismissed by critics during his career.

Given the difficulty of constructing explicit small families of solutions, much less presenting something like a " general " solution to the Einstein field equation, or even a " general " solution to the vacuum field equation, a very reasonable approach is to try to find qualitative properties which hold for all solutions, or at least for all vacuum solutions.

Given that experience is so totally an affective, subjective, and personal process — not an abstract — it would be ironic, it's been argued, for experience designers, when designing experiences, to approach people merely as objects of commerce or cogs in a machine.

" Given Cicero's in depth knowledge of Greek political history, it can be argued that his notion on war and law was inspired by Thucydides's opinion on the violent nature of war and the realist approach in international relations.

Given the nature of syndemics, this research requires a bio-cultural / social approach that attends to both clinical and social processes.