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 letters usually stand for consonants, it is classified as an abjad.

Because of this, is usually a more effective choice under these operating systems ; sensitivity for these two combinations can be enhanced by the CONFIG. SYS statement.

Because a server usually does not know how a document is encoded — especially if documents are created on different platforms or in different regions — many servers simply do not include a reference to the "" in the header, thus avoiding making false promises.

Because of statistical probability and restrictions on the relative diameters of the individual tubes, one of the shells, and thus the whole MWNT, is usually a zero-gap metal.

Because of its large size, Cs < sup >+</ sup > usually adopts coordination numbers greater than six-coordination, which is typical for the lighter alkali metal cations.

Because of the complex shape of this space, it is usually measured directly rather than calculated.

Because this cocoa mass usually is liquefied then molded with or without other ingredients, it is called chocolate liquor.

Because the number of " words " that can be formed is vastly larger than in standard English, the board usually ends up tightly packed in places, and necessarily quite empty in others.

Because these paired books had to fit a fixed total page length, one or both were usually abridged to fit, and Wollheim often made other editorial alterations — as witness the differences between Poul Anderson's Ace novel War of the Wing-Men and its definitive revised edition, The Man Who Counts.

Because forest canopies are usually higher than this, rain drops can often regain terminal velocity even after striking the canopy.

* Because the device is never shut off completely there is no " turn on " time, little problem with charge storage, and generally better high frequency performance and feedback loop stability ( and usually fewer high-order harmonics ).

Because the output pulses have a fixed amplitude, the switching elements ( usually MOSFETs, but valves ( vacuum tubes ) and bipolar transistors were once used ) are switched either completely on or completely off, rather than operated in linear mode.

Because of these and other side-effects, it is usually reserved for patients having exhausted other treatment options.

Because of the incompleteness of the fossil record, there is usually no way to know exactly how close a transitional fossil is to the point of divergence.

Because of the softness of pure ( 24k ) gold, it is usually alloyed with base metals for use in jewelry, altering its hardness and ductility, melting point, color and other properties.

Because of their size, eyesight and powerful kicks, adult giraffes are usually not subject to predation.

Because thyroid tissue usually contains a substantial reserve of thyroid hormone, thyrostatics can take weeks to become effective, and the dose often needs to be carefully titrated over a period of months, with regular doctor visits and blood tests to monitor results.

Because it is usually more convenient to work with unrestricted integrals than restricted ones, we have chosen our normalizing constant to reflect this.

Because of its high reactivity, lithium never occurs freely in nature, and instead, only appears in compounds, which are usually ionic.

Because of its reactivity with water, lithium is usually stored under cover of a viscous hydrocarbon, often petroleum jelly.

Because of this, these devices are usually operated between crossed polarizers such that they appear bright with no voltage ( the eye is much more sensitive to variations in the dark state than the bright state ).

Because a compound word is composed of established lexeme they are usually easier to acquire than loan words or neologisms.

Because of this, a conjure hand is also considered a hoodoo bag ; usually made by a respected community conjure doctor.

Because a mole of molecules may contain a variety of molecular masses due to natural isotopes, the average mass is usually not identical to the mass of any single molecule.

Because your soul was made to be filled with God Himself, not religious functions `` about '' Him.

Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.

Because of independence, the decision whether to use of the axiom of choice ( or its negation ) in a proof cannot be made by appeal to other axioms of set theory.

Because nearly every family made bread for their own consumption, wheat was the main staple of the average diet in Britain.

Because digital communications are generally error-free, copies of copies can be made indefinitely.

Because of the resemblance to Damascus steel, higher-end barrels were made by Belgian and British gun makers.

Because this puts a large strain on the flow for the only two traffic crossings over the Detroit River, proposals have been made to create a third crossing to connect Detroit and Windsor.

Because they expose more assumptions, E-Prime statements invite challenge more readily than those made using the verb " to be ".

Because educational assessment is fundamental to most quantitative research in the field, educational psychologists have made significant contributions to the field of psychometrics.

Because of this, Takauji made Emperor Kōgon's second son Imperial Prince Iyahito emperor ( First Fushimi-no-miya ).

Because SOFCs are made entirely of solid materials, they are not limited to the flat plane configuration of other types of fuel cells and are often designed as rolled tubes.

Because Arbenz could not be pressured to take into consideration the arguments made to prevent expropriation from UFCo, his government was undermined with propaganda.

Because Latin words are quite ( though not completely ) self-contained, an intelligible Latin sentence can be made from elements that are placed in a largely arbitrary order.

Because corned black powder grains made with saltpeter are less affected by moisture in the air, they can be stored unsealed without degradation by humidity.

Because the leadership of the minority government had made the vote on the budget vote a " vote of confidence " in the minority government, the defeat of the Disraeli budget was a " vote of no confidence " in the minority government and meant the downfall of the minority government.

Because the rugged terrain has made the land difficult to traverse and equally difficult to cultivate, this area has not been highly developed.

Because of this, Finkelstein repeatedly asserts that " fraudulent " claims were made on Switzerland, while accounts and assets in the US and Israel were ignored.

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples ( known as toffee apples outside North America ), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

Because of the judicial system's basis, court decisions are made in accordance with legal statutes.

He recorded the song " Because ", which was made famous by The Dave Clark Five, in the UK for Clark's 1986 musical, Time ( the single is out of print ).

Because of the crimes perpetrated by Mau Mau and because the Kikuyu have made themselves Mau Mau.

Because of its central location, it was made the district capital of Hulu Langat.

Because Kahlúa is made from coffee beans, it does contain a small amount of caffeine.

Because housing assignments are made based on the preferences of the students themselves, diverse social atmospheres can be sustained in different living groups ; for example, according to the Yale Daily News Staff's The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010, " The split between East Campus and West Campus is a significant characteristic of MIT.