At the time of Gustave's birth his father, an ex-soldier, was working as an administrator for the French Army but shortly after his birth his mother expanded a charcoal business she had inherited from her parents to include a coal-distribution business and soon afterwards his father gave up his job to assist her.

As a ruler, Alfonso showed legislative capacity, and a wish to provide the kingdoms expanded under his father with a code of laws and a consistent judicial system.

The curse of the Oedipus ' sons is expanded backward to include Oedipus and his father, Laius.

He later joined his father in the family timber business, which he expanded into coal, iron, shipping and whaling.

After the reception, the couple mounted a single horse and rode off to their new home, the small cottage and farm John had inherited from his father in Braintree, Massachusetts, before moving to Boston, where his law practice expanded.

The home of the city's father, William White, still stands, although it was expanded and renovated in the 17th and 18th centuries.

They were written in three-quarter time with a short introduction ; often with little or no reference to the later chain of five two-part waltz structure ; usually appended with a short coda and concluded in a stirring finish, although his son Johann Strauss II expanded the waltz structure and utilized more instruments than his father.

Under the influence of de Zúñiga and Olivares, however, Philip was then quick to place de Lerma's estates — expanded considerably during his long period as favourite — under administration, and to remove from office Cristóbal de Sandoval, Duke of Uceda, de Lerma's son, who had initially helped de Zúñiga remove from office his own father to advance his own position.

Rocket technology was already in use when Hyder's father served ( he commanded a company of 50 rocketmen ), but it was Hyder who improved them and significantly expanded their use in the military.

Artur Paredes was the father of Carlos Paredes, who followed and expanded on his work, making the Portuguese guitar an instrument known around the world.

Proud of his son's achievement, Spare's father would later inquire as to whether the publisher John Lane of Bodley Head would be interested in re-printing A Book of Satyrs, leading to the release of an expanded second edition in 1909.

Huston has recently expanded her horizons, following in her father ’ s footsteps in the director ’ s chair.

After his father ’ s death in 1973, Klemperer expanded his acting career with musical roles in opera and Broadway musicals.

King Kang followed his father King Cheng's policy and expanded the Zhou territory in the North and in the West.

Garfield, a Canadian businessman whose father George Weston established George Weston Limited, had successfully expanded overseas during the 1930s by acquiring and modernizing biscuit and bread factories throughout the United Kingdom.

Hathorne expanded on the successes of his father in building a small empire based on land and merchant trade to England and the West Indies.

The later Attalids were descended from his father, and they expanded the city into a kingdom.

The basic premise of the strip was expanded to include that Dicky's father now owned a joke shop, explaining where he got all these jokes from.

Headquartered in Hong Kong soon after 1949, Michael Kadoorie's father and uncle successfully expanded the family businesses into a diversified group, led by the company flagship CLP Holdings Ltd.

He took over a thoroughbred racing stable from his father and expanded it, winning a number of races, including the St. Leger Stakes in 1927.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the " father of modern Hebrew ", had instead used Yeshua for Jesus ( the name used in Maimonides and the expanded Josippon ) but, Kjaer-Hansen argues, this choice lost out to Yeshu as a result of Klausner's influential Hebrew work on Jesus titled Yeshu HaNotzri published in 1922.

As far as family, Groundskeeper Willie once told Principal Skinner that he had seen his own father being lynched for stealing a pig and, on another occasion, he expanded on his father's death, relating that his corpse had simply been thrown into a bog rather than receive a proper burial ( presumably in the aftermath of his sentence for pig theft ).

It expanded on the role of her father Winston and her brother Christian, also exploring the early days of her two sisters.

The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

On the death of their father, they returned to their home in Batavia, New York.

Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.

Lizzie stated during the inquest that while her father and uncle were in the sitting room the afternoon before the murders, she had been disturbed by their voices and had closed her door, even though it was a very hot day.

Finally, it did seem clear as day to these clergymen, as Gannett's son explained in the biography of his father, they had always contended for the propriety of their claim to the title of Christians.

My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them.

There was something not nice about triplets, though their father seemed pleased, showing no disappointment that they hadn't been the son he wanted, saying, `` You don't see triplets trippin' down the pike ever' day, Miss Jen, hon.

Moreover, nursing various Stubblefields -- her aunt, then her mother, then her father -- through their lengthy illnesses ( everybody could tell you the Stubblefields were always sick ), Theresa had had a chance to read quite a lot.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

Once he has received this blessing, the abbot not only becomes father of his monks in a spiritual sense, but their major superior under canon law, and has the additional authority to confer the ministries of acolyte and lector ( formerly, he could confer the minor orders, which are not sacraments, that these ministries have replaced ).

They refused to be separated from him, and built their cells round that of their spiritual father.

His father, for example, was guillotined during the French Revolution and his wife died shortly after their marriage.

Some early sources call him their father or grandfather, but considering the commonly accepted dates of the fall of Troy ( 1184 BC ) and the founding of Rome ( 753 BC ), this seems unlikely.

Agrippina and Domitius named their son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, after the Domitius ' recently deceased father.

The period of Alboin's reign as king in Pannonia following the death of his father, Audoin, was one of confrontation and conflict between the Lombards and their main neighbors, the Gepids.

The deceased's sons would receive only whatever property and riches their father had settled upon them and whatever additional lands their uncle had acquired.

His rival was sentenced to exile in Castile, and stripped of all the lands and fiefdoms donated by their father.

In 1320, Andronikos accidentally murdered his brother Manuel, whereupon their father died of grief.