Johnston, who had little choice in allowing Floyd and Pillow to take charge at Fort Donelson on the basis of seniority after he ordered them to add their forces to the garrison, took the blame and suffered calls for his removal because a full explanation to the press and public would have exposed the weakness of the Confederate position.

An explanation for this choice can only be conjectured from Ibn al-Athir ’ s account of the battle between Alp-Arslan and Kutalmish, in which he writes that Alp-Arslan wept for the latter's death and greatly mourned the loss of his kinsman.

However, it is to be noted that there is no concrete explanation on how individuals pick partners because of the scarcity of theoretical and experimental researches that assess the importance of choice ; theoretically, models indicate that evolution of behaviors associated with altruism involving partner choices rarely occur due to variability of costs and benefits between multiple individuals.

An explanation sometimes given for the choice of Thursday as polling day is that it was, in most towns, the traditional market day, although it has also been observed that the choice has practical advantages — with the outcome of the election being known by Friday, the new or continuing administration then has the weekend to organise itself in preparation for the " government shop opening for business " on Monday, the first day of the new week following the election.

His explanation was that Villeneuve " was looking as though he might be a bit expensive " and that Patrick Tambay, the team's eventual choice for 1978, was showing similar promise.

However, when the U. S. Postmaster designated the name, he left no explanation for his choice so there remains some doubt about the origin of the name.

However, a recent result seems to rule out such an explanation by showing revaluation of items following a choice even when people have forgotten their choices.

His process explanation was correct, but his choice of terms caused confusion in the open literature.

The " analogy of faith ," as a rule of interpretation, he greatly limits, and teaches that it can never afford of itself the explanation, of words, but only determine the choice among their possible meanings.

A possible explanation for the choice of the Wisborg title is that Oscar was formerly Duke of Gotland and the fortification Visborg ( then spelled Wisborg ) lies within Gotland.

The explanation for the choice of colours is rooted in the history and customs of the Palauan people.

The common explanation of " blue sky above yellow field of wheat " was invented around that time, and, although it has nothing to do with the choice of colours and the history of the original yellow and blue banner, it certainly formed the flag as we know it today.

For a new Pope, the choice fell to Pantaléon, who took the name Pope Urban IV, and after hearing Bohemond's explanation for his submission to the Mongols, suspended his excommunication sentence.

Despite its initial choice of Algeria for nuclear tests, the French government decided to build Faa ' a International Airport in Tahiti, spending much more money and resources than would be justified by the official explanation of tourism.

This theory is a model of behavioral choice, that is, as an explanation of why individuals choose one behavioral option over others.

See algorithmic efficiency for an explanation of how the programmer can " assist " the compiler to make an efficient choice.

No explanation has been given for his choice.

In modern usage of the Russian Orthodox Church, the word primicerius ( primikirii ) is reserved for a junior cleric ( sometimes a reader or subdeacon ) holding a torch or a candle before officiating bishop during the divine service ; usually he goes ahead in different pontifical processions, which may be an explanation for the choice of given word ( the second part of the word in this case corresponds not to " wax ( of a tablet )" but to " candle wax ").

I used it in the sixth paragraph of my column because it looked like the missing explanation of an otherwise incredible choice by the CIA for its mission.

Christopher Haffner's own explanation of how the Masonic concept of a Great Architect of the Universe, as a placeholder for the Supreme Being of one's choice, is given in Workman Unashamed:

Unlike 2009, no official explanation was given for the choice of teams.

When he chose cosmetics and other such household items that would be associated with beautiful young women, the family gave his choice the socionormal explanation that as an adult he would be a rake, a man perhaps too strongly subject to feminine wiles.

He wrote that he was a “ segregationist by nature ” but “ integrationist by choice ,” and gave a reasoned explanation as to why segregation in education was impractical and bound to be replaced by one integrated system.

The choice of P and N determines the binomial distribution uniquely, and different choices always produce different distributions ( except when Af ; ;

In choosing analgesics, the severity and response to other medication determines the choice of agent ; the WHO pain ladder, originally developed in cancer-related pain, is widely applied to find suitable drugs in a stepwise manner.

The true and final aim of thought coercion is to induce a change in the victim ’ s objective function itself, i. e. the basic set of values and rules by which the victim determines his or her own choice among the alternatives of any feasible set.

The choice of logarithmic base in the following formulae determines the unit of information entropy that is used.

Receiving devices have an " Omni on / off " mode that determines whether they respond to all channels or only one, and a choice of " mono " or " poly " mode, which determines whether the instrument plays monophonically or polyphonically.

In other words, the syntactic rules of English care about the difference between dog and dogs, because the choice between these two forms determines which form of the verb is to be used.

* The study of relative distance, both social and physical, between speakers in order to understand what determines the choice of what is said and what is not said.

That choice of fixed values determines a function of one variable, and by definition,

The NMB can order a rerun election if it determines that either an employer or union has interfered with employees ' free choice.

Equivalently ( and with no need to arbitrarily choose two points ) we can say that, given an arbitrary choice of orientation, a set of points determines a set of complex ratios given by the ratios of the differences between any two pairs of points.

The choice determines both seats and cards during the play.

In this method, one determines, for each set S of vertices and each vertex v in S, whether there is a path that covers exactly the vertices in S and ends at v. For each choice of S and v, a path exists for ( S, v ) if and only if v has a neighbor w such that a path exists for ( S − v, w ), which can be looked up from already-computed information in the dynamic program.

Conversely, a normal subgroup of index p determines a non-trivial map to up to a choice of " which coset maps to which shows that this map is a bijection.

The forced choice method determines the emotion attributed to the facial expressions via the labels that are presented ( Russell, 1994 ).

The national ranking determines whether admission to the grandes écoles of choice.

Although Desargues ' theorem chooses different roles for these ten lines and points, the Desargues configuration itself is more symmetric: any of the ten points may be chosen to be the center of perspectivity, and that choice determines which six points will be the vertices of triangles and which line will be the axis of perspectivity.

Council decision or caliph's choice determines the successor originally.

The initial choice of tactics determines the type of offensive equipment used.

The choice of j determines the choice of coset of H in G in the previous definition.

The choice of the point of application of the force determines the associated torque.

Since consciousness, according to Satin, ultimately determines our institutions, prison consciousness is said to be ultimately responsible for " monolithic " institutions that offer us little in the way of freedom of choice or connection with others.

These work by offering a fixed sequence of identification steps, each with multiple alternatives, the choice of which determines the next step.

Usually, the choice of radix determines what methods to use and also which calculations are easier to perform mentally.