being as
Conjunction
Meaning
being as
(informal, possibly nonstandard) Considering the fact that; since; given that.
Being as you're so clever, why don't you fix it yourself?
Synonyms
Examples
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant.
I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.
Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God - or the universal woman-and-man - or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.