Owing to the manner of his death, he has always been considered a patron saint of plague victims.

Owing to its importance as a market town, Buchach had become a prominent trading centre linking the Poland and the Ottoman Empire.

Owing largely to poor leadership, archaic political norms, and an inability to keep pace with technological progress in Europe, the Ottoman Empire could not respond effectively to Europe's resurgence and gradually lost its position as a pre-eminent great power.

Owing to Scott's decision to make use of the manuscript, Robin Hood from Locksley has been transformed for all time into " Robin of Locksley ", alias Robin Hood.

Owing to a fascination with airplanes, gadgets and science fiction, he sent names like " Rocket ", " Retro ", " Ramjet ", and " Roger ", the latter a term used in signalling protocol over two-way radios, military and civil aviation.

Owing to Quant's position in the heart of fashionable " Swinging London ", the miniskirt was able to spread beyond a simple street fashion into a major international trend.

Owing to the Turk's popularity and mystery, its construction inspired a number of inventions and imitations, including Ajeeb, or " The Egyptian ", an American imitation built by Charles Hopper that President Grover Cleveland played in 1885, and Mephisto, the self-described " most famous " machine, of which little is known.

" Owing to his ability to his box-office appeal, popular entertainment magazine, Filmfare, quoted him " Bigger than Bachchan ", a reference to Bollywood ’ s Amitabh Bachchan.

Owing to the importance of the historical center in the " maritime explorations of the 15th and 16 Centuries ", UNESCO declared the historical center as a World Heritage Site.

Owing to Hawke's " tact, judgment and integrity ", he moulded the Eleven into " the best and probably the most united county cricket team in England ".

Owing to misunderstandings of Latin grammar, several species have in the past been widely but incorrectly cited with feminine name endings (" S. torquata, S. maura, S. leucura, S. ferrea ", etc.

Owing to the resemblance of the plastic to hard candy, they are often known as " candy cabinets ", by both arcade enthusiasts and industry.

Owing to Hawke's " tact, judgment and integrity ", he moulded the Eleven into " the best, and probably the most united county cricket team in England ".

Owing to a " telephonic error ", the comet was initially reported as being named Drake's Comet, though once the error was realised the press afterwards referred to it as the Daylight Comet or Sunset Comet, as no single individual was credited with its discovery.

Owing to organic " intuition ", a living pilot has a 99. 97 % chance of guessing the correct route to take.

Owing to the parallelism with " αμαρτωλός ", the word was also sometimes spelled as " αρματωλός ", with the letter omega.

Owing to the quality of the jokes in Mottley's book, their number increasing with each of the many subsequent editions, any time-worn jest came to be called " a Joe Miller ", a Joe-Millerism, or simply a Millerism.

Owing to licensing problems, " Partyman ", like all of the Batman-era hits, has failed to appear on any Prince compilation album, barring the UK singles promoting The Hits / The B-Sides.

Owing to bad weather and a landmark misinterpretation – the crew mistook the top of the old watchtower for the church steeple – the bombers ended up dropping their load on the Wartberg, a nearby hill, giving rise to the legend of the Wartbergturm – the old tower – as Alzey ’ s saviour.

Owing to its rich past, Serpa offers much in historical interest to visitors, including archeological sites, the town walls, the castle, the aqueduct, the clock tower, the town's museum and numerous interesting old churches.

Owing to the continuous accumulation of shingle and gravel deposited by the strong currents, a smaller light commonly referred to as a ' winkie ' had to be built to the seaward side of the main tower in 1899.

Owing to Peres ' mediation, Israel acquired the advanced Dassault Mirage III French jet fighter, established the Dimona nuclear reactor and entered into a tri-national agreement with France and the United Kingdom, positioning Israel in what would become the 1956 Suez Crisis.

Owing to its advantageous position it speedily acquired commercial importance, and the gold staters of Cyzicus were a staple currency in the ancient world till they were superseded by those of Philip of Macedon.

Owing to the formation of the Yoruba Orisha Congress in 1986, Ile-Ife and the Ooni acquired an international stature.

Owing to a large number of easily accessed and nationally acclaimed pubs along the route ( particularly on the station platforms themselves at Dewsbury, Huddersfield and Stalybridge ), the route has also acquired the informal title of Rail Ale Trail and featured on the BBC's Oz and James Drink to Britain.

Owing to its versatile nature and wide use in both everyday and festive Indian food, it is often described ( under the name brinjal ) as the " king of vegetables ".

Owing to his legendary status, his name frequently appears in Chinese novels and Wuxia films of swordsmen as a spiritual teacher and master of martial arts.

Owing to its supposed fondness for picking up coins, Linnaeus gave it the binomial name Corvus monedula, choosing the specific name mǒnēdŭla, which is derived from moneta, the Latin stem of the word " money ".

Owing to administrative changes effected between 1870 and 1875, the name ceased to correspond to any political division.

Owing to the ubiquity of the trade name Novocain, in some regions procaine is referred to generically as novocaine.

Owing to his lack of established residency rights in Britain and during his earlier exile in Ireland the name Roger or Roger Tennant was used as a pseudonym.

Owing to the similarity and past of the Celica's name, it is frequently mistaken for the Toyota Supra, and vice versa.

Owing to its former abundance in Scotland, it was occasionally known as the ' Scotch ( sic ) Elm ', the name Loch Lomond, a corruption of the Gaelic Lac Leaman, or ' Lake of the Elms '.

Owing considerable homage to Get Smart, the plot was always played for laughs and featured Lancelot Link and his female colleague, " Mata Hairi ," whose own name in turn was a play on Mata Hari, in secret agent and spy satires.

Owing to its success, it was later dubbed into the Hindi and Telugu language and released with the same name.

Owing to the intensity of and destruction by the storm, the name Carla was retired, and will never again be used for an Atlantic hurricane.

Owing to the importance of Saint Patrick in Irish history, it is an especially popular name in Ireland.

Owing to the purely legendary character of these Acts, we cannot use them as an argument to aid in the controversy whether there were two Christians of the name of Domitilla in the family of the Christian Flavian, or only one: the wife of the Consul Titus Flavius Clemens.

Owing to consumer resistance to the biblical reference ( even Great Britain flatly refused to register the name as a trademark ), it was renamed Post Toasties in 1907.

The wording in the image reads: " Owing to the great increase of my work, I have found it necessary to authorize two of my assistants ( Mr. Lawford and Mr. Wright ) to sign receipts for donations, if needful, in my stead .- Donors are requested, kindly to keep the receipts and to compare them with the " Supplement " to the Report, which records every donation received, so that they may be satisfied that their donations have been properly applied .- The " Supplement " is sent with the Report to every Donor who furnishes me with his or her name and address .- I would earnestly request all Donors ( even those who feel it right to give anonymously ) to put it in my power to acknowledge their donations at the time they come to hand ; and should any Donor, after having done this, not receive a printed receipt within a week, they would much oblige me by giving me information at once.

Owing to a transcription error, Linnaeus was given the name as ' Stewart ', and consequently spelled the name " Stewartia " ( and continued to do so in all his subsequent publications ).

Owing to the close proximity of the villages to one another, the name Invercairn has in recent years become used on a local basis to represent both.

Owing to lacking of space for expansion, the southern terminus of the railway was moved from Tsim Sha Tsui to a new station of the same name on the new reclaimed land from Hung Hom Bay in 1974.

Owing to the limited importance of Saint Apollinaris's feast worldwide, his liturgical celebration was removed from the General Roman Calendar ( with his name remaining in the Roman Martyrology, the official list of saints ) in 1969, but it was restored in the 2002 edition of the Roman Missal.