Thanks to

Amy was given a scholarship thanks to her excellent grades.

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

Dmitry Khlebnikov, a passenger seated in the 10th row, later told journalists at Sheremetyevo airport that he was only alive thanks to the crew.