Some said they struggled to take anything he said seriously given previous broken promises.
The new legislation adds to investors' worries, given previous Kazakh demands that existing contracts be altered.
But the timing was significant, given previous EU criticism of his media crackdowns.
For a while, Fossett's friends held out hope he survived, given previous scrapes with death.
Still, given previous performance of the soldiers in Sinai, security may not have prevented the attack.
The Sea was born – or, given previous incarnations over the centuries, reborn – in 1905.
The police of course have an obligation to look into any claims, particularly given previous shortcomings.
Given previous episodes, we probably shouldn't rule out the possibility of seeing a perpetually screaming robot Santa who eats babies.
There is universal anger over creditor-treatment given previous fiscal effort; and an acceptance that the country is near-bankrupt".
This was a surprising result given previous observations that PTPRT might be one of the most prominent phosphatases in CRC28.
Management argue that a 4%+ margin should be sustainable to 2014 given previous historical accounting, selective bidding (which also reduces bid costs) and cost reduction programmes.
