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 the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

Because of her father's work in health care and with UNESCO, the family moved many times, living in towns across the U. S, as well as in England, France, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, and the Middle East, including Iraq, where they were in 1951.

Because of his father's problems, Sinclair had to move school several times.

Because of his youth at his father's death, his mother acted as a regent.

Because of his father's profession, O ' Neill was sent to a Catholic boarding school where he found his only solace in books.

Because of its surname, his father's family appears to have been associated with French-descended settlers.

Because of his father's career and World War I, the family moved several times, and mother and son sometimes lived apart from Powell's father.

Because of his father's and his own political anticommunist believes and commitment to freedom was declared by the Yugoslav regime enemy Number One of the Yugoslav State and a top CIA agent.

Because of his father's death when Rice was quite young, he lived with friends.

Because of his influence and that of her father, and possibly because her mother was constantly ill, she took to her father's side and was reading financial papers to him by the age of six.

Because of his father's conquest, Abdullah immediately had to face an invasion of his domains by an Ottoman-Egyptian army under the command of Ibrahim Pasha, the son of Muhammad Ali.

Because of the circumstances surrounding her father's death, the couple agreed to marry with a minimum of celebration.

Because of the patrilineal make-up of their society, in which children inherit their father's ethnicity, this was used as a method of ethnic cleansing.

Because it had been unclear whether he would inherit his father's position, this successful transfer of power was a demonstration of the stability of the Fatimid dynasty.

Because he had three older brothers, Grey didn't expect to inherit his father's titles and estates, so he pursued a career in the military.

Because Robert Taft did not have his father's middle name, Alphonso, he was not technically a ' Jr.

Because his father was a connoisseur of the arts, Jones III early visited Europe and the Levant on his father's summer tours.

Because of his father's career as an ambassador, much of Platt's childhood was spent in Asia, the Middle East, and Washington, D. C. Platt attended twelve different schools, including the American School in Japan, and has said " Even now I find myself envying people who have neighborhoods and roots.

Because he was still a minor at his father's death, his mother acted as regent of Brittany while her brother Richard II, Duke of Normandy assumed guardianship over Brittany.

Because his father's claim to the title was disputed, the subject of this article has often been numbered John IV, while his father has been referred to as simply " John de Montfort ".

Because of her father's career, Parker spent parts of her childhood in Tennessee and Texas, as well as in Thailand, Germany, and France.

Because of Dube's father's conversion to Christianity by early missionaries in pre-republic South Africa, he did not rule over his Qadi people.

Because of his father's prominence he was godson of English queen Philippa of Hainault, who held him in her arms during his baptism.

Because of his size at the time, Norman couldn't help when he had the chance ( he was unable to lift his father's war-axe ), and thus blamed himself for the tragedy ; at his father's grave, he vowed to become the greatest warrior that ever lived ( cf.

Because of this and other victories by Wallenstein, Denmark was forced to sue for peace at the Treaty of Lübeck, but this disrupted the balance of power in Europe resulting in Swedish involvement in 1630 under their redoubtable leader, the brilliant King and Field General Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden who had been attempting to dominate the Baltic for the previous ten years in wars with Poland, then a continental power of note.

Because of those victories, Washington's army reenlisted, the French finally approved arms and supplies to the Americans and a stunned Cornwallis pulled his forces back to New York to reassess the surprising American successes.

Because of his victories, his subordinates ( mostly Belarusian, Cossack, and Polish volunteers ) nicknamed him ataman, though some preferred to use the term Bat ' ko-father.

Because of this previous result, and Stosur's victories over four-time French Open champion Justine Henin, World No. 1 Serena Williams and World No. 4 Janković en route to the final, Stosur was considered a heavy favorite to defeat Schiavone.

Because there is no external pressure for the gas to expand against, the work done by or on the system is zero.

Because of this incident, authorities found it necessary, in the months following, to implement a policy against announcing victims ’ names until after families had first been informed.

Because the length of the lunar month is not an even fraction of the length of the tropical year, a purely lunar calendar quickly drifts against the seasons, which don't vary much near the equator.

Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings so that they make a rhythmic " slap " sound against the fingerboard.

Because of this it could not raise a strong resistance against invaders, and were easily defeated and subjugated by the Shyris, ancient indigenous people who joined the Kingdom of Quito.

Because most malignant cells rely on the activity of the protein telomerase for their immortality, it has been proposed that a drug that inactivates telomerase might be effective against a broad spectrum of malignancies.

Because of a US military embargo against Germany that restricted helium supplies, the Hindenburg, like all German Zeppelins, was forced to use hydrogen as the lift gas.

Because of the biblical proscription against false prophets, Christianity has always been occupied with the orthodox interpretation of the faith.

Because of the coup attempted by Moscow hardliners against the Gorbachev government in August 1991, the Union Treaty never was signed.

Because of this, many physicians advise against sports involving knockouts.

Because Luthor now sees Superboy as a failed experiment of using the " wrong alien DNA ," he and Brainiac create another binary clone with their own genetics for another plan against the entire House of El.

Because it is a protective measure intended to safeguard the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, it does not prevent the police from taking blood without a warrant from persons suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol.

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 it is a biological scavenger ( and universal target ) it is currently the only therapeutic agent effective in providing complete stoichiometric protection against the entire spectrum of organo-phosphorus nerve agents.

According to Memi: It is a song against racism, so I wanted to sing it with a North African who was born in France [...] Because of that and because of his talent, I chose K-Mel.

Because the principle allowing revocation authority for keys is very powerful, the mechanisms used to control it should involve both as many participants as possible ( to guard against malicious attacks of this type ), while at the same time as few as possible ( to ensure that a key can be revoked without dangerous delay ).

Because rhodium metal is inert against corrosion and most aggressive chemicals, and because of its rarity, rhodium is usually alloyed with platinum or palladium and applied in high-temperature and corrosion-resistive coatings.

Because women are also more likely to be injured by intimate partners, research aimed at understanding and preventing partner violence against women should be stressed.

Because this revolution takes place in underdeveloped, largely pre-capitalist countries such as Russia, Leninism establishes a single-party, authoritarian state, justifying single-party control over the state and economy as a means to safeguard the revolution against counter-revolutionary insurrection and foreign invasion.

Because the Spending Clause does not give any power to the Executive Branch or the Judicial Branch, officials of agencies in the Executive Branch may not enter into agreements tolling the statute of limitations, and courts may not toll the statute of limitations under equitable tolling principles in claims against the United States.

Because of prejudice against her gender, she was unable to make a career out of mathematics, but she worked independently throughout her life.

Because it uses frequency modulation, SECAM is not linear with respect to the input image ( this is also what protects it against signal distortion ), so electrically mixing two ( synchronized ) SECAM signals does not yield a valid SECAM signal, unlike with analog PAL or NTSC.

Because of Jackson's star power, the Fox network declined to broadcast counter-programming against the halftime show like they did during Super Bowl XXVI's show in the previous year ( Fox aired a special live edition of In Living Color on that occasion ).

Because of the operation of Commodore floppy drives, one write protection scheme would cause the floppy drive head to bang against the end of its rail, which could cause the drive head to become misaligned.

Because North had been granted limited immunity for his Congressional testimony, the law prohibited the independent counsel ( or any prosecutor ) from using that testimony as part of a criminal case against him.