The phrase "a given activity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific activity that has been previously mentioned or is understood in the context.
Example: "In order to assess the effectiveness of a given activity, we must first establish clear metrics for evaluation."
Alternatives: "a specific task" or "an assigned activity".
Taxes on a given activity are also supposed to pay the costs that activity imposes on society.
Those athletes, Dr. Shepard said, are more likely to keep themselves in peak physical condition and less likely to become injured performing a given activity.
Malcolm was this way with everything he did; it was as if a given activity wiped out all thought of anything else.
There are also several other methods that assess local economic impact or even the numbers of lives touched by a given activity.
Just because a given activity or response is spread across the brain — involving many different regions rather than just a single section — does not mean it is beyond understanding.
Such taxes are intended to offset the harm to society of a given activity, most commonly the emission of some form of pollution.
The basic technique involves asking all group members to identify specific persons within the group they would prefer (or would not prefer) to have as partners in a given activity.
So, how do the options stack up? (Note: calorie expenditure below is based on standardised metabolic equivalent tasks – METs – an estimate of the energy requirement for a given activity compared to being at rest, for a person weighing 140lbs, or 10st. Expect individual variation, influenced by gender, age and body composition).
Modern worries and anxieties – and, it should be said, an outdoor world which really is less child-friendly then ever before – has led to a risk-averse culture that finds expression in overbearing health and safety policies which fail to weigh the benefits of a given activity against the risks involved.
This is true even on the battlefield: soldiers in Afghanistan faced around 47 MicroMorts a day, but the aircrews that bombed Germany in the second world war endured about 25,000 MicroMorts per mission.The authors also introduce a related and equally eye-catching way of expressing risk, called the MicroLife the amount, on average, by which a given activity shortens or lengthens one's life.
Most customers have no idea how much data a given activity requires.
