Being semi-aquatic its habitat was around fresh pools of water in wet forests, ambushing their prey, much like modern species.

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 very robust, they are also well-suited to harsh environmental conditions.

Being a university town, Lincoln has had a thriving music scene since the 1950s.

Being a gentleman, he mingled in aristocratic circles, while also coming under the influence and then leading the evangelical renewal movement thriving at the time ( the European Continental counterpart to the Second Great Awakening ), known in the Netherlands as the Réveil.

Being a coastal district, Barguna has a thriving fishing industry.

Being so close to an estuary, Penclawdd is thriving with wildlife.

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

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.

He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich ( that gave him an Academy Award for Best Director nomination ) and the 2002 film Adaptation, and as the co-writer / director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.

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

* Dr. George A. Sheehan ( 1918 – 93 ), a cardiologist, authored numerous books on running and life, including the New York Times best seller Running & Being.

Being the largest in the county and having the best opportunities for education, the Atoka Public Schools System has students from all over Atoka County, although there are three other small high schools in Caney, Stringtown, and Tushka.

* Stephen Chbosky, novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for the coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Being nestled in the hills of Texas Hill Country, Kerrville is best known for its beautiful parks that line the Guadalupe River-which runs directly through the city, its nearby youth summer camps, hunting ranches, and RV parks.

The album contained re-workings of tracks such as " Temptation " along with versions of Ware songs best known from his time with the Human League, including " Being Boiled " and " Empire State Human ", as well as a cover of the Associates ' hit " Party Fears Two ".

Coming to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man ( perhaps best typified by his performance in the 1939 romantic comedy Ninotchka ), Douglas later transitioned into more mature and fatherly roles as in his Academy Award-winning performances in Hud ( 1963 ) and Being There ( 1979 ).

But Gielgud was best known for directing productions in which he also starred, including his greatest commercial success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ), his definitive production of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939, 1942, 1947 ), Medea with Judith Anderson's Tony Award-winning performance of the title role with Gielgud supporting her as Jason ( 1947 ), The Lady's Not for Burning ( 1949 ) that won Richard Burton his first notoriety as an actor, and Ivanov ( 1965 ).

Being of significant means he paid for all of his sons to receive the best education the region had to offer.

Being irreplaceable as the Lone Ranger's best friend he subsequently also appeared in The Lone Ranger ( 1956 ) as well as in The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold ( 1958 ).

He is best remembered for his roles as the Sultan in The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ), the poetically-inclined hangman in Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) and as Dr. Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ).

His screenplay also tied with the ones for Being John Malkovich and American Beauty as the best of the year.

She is best known for her starring role as Tracy Turnblad in the original Hairspray, her documentary film The Business of Being Born, and her talk show which was broadcast internationally from 1993 – 2004.

Harold Bennett ( 17 September 1899 – 15 September 1981 ) was an English actor best remembered for having played ' Young Mr. Grace ' in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served ?.

" Being optimistic, in the typical sense of the word, ultimately means one expects the best possible outcome from any given situation.

The movie has ideas enough for half a dozen films, but Jonze and his cast handle them so surely that we never feel hard-pressed ; we're enchanted by one development after the next " and he also felt that " Either Being John Malkovich gets nominated for best picture, or the members of the Academy need portals into their brains.

Still, the film was successful enough to warrant a parody ( The Days of Being Dumb, which also featured Tony Leung ), and now routinely tops Hong Kong critics ' lists of the best local productions.

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 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 the original vision of Carnegie, the library grew quickly to house the best collection of international law.

* Pablo Fanque, 19th-century British tightrope walker and " rope dancer ", among other talents, although best known as the first black circus owner in Britain, and for his mention in the Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!