Being the ever-wary politician, Abd al-Rahman acted quickly to regain Yemeni support, and rode to a Yemeni chief who was mounted on a mule named " Lightning ".

Being unsuccessful in selling their product to telephone companies, in 1915 they changed strategy to public address, and named their product Magnavox.

* Being Osama, an award-winning 2004 documentary film of five men named Osama

Being snowed in, Mr. Lockwood stays the night and is shown to an unused chamber, where he finds books and graffiti from a former inhabitant of the farmhouse named Catherine.

Another modern religion to have adopted elements from the beliefs of ancient Mesopotamia is Anuism, devoted to the god Anu, who supposedly revealed himself as being the Supreme Being to a man named V. E. M, who before then had known nothing of ancient Mesopotamia.

Being situated on the western banks of the St. Clair River, the city's name is taken from the river, which in turn was named for Lake Saint Clair.

Being fans of Beat Generation literature, Fagen and Becker named the band after " Steely Dan III from Yokohama ", a strap-on dildo referred to in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.

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.

Being the younger of the twins, he was named after his father who was the younger of two brothers.

Furthermore he named a character Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest.

The Wilde Theatre was opened in 1984, named after Oscar Wilde who created the character ' Lady Bracknell ' in his play The Importance of Being Earnest.

Being dug into the ground it was a safe area where archery could be practiced, and thus was named ' The Butts '.

This priesthood was so named, according to a revelation, because Melchizedek " was such a great high priest " and ".. out of respect or reverence to the name of the Supreme Being, to avoid the too frequent repetition of his name ..." This priesthood was thought to be the order of priesthood held by Jesus, and a distinction was made between the Aaronic and Melchizedek priesthoods, which derives in part from the Epistle to the Hebrews, whose author argues that Jesus arose " after the order of Melchizedec, and not ... after the order of Aaron.

Being the longest and most notable of the three rivers named Neisse ( Neiße ) ( German ) or Nysa ( Polish ) ( the two other rivers being Nysa Kłodzka ( Glatzer Neisse ) and Nysa Szalona ( Wütende Neiße or Jauersche Neiße )), it is simply referred to as the Nysa or Neisse.

On the newspaper's website, there was a section named " Stimulus Watch ", subtitled " How your Billions Are Being Spent ", which contained a large collection of such articles.

* Being named to The 25 most powerful people in networking by Network World ( January 4, 1999 )

Being a good landlord, David Berry ( who had owned much of what is now known as Berry, New South Wales | Berry-the town was named after him ) is well remembered by his tenants.

Being warned by God of the army's coming, Alma quickly led his band of approximately 450 converts into the wilderness for eight days, stopping in an uninhabited area which they named the land of Helam.

* Being himself in the 1996 Errol Morris movie Fast, Cheap and Out of Control ( named after one of his scientific papers )

Being scientifically named Pterophyllum scalare ( pronounced: Ter '- o-fill " um ska-la're ), the meaning of Pterophyllum is " winged leaf ".

Being the first patriarch to be named Zakka, his name is often written as Ignatius Zakka I Iwas.

In 2011, Green starred in the third series of the BBC Three programme Being Human in which he played a werewolf named McNair.

Being one hundred years since the inception of rugby league in New Zealand, a 13-man New Zealand team of the century was named on the evening, with Cliff Johnson named at captain.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

The final issue of the Englishman, No. 57 for February 15, ran to some length and was printed as a separate pamphlet, entitled The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So-called.

Being blistered for curbs has delayed his work somewhat.

Being picked up for questioning by a cop on the way out seemed to be the only possible remaining danger, and we weren't picked up by a cop.

Being reasonably sure of the reason for the long pause, however, did not make it seem any less long to Jack.

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 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.

Heidegger coined the term " dasein " for this property of being in his influential work Being and Time (" this entity which each of us is himself … we shall denote by the term ' dasein.

Being politically and geographically inclusive and leaving at the same time space for diversity, this historical vision filled the needs of Dutch nation-building and integration in the 1890-1914 era.

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

:" 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 built primarily for speed, borzoi do not carry large amounts of body fat or muscle, and therefore have a rather different physiology to other dogs of similar size ( such as the Newfoundland, St. Bernard, or Alaskan Malamute ).

::: Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: / Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

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

Being flammable, coal tar is sometimes used for heating or to fire boilers.

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.

The songs " Girl U Want " and " Through Being Cool " were released as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band on August 19, 2008.

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.

Being the historic core of Europe and the " twin engine for European integration ", the cooperation with France is one of the most central elements of German foreign policy.

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.