Given that average yearly temperatures are currently increasing, and the outlook is for this trend to continue, it is actually possible that the glacier might experience a period of stabilization or slight advance during its retreating march.

Given that they were illegally confined, the Africans were entitled to take whatever legal measures necessary to secure their freedom, including the use of force.

Given the choice, whether one believes that " the lives of entire peoples and societies have been decisively influenced by exceptional individuals " or, conversely, that whatever happens occurs as a result of impersonal forces oblivious to human intentions – Berlin rejected both options and the choice itself as nonsensical.

Given that the Characiformes originated slightly more than 115 mya, the Anostomoidea probably diverged from their characiform relatives the Late Cretaceous and diversified thereafter ; a Paleogene origin of the Anostomidae is thus most likely, with present-day subfamiilies ( whatever eventually will be accepted ) having diverged by the start of the Neogene.

Given the circumstances ( The loss of the Papal States was not yet accepted and the Pope was considering himself a ' Prisoner in the Vatican ') Martin felt the need of giving them unsparing support, whatever initiatives they took, especially through the journal Civiltà Cattolica ).

Given that the vast majority of all emeralds are treated as described above, and the fact that two stones that appear visually similar may actually be quite far apart in treatment level and therefore in value, a consumer considering a purchase of an expensive emerald is well advised to insist upon a treatment report from a reputable gemological laboratory.

Given expectations about returns on fixed investment, every level of the real interest rate ( i ) will generate a certain level of planned fixed investment and other interest-sensitive spending: lower interest rates encourage higher fixed investment and the like.

Given local and transient influences on surface height, the values defined below are based on a " general purpose " model, refined as globally precisely as possible within 5 m of reference ellipsoid height, and to within 100 m of mean sea level ( neglecting geoid height ).

Given a confidence level, the VaR of the portfolio at the confidence level is given by the smallest number such that the probability that the loss exceeds is at most.

Given the high level of support within the party for her leadership, MacPhail surprised many by choosing not to seek the party leadership in 2003.

Given that the level of hyperforin was not ascertained at the beginning of the study, and levels of both hyperforin and hypericin were well below that used in other studies, little can be determined based on this study alone.

Given the publicly stated protection level for the earliest M1: 350 mm steel equivalence against KE-penetrators ( APFSDS ), it seems to have been equipped with alumina tiles.

Given the weak level of basketball in the Virgin Islands, Odom was wary about Duncan at first, especially after first meeting him and thinking him to be inattentive ; Duncan stared blankly at Odom for most of the conversation.

Given its production function and cost structure, it knows its average total costs at that output level will be represented as point A.

Given figures ranged from, but it is now generally accepted that the peak is above sea level as a result of a survey carried out by the Bavarian State Survey Office.

Given the need for such warheads to reenter the atmosphere swiftly and retain hypersonic velocities to sea level, researchers developed what are known as SHARP materials, typically hafnium diboride and zirconium diboride, whose thermal tolerance exceeds 3600 C. SHARP equipped vehicles can fly at Mach 11 at 30 km altitude and Mach 7 at sea level.

Given the level of business can vary week to week, it is not uncommon for escorts to be featured by more than one agency provided they are operated by the same ownership group.

Given that the Oostvaardersplassen is below sea level, many of its primary processes have been regulated.

Given the increasing role of the European Union in the political arena, the National Academies acknowledge that the scope of their advisory tasks must exceed the national borders and that it's important not to lose sight of the European level.

Given the overall low level of water tariffs in developing countries even at higher levels of consumption, most consumption subsidies benefit the wealthier segments of society.

Given the variable half-life of flecainide and the characteristic QRS prolongation on ECG elicited in flecainide toxicity, especially at rapid heart rates, starting flecainide or changing the level of the drug is done under telemetry monitoring ( preferably in a hospital telemetry unit ) until a steady state plasma level has been achieved, typically three to five days after the dose has been increased.

Given a connected graph G =( V, E ) with V the set of vertices and E the set of edges, and with a root vertex r, the level structure is a partition of the vertices into subsets L < sub > i </ sub > called levels, consisting of the vertices at distance i from r. Equivalently, this set may be defined by setting L < sub > 0 </ sub > =

Given that the then government of the day, had refused to allow BR to purchase more DEMUs in the mid 1960s, this led to problems of trying to run existing services with a significantly reduced level of motive power available following the total withdrawal of steam in 1967.

Given a square of 2 < sup > 2k </ sup > cells, 2 < sup > k </ sup > on a side, at the kth level of the tree, the hash table stores the 2 < sup > k-1 </ sup >- by-2 < sup > k-1 </ sup > square of cells in the center, 2 < sup > k-2 </ sup > generations in the future.

Given the scope of modern regulation, however, legislatures frequently find areas where it is impractical for lawmakers to apply the level of detail or expertise required to establish complete standards.

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 opportunity, adults eat hatchlings, which may be protected by separating the two groups with a net, breeding box or separate tank.

Given that many journeys are for relatively short distances, there is considerable scope to replace car use with walking or cycling, though in many settings this may require some infrastructure modification, particularly to attract the less experienced and confident.

Given the radically different motivating assumptions, it may come as a surprise that ESSes and Nash equilibria often coincide.

Given the conflicting information available, the true identity of his killer may well be lost to history.

Given the existence of a Godlike object in one world, proven above, we may conclude that there is a Godlike object in every possible world, as required.

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 a complete set of axioms ( see below for one such set ), modus ponens is sufficient to prove all other argument forms in propositional logic, and so we may think of them as derivative.

Given this assumption, there are four categories in which a firm's profit may be considered to be.

Given that the leadership of the EU is subject to a particularly low voter turnout, it may be termed an oligarchy of the European Council members.

Given this and other evidence, many scholars agree that Peter was martyred in Rome under Nero, although some scholars argue that he may have been martyred in Palestine.

Given a preorder on S one may define an equivalence relation ~ on S such that a ~ b if and only if a b and b a.

* Given the sensitive problems of holding a war to be illegal, most issues relating to the constitutionality of a war may well be nonjusticiable.

Given the currently keen interest in biotechnology and the high levels of funding in that field, attempts to exploit the replicative ability of existing cells are timely, and may easily lead to significant insights and advances.

Given a functor U and an object X as above, there may or may not exist an initial morphism from X to U. If, however, an initial morphism ( A, φ ) does exist then it is essentially unique.

Given that different languages have different grammatical features, the actual test for which nouns are mass nouns may vary between languages.

Given the structural similarities between bacterial flagella and bacterial secretory systems, it is thought that bacterial flagella may have evolved from the type three secretion system ; however, it is not known for certain whether these pores are derived from the bacterial flagella or the bacterial secretory system.

Given the structure of the experiment, it may or may not be possible to actually perform it, and, in the case that it is possible for it to be performed, there need be no intention of any kind to actually perform the experiment in question.

Given X and Y, several different embeddings of X in Y may be possible.

Given the consensus that " the most archaic layer of the biography, that of the stories of the kussās popular story-tellers " ( Sīra, EI² ), this may prove a fruitful line of inquiry.

Given that the hypothalamus arcuate nucleus regulates many basic processes, including appetite, there may well be a link.

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.