Oz, who has two sisters, became a doctor in large measure because his father was one.
But he is not entitled to British citizenship because his father never married his mother, Brazilian Raimunda Rothen.
Some supporters believe the 18-year-old striker is only being picked because his father, Dean, is the Vale manager.
Merritt was raised in California but became a Mets fan because his father grew up in New York, he said.
Emile had enlisted him, cycling over the hills to fetch him, because his father was threatening to plant the field.
He insists he grew his mustache only because his father had one.
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Mr Phillips, an ambulance technician, had been keen to visit the country because his father had there died three years earlier from a heart attack.
Hsu Sheng-yueh, a high-school graduate, took the CPU exam in July, passed with flying colors but was denied entry because his father had a criminal record.
Perhaps he forgot Powell is black because his father, Colin Powell, is not African-American. (He's the son of Jamaican immigrants.) But his mother, Alma Powell, is.
Mr Higgins said that to his friends in Kent, Mr Nicklinson was known as Royals - a nickname given to him because his father was in the Royal Marines.
Farooq says his family returned to Kashmir in 1976 because his father was aging and hemmed in by problems of the state as well as indiscipline in the ranks of his National Conference Party.
His family sued General Motors and several other companies, saying Buttitta had been exposed to asbestos as a child because his father was employed at a GM plant where he handled parts containing the substance.
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Mr. RHODEN: Grant was one of my first interviews, and he was actually saying that in the context of being frustrated that, you know, because his father was a history major and historian, that kind of stuff, and you know, Grant knows about the struggle and that kind of stuff, and he knows the irony of guys having this kind of money and no consciousness.
But Busch III owns less than 1% of the company, because of his father's four wives and ten other siblings.
At that particular time he was a young man I wanted to help because (his father) Billy couldn't and had so much wanted to.
Earl Haig, who says he has received "hate mail" because of his father's reputation, says te perception that British troops were "lions led by donkeys" is extremely hurtful.
Because of his father, it's no secret that Tiger has always had high respect for the military, so for Haney to twist that admiration into something negative is disrespectful.
"He saw the accident and he tried to warn his dad to say avoid Flamingo (Road)" because he knew his father was nearby at the Rio casino, Tehran Boldon said.
He may ask for leniency because his mother and father are now in dire financial straits.
But most Chicago fans only get to see these players regularly because Wirtz reversed his father's longstanding policy and put all Blackhawks games back on local TV.
Ms Gomes believes Mr Barroso's political conversion happened partly because he accompanied his sick father to London in 1974 and the trip widened his horizons.
Now it's changed as the responsibilities and role of the father has changed because now a father takes care of his kids and is much more involved in housework than - and caretaking than - you know, it's hard to imagine a Groucho Marx talking about changing diapers, for example.
Geanina and Madelin Nistor had spent years at school in Saragossa, because their father had run his own construction business there, and they wanted to go back.
This was because Tengo in no way resembled his father, the stellar NHK collections agent.
Something in Jimbo, she could tell, decided then that his father left him because of his needing toys and wanting to play with Juggy.
On Friday, Te'o said he lied to his father about meeting Kekua because he was embarrassed to tell his family he was in love with a woman he never met.
The men backed down after Tamerlan Tsarnaev warned them he was a boxer, though he assured them he had stopped fighting because of his newly devout religious beliefs, his father said.
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He argued that Ecuadorian law, which automatically transfers assets acquired during marriage to the surviving spouse, should not be applied to his father's second marriage because it took place in New York.
"The other team always went for him because he was the best goal scorer, " his father John said.
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