Being a child was apparently a fine property, to better endure tedious duties and to tolerate subjugation to political power-brokers, as well as sometimes to cloak the truly powerful members of the imperial dynasty.

For example, in the 1970s series Are You Being Served ?, Mrs. Slocombe frequently referred to her pet cat as her " pussy ", apparently unaware of how easily her statement could be misinterpreted, such as " It's a wonder I'm here at all, you know.

Being a heterozygote or carrier of the sickle-cell disease gene confers some protection against malaria, apparently enough to maintain the gene in populations of malarial areas.

Being thus almost hidden from view, the signal apparently was only seen on Sevastopol, no other Russian capital ships followed Ukhtomsky's lead.

Being forced to manufacture their own perforating line was apparently a positive step for GO, as they eventually grew to be the largest supplier of jet charges in the world.

Being the farthest from Lhasa of the three university monasteries, Ganden traditionally had a smaller population with some 6, 000 monks in the early 20th century ( although Waddell reports an estimate of about 3, 300 in the 1890s and there were, apparently only 2, 000 in 1959.

Being is quite conceivable apart from actual existence ; so much so that the very first and the most universal of all the distinctions in the realm of being is that which divides it into two classes, that of the real and that of the possible.

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

Being so thoroughly informed by social science perspectives on identity and society, Le Guin treats race and gender quite deliberately.

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.

Being so closely related to polecats, ferrets are quite easily able to hybridize with them, and this has occasionally resulted in feral colonies of polecat-ferret hybrids that have been perceived to have caused damage to native fauna, perhaps most notably in New Zealand.

Being east of the Wallace line, the ecozone, and hence the flora and fauna, are quite different from those of the islands to the west, and so the food stuffs are, as well.

Schumacher rejects modernist and scientific themes, his approach recalling the universalist orientation of writers like Huston Smith, and quite likely contributing to ( unless the latter developed his ideas completely independently ) Ken Wilber's " holonomic " hierarchy or " Great Nest of Being ".

Being situated in a dip, with the South Downs to the south and The Hangers to the north, the weather in Petersfield can be quite different from the weather across the South Downs on the coast.

Being an acient relic it is quite old and part of its hilt is broken.

Being popular among local inhabitants for performing music, he was quite happy there, but after some hesitation he accepted a schoolteacher position in Rožmitál pod Třemšínem.

Dorfl speaks ' With The Beginning Of Every Word Being Capitalized ', as do all golems granted speech, and, like most golems, he is quite literal in his choice of words.

Being of a new generation, his knowledge and use of the internet made him quite a contrast to Alex.

Being predatory lizards, goannas are often quite large, or at least bulky, with sharp teeth and claws.

Being the lead actress, she has attracted much affection from Chinese-speaking fans and has become quite popular in Chinese-speaking countries in Asia.

Being a gentleman however, Oakhurst returned the money and pressed upon Tom that he should never play poker again, as he really was a quite terrible player.

Being quite large, they were also able to deal with the introduced European rats that had caused the extinction of so much of their prey ; however, the stoats introduced to control feral rabbits, and feral cats were too much for the species.

Being a wealthy Londoner may have contributed to Martin ’ s governing abilities which were quite heavy-handed and were criticized by the ship ’ s passengers.

Being some of the first newly designed cars to hit the market while the " Big Three " were still marketing their pre-war designs, the Kaisers and Frazers made quite an exciting entrance.

Being a nurse and a maternal figure, she is the one who treats the teenagers whenever they get physically injured ( which happens quite often ), especially Kelso.

Being an old settlement, findings from prehistoric times are quite common.

His writings on such figures are distinctive in that they are not cast in the mold of typical patristics scholarship ; Hart is quite willing, for instance, to use Maximus as a " corrective " to Heidegger's " history of Being ".

Being removed from the population, the quite boardwalks of Salt Pan Creek attract graffiti artists.

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.

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.