This decrease comes despite the fact that an important component of the government stimulus package was to support the completion of ongoing construction projects.

The land border with Qatar in the Khawr al Udayd area is a source of ongoing dispute ( in fact, whether it even shares a land border with Qatar is in dispute ).

They are in fact part of the Prussian Army, for Grouchy, currently near Wavre, has chosen to obey the letter of Napoleon's orders to pursue the Prussians east, rather than the standing instructions to " march to the sound of the guns " and join in any ongoing battle.

The new university's challenges were mostly political, due to the ongoing Mexican Revolution and the fact that the federal government had direct control over the university's policies and curriculum ; some resisted its establishment on philosophical grounds.

The debate over whether the organic molecules in the meteorite are in fact of exobiologic origin or are due to abiotic processes on Mars or contamination from the contact with Antarctic ice on Earth is still ongoing.

In fact, coagulation and flocculation processes are ongoing once the metal salt coagulants are added.

" Also a newspaper cutting refers to the fact that Schroeder " is as SS Lieutenant leader and company commander in the SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division ' Totenkopf ' fallen in the ongoing heavy fighting in the East.

As cultural scientist Roland Benedikter poses in his book on Sustainable Democratization of Iraq and in a series of essays, one main cause of the ongoing problems of pacification seems to consist in the fact that the socio-cultural dimensions of sustainability, including questions of ethnicity, religion and minority issues, have not been included appropriately in the overall democratization strategies so far.

The ongoing, context-rich Jante efforts to broaden and balance freedoms are perceived by the irreconcilable outsider as an affront — petty rules destructive of the abstracted individual — who in social fact is not abstract, but is the irreconcilable outsider, isolated, yet proudly identifying with a separate social group, its distinct material interests and its culture.

However, this assertion overlooks the fact that these relationships had been ongoing since the breakup of the USSR, and that under Clinton similar statements had been made by military officials.

The spoliation inference is a negative evidentiary inference that a finder of fact can draw from a party's destruction of a document or thing that is relevant to an ongoing or reasonably foreseeable civil or criminal proceeding: the finder of fact can review all evidence uncovered in as strong a light as possible against the spoliator and in favor of the opposing party.

The series was noted for the fact that, unusually for an animation, it had ongoing story arcs and characters who developed and aged in real time.

The fact that a couple of them have been ( partially ) adapted into new stories as episodes for the ongoing TV series further muddies the waters.

Symptoms are often dealt with after the fact by boosting the overall turn-over rate of fresh air exchange with the outside air, but the new green building design goal should be able to avoid most of the SBS problem sources in the first place, minimize the ongoing use of VOC cleaning compounds, and eliminate conditions that encourage allergenic mold growth.

Reza Shah Kazemi states: " Despite ongoing questions about the authenticity of the text, recent scholarship suggests that most of the material in it can in fact be attributed to Ali " and in support of this he makes reference to an article by Mokhtar Jebli.

Today, issues facing UND include a move of its entire athletic program to Division I, ongoing discussions regarding the Fighting Sioux nickname, the fact that UND is located in a state with a shrinking population of potential students, and efforts to increase external contributions and funding.

Though there has been some discussion as to whether this was a single tornado or a tornado family, recent and ongoing detailed reanalysis has found no break in the path and in fact that the tornado began 15 mi ( 24 km ) before previously thought.

A fact finding mission on Human Rights violations during the 2008 Gaza War between Israel and Hamas was called by the Jan 12 2009 UNHRC Resolution A / HRC / S-9 / L. 1 which limited the investigation to " violations (...) by the occupying Power, Israel, against the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip " but, before any investigation, already " Strongly condemns the ongoing Israeli military operation carried out in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, which has resulted in massive violations of the human rights of the Palestinian people ".

Moreover, it has been shown that embryos diagnosed as monosomic on day 3 ( except for chromosomes X and 21 ), never develop to blastocyst, which correlates with the fact that these monosomies are never observed in ongoing pregnancies.

She went on to conclude that male-centered ideology was being accepted as a norm and enforced by the ongoing development of myths, and that the fact that women are capable of getting pregnant, lactating, and menstruating is in no way a valid cause or explanation to place them as the " second sex ".

There is an ongoing debate as to whether it is, in fact, Russia's oldest university, as this title is also claimed by the Lomonosov State University of Moscow ( Moscow State University ).

Quill's arrival fanned Luann's ongoing rivalry with Tiffany: Tiffany was openly attracted to Quill, while Quill did not return the attention and showed more interest in Luann due to their shared interests, specifically music, and the fact that she's smarter than Tiffany.

The label executives complained that " cast albums don't sell " ignoring the ongoing success of Funny Girl and The Music Man and the fact that many of their shows had been outright flops.

These different congregations ( Disciples of Christ, Church of Christ, and Independent Church ) share many of the same beliefs and practices but there are, in fact, differences.

They investigated the practices of a disaffected student of Mesmer, one Charles d ' Eslon ( 1750 – 1786 ), and despite the fact that they accepted that Mesmer's results were valid, their placebo-controlled experiments following d ' Eslon's practices convinced them that mesmerism was most likely due to belief and imagination rather than to any sort of invisible energy (" animal magnetism ") transmitted from the body of the mesmerist.

They maintain that what constitutes child abuse is a matter of objective fact, and that some of the practices which mainstream anthropologists apologize for ( e. g., sacrificial rituals ) may result in psychosis, dissociation and magical thinking: particularly for the surviving children who had a sacrificed brother or sister by their parents.

Some sources prefer the term safer sex to more precisely reflect the fact that these practices reduce, but do not completely eliminate, the risk of disease transmission.

" McLuhan was referring to the fact that our social practices co-evolve with our use of new tools and the refinements we make to existing tools.

The historical significance of the Tantric method lies in the fact that it impacted every major Indian religion extant in the early medieval period ( c. 500-1200 CE ): thus the Hindu sects of Shaivism, Shaktism and Vaishnavism, as well as Buddhism and Jainism all developed a well-documented body of Tantric practices and related doctrines.

Though sometimes considered in conjunction with the earth sciences, due to the independent development of its concepts, techniques and practices and also the fact of it having a wide range of sub disciplines under its wing, the atmospheric science is also considered a separate branch of natural science.

In fact, although they were strongly opposed to the practices of association, educated Ivoirians believed that they would achieve equality with their French peers through assimilation rather than through complete independence from France, a change that would eliminate the enormous economic advantages of remaining a French possession.

Guido suggests that if a " few dominating leaders arrived as heroes only a few centuries before Phoenician trading posts were established, several features of Sardinian prehistory might be explained as innovations introduced by them: oriental types of armour, and fighting perpetuated in the bronze representation of warriors several centuries later ; the arrival of the Cypriot copper ingots of the Serra Ilixi type ; the sudden advance in and inventiveness of design of the Sardinian nuraghes themselves at about the turn of the first Millennium ; the introduction of certain religious practices such as the worship of water in sacred wells-if this fact was not introduced by the Phoenician settlers ".

Cargo cult science refers to practices that have the semblance of being scientific, but do not in fact follow the scientific method The term was first used by the physicist Richard Feynman during his commencement address at the California Institute of Technology, United States, in 1974.

In fact, much of the classic techniques and practices of Roman military engineering was lost.

Mohammed admired them as monotheists and saw them as natural adherents to the new faith and Jewish practices helped model early Islamic behavior, such as midday prayer, prayers on Friday, Ramadan fasting ( modelled after the Jewish Yom Kippur fast on the tenth of the month of Tishrei ), and most famously the fact that until 623 Muslims prayed toward Jerusalem, not Mecca.

" Middleton suggested two propositions: that ecclesiastical miracles must be accepted or rejected in the mass ; and that there is a distinction between the authority due to the early Church Fathers ' testimony to the beliefs and practices of their times, and their credibility as witnesses to matters of fact.

tested the following hypothesis: “ If youth culture serves to help adolescents deal with problems of vulnerability and finiteness, then reminders of mortality should lead to increased allegiance to cultural practices and beliefs of the youth .” Their results supported their hypothesis and the results of previous studies, suggesting that youth culture is, in fact, a culture.

In fact, Shinto, which lacked its own scriptures and had few prayers, had, as a result of syncretic practices begun in the Nara period, widely adopted Shingon Buddhist rituals.

Several of the oldest Catholic families in Santa Cruz are in fact of Jewish origin ; some traces of Judaic practices are still alive among them and have also influence the rest of the community.

The fact that the practices eventually adopted by the United Grand Lodge largely reflect those of the Antients is attributable to Dermott's industry.

In fact, they provide a " shock-absorber mechanism ", so to speak, which enables individuals in SW-ICCM contexts to cope with conflicts in cultural practices and values, and to accommodate and adapt themselves to cultural contexts where people from different national cultural backgrounds work together over extended time.

The name refers to the way one who has realized mahāmudrā ( that is, one who has succeeded in the practices of mahāmudrā ) experiences reality: mudra refers to the fact that each phenomenon appears vividly, and maha refers to the fact that it is beyond concept, imagination, and projection.

Following a court case, in which the Diggers were forbidden to speak in their own defence, they were found guilty of being Ranters, a radical sect associated with liberal sexuality ( though in fact Winstanley had reprimanded Ranter Laurence Clarkson for his sexual practices ).

More formal gardening texts such as the Geoponika ( 10th century ) were in fact encyclopedias of accumulated agricultural practices ( grafting, watering ) and pagan lore ( astrology, plant sympathy / antipathy relationships ) going back to Hesiod's time.

He concludes that the existence of the prison, with its absurd practices and savage corporal punishments is a tragic fact, both for the prisoners and for Russia itself.