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 it was extraordinarily expensive the Pascaline became little more than a toy, and status symbol, for the very rich both in France and throughout Europe.

Because of his special status due to the virgin birth and his pure, unselfish nature, Jesus voluntarily faced his struggle in Gethsemane, death, resurrection, and ascension to show humanity that no phase of mortal existence was beyond God's redeeming love.

Because of Euclidean geometry's fundamental status in mathematics, it would be impossible to give more than a representative sampling of applications here.

Because of this, some medical professionals advise the use of condoms when performing or receiving fellatio with a partner whose STD status is unknown.

Because of its international status, there was a desire to regulate the French language.

Because of the lengthy court process and appeals, the legal status of Parker Brothers ' trademarks on the game was not settled until the late 1970s.

Because classes do not have any formal status in the theory of ZF, the axioms of ZF do not immediately apply to classes.

Because of the low social status of immigrant workers, contemporary writers and media had little trouble portraying opium dens as seats of vice, white slavery, gambling, knife and revolver fights, a source for drugs causing deadly overdoses, with the potential to addict and corrupt the white population.

Because of the Passover sacrifice's status as a sacred offering, the only people allowed to eat it were those who had the obligation to bring the offering.

Because of the public domain status, the film is sold on home video by many distributors.

Because of the structure of the programmes and its unique global status, the University has an academic calendar that enables bringing on board the most highly acclaimed academicians and practitioners from around the world.

Because slavery was illegal in Mexico, these settlers made their slaves sign agreements giving them the status of indentured servants – essentially slavery by another name.

* Mental health exam: Because insomnia may be a symptom of depression, anxiety, or another mental health disorder, a mental status exam, mental health history, and basic mental evaluations may be part of the assessment for a person complaining of insomnia.

Because of the generally low status of the Creole peoples in the eyes of prior European colonial powers, creole languages have generally been regarded as " degenerate " languages, or at best as rudimentary " dialects " of the politically dominant parent languages.

Because the vitamin activity was first identified in 1936 from a dietary fertility factor in rats, it was given the name " tocopherol " from the Greek words " τόκος ", and " φέρειν ", bear or carry meaning in sum " to carry a pregnancy ," with the ending "- ol " signifying its status as a chemical alcohol.

Because of his singular status, Turner is regarded as a hero by some African Americans and pan-Africanists worldwide.

Because the rate of filtration at the kidney is proportional to the glomerular filtration rate, which is in turn related to the blood flow through the kidney, changes in body fluid status can affect kidney function.

Because of its status as a transport hub, Cotonou has become a crossroads of West African commerce, with much trade moving here from Abidjan because of the Ivorian Civil War.

) Because the prefectural status of Hokkaido is denoted by the dō in its name, it is rarely referred to as " Hokkaido Prefecture ", except when necessary to distinguish the governmental entity from the island.

Because of his status, most of his family members were forced to flee into Honduras, Guatemala, and the United States, it is uncertain where the remaining Somozas live given the fact that they changed their names to protect their own lives.

Because their condition usually lowered their social status, they could also be easily replaced or killed without repercussion.

Because some of the new boroughs or districts covered areas much wider than the previous city, this had the effect that city status was awarded to a number of local government districts which were not themselves towns and included a number of towns and villages outside the urban areas from which the districts took their names, for example the cities of Bradford, Leeds and Winchester.

Because most Reform and Reconstructionist temples have abolished traditional tribal distinctions, roles, and identities on grounds of egalitarianism, a special status for a bat Kohen has very little significance in these movements.

Because of its specialist status, it receives extra funding from the government for extending its wide variety of educational activities.

Because of this, an entry in the 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language went something like this: " FOO: The first syllable of the misquoted sacred chant phrase ' foo mane padme hum.

Because of this, set-top boxes are often placed beneath televisions, and the term set-top box has become something of a misnomer, possibly helping the adoption of the term digibox.

# Because the limited always finds its limit in something, so that there must be no limit, if everything is always limited by something different from itself.

Because of this, each has been described as believing that human and God, regardless of the all immense difference, are sharing something of great importance that can bind them together: " You've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull.

Because of this inclusion, Burchard has been described as something of a rationalist.

Because they are located at a higher elevation than Lima, they receive more sunshine in winter months, something that the city of Lima frequently lacks under seasonal fog.

Because of her upbringing, Lisa always has access to the latest fashions and knows when something is in and when it is not.

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 it can be applied to completely arbitrary distributions ( unknown except for mean and variance ), the inequality generally gives a poor bound compared to what might be possible if something is known about the distribution involved.

Because of the worsened family finances and Gustaf Mannerheim's serious discipline problems in school, Albert von Julin decided to send him to the school of the Finnish Cadet Corps in Hamina in 1882 to learn self-discipline ( something he excelled in as an adult ) and a profession.

' Months later I asked him why he said that, and he said, ' Because you were wearing something Armani '.

Because of this there is something uniquely personal contained in the photograph of Barthes ’ s mother that cannot be removed from his subjective state: the recurrent feeling of loss experienced whenever he looks at it.

Because trains are wider than the A32-trams, and so in passing something about the low platforms that protrude platforms, there are low platforms made extra warning stripes.

Because an actual infinite is deemed impossible by Avicenna, this chain as a whole must terminate in a being that is wholly simple and one, whose essence is its very existence, and therefore is self-sufficient and not in need of something else to give it existence.

Because its existence is not contingent on or necessitated by something else but is necessary and eternal in itself, it satisfies the condition of being the necessitating cause of the entire chain that constitutes the eternal world of contingent existing things.

Because a legal entity with liability limited to the contributed capital was regarded in the 19th century as something dangerous, German law has many restrictions unknown to common law systems.

Because people's sense of dignity is secure in this case, they are better able to respond to the criticism, and indeed do something about it.

Because of the unresolved issues, however, Knox and others became vigorous proponents of a stronger national government, something which leading political leaders ( including Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams ) opposed at the time.

Because they do so little by themselves, a computer program could use a Softmodem as something other than a modem ; for example, it could emulate an answering machine or a signal generator.

Because it is not possible to know something that doesn't exist, not knowing the future does not affect God's omniscience.

Because of its roots in comedy and show business, the word shtick has a connotation of a contrived and often-used act — something done deliberately, but perhaps not sincerely.

Because the overwhelming majority of Western popular music is in song form, it would seem that most popular music is programmatic by nature: it has lyrics, therefore it is about something other than the music itself.

As Stoddard explains, " Because I didn't want to take something that already existed, there were things I thought were great, but there were things I wanted to change a bit.