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case and conditional
In such a case, however, we would encourage the recipient country to get on with its programing task, supply it with substantial technical assistance in performing that task, and make it plain that an expansion or even a continuation of our assistance to the country's development was conditional upon programing progress being made.
That is, any conditional steps must be systematically dealt with, case-by-case ; the criteria for each case must be clear ( and computable ).
** Counterfactual conditional, or subjunctive conditional, indicates what would be the case if its antecedent were true
A particular case of this is that an assignment statement such as cannot form part of the conditional expression of a conditional statement.
Many of the same entropy measures in classical information theory can also be generalized to the quantum case, such as Holevo entropy and the conditional quantum entropy.
Registration may be conditional on the vehicle being approved for use on public highways, as in the case of the UK and Ontario.
See, for example, the case of Meyer v. Mitnick, 625 N. W. 2d 136 ( Michigan, 2001 ), whose ruling found the following reasoning persuasive: " the so-called ' modern trend ' holds that because an engagement ring is an inherently conditional gift, once the engagement has been broken, the ring should be returned to the donor.
In the bivariate case where x is partitioned into X < sub > 1 </ sub > and X < sub > 2 </ sub >, the conditional distribution of X < sub > 1 </ sub > given X < sub > 2 </ sub > is
A counterfactual conditional or subjunctive conditional is a conditional ( or " if-then ") statement indicating what would be the case if events had been other than they actually are.
This is to be contrasted with an indicative conditional, which indicates what is ( in fact ) the case if its antecedent is ( in fact ) true — for example, " if you drink this, it will make you well ".
This is the case when an instruction loop has a simple structure, or the possible outcome of a small system of conditional branching instructions is restricted to a small set of possibilities.
The only difference from material conditional is the case when the hypothesis is false but the conclusion is true.
( see also counterfactual conditional ), the justified true belief came about, if Smith's purported claims are disputable, as the result of entailment ( but see also material conditional ) from justified false beliefs that " Jones will get the job " ( in case I ), and that " Jones owns a Ford " ( in case II ).
Another example of a case requiring conditional baptism would be where an emergency baptism has been performed, if impure water was used the validity of the baptism may be in question.
In that case a conditional baptism is later performed by an ordinary minister of the sacrament with certainly valid matter.
In this case, the probability P ( Y = y ) = 0, and the Borel – Kolmogorov paradox demonstrates the ambiguity of attempting to define conditional probability along these lines.
In case ( 1 ) above, the conditional probability that the longitude λ lies in a set E given that φ

case and result
I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.
The result was that the plaintiff's case was dismissed.
But for it to be just to attain this same result by means of the force of a boycott throughout the nation would require the verification of facts contrary to those assumed in the foregoing case.
Presumably, if the reverse is the case and the good effect is more certain than the evil result that may be forthcoming, not only must the good and the evil be prudentially weighed and found proportionate, but also calculation of the probabilities and of the degree of certainty or uncertainty in the good or evil effect must be taken into account.
Depending on the particular legal rules that apply to each circumstance, a party to a court case who is unhappy with the result might be able to challenge that result in an appellate court on specific grounds.
If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.
Because there is no canonical well-ordering of all sets, a construction that relies on a well-ordering may not produce a canonical result, even if a canonical result is desired ( as is often the case in category theory ).
There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.
It can sometimes result in reactions that range in severity from a rash ( in the case of patients that may unwittingly have mononucleosis ) to potentially lethal allergic reactions such as anaphylaxis.
In this case, they are called tumor-specific antigens ( TSAs ) and, in general, result from a tumor-specific mutation.
Each individual test, known as a case, exercises a particular operating condition of the user's environment or feature of the system, and will result in a pass or fail, or boolean, outcome.
The common theme in each case is that commercial parties seek predictability and simplicity in their contractual relations, and frequently choose the law of a common law jurisdiction with a well-developed body of common law to achieve that result.
While people may gain celebrity status as a result of a successful career in a particular field ( primarily in the areas pertaining towards sports and entertainment ), in other cases, people become celebrities due to media attention for their extravagant lifestyle or wealth ( as in the case of a socialite ); for their connection to a famous person ( as in the case of a relative of a famous person ); or even for their misdeeds ( as in the case of a well-known criminal ).
Whatever the case, the result was the execution of Silius, Messalina, and most of her circle.
Only one species protected by CITES, the Spix's Macaw, has possibly become extinct in the wild as a result of trade since the Convention entered into force ( but see case studies in Hutton and Dickinson and Stiles for further discussion of the role CITES has played in the fate of particular species ).
Note that the result of partial function application in this case is a function that takes two arguments.
A court case followed in January 1905, as a result of which Archibald Leitch, a Scottish architect who had risen to prominence after his building of the Ibrox Stadium, a few years earlier, was hired to work on the stadium.
Such a case will result in undesired operation, such as changing the number's value to − 127 instead of + 128.
A special case is a zero byte file ; these files are either an accident ( a result of an aborted disk operation ) or serve as some kind of flag in the file system.
Refusing to litigate the case in one trial could result in different outcomes and inconsistent standards of conduct for the defendant corporation.
If this limit exists, then it may be computed by taking the limit as h → 0 along the real axis or imaginary axis ; in either case it should give the same result.

case and is
This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.
he is very close to being a mental case.
What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.
In the case of social decay, form is displaced simply by the process of dissolution with no form at the terminus of the process.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.
There may be a case of this sort, but it is not one we wish to argue, here.
In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;
The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.
Such, he implies, is the case with his friend, who is not really a new convert himself but merely a favorer of new converts.
Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.
That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.
In any case, who ever thought that New York is typical of anything??
American history should clinch the case when Congress is asked to approve.
Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.
The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.
If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.
Besides the lack of an adequate ethical dimension to the Governor's case, one can ask seriously whether our lead over the Russians in quality and quantity of nuclear weapons is so slight as to make the tests absolutely necessary.
In my own case, I submit that such reasonable and fair exercise is woefully lacking.
In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.
in the case of a partnership or corporation, the existence of which has been terminated and on behalf of which an award is made, payment shall be made, except as provided in paragraphs ( 3 ) and ( 4 ), to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto ; ;

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