Given America's shift into positive-psychology overdrive, a thoughtful critique of this solipsistic grasping is welcome.
Given America's general stinginess when it comes to foreign aid, their concern is understandable.
Given America's recent track record on trade, the sceptics will be out in force.
The speed of the downturn was remarkable, given America's economic performance in the preceding decade.
This would have given America almost everything it wanted, allowing Mr Chirac no more than a symbolic success.
Moody's and Fitch, the two main rival agencies, have for now given America the benefit of the doubt.
The current war would have been easier if Turkey had given America permission to use its ground bases.
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Given America's marvellous performance, it seems curmudgeonly, unAmerican even, to question this thinking.
Given America's increasing military commitments around the world, even if their husbands came home, they wouldn't be home to stay.
The risks of such a shock, given America's already weak economy, were chiefly what tipped the White House towards action.
To defend his own position, Mr Arafat has given America details of his plans for a 100-day reform of the Palestinian Authority.
Given America's continued neuroses about race, an outspoken black first lady might prove to be even more divisive than an outspoken white one.
Given America's distaste for international criminal courts under the UN's auspices, it may be only too happy to see him tried by his own people.
Given America's general aid stinginess, their concern is not surprising.
Given America's huge internal and external problems, that is a little surprising: even at best, Mr Obama cannot expect a landslide like Franklin Roosevelt's first win in 1932 or Ronald Reagan's in 1980.
Unless Wall Street falls sharply or the dollar climbs (unlikely, given America's widening current-account deficit), the Fed, if it is to slow America's economy to prevent a pick-up in inflation, must push interest rates higher.
But Mr Blair is conscious that in defence matters, Britain, France and Germany may have little choice but to work together more closely, given America's recent reluctance to commit any more ground troops to Europe's potential war zones.
Given that America's petrol prices appear to have fallen during October, this surge may prove short-lived.
Given that America accounts for about half of the open defence-equipment market, this westward migration makes sense.
On the Republican right it is a given that America should be Israel's closest and strongest ally.
Then there is the Manhattan Project, the name given to America's development of the atomic bomb during the second world war.
But given that America has twice vetoed such proposals in the United Nations Security Council, even Mr Powell's half-hearted endorsement sounded like music to Palestinian ears.
Reinforcing existing defences against possible long-range Iranian missiles is seen as a problem for the future, given that America now says the Iranians are working more on short- and medium-range missiles than on long-range ones.
The split over gay priests is not the only sexual challenge the Anglican church faces: in June, the Scottish Episcopal church approved the ordination of female bishops, leaving the Church of England looking even more anomalous, given that America, Canada and New Zealand already have women bishops.
On any given night in America more than 640, 000 men, women and children are forced to seek shelter, live in their cars, or sleep on the streets.
But the blessing America has given the three cartels has more than undone this good work.
Europeans need to look more closely at the cultural traits that are inhibited at home but given freer rein in America.
One is that America has given credible warning that its patience is exhaustible: the alternative to disarmament by inspection is disarmament by force.
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The project is the biggest American investment so far in Bangladesh, but so far the authorities have not given Stevedoring Services of America permission to go ahead.
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