Like his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.

Haznawi announced he was leaving his family in 1999 to help fight in Chechnya, although his father forbade him.

It is implied in each series that the Blackadder character is a descendant of the previous one, although it is never mentioned how any of the Blackadders manage to father children.

Alternative attempts have been made to identify her with Esther, although Esther is an orphan whose father was a Jew named Abihail.

Cézanne, although only nine years younger than Pissarro, said that “ he was a father for me.

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

Internal evidence from Ephrem's hymnody suggests that both his parents were part of the growing Christian community in the city, although later hagiographers wrote that his father was a pagan priest.

Isideo was not the father, and it has often been speculated — although with little firm evidence — that the child belonged to Goya.

When Evans began to question her religious faith, her father threatened to throw her out, although that did not happen.

In the hereditary lands Brandenburg-Ansbach in Franconia, where with his older brother Casimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach he had assumed the regency in place of their father, he encountered greater difficulties, although the popular spirit was inclined toward the Reformation.

John had spent the conflict travelling alongside his father, and was given widespread possessions across the Angevin empire as part of the Montlouis settlement ; from then onwards, most observers regarded John as Henry II's favourite child, although he was the furthest removed in terms of the royal succession.

He was supported by his father and by the Redex fuel additive company, although his commercially aware approach — including the title RedeX Special painted on the side of his Cooper-Bristol — did not go down well with the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport ( CAMS ), which banned the advertisement.

John's father Charlie and the designer Owen Maddock had been reluctant to update their car, but although a Cooper had won in Argentina, other cars had been faster before they broke down.

Alec rarely responded to his father in Klingon, although when he did his pronunciation was " excellent ".

While his father placed the Christmas tree in the front parlor behind closed drapes, Frank would decorate the tree and talk to them from behind the drapes, although they never could manage to see him.

His father was largely irreligious, although after surviving an encounter with a tiger, began to give offerings to the gods in thanks.

His paternal grandfather, Marcus Salvius Otho, whose father was a Roman knight but whose mother was of lowly origin and perhaps not even free-born, was raised in Livia's household and rose to senatorial rank through her influence, although he did not advance beyond the rank of praetor.

Oxfordians see a parallel with Oxford's life, as his father died at the age of 46 on 3 August 1562, although not before making a will six days earlier, and his stepmother remarried within 15 months, although exactly when is unknown.

A Roman nobleman, Lucian, is sometimes recognized as his father, although other sources assert that he was the illegitimate son of his predecessor Pope Sergius III ( 904 – 911 ).

In early Greek and Roman history, a few philosophers claimed that although every child has one absolute mother, it did not follow that every child had one absolute father (" mater semper certa est ").

Paul I was particularly proud to be great-grandson of the illustrious Russian monarch, although his German-born mother, Catherine II ( of the House of Anhalt-Zerbst ), insinuated in her memoirs that Paul's natural father had been her lover Serge Saltykov.

Its English protagonist Edward Waverley, like Don Quixote, a great reader of romances, has been brought up by his Tory uncle, who is sympathetic to Jacobitism, although Edward's own father is a Whig.

In 1918 he joined the Red Army, although his father Mikhail supported the opposite side.

He stated, " The last time my father left his house to go anywhere, to spend any kind of time ... was with Michael Jackson.

She developed a close friendship with Boas, who took on a role as a kind of father figure in her life – Benedict lovingly referred to him as " Papa Franz "

According to some sources, the older man was expected to function as a kind of substitute father and role model to his junior partner ; however, others believe it was reasonably certain that they had sexual relations ( the exact nature of Spartan pederasty is not entirely clear ).

Matthew Paris reports that the Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Grosseteste, once said to Simon's eldest son Henry: " My beloved child, both you and your father will meet your deaths on one day, and by one kind of death, but it will be in the name of justice and truth.

Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and a poor street poet, Pierre Gringoire, but especially those of Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame.

The director had been thinking about this kind of a movie as early as 1981 and was inspired by his father, Lou Stone, a broker during the Great Depression at Hayden Stone.

He discovered " a kind of paradise " as he later described it, and decided to become an artist, deeply disappointing his father.

He is kind to all whom he encounters, a devoted substitute father to a girl who loses her mother, and a benefactor to those in need.

My mother is kind but weak ; she was not the wife my father deserved ".

* George Gibbs – arguably the main character ; the boy next door, a kind but irresponsible teenager who matures over time and becomes a responsible husband, father and farmer.

She used to take care of her father after her mother's death, and also she's acting as a kind of mother figure to Newt.

At times, Veronica's vain and conceited attitude infuriates her father to the point that he has to somehow " teach her a lesson " and Veronica is forced to get a job of some kind or loses access to Archie.

But American author Ron Rosenbaum suggested another reason for Frank's story: " On the other hand, a different version of Frank emerges in the brilliantly vicious, utterly unforgiving portrait of him by his son, Niklas Frank, who ( in a memoir called In the Shadow of the Reich ) depicts his father as a craven coward and weakling, but one not without a kind of animal cunning, an instinct for lying, insinuation, self-aggrandizement.

Sharon in fact helped get her brother and her together after she moved into the neighborhood, Hannah's father is a duck hunter and is part of an organization called " Just Quacks " Adam almost joined the club so he could, have a good friend relationship with him but turned them down after Sharon helped him realized that kind of activity is not for him, and isn't something he wanted to be involved in.

Since both Liutprand's father and his stepfather had been sent as ambassadors to Constantinople, and as Liutprand prepared himself by learning Greek ( not widely known in the 10th-century West ) he seemed well suited for a mission of that kind.

Other parents include Chas Finster, Chuckie's stereotypically-nerdy, mild-mannered father ; a widower who later remarries with Kira, Chuckie's sweet-natured, kind, and understanding stepmother in Rugrats in Paris, Drew Pickles, Angelica's indulgent, doting father who pampers his daughter to a ridiculous degree, Charlotte Pickles, Angelica's working mother who overindulges her daughter equally and possesses the character hallmark of arguing on her cellular phone with an employee of hers, Jonathan ; Betty DeVille, Phil and Lil's kind but masculinely-natured mother and Howard DeVille, the twins ' mild-mannered, soft-spoken father.

This other kind of count had vague antecedents in Late Antiquity too: the father of Cassiodorus held positions of trust with Theodoric, as comes rerum privatarum, in charge of the imperial lands, then as comes sacrarum largitionum (" count of the sacred doles "), concerned with the finances of the realm.

* Mr. Willard, Buddy Willard's father, Mrs. Willard's husband, and a good family friend ; he is kind to Esther.

In turn, Bud reluctantly follows the advice of his father, Ace ( Pat Hingle ), who suggests that he find another kind of girl with whom to satisfy his desires.