Given that we faced limits on the number of vacancies available in which to match candidates, randomization provided a fair way of deciding who would be attempted to be matched to these vacancies.
One potential silver lining from this situation is that the Senate may be forced to change its model of operations, given that we now face an equally divided body.
"Given that we are facing potentially a $29 million decrease in our budget, we have to be able to come up with that money," said David Jackson, the department's chief operating officer.
But when asked about the project's prospects, Matt Anderson, a spokesman for the Division of the Budget, said in an interview, "Clearly, given that we are facing the largest budget cuts in state history, many tough choices among competing priorities will need to be made".
Given that we are facing an obesity epidemic, car-driven pollution, climate change, and a damaging dependency on foreign oil, tripling the budget for bike and walkways would make sense.
Given that we are faced with a measurement that is repeatable and apparently representative of some biological system, it is incumbent on us to take the opportunity to understand the mechanisms involved.
But given that we all face losing our mothers during adulthood, it is not obvious that losing one's mother at twenty-two is a personal or social tragedy of such magnitude as to query the morality of having been brought into existence any more than losing one's mother at thirty-two, forty-two, or later.
"Given the difficulty that we face right now in Washington in convincing a super-majority in the Senate that we have to respond to climate change," Udall said, "I'm not as worried about that.
It is especially puzzling given that Obama faces tough midterms and a less-than-certain re-election — and given that we all now know someone on the unemployment line.
Ms Sturgeon told the BBC: "Given that we are, unfortunately, facing another Conservative government, it's all the more important that we've got a strong team of SNP MPs standing up for Scotland.
