Being with him was like being swept away by a torrent of falling stones.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

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.

During this period, archaeological evidence points to an increase in literacy and a partial shift away from the faith placed in Shangdi ( the Supreme Being in traditional Chinese religion ), with ancestor worship becoming commonplace and a more worldly orientation coming to the fore.

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

Shortly following their first performance together, the band entered the studio to record the Brown-Byrd composition, " Get Up ( I Feel Like Being a ) Sex Machine ", the song further enhanced Brown's influence in funk music, moving further away from his late 1960s funk origins.

Being outnumbered and taking heavy casualties, the Romans refused to engage in an open battle and instead adopted a scorched earth policy which reduced and demoralized the Judean populace, slowly grinding away at the will of the Judeans to sustain the war.

In Srimad Bhagavata or Bhagavata Purana, Lord Narayana is oftenly termed as Hari which usually means Supreme Being who takes away all the pains and sufferings of his devotees and destroys the material bondage of living entities and gives them liberation or moksha.

Being terrified, she ran away, and abandoned the king, who was thus burnt alive in his own palace.

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.

Eliade speculates that the discovery of agriculture brought a host of fertility gods and goddesses into the forefront, causing the celestial Supreme Being to fade away and eventually vanish from many ancient religions.

Being away, Bohemond could do nothing to prevent this.

Being a thinker is to have a subjective perspective on the world ; if one abstracts away from this perspective one leaves out what he sought to explain.

In the context of Pūrva Mīmāṃsā 6. 3. 1 shown above, next two sutras becomes significant, in which this Omnipotent Being is termed as " pradhāna ", and keeping away from Him is said to be a " doṣa ", hence all beings are asked to get related (" abhisambandhāt " in tadakarmaṇi ca doṣas tasmāt tato viśeṣaḥ syāt pradhānenābhisambandhāt ; Jaimini 6, 3. 3 ) to the " Omnipotent Main Being " ( api vāpy ekadeśe syāt pradhāne hy arthanirvṛttir guṇamātram itarat tadarthatvāt ; Jaimini 6, 3. 2 ).

Being both human and supernatural, Susan is frequently ( and reluctantly ) forced away from her " normal " life to do battle with various malign supernatural forces or, barring that, to take on her grandfather's job in his absence.

Being offered stimulants, he signed them away, with the words, “ If I die, I will still be my royal self .” This was his last appearance as an actor.

Being confined to his home and away from the action offered Whittier a chance to write better abolitionist poetry ; he was even poet laureate for his party.

Two songs were released as singles from the album ; a re-recorded version of the band's first single, " Being Boiled " ( this time as part of the Holiday ' 80 EP released a month before the album ), and a cover of Mick Ronson's " Only After Dark " ( which was ultimately given away as a free single with a re-issue of the band's 1979 single " Empire State Human " in June 1980 ).

Days of Being Wild broke away from the light fare that typified Hong Kong cinema at the time by introducing thematic ambiguity and an arthouse aesthetic.

Being that Brown was the only scientist in the film's plot, Biff possibly wanted him locked away.

Being inland from the coast, and away from Sydney City, Holsworthy receives up to 500mm ( 20 in ) less precipitation than coastal areas, just away.

* Being an agricultural college as well, the school has both a working ( and award winning ) Dairy of Distinction dairy farm located a short distance from campus and an extensive complex of equine science-related facilities, including a horse-racing track, located a few miles away on a side road.

* Being a suitable distance away from any freshwater well, so as to minimize risk of contamination and disease.

Being a strictly physiological procedure, one may expect from such a study additional information on the nature of the emotional process itself.

Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.

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

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.

Being unable to recall the events from memory ( because he was still young ) places him at an age much younger than 10 in 303.

" 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 is also understood as one's " state of being ," and hence its common meaning is in the context of human ( personal ) experience, with aspects that involve expressions and manifestations coming from an innate " being ", or personal character.

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

Nahum, taking words from Moses himself, have shown in a general way what sort of " Being God is ".

Being open to consider concepts that vary from one's own is vital to learning.

Despite the disappointment, Hume later wrote, " Being naturally of a cheerful and sanguine temper, I soon recovered from the blow and prosecuted with great ardour my studies in the country ".

David created his last great work, Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, from 1822 to 1824.

Among the singles from the album was " Through Being Cool ," written as a reaction to their newfound fame from " Whip It ," an attack on their new fans that misinterpreted the song — and Devo's — message.

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 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.

* The Perks of Being a Wallflower ( 1999 ) was written by Stephen Chbosky in the form of letters from an anonymous character to a secret role model of sorts.

Being further from the machine implies being closer to domain.

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.

According to this view, " should " can never be derived from " Being.