Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

So she wound her line around her rod with the words: " Thanks be to him, to Njor, for this time.

Thanks to the betrayal of the Krakow townspeople and the help of the Franciscans ( who even hid him in their monastery ), Henry IV took the city and was recognized as High Duke.

Thanks to the money Paganini had given him after hearing Harold, Berlioz was able to pay off Harriet's and his own debts and suspend his work as a critic.

Thanks to a theological pamphlet attributed to him, Middleton is thought by some to have been a strong believer in Calvinism, among the dominant strains in the theology of the English church of his time, which rigidly divides humanity into the damned and the elect, which focuses on human sinfulness and inadequacy more than in the other denominations of Christianity.

Þökk ( Old Norse " Thanks ") is a giantess in Norse mythology, presumed to be Loki in disguise, who refuses to weep for the slain Baldr, thus forcing him to stay in Hel.

As Mark leaves, General Hawker says to him, " Thanks for the 95 seconds.

Thanks to him and other enthusiasts, as well as the work of the Finzi Trust and the Finzi Friends Finzi ’ s music enjoyed a great resurgence from the late twentieth century onwards.

Thanks to his natural caution and reserve, Condillac's relations with unorthodox philosophers did not injure his career ; and he justified abundantly the choice of the French court in sending him to Parma to educate the orphan duke, then a child of seven years.

Thanks to a relationship with Hedda's old schoolmate Thea Elvsted ( who has left her husband for him ), Løvborg shows signs of rehabilitation and has just completed a bestseller in the same field as Tesman.

Thanks to the support of Monseigneur de Quélen, the Archbishop of Paris, who granted him a scholarship, he began studying at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Issy in 1824 over the objections of his mother and friends.

Thanks to him, Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein and Mischa Elman, among others, were able to come and study.

Thanks to some negotiation, he finds his stay aboard the Race's ship rather entertaining as he is subjected to " experiments " which effectively give him a harem of women to mate with.

In the 2005 comedy film Waiting ... opens with Dean ( Justin Long ) saying " Thanks, Cochise " after he enters a house party and catches a beer tossed to him by Monty ( Ryan Reynolds ).

Thanks in part to him, Alfred D. Herger ( who became known as the biggest pandillero in Puerto Rico ) and Felix Santiesteban, the group became a teen favorite in the Caribbean island.

Thanks to the funds now available to him, through marriage, his mansion is set with numerous traps, so that the Assassins, who must always offer a sporting chance, cannot get close to him without suffering a severe mishap.

Thanks to a combination of Wanda's magic and Ms. Marvel's powers, they manage to get Starro's probe off of him.

Thanks to Xantcha's coaching and Ratepe's ability to hear Urza's Weakstone singing to him, Ratepe was able to help shock Urza out of his guilt.

") Thanks to this kind of distorted children's story, Hans becomes fascinated with Hitler as he and the rest of the younger members of the Hitler Youth give a portrait of him dressed as a knight the Hitler salute.

Thanks to him and Ružička, Zürich has become one of the most significant centers of modern organic chemistry.

Cutler's work on Peel's shows would introduce him to successive generations of fans, and in the early 1990s, Cutler said, " Thanks to Peel, I gained a whole new audience, to the amazement of my older fans, who find themselves among 16-to-35s in theatres, and wonder where they came from.

Thanks in the main to Sir Saxon Tate, and presumedly because he had succeeded as chairman ( until June 1978 ) of their subsidiary Tunnel Refineries, the family made him Tate & Lyle's first non-family chairman 1978 – 1983.

Thanks to her father, Elliot Trent, she is very well-off, although she does not get along with him.

Thanks to that, the Polish cavalry traditions were retained.

Thanks to his fluent knowledge of German, Sławik was brought to Budapest and allowed to create the Citizen's Committee for Help for Polish Refugees ( Komitet Obywatelski ds.

Thanks to the initiative of the Polish scouts from " Whites " team, his ashes were returned to Poland on 23 April 1993 and are now kept in a crypt in St. Agnieszka's garrison church in Kraków.

Thanks to this, orders issued by Soviet commander Mikhail Tukhachevsky's staff were known to Polish Army leaders.

Thanks to the close ties with the Związek Walki Zbrojnej and then the AK ( mainly through Iwański's Security Corps, the Polish underground police force ), the ŻZW received a large number of guns and armaments, as well as training of their members by professional officers.

Thanks to his skills, he was chosen several times the Football Player of the Year by Polish fans.

Thanks to the support of the local civilian population, the " Separated Unit of the Polish Army " ( Oddział Wydzielony Wojska Polskiego ), as he named his unit, managed to evade all raids and traps organised by the Germans.

Thanks to the efforts of KSSN and the Polish members of the Austrian parliament, the unit became an independent formation of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Thanks to the intercession of the French ambassador, in 1586 Jeremias obtained the freedom from the exile in Rhodes and started his travel through Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( which included also Ukraine ) and the Tsardom of Russia to raise founds.

Thanks to this, the intelligence services of Poland's neighbors learned nothing about them until mid-1939, when the rising German threat prompted mass Polish training of irregular forces.

Thanks to its social and judicial autonomy, Polish Jewish life was enabled to develop freely along the lines of national and religious tradition.

Thanks '', was her answer the next day.

* TFTH – ( Thanks For The Hunt or Hide or Hike ) It shares the same purpose as TFTC, but can also be used when the cache was not found.

Thanks to her father's important role on the estate, she was allowed access to the library of Arbury Hall, which greatly aided her self-education and breadth of learning.

Thanks to Thomas Symmes a new idea of how to sing hymns spread throughout the churches in which anyone would sing a hymn any way they felt led to ; this was opposed by the views of Symmes colleagues who felt it was " like Five Hundred different Tunes roared out at the same time.

Thanks to coal ( the French word " houille " was coined in Wallonia ), the region geared up to become the 2nd industrial power in the world after England.

Thanks to this rescue, the French Navy was able to reuse the sphere of the bathyscaphe to construct the FNRS-3.

Thanks to Schwitters ' lifelong patron and friend Katherine Dreier, his work was exhibited regularly in the US from 1920 onwards.

Thanks to the intelligent foresight of the queen Tanaquil however, the sons of Ancus were not chosen, but rather Tarquinius ' son-in-law Servius Tullius, husband of his daughter Tarquinia, was elected as his successor.

Thanks to the literary renditions of Ovid and Fulgentius it was a well-known myth through the Middle Ages, but emerged more prominently as a classicizing theme, with erotic overtones, in the Italian Renaissance.

Thanks to the persistence of the band's management, the album was eventually released in the US and the UK six months after its Australian release.

Thanks in part to these successes there was a high expectation that the 1970 budget would be a more generous one.

Thanks in large part to this particular Gatorade dunking, a tradition of sorts was formed that continues to this day.

Sondheim famously hated his mother ; he once wrote a thank-you note to close friend Mary Rodgers that read, " Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head?

Thanks to this arrangement principal photography was completed 15 April 2008 on schedule.

Thanks to the success of The Jazz Singer, the studio was cash-rich.

Thanks to Spofforth who took 14 wickets in the match, Australia won by 7 runs and the legend of The Ashes was born immediately afterwards.

His only answer was " Thanks be to God!

Thanks to Anne's intervention, her widowed sister Mary received an annual pension of £ 100, and Mary's son, Henry Carey, was educated at a prestigious Cistercian monastery.

Thanks to its clear air and lovely golden sand, this romantic stretch of sand was voted the best place in the UK to watch the sun set ( Country Living magazine 2005 ) and one the top romantic spots in the country ( The Guardian 2007 ).

Thanks to his position commanding the only troops in the city and making gifts of money, Justin was able to secure election as emperor in 518.

Thanks to coded messages transmitted over the BBC radio, each Maquis group was alerted of the impending D-Day by listening for seemingly meaningless messages such as " the crow will sing three times in the morning " or any other pre-arranged messages read in a continuous flow over the British airwaves.