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

Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.

Because of the huge interest in the Confucius family tree, there was a project in China to test the DNA of known family members.

Because he was afflicted with a limp and slight deafness due to sickness at a young age, his family ostracized him and excluded him from public office until his consulship, shared with his nephew Caligula in 37.

Because Guest's children are adopted, they cannot inherit the family barony under the terms of the letters patent that created it, though a 2004 Royal Warrant addressing the style of a peer's adopted children states that they can use courtesy titles.

Because her father's job required the family to move often, Flockhart and her brother grew up in several places including Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Norwich, New York.

Because of its genome organisation, this virus appears to belong to an entirely new family.

Because of religious persecution during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549, the Drake family fled from Devonshire into Kent.

Because of a payment to the Manfredi family by Puccini, Elvira was spared having to serve the sentence.

Because hyperthyroidism, especially Graves ’ disease, may run in families, examinations of the members of a family may reveal other individuals with thyroid problems.

Because of the many threats against Maria and Alexander III, the head of the security police, General Cherevin, shortly after the coronation urged the Tsar and his family to relocate to Gatchina Palace, a more secure location 50 kilometres outside St. Petersburg.

Because written sources covering the era are scarce, Mindaugas ' origins and family tree have not been conclusively established.

Because of his health problems, Jordan did not work at full force on the final installment A Memory of Light ( later split into three volumes beginning with The Gathering Storm ), but blog entries confirmed that he continued work on it until his death, and he shared all of the significant plot details with his family not long before he died.

Because of the Alawite composition of the Syrian armed forces, its interests are closely aligned with those of President Bashar al-Assad and the Assad family.

Because the family spent much of his childhood travelling round Europe, most of his education was by private tutors.

Because of Nuada's restoration as leader, Bres complained to his family and his father, Elatha, who sent him to seek assistance from Balor, king of the Fomorians.

Because of his low birth with no family name to the eventual achievement of Kanpaku ( Regent ), the title of highest imperial nobility, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had quite a few names throughout his life.

Because of the nature of the hero that it represented, it soon came to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family.

Because Tubman ’ s mother was assigned to " the big house " and had scarce time for her family, as a child Tubman took care of a younger brother and a baby, as was typical in large families.

Because historic homes have often existed through different generations and have been passed on from one family to another, volunteers and professionals also must decide which historical narrative to tell their visitors.

Because the family is quite old and has survived many geological events ( such as ice ages, mountain formation and continental drift ), its distribution has become scattered.

Because of this, Hasan Ali Shah decided to secure a pledge of loyalty from the members of the community to himself and to the Ismaili form of Islam.

Because it is a part-time position, all able members are expected to assist in the management of the ward by holding delegated lay positions ( for example, women's and youth leaders, teachers ) referred to as ' callings.

Because the average duration of a Central Committee meeting decreased, and fewer meetings were held, many Central Committee members were unable to speak.

Because of this, the survival ratio of full members of the Central Committee increased gradually during the era.

Because the size of the Central Committee expanded, the majority of members were either in their first or second term.

Because they rely on coercion, which is illegal except in the case of conservatorship and is generally viewed as unethical, deprogrammers ' critiques of the unethical practices of cults will tend to have less credibility with cult members than the critiques of exit counselors.

Because their movement triumphed in March ( marzo ), the anti-Flores coalition members became known as marcistas.

Because of severe shortages in weapons and equipment and lack of training, members of the Volkssturm were poorly prepared for combat, and about 175, 000 of them lost their lives in the final months of the war.

Because the group chose to adopt celibacy and their members grew older, more work gradually had to be hired out.

Because the IETF does not have members ( nor is it an organisation per se ), the Internet Society provides the financial and legal framework for the activities of the IETF and its sister bodies ( IAB, IRTF ,...).

Because organizational employees are frequently structured in the form of teams, leaders need to be aware of the potential benefits and pitfalls of working in teams, how teams develop, how to satisfy team members ' needs, and ultimately how to bring about team effectiveness and performance.

A large part of this, especially in the late-19th century, was “ to be their brother ’ s keepers, or [...] their brother ’ s brothers .” Because of this sense of duty toward the other members of the church, many Methodists were personally temperate out of a hope that their restraint would give strength to their brothers.

Because many Molokans were not educated in English and could not transliterate the spelling of their names, when individual families members were called to separate immigration windows and said their last name, the spelling used was based on of the immigration agent's ability to sound out the name.

Because the cluster members are of similar age and chemical composition, the effects of other stellar properties are more easily determined than they are for isolated stars.

Because the stars in an open cluster are all at roughly the same distance from Earth, and were born at roughly the same time from the same raw material, the differences in apparent brightness among cluster members is due only to their mass.

Because many members of religious traditions believe in things that exist in profoundly different ways from more everyday things, objects of religious belief both create particular philosophical problems and define central metaphysical concepts.

Because a state can only be admitted to the UN by the approval of the Security Council and the General Assembly, a number of states that may be considered sovereign states according to the Montevideo Convention criteria are not members because the UN does not consider them to possess sovereignty, mainly due to the lack of international recognition or opposition from certain members.

Because of these attitudes, there are many games and types of games that may appear to be a wargame at first glance, but are not accepted as such by members of the hobby, and many that would be considered debatable.

Because the US Congress was divided between slave and non-slave state members, it could not reach agreement on supporting construction of a particular route.

Because the raids targeted entire organizations, agents arrested everyone found in organization meeting halls, not only arresting non-radical organization members but also visitors who did not belong to a target organization, and sometimes American citizens not eligible for arrest and deportation.

Because Indian tribal governments retain sovereignty over tribal members, the U. S. Congress in 1968 enacted a law that essentially applies most of the protections of the Bill of Rights to tribal members, to be enforced mainly by tribal courts.