Being a Sunni stronghold, all major currents of Lebanese Sunni Islamism have been centered in the city.

Being an historic Royal Manor, Portland naturally supported King Charles and was a Royalist stronghold.

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.

Being both Roman Catholic and politically right-wing, Wallez was very much opposed to the atheistic, anti-Christian, and extreme left-wing Soviet government, and wanted Tintin's first adventure to reflect this, thereby indoctrinating its young readers with anti-Marxist and anti-socialist ideas.

Being a multi-party system, the government of Lithuania is not dominated by any single political party, rather it consists of numerous parties that must work with each other to form coalition governments.

In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.

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 declared a Covenant-breaker is done by the head of the Faith — which since 1963 refers to the elected nine-member Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Bahá ' ís.

In this vein, he asserted that it was the task of contemporary philosophy to recover the original question of ( or " openness to ") Dasein ( translated as Being or Being-in-the-World ) present in the Presocratic philosophers but normalized, neutered and standardized since Plato.

The Importance of Being Earnest has been revived many times since its premiere.

Richard Ellmann says that The Importance of Being Earnest touched on many themes Wilde had been building since the 1880s – the languor of aesthetic poses was well established and Wilde takes it as a starting point for the two protagonists.

Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy since Plato has misunderstood what it means for something " to be ", tending to approach this question in terms of a being, rather than asking about Being itself.

But the basic tenet of " existentialism " has nothing at all in common with the statement from Being and Time " the ' essence ' of Dasein lies in its existence "— apart from the fact that in Being and Time no statement about the relation of essentia and existentia can yet be expressed, since there it is still a question of preparing something precursory.

Being alone on the mainland of the island since his transfer to Jed's detail, Richard now begins to have hallucinations in which Daffy appears: they talk regularly and begin to patrol the part of the island which Richard refers to as the DMZ together.

Being one of the classic examples of a stage thriller, it has been revived a number of times since, including a US TV movie in 1981 with Angie Dickinson and Christopher Plummer.

Being an enclosed site, since the end of the 14th century it was used as a prison, firstly to lock queen of Mallorca, her children James and Isabella and other supporters of King James III of Mallorca after his death in the Battle of Llucmajor in 1349.

Being near to the military town of Woolwich there have never been any Quaker meeting houses but the Plymouth Brethren have had numerous meeting rooms in the area since about 1845.

The band had recorded a song, " Humans Being ", for which Eddie claimed he had to write all the lyrics since Hagar's were " too cheesy ".

Being used since the First World War, after the late 1960s interceptors became less important due to shifting from bombers to intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) for nuclear warfare.

Being situated on the main railway line connecting Berlin and Moscow, and an intercontinental highway ( the European route E30 ), Brest became a principal border crossing since World War II in Soviet times.

The studio has since begun to produce theatrical films again, such as Lucky Break ( 2001 ), The Importance of Being Earnest ( 2002 ), and Valiant ( 2005 ).

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

Being a vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress since 1954, she was elected acting executive chairman of it on 30 November 1976 replacing Zhu De, who died on 6 July.

He had also begun work on script treatments, which since Days of Being Wild he tended to treat as only a very loose basis for his work in order to secure financing, preferring to leave things open to change during the shoot.

In addition to the negative attributes, only relative attributes can be predicated of God ; for even these latter, how many soever may be assumed, since they do not apply to the essence of God but only to His relation to the world, produce no modification in the notion of the unity of the Divine Being ( ib.

* Captive elephants: Being crushed by captive elephants is also a major occupational hazard for elephant keepers in zoos and circuses ; since the 1990s, this has led some such facilities to replace free contact between elephants and keepers with " protected contact " where keepers remain outside the elephant enclosure.

Being a circle is not affine since an affine shear will take a circle into an ellipse.

Being partner of an occult bookshop, The Atlantis Bookshop, in Bloomsbury, Brunton came into contact with both the literary and occult British intelligentsia of the 1920s.

Being a Jew from Cuba, Behar ’ s grandparents emigrated from Russia, Poland and Turkey during the 1920s, and then again in 1962 to escape Castro ’ s communism.

The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity ( mauvaise foi, literally, " bad faith ") and an " authentic " way of " being " became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical work L ' Être et le Néant ( Being and Nothingness ) ( 1943 ).

Being expected to continue his family business, Frisch became an apprentice in the David Andersen workshop in Oslo.

Being located at the beginning of the navigable part of the St. John River, Indiantown also became a major terminal for vessels departing to ply their trade upriver.

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.

Being in the public domain, XNS became a canonical local area networking protocol in the 1980s, copied to various degrees by practically all networking systems in use into the 1990s.

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.

Being located on the south bank of White River, the town became a port in the days of flat and keel-boats.

Being accompanied by the movie Cherchez l ’ idole, the EP with " La plus belle pour aller danser " became n ° 1 in France, sold over a million copies in Japan, very successful in Korea and Spain too, and her 1st release in Italy.

According to Joseph Smith, Jr., the name of this priesthood became Melchizedek " because Melchizedek was such a great high priest " and " to avoid the too frequent repetition " of the " name of the Supreme Being ".

Listening to one of Ware and Marsh's demos, Oakey was inspired to write some lyrics which later became the single " Being Boiled ".

The band released their first single, " Being Boiled ", in June 1978 which became Fast Product's third release.

Capitalising on the success of the album and their recent No. 1 hit single, " Being Boiled " was re-released and became a Top 10 hit in early 1982.

Being the only two predominantly Catholic nation in Asia, relations with the Philippines became very positive as soon as East Timor was multilaterally recognized as an independent state.

Being in the biggest grossing film of all time attracted attention to his career, as Hill became more sought-after for more prominent parts.

Being interested in politics he became a librarian in parliament.

Being now a peer, Dudley became Lord Admiral and a Knight of the Garter in 1543 ; he was also admitted to the Privy Council.

Being so closely associated with The Beatles, Black became one of a select group of artists in the 1964-5 period ( the others in the same position being Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas and Peter and Gordon ) to record more than one Lennon – McCartney composition.

Yet the second single from Don't Believe the Truth, " The Importance of Being Idle " became the second Noel-sung Oasis track to top the UK charts and was named 2005's finest track by Q magazine, as well as being nominated for the NMEs " Best Song of 2005 " award.

Other performances which many considered definitive were as Millamant in The Way of the World ( 1924 ), Rosalind in As You Like It ( 1926 and 1936 ), the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet ( 1932 – 35 and 1961 ), and, most notably, as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939 ), a role with which she became identified in the public's mind ( in particular for her drippingly sarcastic delivery of the line: " A handbag ?").

Being well-educated themselves, the Ayyubid rulers became munificent patrons of learning and educational activity.

Being European Cup winners for the fifth time, Liverpool kept the trophy and received the UEFA badge of honour, and as a tribute to Dudek's heroics, a group of Liverpool fans, the Trophy Boyz, recorded a successful novelty single called ' Du the Dudek '; he became the third Polish footballer after Zbigniew Boniek ( with Juventus FC ) and fellow goalkeeper Józef Młynarczyk ( F. C.

Being second was a fate he shared with others who became famous mathematicians.