Being a coral island, Mactan offers some of the best diving, snorkeling, island hopping, jet ski, sailing and cultural activities of any island in the Philippines.

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 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.

Being absorbed in Love for God is considered to be the perfection of life.

All forms of reality may then be considered either modes of that " Being ", or identical with it.

Being " at peace " is considered by many to be healthy homeostasis and the opposite of being stressed or anxious.

From the standpoint of the doctrine of the Trinity — one Divine Being existing in three Persons — patripassianism is considered heretical because it denies the distinct personhood of the Members of the Trinity.

His best known book, Being and Time is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century.

Heidegger opens his magnum opus, Being and Time, with a citation from Plato's Sophist indicating that Western philosophy has neglected " being " because it was considered obvious, rather than as worthy of question.

Being assigned to the color guard is considered an honor due to the fact that these individuals present and carry the symbols of their unit and country.

Being conspicuous elements of the ecosystem, they have been considered as indicators of ecological health.

Being a deacon, priest or bishop is considered a function of the person and not a job.

Being one of the four leaders was considered the highest honor for a leader ; however, the annual gathering meant the majority of tribal administration was cared for by the usual leaders of each division.

Being Calvinist and Afrikaans-speaking, they considered themselves to be culturally more " white " than " black ".

Being the only German colony considered suitable for white settlement at the time, Namibia attracted a large influx of German settlers.

Being prime is also relative to which ring an element is considered to be in ; for example, 2 is a prime element in Z but it is not in Z

" However, while gay youth are considered to be at higher risk for suicide, a literature review published in the journal Adolescence states, " Being gay in-and-of-itself is not the cause of the increase in suicide.

Only in tales associated with the cult of Shakta ( in which the Goddess is considered the Supreme Being ) is the Goddess venerated as the Maker of All.

It was then transformed by Martin Heidegger ( 1889 – 1976 ), whose famous book Being and Time applied phenomenology to ontology, and who, along with Ludwig Wittgenstein, is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century.

Being light and strong, balsa wood was long considered a perfect material for surfboards.

Being one of the first and biggest styles, Shotokan is considered a traditional and influential form of karate.

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 the first strict Aristotelian among the Jews — who considered Aristotle and his Arabic commentators, Alfarabi and Ibn Sina, to be the only true philosophers ( ib.

Being less than 70 meters long, it can easily be considered as a " baby beach ".

Being considered independent of both Byzantine Imperial and Arab Moslem power but in essence occupied by both, the de facto power of the Antiochene patriarchs faded.

Being a Pro Bowler is considered to be a mark of honor, and players who are accepted into the Pro Bowl are considered to be elite.

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 some of the best cores " off the line ," these CPUs typically overclocked more reliably than their desktop-headed counterparts.

Being a master of seven slaves is possible ; being a slave of more than one master is difficult.

Being less reactive than chlorine but more reactive than iodine, bromine reacts vigorously with metals, especially in the presence of water, to give bromide salts.

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 that ' Heart of Darkeness ' is such a relatively short story, it has perhaps generated proportionately more pure text of discussion-in the manner of interpretations of meaning, analysis, commentary, reviews, essays, and even provisions of historical context-than any other work in English literature.

: Being exceedingly alarmed at the misery into which I had fallen, and much more at that which threatened me in view of eternal death, I, duty bound, made it my first business to betake myself to your way, condemning my past life, not without groans and tears.

This indifference of " things in themselves " ( closely linked with the later notion of " being-in-itself " in his Being and Nothingness ) has the effect of highlighting all the more the freedom Roquentin has to perceive and act in the world ; everywhere he looks, he finds situations imbued with meanings which bear the stamp of his existence.

Being so, if the sword / blade were in a more vertical position, it would be cumbersome, and awkward to draw.

Being bought out often carries negative connotations ; therefore, by describing the deal euphemistically as a merger, deal makers and top managers try to make the takeover more palatable.

One of Heidegger ’ s main critiques on philosophy is that philosophy, and more specifically metaphysics, has forgotten to discriminate between investigating the notion of a Being ( Seiende ) and Being ( Sein ).

In the 5th century BC, Anaxagoras and Leucippus replaced the reality of Being ( unique and unchanging ) with that of Becoming and therefore by a more fundamental and elementary ontic plurality.

Being a flammable gas, the hydrogen given off is dangerous and the reaction of water with the more electropositive of these elements may be violently explosive.

Being uncharged, neutrons scatter much more readily from the atomic nuclei rather than from the electrons.

Being more visible, the tholoi all had been plundered either in antiquity, or in later historic times.

Being composed of charged particles, beta radiation is more strongly ionising than gamma radiation.

Being a Saxon, he gave more attention to the region than previous emperors.

* Being more sophisticated than basic readers IP readers are also more expensive and sensitive, therefore they should not be installed outdoors in areas with harsh weather conditions or high possibility of vandalism, unless specifically designed for exterior installation.

Being a member of the Brahmic family of scripts, the Sinhalese script can trace its ancestry back more than 2000 years.

Being the smallest child in his Year Seven class, Hird often got knocked around playing league — the more physical of the three sports.

Being at the crossroads of several disciplines such as sociology, economics, epidemiology, geography, anthropology and history, demography offers tools to approach a large range of population issues by combining a more technical quantitative approach that represents the core of the discipline with many other methods borrowed from social or other sciences.

Being a mechanical construct, technicians such as Chief Engineer LaForge prove to be more appropriate to treat his mechanical or cognitive function failures than the ship's doctor.