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 a small country with a history of neutrality it was the host country for the important Maastricht Treaty and Amsterdam Treaty and is the seat of the International Court of Justice.

Being a small, unincorporated town, early Rockville was known by a variety of names, including Owen's Ordinary, Hungerford's Tavern, and Daley's Tavern.

Being a small town, Aptos does not have as many entertainment possibilities to offer as neighboring Santa Cruz, California.

Being a small town, retail and healthcare make up the largest sectors of the economy.

Being a summer community, Groton Long Point experiences something of an exodus in early September as many of the summer families and the renters exit, leaving only a small number of full-time residents in the fall, winter and spring months.

Being a small village, Kildeer's municipal offices were always housed in the village Clerk's home.

Being in the northernmost portion of the state, and with small mountains up to 1, 800 feet in elevation, the Northern Zone normally exhibits a colder temperature regime than other climate regions of the State of New Jersey.

Being in the northernmost portion of the state, and with small mountains up to in elevation, the Northern Zone normally exhibits a colder temperature regime than other climate regions of the State of New Jersey.

Being bound by these formidable terrain features has kept the size of the village small, and prevented the suburban sprawl that has come about in the less-constrained regions to the north and south and in the New York Metropolitan area generally.

Being the largest in the county and having the best opportunities for education, the Atoka Public Schools System has students from all over Atoka County, although there are three other small high schools in Caney, Stringtown, and Tushka.

Being scarsely populated, Torsås Municipality tries to attract people to settle there, boasting its nature and the advantages of a small municipality while being no more than 30 minutes away from the larger towns of Kalmar and Karlskrona.

Being so close to the busy town of Camden and City of Columbia, yet still keeping its small town feel and sense of pride makes Lugoff unique.

Being a such a small and dispersed mountain village, relatively few men from Windham served with the Union Army during the Civil War.

Being picked up by the small independent company New Line Cinema, Pink Flamingos was later distributed to Ben Barenholtz, the owner of the Elgin Theater in New York City.

Being the lead vocalist of the band, Hawkins prefers to use a small drum kit so he can be seen singing.

Being a small car factory, for economic reasons, Saab kept the basic undercarriage more or less unchanged throughout the 900's production run.

Being a very small company ( about 8 developers ) they managed to produce high quality software, famous among software developers.

Being similar to Lysergic acid diethylamide, the chemical composition of the average human's stomach would be too acidic for the ergot to survive, especially if the food was properly cooked, but if some residents were malnourished and suffering from bleeding stomach ulcers, there is valid reasoning to say that while most of the residents would not be affected by ingesting contaminated grains, a small percentage could have become infected, offering an explanation for why ergotism was never initially recognized.

Being short, light waves can be focused or collimated with a small lens / antenna and to a much higher degree than radio waves.

Being designed as the successor of the Honda Quint, the Integra is closely related to the Civic, although it featured a small list of key upgrades over its smaller stablemate to help merit a price increase over the CRX Si, which was otherwise the sportiest subcompact vehicle being offered by Honda Verno ; enlarged 4-wheel disc brakes replaced the small front-disc / rear-drum setup used by the Civic and CRX, suspension calibration was re-worked, better tires were used and a 113-hp DOHC fuel-injected 16-valve engine was used in place of the SOHC unit from the CRX Si.

Being a relatively small community, Moraga does not have a lot of entertainment that caters to college students ; however, a Jan Term class was created in 2011 to address the needs of college students in Moraga.

Being an early exponent of the long throw-in he would practice by throwing balls over a row of houses and getting the small boys of the village to fetch them back for him.

Being centrally located, town squares are usually surrounded by small shops such as bakeries, meat markets, cheese stores, and clothing stores.

Being able to reach much closer in the beachfront shallows than larger craft, the " little ships " acted as shuttles to and from the larger craft, lifting troops who were queuing in the water, many waiting shoulder-deep in water for hours.

Being near to both Broadway theaters and Actors Studio training school the area has long been a home to actors learning and practicing their craft.

Being twice as heavy and almost four times faster than the Tomahawk, the BrahMos has almost 9 times the initial kinetic energy of a Tomahawk missile ( although it pays for this by having only 3 / 5 the payload and a fraction of the range despite weighing twice as much, suggesting a different tactical paradigm to achieve the objective ).

* Being dropped off or picked up by fast rigid-hulled inflatable boats.

Being so close to Norway, the islands were of strategic importance in World War II and were a regular landfall for Norwegian boats carrying escapees from the Nazi occupation.

Being based on so few events, these results are of dubious validity.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.

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

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 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.

: For though all creatures under heaven are the products of Being,

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 a typical member of the lanthanide series, europium usually assumes the oxidation state + 3, but the oxidation state + 2 is also common: all europium compounds with oxidation state + 2 are slightly reducing.

Being part of the Kingdom of Denmark, the foreign relations of Greenland are handled in cooperation with the Danish government and Greenlandic home rule authority.

Being animals, invertebrates are heterotrophs, and require sustenance in the form of the consumption of other organisms.

Being nearly landlocked affects conditions in the Mediterranean Sea: for instance, tides are very limited as a result of the narrow connection with the Atlantic Ocean.

: " 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.

At the basis of this orderly universe or nature are the forms, most fundamentally the Form of the Good, which Plato describes as " the brightest region of Being ".

Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, his repudiation of the idea that facts exist outside or separately from the process of thinking and speaking them ( however, Heidegger is not specifically a Nominalist ), his related admission that the possibilities of philosophical and scientific discourse are wrapped up in the practices and expectations of a society and that concepts and fundamental constructs are the expression of a lived, historical exercise rather than simple derivations of external, apriori conditions independent from historical mind and changing experience ( see Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Weltanschauung and Social Constructionism ), and his Instrumentalist and Negativist notion that Being ( and, by extension, reality ) is an action, method, tendency, possibility and question rather than a discreet, positive, identifiable state, answer or entity ( see also Process Philosophy, Dynamism, Instrumentalism, Pragmatism and Vitalism ).

* Being orientable in 2 ways, which are each other's mirror images, for example a swastika.

The statement " Being in politics is just like playing golf: you are trapped in one bad lie after another " puns on the two meanings of the word lie as " a deliberate untruth " and as " the position in which something rests ".

The most important determinate natures are the Greatest Kinds from Plato's Sophist ( Being, Same, Other, Rest, Motion ) and Aristotle's ten categories ( Quantity, Quality, etc .).