Being less encumbered by material embodiments they partake more of what is divine.

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 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 now master of the empire, he is said to have abandoned himself to a life of debauchery.

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 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.

Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing subjective and objective features of reality and existence.

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.

This comparison is the basis of his Analogy of Being.

" 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 the Harbor's sole doctor, Abel was also its Medical Examiner.

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 particularly popular in the British garrison town Poona ( now Pune ), the game also came to be known as Poona.

Being on the curve might still not fully satisfy allocative efficiency ( also called Pareto efficiency ) if it does not produce a mix of goods that consumers prefer over other points.

See also: Great Chain of Being

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 one of the first film hyphenates ( film director, editor and engineer ) Porter also invented and utilized some of the very first ( albeit primitive ) special effects such as double exposures, miniatures and split-screens.

Being a form of visual art, it might also be said that many graffiti artists still fall in the category of the introverted archetypal artist.

* Muggled – Being caught by a non-geocacher while retrieving / replacing a cache ; also, a muggled cache has been removed or vandalized by a non-geocacher, usually out of misunderstanding or lack of knowledge.

He then wrote Being and Nothingness, The Flies, and No Exit, none of which was censored by the Germans, and also contributed to both legal and illegal literary magazines.

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.

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 ).

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 ).

In film there has been an adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and also the movie Pelíšky from director Jan Hřebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovský, which depicts the events of the Prague Spring and ends with the invasion by the Soviet Union and their allies.

The " Christ Being " is for Steiner not only the redeemer of the Fall from Paradise, but also the unique pivot and meaning of earth's evolutionary processes and human history.

He also warned that the traditional name, " Christ ", might be used, yet the true essence of this Being of Love ignored.

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.

Being exterior to the individual person, social facts may thus also exercise coercive power on the various people composing society, as it can sometimes be observed in the case of formal laws and regulations, but also in situations implying the presence of informal rules, such as religious rituals or family norms.

Being the city in which the Italian Mafia historically had its main interests, it has also been the place of several recent well-publicized murders.

: Being in sympathy with the purposes of this Lodge, as set forth in its " Declaration ," I hereby record my desire to be enrolled as an Associate, it being understood that such association calls for no obligation on my part, other than that which I, myself, determine.

Heidegger argues in response that " Entities are grasped in their Being as ' presence '; this means that they are understood with regard to a definite mode of time-the ' Present '".

Being overly polite, Fraser's probably best known short quotes were: " thank you kindly "; when he found himself in trouble, an understated " oh dear "; and, when faced with contradictory circumstances from other characters, an all-knowing and eloquently stated " understood ".

" Being, Heidegger claims, is " what determines beings as beings, that in terms of which beings are already understood.

Possibly building on Mary Daly's ( 1973 and 1978 ) suggestion that the divine be understood not as a Being ( noun ), but as Be-ing ( verb ), Carol P. Christ ( 2003 ), shows the similarities between Goddess theology and process theology, and suggests that Goddess theologians adopt more of the process viewpoint.

This work also proposes a phenomenology of Christ, who is understood as the First Living Being.

Being is understood as the inner source and true nature of reality, which is the focus of the great spiritual traditions of both East and West, and is known as Dharmakaya, Shunyata, Brahman or Tao.

Being is understood as consisting of five co-emergent " boundless dimensions ": Divine Love, Universal Mind, Pure Being, The Logos, and The Absolute.

Soul is understood to be the individual consciousness that connects the world with Being, an idea found in ancient Chinese philosophy.

"( God )... That invisible power which all know does exist, but understood by many different names, such as God, Spirit, Supreme Being, Intelligence, Mind, Energy, Nature and so forth.

* Being suited to projects where the requirements are volatile or poorly understood.