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Meanings of non-being in English
State of not existing.
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Examples for "nothing"
Examples for "nothing"
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However, Mr Mark said the government's concerns about China were nothing new.
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There is, of course, an easier solution to this problem: do nothing.
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A year later, nothing and everything was new in New Port City.
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Though she said nothing, her body language provided a clear enough answer.
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However, police today found the unlicensed private investigator had done nothing wrong.
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However, the lack of grazing animals wasn't all good news for plants.
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That need not lead to a lack of oil, however, Voser said.
3
Southern Europe has not solved its fiscal problems and lack of competitiveness.
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Many of these victims lack the adequate support from family and community.
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Various factors are responsible, mainly lack of resources, or resources ineffectively used.
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In the absence of good news, the tourism industry requires some news.
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After 15 days' absence from work, his boss fired him, he said.
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Therefore the absence of records could mean it's on a different list.
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In the absence of any answer at all, every answer becomes possible.
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By late afternoon, we're beginning to get uneasy about Tigris's long absence.
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Patients: Case reports-twopatients with thrombosis and family history of AT-IIIdeficiency.
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Protein deficiency can very easily become a problem if you're not careful.
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Recent research revealed altered mineral distribution within sheep femora following estrogen deficiency.
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Healthcare providers may use the comparative data to identify areas of deficiency.
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Thus CXCR4-using virus may emerge as a possible consequence of immune deficiency.
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It seemed a long way to climb, upon nothing, to reach nothingness.
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His right foot disappeared into nothingness, but he managed to catch himself.
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It is darkness seen through light; a contrasting of existence and nothingness.
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They can be shattered into nothingness in the fraction of a second.
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Her own little struggles faded into nothingness in the shadow of his.
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The company literally dissolved into virtual non-existence in a matter of weeks.
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Before starving into non-existence, it's time to stop and think about something.
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He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God.
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To-night, again and again, you have asserted the non-existence of innate ideas.
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We are gravely assured, that the non-existence of God is not demonstrated.
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The Scriptures describe it in terms that affirm utter destruction, resulting in nonexistence.
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But he spoke to empty air; the holoscan had already flickered to nonexistence.
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He is not, and yet his nonexistence exists in this world.
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The second proposition is that existence and nonexistence are both relative.
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You cannot prove its existence or nonexistence except as a word.
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The reason is the inexistence of sufficient data on XZM models.
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We are familiar with death - widely considered the most common form of inexistence.
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This intentional inexistence is exclusively peculiar to psychical phenomena.
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Eternity is not of longer duration than one second spent in nihility.
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Zalman explained: 'From the standpoint of the Infinite, blessed be He, all the worlds are as if literally nothing and nihility.'
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It was not, however, in order to arrive at that state of delicious, intellectual nihility, thai we had gone to mysterious Whitechapel.
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I was sleeping the eternal, dreamless sleep so deeply; I was at last enjoying such sweet repose amidst the delights of nihility!
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This is no better than trying to create it ex nihilo.
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This is a mystical interpretation of the traditional doctrine of the creation ex nihilo.
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While a minority with limited popular appeal, the Ustashe did not materialize ex nihilo.
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Falsafah came to reject creation ex nihilo, so al-Kindi cannot really be described as a true Faylasuf.
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The old maxim "nihil ex nihilo fit" is as true in commerce as in chemistry.
Usage of non-being in English
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It is a state of being which is as it were non-being.
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Now ignorance is a non-being, since it is a privation of knowledge.
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Now nothing is opposed to the idea of being except non-being.
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Being in its possibility is no more non-being than is reality.
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The fairy world is an ephemeral place of non-being, High Lord.
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And they are just rendered into non-being, what they do to stay alive.
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Ultimately, only it could define its own state of non-being.
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Again, evil, since it is a privation and a non-being, cannot differentiate any being.
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But non-being cannot be a difference, according to the Philosopher (Metaph.
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It is difficult indeed to distinguish between pure being and pure non-being as a category.
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The softness of an uncertain voice awakened her from the withdrawal in a capsule of non-being.
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He thus combined two characters, formless form, immortal and mortal, being and non-being, motion and rest.
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But "non-being" does not require being as its subject.
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If being and non-being are both necessary to the presence of either, neither shall claim priority or preference.
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Some define existence as the expression of reality or being, and non-existence as non-being, imagining that death is annihilation.
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Thus matter is to Aristotle a much more positive substratum than to Plato, who declares it to be pure non-being.
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Portuguese
Non-being through the time