Being a leader of fashion, she ordered the finest clothing, including furs as well as the newest distillations of perfume, which she concocted herself and sent as presents.

Being incapable of further action, Chester was ordered to the port of Immingham.

Being pressed on the point, though, Blossius eventually stated that Tiberius would only have ordered such a thing, if it were in the true interests of the Roman people.

In the first act of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest ( 1895 ), cucumber sandwiches that have expressly been ordered and prepared for Lady Bracknell's expected visit are all voraciously eaten beforehand by her nephew and host, Algernon Moncrieff ; consequently he is forced to tell a little lie, with his butler's connivance: namely that " there were no cucumbers in the market this morning ... not even for ready money ".

Being magnanimous, the King ordered the killing to stop.

Being then on the king's good side, Owain was ordered to rendezvous with a Norman force to proceed against Gruffydd.

Being concerned that these presumed relics of a saint would not be accorded the respect they deserved, and having little understanding of correct archeological procedures, he secretly ordered these remains stored elsewhere for safe-keeping.

Being halted by one of the wharf sentinels I succeeded in passing him by representing that captain had ordered me to convey the box on board.

Being deceived by Zhou Yu, who was actually in a critical condition, Cao Cao ordered Cao Ren to retreat under the rationale that his forces could no longer afford continuous loss of materiel and labour.

Being delighted by Cheng, Cao Pi changed his mind and reported the issue to Cao Cao, who ordered the surrendered rebels to be spared.

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

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

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 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 an intelligent man, John must have guessed what everyone thought about Edythe, but he never let on by so much as a brave smile.

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 very difficult to measure, only about 60 stellar parallaxes had been obtained by the end of the 19th century, mostly by use of the filar micrometer.

J. J. Bellermann has speculated that " the whole represents the Supreme Being, with his Five great Emanations, each one pointed out by means of an expressive emblem.

* Fa-Hien, A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fâ-Hsien of his travels to India and Ceylon ( A. D. 399-414 ) in search of the Buddhist Books of discipline

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.

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.

Almost Like Being in Love featured music by Frederick Loewe, Burton Lane, Andre Previn, Charles Strouse, and Kurt Weill.

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.

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.

::: 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 declared a Covenant-breaker is done by the head of the Faith — which since 1963 refers to the elected nine-member Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Bahá ' ís.

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 a versatile denominator in fractions may explain why we have 12 inches in an imperial foot, 12 ounces in a troy pound, 12 old British pence in a shilling, 24 ( 12 × 2 ) hours in a day, and many other items counted by the dozen, gross ( 144, square of 12 ) or great gross ( 1728, cube of 12 ).

Being himself one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Italy, ( CPI ), his theories had, in turn, been strongly influenced by the German social thinker Karl Marx, and have their ideological roots grounded in Marxist theory of false consciousness and capitalist exploitation.

Being situated so close to the equator and the warm Indian ocean, the city experiences generally tropical climatic conditions, typified by hot and humid weather throughout much of the year.

Being granted a banner by the Pope would have been a great honour, but despite the many letters of the popes relating to the crusades, none of them mentions granting a banner to a King of Denmark.

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

Being on a constant dose of say 100 mg. for one year, can take 18 – 24 months for safe detoxification.

Since the Father has functional authority over the Son ( though They are equal in Being ), it is logical in the transaction of salvation that the " greater " should take the role of Judge, and the " lesser " take the role of Redeemer.

Being privately owned and run, privateers did not take orders from the Naval command.

You are asking me, then, to give up my authentic existence and to take refuge in an abstraction, in pure Being, in the atman: I am to sacrifice my dignity as a creator of History in order to live an a-historic, inauthentic existence, empty of all human content.

Being little girls, actresses Fairuza Balk and Emma Ridley could not keep from playing, skipping and tapping their heels, so eventually they were required to take off the slippers between takes.

Being fanatics, the Jews then paid an evil woman to go take communion and then slip the Sacred Host in a handkerchief.

Being a circle is not affine since an affine shear will take a circle into an ellipse.

Being unable to take the prince along, Tadayoshi had him beheaded on July 23, 1335.

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 amorphous, they could take on any shape needed, making them very versatile within their aquatic environment.

Being associated with hell and fire, imps take a particular pleasure from playing with temperatures.

Being extremely busy with the work he liked, he did not take his academic fiasco tragically.

Being part of the Commission, the Office has been able not only to benefit from substantial administrative and logistical support, but also to take advantage of the anti-fraud legislation that is available to Commission departments ".

So, as moments of Determinate Being, Being and Nothing take on new characteristics as aspects of ( b ) Quality.

The One, though, as negatively related to all aspects of Quality excepting its own Quality of being the Void, cannot take on a Qualitative determinateness like Determinate Being did.

Being socially monogamous both male and female take part in nest-building, incubation, brooding and feeding of the young.

Being a group six sports car, the car was allowed to take part in the legendary Le Mans 24 heures race, and Sauber entered the C5 in both 1977 and 1978.

Croft decided not to have another actor take over the part of Mr. Grainger, so his character in Are You Being Served?

Being part of a team sport requires that each athlete has patience and perseverance since the goals put forth to accomplish might take some time to meet.

Being new to super-heroics, he asked Iron Man to take him on as an apprentice, which he did, to show him the ropes.

Being only thirteen, her way of cajolingly pestering him to take her to High Road to see Punch and Judy was, " Come on, Grey Wolf, take me to a pantomime ; after all, I am on my holidays.