There the father obtained an appointment to minister to men in the King's Navy.

He succeeded his father in India in 1530, while his half-brother Kamran Mirza, who was to become a rather bitter rival, obtained the sovereignty of Kabul and Lahore, the more northern parts of their father's empire.

While Esau was hunting, Jacob, after listening to his mother's advice, deceived his blind father by misrepresenting himself as Esau and thereby obtained his father's blessing, such that Jacob became Isaac's primary heir and Esau was left in an inferior position.

In 1803, his father obtained a false passport so that Audubon could go to the United States to avoid conscription in the Napoleonic Wars.

He obtained an appointment in 1850 to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from Representative Thomas Hamlet Averett, the man who had defeated his father in the 1848 election.

Dunst's father is German, originally from Hamburg, and Dunst's mother, who was born in New Jersey, is of German and Swedish descent ( Dunst obtained German citizenship in 2011 and now holds dual citizenship with the United States and Germany ).

The infatuated inhabitants entrusted him with the command of their troops, and when he had obtained the unlimited confidence of the citizens, he sent a messenger to his father to inquire how he should deliver the city into his hands.

The Comte de Mirabeau wrote a scathing indictment of lettres de cachet while imprisoned in the dungeon of Vincennes ( by lettre de cachet obtained by his father ).

Federal agents obtained a warrant to search the house of McVeigh's father, Bill, following which they broke down the door and wired the house and telephone with listening devices.

His father obtained the Papal chair for him, granting it to his son in October 1032.

The reason is that while Fry may have obtained 50 % of his SNPs from his father, his grandmother might have been similar enough to him ( his grandfather ) that his father is 62. 5 % related to him.

His father had the two-year-old crowned King of Bohemia in 1363 and in 1373 also obtained for him the Electoral Margraviate of Brandenburg.

He moved back to New York to live with his father, who was then acting in off-Broadway productions, and he obtained a few small roles.

After her birth her father began working to regain the family wealth, first with a job as an auctioneer and later with a job that he obtained with the railroad by using old contacts from his work as a contractor.

Towards the end of Heraclius ' reign he obtained through his mother ’ s influence the title of Augustus on July 4, 638, and after his father ’ s death was proclaimed joint emperor with his older half-brother Constantine III ( Herakleios Constantine ).

In 1999, the Carlyle Group obtained a 40 % stake in the paper, which it later sold in March 2002., Le Figaro is controlled by Serge Dassault, a conservative businessman and politician best known for running the aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation, which he inherited from his father, its founder, Marcel ( 1892 – 1986 ).

Tydeus was Athena ’ s favourite warrior at the time, and when he was dying she wanted to offer him a magic elixir ( which she had obtained from her father ) that would make him immortal.

Autolycus obtained most of the same skills that his supposed father Hermes possesses, such as the art of theft, trickery ( Hyginus 201 ), and skill with the lyre and gracious song ( Ovid 11.

He obtained a bachelor of science degree at the college, went on to teach at Harvard University, and is considered the " father of man-made polymers.

In spite of his disfigurement ( or perhaps because of it ), he won the heart of the lady to whom his colonel was attached ; this led to such scandal that his father obtained a lettre de cachet, and Mirabeau was imprisoned in the Ile de Ré.

He was born at Sheffield and educated at the Sheffield Grammar School ( where his father Thomas Balguy was headmaster until his death in 1696 ) and at St John's College, Cambridge, graduated BA in 1706, was ordained in 1710, and in 1711 obtained the small living of Lamesley and Tanfield in Durham.

It took three years for her father to save enough money to pay for his family ’ s passage from Taiwan and for visas to be obtained for them.

In 1844, desperate for funds to continue the operation of the silver mine on the island, le Pelley's father Ernest le Pelley had obtained crown permission to mortgage the Fief of Sark for £ 4, 000 to John Allaire, a local privateer.

The Bradbury family lived in Tucson, Arizona, in 1926 – 1927 and 1932 – 1933 as the father pursued employment, each time returning to Waukegan, but eventually settled in Los Angeles in 1934, when Bradbury was 14.

Tipu Sultan was instructed in military tactics by French officers in the employment of his father.

Similarly, his father gave up his stage acting career for steady employment as a civil engineer, although he returned to stage acting within a few years.

Her father was Wilhelm Renner, who headed the employment office at HASAG that developed the successful one-man anti-tank weapon, the Panzerfaust.

In 1824, Dickens ' father was imprisoned in the Marshalsea and twelve-year-old Charles was forced to take lodgings nearby, pawn his collection of books, leave school, and accept employment in a blacking factory.

The father of modern strategic study, Carl von Clausewitz, defined military strategy as " the employment of battles to gain the end of war.

The party was planned for Las Vegas a few days before his friend was to leave the United States, because his father had accepted employment out of the country.

He had heard of the fame of Henry Maudslay's workshop and resolved to get employment there ; unfortunately his father could not afford to place him as an apprentice at Maudslay's works.

He was awarded a full military pension and returned to live with his family and took employment in the small business his father had established.

Krishnamurti's father retired at the end of 1907, and, being of limited means, sought employment at the Headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar.

Leonard and his father immediately found employment as truck drivers for a highway construction project.

Victorien's father, Antoine Léandre Sardou, came to Paris in search of employment.

During the winter of 1789-90 he directed the amateur concerts in Kassel, failed to gain an employment with the Schwerin court which forced him, by now married and father of four children who all died in infancy, to hit the road one more time.

Austin's father, Philip Newton Spare, had been born in Yorkshire in 1857, but had moved to London, where he had gained employment with the City of London Police in 1878, being stationed at Snow Hill Police Station.

The growing family soon moved to the shipbuilding burgh of Govan near Glasgow, where they made a life in a very difficult financial situation, with his father attempting to maintain continuous employment in the shipyards rather than practicing his trade at sea — never an easy proposition given the boom-and-bust cycle of the industry.

His father died when he was four years old, and a year later his mother moved the family to Memphis, Tennessee, where her employment prospects were better.

The two became engaged in the autumn of 1840 ; her father Abijah White, a wealthy merchant from Watertown, insisted that their wedding be postponed until Lowell had gainful employment.

However, her father Abijah White, a wealthy merchant, insisted that the wedding be postponed until Lowell had gainful employment.

He later became a student of law at Gray's Inn ( 1546 ), and there obtained some employment under his father in the Court of Augmentation.

Rockford's father, Joseph " Rocky " Rockford, is an ex-Seabee, semi-retired semi-truck driver who often nags his son to get more stable ( and less dangerous ) employment, often urging him to follow in his footsteps as a truck driver ( especially in early seasons ).

After retiring from active duty, Brown began publishing a “ circular ” few-page-magazine with information on mercenary employment in Oman, where the Sultan Qaboos had recently deposed his father, and was battling a communist insurgency.

The family became increasingly poor, and his father had to leave home in early 1928 to seek better employment in Wales.

Borduas was ostracized, he was unable to attain employment and this was necessarily problematic as he was a father.

She is successively dependent upon her father for a home, upon a fellow transient ( Nobby ) for means of survival and direction whilst a vagrant, upon fellow pickers for food in the hop fields, upon her father's cousin to find her employment, upon Mrs. Creevy whose school appears the only job available to her, and finally upon Mr. Warburton to bring her home.