Being one of the major river systems in one of the driest continents of Earth, the Murray has significant cultural relevance to Indigenous Australians.

Being a part of the male dress, it also has a part in the cultural expressions of the coastal rural regions of Ecuador, such as dances, horsetaming contests and skill exhibitions.

Being elected an RSA Fellow depends on having achieved ( or demonstrating the potential to achieve ) a contribution to society in a cultural or arts-related sphere.

Being a cultural magnet, Bukhara has long appeared in much local and Persian literature.

Being a tourist resort and the gate to the North Frisian Islands, Husum offers many cultural features.

Simon Reynolds declares that " Being a Throbbing Gristle fan was like enrolling in a university course of cultural extremism.

His major theoretical and cultural statement from this period is The Art of Being Ruled ( 1926 ).

" Critical distance ", the assumption that culture can be positioned outside " the massive Being of capital " upon which left-wing theories of cultural politics are dependent, has become outmoded.

Being based on the work of two widely respected experts, these theories also had the advantage-from a European settler view-of presenting a neat progression of waves of migration and conquest by increasingly more civilised and technically able peoples, and therefore justifying racist stereotyping and colonisation by cultural " superiors ".

Being in close proximity to Vancouver and surrounded by the rest of the Lower Mainland, Coquitlam residents have access to virtually unlimited choice in cultural and leisure activities.

Being a new trend in the city these nights are becoming a great success and the cafe in those nights is always full of people who come to enjoy a cultural night with their friends and families.

Being a coral island, Mactan offers some of the best diving, snorkeling, island hopping, jet ski, sailing and cultural activities of any island in the Philippines.

Being intrinsically unreliable, language works only if you can build up a reputation for trustworthiness within a certain kind of society — namely, one where symbolic cultural facts ( sometimes called ' institutional facts ') can be established and maintained through collective social endorsement.

Being on the border of " Sunda " ( i. e., West Java ) and " Jawa " ( i. e., Central Java ), many of Cirebon's residents speak a dialect that is a mix of Sundanese and Javanese, and it is thought that the word " cirebon " derives from the Javanese word, caruban, meaning " mixed ", a reference to the city's mix of Sundanese, Javanese, Chinese, and Arabic cultural elements.

Over her one hundred years, Shanxi University has evolved a cultural tradition of " knowing the East and the West ; seeking the good and true ; promoting the virtuous and the talented ; being self-reliant and serving the country ", and a school spirit of " Being industrious, strict, honest and creative.

Being concerned of the youth creativeness, the city government supports the development of facilities of students ’ cultural, sporting and entertainment centers, as well as organizes regional sports competitions among students.

Being one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the City of Toronto, the Jane-Finch community hosts a number of cultural activities:

Being the oldest management and cultural fest in South India, over the years the event has attained an iconic stature.

Being an important cultural centre, Rivne hosts a humanities and a hydro-engineering university, as well as a faculty of the Kiev State Institute of Culture, and medical and musical as well as automobile-construction, commercial, textile, agricultural and cooperative polytechnic colleges.

Being one of the older parts of Brisbane and an area of greater cultural heritage, South Brisbane has a number of heritage-listed buildings:

In his 1997 book Coming into Being, cultural historian William Irwin Thompson harshly criticized the entire project of SES, contending that systematic " theories of everything " were inherently misguided.

The political and cultural ' diagnosis ' of England that the novel aspires to make is partly a development of the ideas put forward by Lewis in his 1926 book, The Art of Being Ruled.

Being a youth of the 40 ’ s, during a period when the British Colonial Policy encouraged Malays to attend Malay schools, when Malay parents worried about the possible influence of an English education on their children ’ s religious faith and cultural identity, Daim and his parents were able to transcend these limitations.

Being progressively Turkicized in terms of language and identity following the Mongol conquests, they derived their ethnic and cultural origins from steppes of Central Asia.

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.

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.

The final issue of the Englishman, No. 57 for February 15, ran to some length and was printed as a separate pamphlet, entitled The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So-called.

Being blistered for curbs has delayed his work somewhat.

Being picked up for questioning by a cop on the way out seemed to be the only possible remaining danger, and we weren't picked up by a cop.

Being reasonably sure of the reason for the long pause, however, did not make it seem any less long to Jack.

Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

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.

Heidegger coined the term " dasein " for this property of being in his influential work Being and Time (" this entity which each of us is himself … we shall denote by the term ' dasein.

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.

Being associated with the right hand side was traditionally a reference to strength and virtue ( cf sinister, which derives from the latin for left ).

:" 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 built primarily for speed, borzoi do not carry large amounts of body fat or muscle, and therefore have a rather different physiology to other dogs of similar size ( such as the Newfoundland, St. Bernard, or Alaskan Malamute ).

::: Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: / Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Being measured for a bike and taking it for a test ride are recommended before buying.

Being flammable, coal tar is sometimes used for heating or to fire boilers.

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.

The songs " Girl U Want " and " Through Being Cool " were released as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band on August 19, 2008.

Being a pioneer of peace making in the region and driven from its belief that a peaceful Middle East is the best solution for the development of Egypt, the third Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's groundbreaking trip to Israel in 1977, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty represented a fundamental shift in the politics of the region ; from a strategy of confrontation to one of peace as a strategic choice.

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 the historic core of Europe and the " twin engine for European integration ", the cooperation with France is one of the most central elements of German foreign policy.

Being considered a high risk town, the charter included incentives to settle there such as the offering of freedom from justice to anyone who lived in Gibraltar for one year and one day.