Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

Because of the vulnerability of a player in such a position, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) and the National Federation of State High School Associations (" Fed ") have adopted rules providing that if a player is positioned at least 7 yards behind the neutral zone to receive a snap, opponents are not to deliberately contact the snapper until one second after the snap ( NCAA ), or until the snapper has a chance to react ( Fed ).

Because the result of scaling by whole numbers can be thought of as consisting of some number of copies of the original, whole-number products greater than 1 can be computed by repeated addition ; for example, 3 multiplied by 4 ( often said as " 3 times 4 ") can be calculated by adding 4 copies of 3 together:

Because of the many chemicals ( a. k. a. " metabolites ") that may be involved, metabolic pathways can be quite elaborate.

Because yü ( as in 玉 " jade ") must have a diaeresis in Wade, the diaeresis-less yu in Wade – Giles is freed up for what corresponds to you ( 有 ) in Pinyin.

Because of his alleged improprieties, he was lambasted in a song Chirac en prison (" Chirac in jail ") by French punk band Les Wampas, with a video clip made by the Guignols.

Because these LEO orbits are not geostationary, a network ( or " constellation ") of satellites is required to provide continuous coverage.

Because of their distinctive cones, Douglas-firs were finally placed in the new genus Pseudotsuga ( meaning " false hemlock ") by the French botanist Carrière in 1867.

Because these aircraft are frequently operated by smaller airlines that are contracted to provide (" feed ") passengers from smaller cities to hub airports ( and reverse ) for a " major " or " flag " carrier, regional airliners may be painted in the liveries of the major airline for whom they provide this " feeder " service.

Because VLIWs typically represent instructions scheduled in parallel with a longer instruction word that incorporates the individual instructions, this results in a much longer opcode ( thus the term " very long ") to specify what executes on a given cycle.

Because of its prolific use during this period, the American Dialect Society voted " weapons of mass destruction " ( and its abbreviation, " WMD ") the word of the year in 2002, and in 2003 Lake Superior State University added WMD to its list of terms banished for " Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness ".

Because, says Machiavelli, he wants to write something useful to those who understand, he thought it more fitting " to go directly to the effectual truth (" verità effettuale ") of the thing than to the imagination of it ".

Because of the way they work, the typical exhaust speed of jet engines is transonic or faster, therefore most jet aircraft need to fly at high speeds, either supersonic or speeds just below the speed of sound (" transonic ") so as to achieve efficient flight.

Because suede does not include the tough exterior skin layer, suede is less durable but softer than standard (" full-grain ") leather.

Because of the widespread longtime popularity of The Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's hazards — whether originally from Bunyan or borrowed by him from the Bible — the " Slough of Despond ", the " Hill Difficulty ", " Valley of the Shadow of Death ", " Doubting Castle ", and the " Enchanted Ground ", his temptations ( the wares of " Vanity Fair " and the pleasantness of " By-Path Meadow "), his foes (" Apollyon " and " Giant Despair "), and the helpful stopping places he visits ( the " House of the Interpreter ", the " House Beautiful ", the " Delectable Mountains ", and the " Land of Beulah ") have become commonly used phrases proverbial in English.

Because wetsuits offer significant protection from jellyfish, coral, sunburn and other hazards, many divers opt to wear a thin suit which provides minimal insulation ( often called a " bodysuit ") even when the water is warm enough to comfortably forego insulating garments.

Because of this lack of identity contemporaries were unsure what to call the kingdom and so it became regnum quondam Lotharii or Lotharii regnum (" kingdom Lothair's ") and its inhabitants Lotharii ( from Lotharius ), Lotharienses ( from Lothariensis ), or Lotharingi ( which gives the modern German Lothringen, which is the name of the province ).

Because the Rite of Constantinople evolved as a synthesis of two distinct rites — cathedral rite of Constantinople called the " asthmatiki akolouthia " (" sung services ") and the monastic typicon of the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified near Jerusalem — its offices are highly developed and quite complex.

Because of the wide spacing of the posts, thin metal or wood spacers ( or " droppers ") may be attached to the wires between posts to maintain their spacing.

In modern Hungarian, the script is known as, or, ; for short also simply " notch, score ") Because it is superficially reminiscent of the runic alphabet, the Old Hungarian script has also been described as " runic " or " runiform ".

Bolocco began a television career in Chile with the show Porque hoy es sábado (" Because it's Saturday ") on TVN ( Chile ) Televisión Nacional de Chile.

Because of this composition, the National Assembly was later often dismissively dubbed the Professorenparlament (" Professors ' parliament ") and ridiculed with verses such as „ Dreimal 100 Advokaten – Vaterland, du bist verraten ; dreimal 100 Professoren – Vaterland, du bist verloren !“ (" Three times 100 advocates-Fatherland, you are betrayed ; three times 100 professors-Fatherland, you are doomed ".

Because of his difficult relations with Bellerose, in 1627 Hardy started writing for a rival troupe of actors ( the " Vieux Comédiens du Roi ") around Claude Deschamps which performed at the Théâtre du Marais.

" Because of the complexity of the 鰲 (" o ") character, and because crows were abundant in the area, the Japanese changed the name to 烏山, meaning " bird mountain.

The leader is only a spokesperson for the group when it has to deal with other groups (" international relations ") but has no inside authority, and may be violently removed if he attempts to abuse this position.

Algae ( or ; singular alga, Latin for " seaweed ") are a very large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

The name of the group is derived from the Arabic ابو, abu (" father of ") and sayyaf (" Swordsmith ").

* 1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols ( also known as " National Democrats ") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.

A backplane ( or " backplane system ") is a group of electrical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors forming a computer bus.

In 1997, a group led by Vladimiro Roca, a decorated veteran of the Angolan war and the son of the founder of the Cuban Communist Party, sent a petition, entitled La Patria es de Todos (" the homeland belongs to all ") to the Cuban general assembly requesting democratic and human rights reforms.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

The show is set in the Cheers bar ( named for the toast " Cheers ") in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, chat and have fun.

A clade ( from Ancient Greek, klados, " branch ") or monophylum ( see monophyletic ) is a group consisting of an ancestor and all its descendants, a single " branch " on the " tree of life ".

— " brethren in Christ ") are a Christian group that developed in the United Kingdom and North America in the 19th century.

The South Korean army issues two long, rectangular tags with oval ends, stamped ( in Korean letters ) with " Ryuk Gun " (" Army ") above personal number, with name below that and blood group at bottom.

Flame trolling is the posting of a provocative or offensive message, known as " flamebait ", to a public Internet discussion group, such as a forum, newsgroup or mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response ( a " flame ") or argument over a topic the poster often has no real interest in.

Some also dress in costumes (" cosplay ") or recite lines of dialogue either out-of-context or as part of a group reenactment.

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians ( or " irregulars ") use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target, and withdraw almost immediately.

A group action is an extension to the definition of a symmetry group in which every element of the group " acts " like a bijective transformation ( or " symmetry ") of some set, without being identified with that transformation.

Hezbollah (, literally " Party of Allah " or " Party of God ") is a Shi ' a Islamic militant group and political party based in Lebanon.

There was also increasing opposition to the use of psychiatric hospitals, and attempts to move people back into the community on a collaborative user-led group approach (" therapeutic communities ") not controlled by psychiatry.

In biochemistry, ligase ( from the Latin verb ligāre — " to bind " or " to glue together ") is an enzyme that can catalyze the joining of two large molecules by forming a new chemical bond, usually with accompanying hydrolysis of a small chemical group dependent to one of the larger molecules or the enzyme catalyzing the linking together of two compounds .... e. g.: Enzymes which catalyze joining of C-O, C-S, C-N etc.

The most important group of sources, the biographies contained in the Historia Augusta, claim to be written by a group of authors at the turn of the 4th century, but are in fact written by a single author ( referred to here as " the biographer ") from the later 4th century ( c. 395 ).

The Maasai ( sometimes spelled " Masai " or " Masaai ") are a Nilotic ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya and northern Tanzania.