Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.

The ocean is some higher in the western Pacific as the result of this motion.

The shallowest section of Lake Erie is the western basin where depths average only ; as a result, " the slightest breeze can kick up lively waves ," according to a New York Times reporter in 2004.

Foreign relations with western powers became strained as a result of this.

As a result, western practitioners have incorporated much more powerful hand striking techniques from boxing although some Thai purists accuse them of diluting the art.

With the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) swinging northward over West Africa from the Southern Hemisphere in April, heavy showers coming from pre-monsoonal convective clouds mainly in the form of squall lines also known as the north easterlies formed mainly as a result of the interactions of the two dominant airmasses in Nigeria known as the Maritime tropical ( south westerlies ) and the Continental tropical ( north easterlies ), begins in central Nigeria while the Monsoons from the south atlantic ocean arrives in central Nigeria in July bringing with it high humidity, heavy cloud cover and heavy rainfall which can be daily occurrence lasting till September when the monsoons gradually begin retreating southward to the southern part of Nigeria. Rainfall totals in central Nigeria varies from in the lowlands of the river Niger Benue trough to over along the south western escarpment of the Jos Plateau.

When the votes were counted, the party doubled its federal vote from 1. 9 million ( PDS result in 2002 ) to more than 4 million — including an electoral breakthrough in industrial Saarland where, for the first time in a western state, it surpassed the Greens and FDP due, in large part to Lafontaine's popularity and Saarland roots.

As a result, there was increased interest in alternative radical philosophies, including feminism, western Marxism, anarchism, phenomenology, and nihilism.

As a result, Suleiman dispatched 100 galleys under Barbarossa to assist the French in the western Mediterranean.

As a result, Siam's trade increased rapidly, many more foreigners settled in Bangkok, and western cultural influences began to spread.

As a result of the rise of Lega Nord, which was stronger precisely in the traditional Christian Democratic heartlands, the DC was reduced to 21. 0 % in Piedmont ( with the League at 16. 3 %), 32. 1 % in western Lombardy ( League at 25. 2 %), 31. 7 % in Veneto ( League at 17. 3 %) and 28. 0 % in Friuli-Venezia Giulia ( League at 17. 0 %).

Rapid development of the non-governmental sector occurred in western countries as a result of the processes of restructuring of the welfare state.

From the mid 14th century BC through to the 11th century BC, much of Canaan ( particularly the north, central and eastern regions of Syria and the north western Mediterranean coastal regions ) fell to the Middle Assyrian Empire, and both Egyptian and Hittite influence waned as a result.

Economic conditions during the 1970s were becoming more difficult for the UK and many other western economies as a result of the ending of the Bretton Woods Agreement and the 1973 oil shock, and the Heath government in its turn was buffeted by economic adversity and industrial unrest ( notably including confrontation with the coalminers which led to the Three-day week ) towards the end of 1973, and on 7 February 1974 ( with the crisis still ongoing ) Heath called a snap election for 28 February.

As a result, by the mid-16th century, the Spanish Crown had gained control of much of western South America, Central America and southern North America, in addition to its earlier Caribbean territories.

The lack of data before this was primarily the result of a Qing quarantine on the region to the east of the " earth oxen " ( 土牛 ) border, which ran along the eastern edge of the western plain.

This is a result of the railroad being built in the western half as well as scenic views from inclined grounds in the eastern portion.

Bacque argued that this alleged mass murder was a direct result of the policies of the western Allies, who, with the Soviets, ruled as the Military Occupation Government over partitioned Germany from May 1945 until 1949.

As a result, the southern section of the 3rd Canadian Division's was able to reach the Red Line at the western edge of the Bois de la Folie at around 7: 30 am.

The following of Saint Hilary developed in association with that of St. Martin of Tours as a result of Sulpicius Severus ' Vita Sancti Martini and spread early to western Britain.

The western boundary of Tipton County is the Mississippi River, where Tennessee meets Arkansas ; however, in several places where the river's course was altered by the 1812 New Madrid earthquake, the boundary still follows the old alignment of the river, with the result that a few of Tipton County's communities — including Reverie and Corona — are exclaved on the Arkansas side, rather than the Tennessee side, of the river.

There is a large gypsum formation extending across much of western Oklahoma, and the Ames Structure, which is buried under 3, 000 meters of sand and soil and is possibly the result of a meteorite impact.

As a result of this border resolution, Southwick is the southernmost town in western Massachusetts.

As described above, Southwick is the southernmost town in western Massachusetts, as a result of a " jog " in the Massachusetts-Connecticut border.

The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs, and former state tuberculosis sanitarium is in nearby Galen are the result of the power the western part of the state held over Montana at statehood due to the copper and mineral wealth in that area.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

The burn to alter the CSM ’ s orbit to that desired for the sub-satellite had been cancelled ; as a result, the sub-satellite lasted half of its anticipated lifetime.

Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum ( Natural History ) in South Kensington in 1887.

Spain, for example, passed a bankruptcy law ( ley concursal ) in 2003 which provides for debt settlement plans that can result in a reduction of the debt ( maximally half of the amount ) or an extension of the payment period of maximally five years ( Gerhardt, 2009 ); nevertheless, it does not foresee debt discharge.

A test dose of 1 – 2 mg of intramuscular lorazepam will often result in marked improvement within half an hour.

During the first half of the 19th century, Cape Breton Island experienced an influx of Highland Scots numbering approximately 50, 000 as a result of the Highland Clearances.

As a result, he was condemned, but by an underwhelming amount ( more than half the bishops present for the previous sessions did not attend his condemnation ), and all of his decrees were declared null.

Instead, European sets contain seven additional dominoes, with six of these representing the values that result from throwing a single die with the other half of the tile left blank, and the seventh domino representing the blank-blank ( 0 – 0 ) combination.

The demographics of Estonia in the twenty-first century are the result of historical trends over more than a thousand years, just as for most European countries, but have been disproportionately affected by events in the last half of the twentieth century.

The result was widespread basic reading ability ; since there was an extra fee for writing, half the people never learned to write.

As a result secondary education was the major area of growth in the second half of the 20th century.

In particular, the popular CRC32 checksum provides only 16 bits ( the higher half of the result ) that are usable for hashing.

In a season where 5 of the 15 rounds were abandoned owing to adverse weather, Botham joined up for the second half as a result of a sponsorship arranged through the TCCB by Whitbread's Brewery.

The result of this industrialized warfare was an unprecedented casualty level: eight and a half million soldiers killed, an estimated 21 million wounded, and approximately 10 million civilian deaths.

As a result of the aerial attack, Hartenstein and, subsequently, the Vichy French abandoned the rescue operations, leading to the death of over half of Laconias passengers and crew.

During the latter half of the 1940s, Friedman began a collaboration with Anna Schwartz, an economic historian at the Bureau, that would ultimately result in the 1963 publication of a book co-authored by Friedman and Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867 – 1960.

With a machine pistol that can empty its 20-round magazine in a second and a half, bringing the weapon into play by moving it down onto the target or using a cross body draw could result in unintended injuries if the weapon accidentally discharges.

Lunar phases are the result of looking at the illuminated half of the Moon from different viewing geometries ; they are not caused by the shadow of the Earth or umbra falling on the Moon's surface ( this occurs only during a lunar eclipse ).

#: Used to store the left half of the 128-bit result of unsigned integer multiplication.

She moved to Maine in 1976 after her marriage ended and as a result of the settlement, she received half of the couple's assets.

Noting that " the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long ", Tyrell explains that the reason Nexus-6 replicants do not live longer is not due to some sort of kill switch, but because they physically cannot — the result of the superhuman capabilities engineered into them.

As a result of this play, NFL rules were changed so that, in the last two minutes of a half or game, the only offensive player allowed to advance a fumble is the player who originally fumbled.

They obtained a null result, and concluded that " there is no effect ... unless the velocity of the solar system in space is no more than about half that of the earth in its orbit ".

This was ostensibly because a chronological survey of the story of modern art along the lines of the Museum of Modern Art in New York would expose the large gaps in the collections, the result of the Tate's conservative acquisitions policy for the first half of the 20th century.

This is seen as a variation in effective temperature over the star: the polar temperature is near 10, 000 K, while the equatorial temperature is 7, 600 K. As a result, if Vega were viewed along the plane of its equator, then the luminosity would be about half the apparent luminosity as viewed from the pole.