Being a classically educated Mandarin his blueprint for the Xiang Army was taken from a historical source — the Ming general Qi Jiguang who, because of the weakness of regular Ming troops, had decided to form his own " private " army to repel raiding Japanese pirates in the mid-16th century.

Direct literary models were available from a number of sources, including F. V. Dickins ’ s 1866 Hyak nin is ’ shiu, or, Stanzas by a Century of Poets, Being Japanese Lyrical Odes, the first English-language version of the Hyakunin isshu, a 13th-century anthology of 100 tanka, the early 20th-century critical writings and poems of Sadakichi Hartmann, and contemporary French-language translations.

Being one of the first Japanese to bring Aikido to the West from Japan in 1953, Tohei discovered numerous obstacles in teaching.

Being threatened by the war, Phibunsongkhram stated that the Japanese would be the transgressors.

* The Russian Army and the Japanese War: Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East.

Being ranked by HMV Japan in 2003 as number 4 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts.

Being fond of church singing, Kasatkin made a significant contribution in introducing this art to the Japanese.

Being new to the California climate, they were unable to match the production of the experienced Japanese farmers.

The quality of their music had been assured because one of Japanese major record labels, Being, has been supporting them since their debut.

" In a Cup of Tea " is adapted from Hearn's Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs ( 1902 ).

( 1905 ) Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for the Use of Travelers and Others, London: John Murray.

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Being aware of the sensitivity and hypocrisy of using Japanese troops for the purpose of by force restoring the European colonial Empires against the wishes of the people, the Americans and British worked successfully to conceal the extent of Japanese involvement in this post-war activity.

Being the last stronghold of the Japanese Imperial Army while scampering to the Cordilleras, the Allied liberation in Muñoz by the country by joint United States and Philippine Commonwealth forces offensive razed the town to the ground in a matter of days.

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Eventually, she engages and defeats Eve in a showdown on Liberty Island, and, with help from Daniel and Kunihiko Maeda, a Japanese scientist assisting them with advice in these matters, also manages to destroy the Ultimate Being that Eve gave birth to, becoming a hero among the government ranks.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

`` Being at the polls was just like being at church.

Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.

Being unable to recall the events from memory ( because he was still young ) places him at an age much younger than 10 in 303.

Heidegger, in his quest to re-pose the original pre-Socratic question of Being, wondered at how to meaningfully ask the question of the meaning of being, since it is both the greatest, as it includes everything that is, and the least, since no particular thing can be said of it.

Being able to use a computer to support teaching and research was quite novel at the time.

Being politically and geographically inclusive and leaving at the same time space for diversity, this historical vision filled the needs of Dutch nation-building and integration in the 1890-1914 era.

Examples of these films include Being John Malkovich, The Princess Bride, Night at the Museum, Groundhog Day, Click and Shrek.

Being larger than a submachine gun, they are harder to maneuver in tight encounters where superior range and stopping power at distance are not great considerations.

Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees ( the other two major sects at the time ), the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, daily immersion, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, including ( for some groups ) celibacy.

Being at rest, no net force is applied.

Being an individual man is a thing that has been abolished, and every speculative philosopher confuses himself with humanity at large ; whereby he becomes something infinitely great, and at the same time nothing at all.

Being 18, Bobby had the choice to either stay at home or return to the X-Men and he made the choice to rejoin the team.

One of Kosiński's most significant works is Being There ( 1971 ), a satiric look at the unreality of America's media culture.

: Being exceedingly alarmed at the misery into which I had fallen, and much more at that which threatened me in view of eternal death, I, duty bound, made it my first business to betake myself to your way, condemning my past life, not without groans and tears.

Being a surprisingly tolerant and pluralistic society, even its army incorporated Jews, Christians, Muslims and Pagans at a time when religious warfare was the order of the day around the Mediterranean and in Western Europe.

Being fond of alcoholic beverages, he joined the Trier Tavern Club drinking society ( Landsmannschaft der Treveraner ) and at one point served as its co-president.

Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the Sadducees ( the other two major sects at the time ), the Essenes lived in various cities but congregated in communal life dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, daily immersion, and abstinence from worldly pleasures, including ( for some groups ) marriage.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

Being behind the technological curve was not entirely surprising ; the chipset used in the 400 and 800 was designed because they were aware the 2600 would be obsolete by the 1980 time frame.

For a short period of time during the French Revolution the Cult of the Supreme Being was the state religion of France.

At about the same time, the nominalist philosopher William of Ockham argued, in Book I of his Summa Totius Logicae ( Treatise on all Logic, written some time before 1327 ), that Categories are not a form of Being in their own right, but derivative on the existence of individuals.

Being stubborn and not wanting to return to the typewriter so early, I hastily looked around for a door to a lecture hall where I could sneak some listening time and get a line on current research, and be out of sight before the desk was reoccupied by the guardian of the gate.

Being the first publications to question the official Macedonian position of the existence of a distinct Macedonian identity going back to the time of Alexander the Great ( Macedonism ), the books triggered a reaction of shock and disbelief in Macedonian public opinion.

Being a committed monarchist himself, Bismarck allowed no effective constitutional check on the power of the Emperor, thus placing a time bomb in the foundation of the Germany that he created.

Other 21st century British science fiction shows have included the time travel drama Life on Mars, its sequel Ashes to Ashes, Being Human, Eleventh Hour and Primeval on ITV.

Being much less densely populated than globular clusters, they are much less tightly gravitationally bound, and over time, are disrupted by the gravity of giant molecular clouds and other clusters.

Being heavily influenced by Kolchak, Carter wanted to create a scary television show, as he thought there was not anything scary on television at the time.

In contrast to much theatre of the time, The Importance of Being Earnests light plot does not tackle serious social and political issues, something of which contemporary reviewers were wary.

Wilde's two final comedies, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, were still on stage in London at the time of his prosecution, and they were soon closed as the details of his case became public.

Of the influence of Dilthey, Hans-Georg Gadamer writes the following: " As far as Dilthey is concerned, we all know today what I have known for a long time: namely that it is a mistake to conclude on the basis of the citation in Being and Time that Dilthey was especially influential in the development of Heidegger's thinking in the mid-1920s.

Being consistent with his egalitarian view, Patton made certain at least some black officers served as judges in military tribunals with cases involving black defendants, and he was known, as was General George Washington before him, to spend significant time with his African-American aide, in this case, Sergeant Meeks, in which it was reported that it grew into a demonstrative mutual respect.

When it is realized that what is coming into being is, at the same time, also returning to nothing ( in life, for example, one's living is also a dying ), both Being and Nothing are united as Becoming.

Being the city where the Habsburg Emperor Friedrich III spent his last years, it was, for a short period of time, the most important city in the empire.

Being a cultural custom for long time, tongue piercing and splitting has become quite common in western countries in recent decades, with up to one-fifth of young adults having at least one piece of body art in the tongue.