He owed his elevation to the influence of the Normans.

He owed his elevation to the throne to Caecina and Fabius Valens, commanders of two legions on the Rhine.

He owed his elevation to Empress Zoe, daughter of Emperor Constantine VIII and wife of Romanos III Argyros.

Upon his elevation, Allen wrote to the College at Rheims, that he owed his Cardinal's hat ( also ) to Parsons.

In his influential A History of Australia ( Melbourne University Press 1961 ) Clark wrote: " Mr Thomas Townshend, commonly denominated Tommy Townshend, owed his political career to a very independent fortune and a considerable parliamentary interest, which contributed to his personal no less than his political elevation, for his abilities, though respectable, scarcely rose above mediocrity.

Johnson also owed his subsequent elevation to Majority Leader to Rayburn.

He is probably owed his elevation to the throne.

He possibly owed his elevation to the Kentish monarch.

Others say that he owed his elevation to King Æthelbert II of Kent, but all these stories rest on works that were written after the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

According to Gerald Donaldson, " some thought title owed more to stealth than skill, an opinion at least partly based on Brabham's low-key presence.

The discovery of copper is owed partly to an American scout, Frederick Russell Burnham, who in 1895 lead and oversaw the massive Northern Territories ( BSA ) Exploration Co. expedition which established for the Western world that major copper deposits existed in Central Africa.

The discovery of copper is owed partly to Frederick Russell Burnham, the famous American scout who worked for Cecil Rhodes.

He owed his escape from the violence of competitors and nobles, partly to the tact and undaunted bravery of his mother Maria de Molina, and partly to the loyalty of the citizens of Ávila, who gave him refuge within their walls.

He owed his successful career partly to the patronage of the distinguished Bulkeley family of north Wales, and later to the Earl of Macclesfield.

) are especially noteworthy, partly because they were to have a more profound influence on Renaissance tragedians than their Greek originals .” Conventions commonly associated with Renaissance tragedies, most popularly Shakespeare, that are owed to Seneca, are revenge tragedies, structure of five acts, use of elaborate speeches, soliloquies, and asides, violence and horror performed on stage ( as opposed to Greek tragedies in which all such actions occurred off stage ), and an interest in the human condition, morality of nobility, and the supernatural, specifically with its human connection.

He scored 1, 940 runs at 45. 12, figures which matched other leading batsmen, but his relative loss of form, noted by critics, was owed partly to ill health.

In Tudor Vianu's opinion, this was partly owed to his keen musical ear.

This was partly in response to the interim financial report and also as a result of Coface removing credit insurance from debts owed by JJB to their suppliers.

The city is located in rich farm country, which produces corn, soybeans, and tomatoes ; and is in the Indiana natural gas region, to which fact it owed its growth as a manufacturing center.

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In 1305 he fell into the hands of the English, who executed him for treason despite the fact that he owed no allegiance to England.

Both Herodotus and Plato record variations of an anecdote in which Themistocles responded with subtle sarcasm to an undistinguished man who complained that the great politician owed his fame merely to the fact that he came from Athens.

Will Durant claims that Corfu owed to the Republic of Venice the fact that it was the only part of Greece never conquered by the muslim Turks.

The pretext of kinship was the basis for annulment ; in fact, it owed more to the state of hostility between the two, and the decreasing odds that their marriage would produce a male heir to the throne of France.

This turn of events was likely due to the fact that Herman owed the throne to the barons, the most powerful of whom was Sieciech.

Another reason for the expedition was the fact that Svatopluk, who owed Bolesław III his throne, did not honor his accord in which he promised to return Silesian cities seized from Poland ( Raciborz, Kamieniec, Kozle among others ) by his predecessors.

Overlaid upon these financial issues was the fact that veterans of the war had received little pay during the war and faced difficulty collecting back pay owed them from the State or the Congress of the Confederation.

His paper, the Point du Jour, according to François Victor Alphonse Aulard, owed its reputation not so much to its own qualities as to the fact that the painter Jacques-Louis David, in his sketch of the Tennis Court Oath, showed Barère kneeling in the corner and writing a report of the proceedings for posterity.

The National Penitentiary was indeed subsequently built on the Millbank site, but to a design by William Williams that owed little to the Panopticon, beyond the fact that the governor's quarters, administrative offices and chapel were placed at the centre of the complex.

The willingness to accept anarchists as positive historical figures may be owed to the fact that " terrorism " as practiced by anarchists in Europe and the West never caught on in Asia ; that the anarchists were part of a larger, anti-imperial movement that is celebrated as an important part of Korean national heritage ; and that today anarchism is a relatively unknown philosophy in East Asian countries.

He owed his extraordinary influence to the fact that he was the only one of Charles's advisers who believed, or pretended to believe, that Sweden was still far from exhaustion, or at any rate had a sufficient reserve of power to give support to an energetic diplomacy-Charles's own opinion, in fact.

In the 2000 eight-hour movie ( broadcast as a mini-series ) The 10th Kingdom, Scott Cohen plays a character called Wolf, which is based on the Big Bad Wolf and there is some speculation to whether he may even be the Big Bad Wolf's descendant ( mainly owed to the fact that most other characters in the mini-series are descendants of many well-known fairy tale characters ).

Pocklington owed much of its prosperity in the Middle Ages to the fact that it was a local centre for the trading of wool and lay on the main road to York, an important national centre for the export of wool to the continent.

Shkodër's importance as a trade center in the second half of the nineteenth century was owed to the fact that it was the center of the vilayet of Shkodër, and an important trading center for the entire Balkan peninsula.

Bonner was almost unique in being an indigenous activist and a political conservative: in fact he owed his political career to this combination.

This relationship owed much to the fact that he shared Engels's strategic vision and accepted most of the particular policies which, in Engels's view, that vision entailed.

The Duke of Burgundy had considerably less experience and owed his position to the fact he was the grandson of the King, Louis XIV of France.

Eaton countered that the $ 10, 000 was, in fact, reimbursement for money he spent in the Barbary War ( which one source contends was less than what he was owed ).

Mainly owed to the fact that Indonesia is predominantly Javanese.

It owed its name to its large proportion of French speakers and the fact that its postmaster was born in Paris, France.

In addition, the fact that the Nazis in the Leipzig municipal government massively increased the debts owed the city was a major source of worry for Goerdeler.