Being easier and cheaper to make than double-edged swords, backswords became the favored sidearm of common infantry, including irregulars such as the Highland Scots, who in Scottish Gaelic were called the claidheamh cuil ( back sword ), after one of several terms for the distinct types of weapons they used.

* Allan Ramsay-The Ever Green: Being a collection of Scots Poems

Being, as the eldest son of a Scots peer, ineligible for a seat in Scotland, he was provided with an English seat in 1802 ‘ under the peculiar protection of Mr Pitt ’, by Pitt ’ s sister ’ s father-in-law, Lord Eliot.

Being about 70 miles down the coast from Scotland, the monks occasionally found themselves in between the regularly warring Scots and English.

Being less encumbered by material embodiments they partake more of what is divine.

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.

Being single action weapons, they needed to be cocked for each shot, so the rate of fire was also low, and while a shooter could fan his gun, this expended all his shots even faster and made him even more inaccurate than normal.

:" Being in great difficulty they fled to a neighbouring city ( ad civitatem, quæ iuxta erat, confugerunt ) and began to promise and offer to their gods -- But inasmuch as the city was not strong and there were few to offer resistance, they sent messengers to the Danes and asked for friendship and alliance.

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 calculating, they made decisions intended to maximise pleasure and minimise pain.

Being in a coalition allows males to dominate a third individual when they could not by themselves, as politically apt chimps can exert power over aggressive interactions regardless of their rank.

Being as critical as they are to the overall function of the system, such heavy use would create an insurmountable bottleneck for trillions of queries placed every day.

It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews ... For we have it in our power, if we abandon their custom, to prolong the due observance of this ordinance to future ages by a truer order ... For their boast is absurd indeed, that it is not in our power without instruction from them to observe these things .... Being altogether ignorant of the true adjustment of this question, they sometimes celebrate Passover twice in the same year.

Although some of these women embraced the political and social amendments of the Revolution, they opposed the dissolution of the Catholic Church and the formation of revolutionary cults like the Cult of the Supreme Being advocated by Robespierre.

Being insoluble in water, they can be purified by washing away the associated starch.

: " Pantheists are ‘ monists ’... they believe that there is only one Being, and that all other forms of reality are either modes ( or appearances ) of it or identical with it.

Although the Sikhs have many names for God, some derived from Islam and Hinduism, they all refer to the same Supreme Being.

Being short on anti-tank guns, they improvised incendiary devices to use against them.

Hence, in The Sophist Plato argues that Being is a Form in which all existent things participate and which they have in common ( though it is unclear whether ' Being ' is intended in the sense of existence, copula, or identity ); and argues, against Parmenides, that Forms must exist not only of Being, but also of Negation and of non-Being ( or Difference ).

Being an Exact and True account ( by way of Journal ) of the various actions of infernal Spirits or ( Devils Incarnate ) Witches or both: and the great Disturbance and Amazement they gave to George Walton's family at a place called Great Island in the county of New Hampshire in New England, chiefly in throwing about ( by an Invisible hand ) Stones, Bricks, and Brick-Bats of all sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Utensils, as came into their Hellish minds, and this for space of a quarter of a year.

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.

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.

As a result, they apply the Lemon Test only selectively, holding Justice Douglas ' statement in Zorach v. Clauson, " e are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being ".

Being rational creatures, they go to sea with it ready calculated ; and all rational creatures go out upon the sea of life with their minds made up on the common questions of right and wrong .”

Being filled with the Spirit, he commands Laman and Lemuel not to touch him or they would die instantly.

Being a rather neutral grape, Australian winemakers first approached Chardonnay in the same manner they were making wine from the similarly neutral Sultana grape.

Being a woman though, she would take only what she needed from church.

Being granted a banner by the Pope would have been a great honour, but despite the many letters of the popes relating to the crusades, none of them mentions granting a banner to a King of Denmark.

Being lighter than the spear, the javelin would be thrown rather than thrust and thus allowed long distance attacks against one ’ s enemy.

Being a star of his age, he would frequently say deceptive things to the public.

Being so, if the sword / blade were in a more vertical position, it would be cumbersome, and awkward to draw.

Being a strong base, that level of neodymium would have affected the melting properties of the glass, and the lime content of the glass might have had to be adjusted accordingly.

Travelling circuses, like Pablo Fanque's, dominated the British provinces, Scotland, and Ireland ( Fanque would enjoy fame again in the 20th century when John Lennon would buy an 1843 poster advertising his circus and adapt the lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite !).

The existential analytic of Being and Time was thus always only a first step in Heidegger's philosophy, to be followed by the " dismantling " ( Destruktion ) of the history of philosophy, that is, a transformation of its language and meaning, that would have made of the existential analytic only a kind of " limit case " ( in the sense in which special relativity is a limit case of general relativity ).

Recent scholarship has shown that Heidegger was substantially influenced by St. Augustine of Hippo and that Martin Heidegger's Being and Time would not have been possible without the influence of Augustine's thought.

Hoping that his work would be picked up by Gallimard, the publishers of Jean-Paul Sartre's influential bestseller, Being and Nothingness ( 1943 ), he was perturbed when they rejected him, instead selecting Plon.

Being brilliant to look upon and to listen to, with the power to subjugate everyone, even a love-sated man already past his prime, she thought that it would be in keeping with her role to meet Caesar, and she reposed in her beauty all her claims to the throne.

Being exposed to the consorts of the king, they would have likely been castrated.

Being in financial problems, the club was helped by the city council of Eindhoven, who granted a larger amount of money to make sure the club would not face the possibility of going into administration.

The incident was not repeated, the play received moderately good reviews and had a modest run of four weeks, before being taken off to make way for Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which Alexander thought would have better prospects for the coming Season.

Being that nearly all of the commercial area of Smokey Point was petitioned to be annexed into Arlington, the loss of such a tax base would have been devastating to the Lakewood School District.

During the same visit to Knole Park, Goldman produced the promotional film for " Penny Lane ", the reverse side of the " Strawberry Fields Forever " single ( during this same stay in Sevenoaks, John Lennon wandered into an antiques gallery and purchased the poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal that would inspire the song " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite !").

Being more compact and having a shorter length allows for greater close-in weapons usage ; however, being of a shorter length, bayonet length effectiveness would be dimensionally reduced.

Being unhealthy and, by some reports, intellectually disabled, Feodor was only the nominal ruler, having his duties handed over to his wife's brother and trusted minister Boris Godunov, who would later succeed Feodor as tsar.

In 2005, Brown signed a deal with Bravo to overlook the direction of the reality series, Being Bobby Brown, but it was said that he had to convince producers that his then-wife Whitney Houston would appear on the show.

Being given the power of a constable would allow such individuals to carry batons and other protective equipment provided by their employing agencies.

the space into which it moves ), the One or Being cannot move since this would require that " space " both exist and not exist.