Because of ethnic politics, valuable farmland in Kurdish territory has not contributed to the national economy, and inconsistent agricultural policies under Saddam Hussein discouraged domestic market production.

Because of the perceived connections between INA members and security forces protecting Saddam Hussein, the INA drew American interest as an alternative ally to the Iraqi National Congress.

Because Iraqi TV had kept on broadcasting videos showing Saddam Hussein alive or dead to divert Army attention from trying to locate him, cutting the station off air was a major priority.

Because of their opposition to Saddam Hussein, the Badr Brigade was seen as a U. S. asset in the fight against Baathist partisans.

* Hussein Mubaraki: Because They Wanted the Land, WREMEA, May-June 2008

Because of repression by the Ottoman Empire and their Central Powers allies, Grand Sharif Hussein, as the guardian of the holy city of Mecca, entered into an alliance with the United Kingdom and France against the Ottomans sometime around 8 June 1916, the actual date being somewhat uncertain.

Because of under-funding by the Hussein regime, in 2003 an estimated 80 percent of Iraq ’ s 15, 000 school buildings needed rehabilitation and lacked basic sanitary facilities, and most schools lacked libraries and laboratories.

Because Holstein cattle weren't a beef breed, they were rarely seen on a ranch, though one might be found now and then for the milk supply.

Because of this, the term B * algebra is rarely used in current terminology, and has been replaced by the ( overloading of ) the term ' C * algebra '.

Because of the negative associations, modern leaders very rarely ( if ever ) use the term in their formal titles.

Because of the high reactivity, samples of solid europium rarely have the shiny appearance of the fresh metal, even when coated with a protective layer of mineral oil.

Because of their size and need to migrate, gray whales have rarely been held in captivity, and then only for brief periods of time.

Because of Koyama's considerable wealth, money was rarely considered an obstacle ; estimates at the time of completion put the cost of the project at US $ 350 million.

Because of the toxicity and expense of liquid mercury, these relays are now rarely used.

Because the key is otherwise rarely used, programs that tie into other software often use it to prevent issues arising from both programs using the same key.

Because it cannot be applied in thick layers as oil paints can, tempera paintings rarely have the deep color saturation that oil paintings can achieve.

Because no constellation has a Latin-letter Bayer designation greater than Q, the letter R was chosen as a starting point so as to avoid confusion with letter spectral types or the ( now rarely used ) Latin-letter Bayer designations.

Because of all these factors, optimization rarely produces " optimal " output in any sense, and in fact an " optimization " may impede performance in some cases ; rather, they are heuristic methods for improving resource usage in typical programs.

Because of these divisions, it was difficult for the OAU to take action against states involved in internal conflicts because it could rarely reach an agreement on what was to be done.

Because standard iron-thermite is difficult to ignite, burns with practically no flame and has a small radius of action, standard thermite is rarely used on its own as an incendiary composition.

Because of its location Georgetown ’ s temperatures is moderated by the North-East trade winds blowing in from the North Atlantic and rarely sees temperatures above 31 degrees Celsius.

) Because the prefectural status of Hokkaido is denoted by the dō in its name, it is rarely referred to as " Hokkaido Prefecture ", except when necessary to distinguish the governmental entity from the island.

Because of this, diagnosis of Wilson's disease is rarely made when only psychiatric symptoms are present.

Because the 4GL and other tools such as the screen designer work only with the DDS dictionary, which also holds the database schemas, there is considerable reuse of metadata that is rarely achieved with other 4GLs.

This was eventually converted into a full-fledged prize: " For a distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States during the year .” Because of the requirement that the composition had its world premiere during the year of its award, the winning work had rarely been recorded and sometimes had received only one performance.

Because of its illegal nature, moonshine is rarely aged in barrels like proper whiskey, and it sometimes contains impurities and off flavors.

Because of the instability and complexity of modern bombs, this is rarely done.

Because of the fast pace at which the game is played, bughouse games are rarely recorded

Because of the narrow, constricted shape of the gorge in which these drops occur and the lack of public access, they are rarely noted.

Because it is on the boundary of Taurus and Auriga, it also has the redundant Bayer designation Gamma Aurigae ( γ Aur ), which today is rarely used.

Because FMD rarely infects humans but spreads rapidly among animals, it is a much greater threat to the agriculture industry than to human health.

Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.

Because Dürer left autobiographical writings and became very famous by his mid-twenties, his life is well documented by several sources.

Because of company resistance to his goals, and his cost overruns on the film ( it cost US $ 30, 000 dollars to produce ), Griffith left Biograph.

Because of patent lawsuits in 1893, Blair left his American company and established another in Britain.

Because of the ballpark's age and constrained location in the dense Fenway – Kenmore neighborhood, the park has had many renovations and additions over the years not initially envisioned, resulting in unique, quirky features, including " The Triangle ," " Pesky's Pole ", and most notably the famous Green Monster in left field.

Because National League president Chub Feeney could not be contacted, it was left to the umpire, Bruce Froemming to make the decision.

Because of this, a civil libertarian outlook is compatible with many other political philosophies, and civil libertarianism is found on both the right and left in modern politics.

) Because the yarn holding rows together is all on the front, and the yarn holding side-by-side stitches together is all on the back, stockinette fabric has a strong tendency to curl toward the front on the top and bottom, and toward the back on the left and right side.

Because of the cost vs. revenue contracts within the PKA, many of the promoters also left the organization and formed the International Sport Karate Association ( ISKA ) in 1985, and in the late eighties a struggle for control of the PKA developed between the Quines and equal partner Joe Corley, leading to the decline of the organization as a business entity.

Because the LALR parser performs a right derivation instead of the more intuitive left derivation, understanding how it works is quite difficult.

Because of the great variation in coat patterns ( no two zebras are alike ), taxonomists were left with a great number of described " species ", and no easy way to tell which of these were true species, which were subspecies, and which were simply natural variants.

Because of his parents ' desire to see him attend college, he enrolled in Southeast Missouri State University but left the school after two semesters and one summer.

Because there are few jobs, a large proportion of the work force has left to seek employment overseas.

* 1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.

Because life is constrained to begin with a simple starting point, any diversity resulting from this left wall will be perceived to move in the direction of higher complexity.

Because the object arrives before the light, the observer sees nothing until the sphere starts to pass the observer, after which the image-as-seen-by-the-observer splits into two — one of the arriving sphere ( to the right ) and one of the departing sphere ( to the left ).

Because of its " graphic " nature, this tale has at times been translated incompletely, as in John Payne's translation, where Alibech's sexual awakening is left untranslated and is accompanied with this footnote: " The translators regret that the disuse into which magic has fallen, makes it impossible to render the technicalities of that mysterious art into tolerable English ; they have therefore found it necessary to insert several passages in the original Italian.

Because the committee left no minutes, there is some uncertainty about how the drafting process proceeded — accounts written many years later by Jefferson and Adams, although frequently cited, are contradictory and not entirely reliable.

Because of this and EA's newly imposed demands, games being developed by Westwood Studios at the time were rushed and left unfinished upon their release, namely Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.

Because of the huge debt taken on by the U. S. Federal Government to finance the Revolutionary War, silver coins struck by the government left circulation, and in 1806 President Jefferson suspended the minting of silver coins.

Because the vertical external field B < sub > ext </ sub > is stronger on one side than the other, the leftward force on the left side of the ring is smaller than the rightward force on the right side of the ring, and the net force on the sail is to the right.

Because bamboos can be aggressive as early successional plants, the seedlings would be able to outstrip other plants and take over the space left by their parents.

Because the contract conditions should never be violated in program execution, they can be either left in as debugging code or removed from the production version of the code altogether for performance reasons.

Because of the broad variety of religious communities with their different histories, characteristics, customs, and missions, the Vatican Council did not give specific indications, and left to each individual community the authority to determine what needed to be changed in accord with the spirit of their founders, the needs of modern life, and the situations where they lived and worked.