Because Bulgarian industry was configured to Soviet markets, the end of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact caused a severe crisis in the 1990s.

Because the Soviet Union had no large carriers of its own, a situation of dueling aircraft carriers would have been unlikely.

Because of Ba ' athism's anti-Western stances it preferred the Soviet Union in the Cold War and admired and adopted certain Soviet organizational structures for their governments, however the Ba ' athist regimes have persecuted communists.

Because of the membership of Greece and Cyprus in the European Union, Greek is one of the organization's 23 official languages.

Because his Movement of Solidarity Action ( MAS ) Party gained only 18 of 116 seats in Congress, Serrano entered into a tenuous alliance with the Christian Democrats and the National Union of the Center ( UCN ).

Because of the coup attempted by Moscow hardliners against the Gorbachev government in August 1991, the Union Treaty never was signed.

* Because of their age, they have established similar institutions and facilities such as printing houses ( Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press ), botanical gardens ( University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Cambridge University Botanic Garden ), museums ( the Ashmolean and the Fitzwilliam ), legal deposit libraries ( the Bodleian and the Cambridge University Library ), and debating societies ( the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union ).

" Because of legal reasons Barceló was unable to use the name " Union Party " and in 1932, founded the " Liberal Party of Puerto Rico ".

Because of European Union food hygiene-health regulations, the cheese was outlawed for a time, and offenders faced heavy fines.

Because that city is the seat of dozens of international organizations and bodies, Alsace is politically one of the most important regions in the European Union.

Because the invasion of the Soviet Union intended to impose the New Order was essentially a war of conquest and extermination, German propaganda efforts designed to win over Russian opinion were, at best, patchy and inconsistent.

Because of the long period in which it took to build a battle fleet, Raeder was, despite his Anglophobia, hostile towards an anti-British foreign policy ( at least until the High Seas Fleet was resurrected ) and until 1937, Raeder saw his principal enemies as France, Poland and the Soviet Union.

Because of this information, the South had been able meet the Union Army at a place where they could ambush Sturgis and make retreat as difficult as possible ( Tishomingo Creek was in their rear with only a single bridge as a crossing point.

Because of this the pansy has long been a symbol of Freethought and has been used in the literature of the American Secular Union.

Because of this decision and subsequent performance, Lee was regarded as disloyal by most Union officers.

Because of its strategic location, the fort was taken by the Union Army in 1864.

Because of the fertile soil in Union County, the county's farmers required minimal fertilizer.

Because the government paid the soldiers with land grants in the west during the revolution, Union County became home to many of these soldiers after the war.

Because of Hoxha's dogmatic Stalinist adherence, Albania broke with the Soviet Union in 1960 and formally left the Warsaw Pact in 1968 following the Soviet de-stalinization.

Because of the philosophy of anti-thesis it has strong links with the Catholic parties ( General League / Roman-Catholic State Party / Catholic People's Party ( KVP ) and the Christian Historical Union ( CHU ).

Because of the presence of rare bats, it is also on a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) and a candidate for Special Area of Conservation ( SAC ) European Union protective status.

Because of Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union, the airport during the 1970s and 1980s enjoyed the presence of many Eastern Bloc airline companies, such as Aeroflot, Czecho-Slovak Airlines, Interflug and LOT Polish Airlines.

Because few of the residents were slaveholders and had struggled for a political voice in the state, many were supporters of the Union.

Because of its prime location and resources, both the Union and Confederacy sought control of the city.

Because Laconia was the only town of any size in Boone Township, the settlement became the commercial center of the area.

Because of these factors, the primary economic activities in Arvon Township are related to logging or tourism, particularly hunting and fishing.

Because of this reason, the part of Anderson Road that is in Bethlehem Township may seem closer to parts of Union Township.

Because of a home-rule charter adopted in 1974 and effective in 1976, Upper Darby utilizes a mayor-council form of management, unlike communities that are still under the Pennsylvania Township Code.

Because the residents of this facility are counted as Howe Township residents by the U. S. Census Bureau, most statistics about the township are heavily skewed and not representative of the non-institutionalized population.

Because the township does not have a local police force for " economic reasons ," according to township supervisor Ronald Cosklo, as must therefore solely rely on the Dunmore State Police force for protection, Fell Township has in recent years become a veritable hotbed for illegal drugs which are then sold to the neighboring City of Carbondale.

Because of the Republican vote totals in Bloom Township, Panici was also responsible for fostering the political careers of numerous local officials, state legislators and judges during that time.

Because of the archabbey, St. Meinrad, along with Harrison Township, lies within the Archdiocese of Indianapolis instead of the much closer Diocese of Evansville, in which lies the rest of Spencer County.

Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.

Because he couldn't hear them, he was more convinced they were there.

Because of the political upheaval in Germany in the 1930's, Steinberg was forced to restrict his activities to the Jewish community.

Because of the falling characteristic of the rectifier, no ballast resistor was required for stability of operation.

Because negative pressure dialysis gave better recovery of proteins, permitted detection of proteins concentrated from very dilute solutions and was a gentler procedure, it was used in all but the earliest experiments.

Because of increasing anemia, triamcinolone, 8 mg. daily, was started on Feb. 23, 1958, and was continued until July, 1958.

Because of this he was known as Gimpy ( but, as with Capone and his nickname of Scarface, never in his presence ).

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

Because Don was leaving the next day, I spent the evening with him at Asia Center.

Because, if for no other reason, Willings would never for a moment suppose he was not bigger, tougher, than anything else that went on two legs.

Because his mind had been otherwise occupied for the past couple of hours, he did not think to look and see if Jerry Burton's car was still there.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

Because he copiously shed his own tears, and yielded himself up as a living sacrifice to the impersonalized conscience of New England, he was not disturbed by the havoc he worked in other people's consciences.

Because your soul was made to be filled with God Himself, not religious functions `` about '' Him.

Because constitutional claims are of great magnitude, appellate courts might be more lenient to review the claim even if it was not preserved.

Because the series was at stake, the match was to be " timeless ", i. e., played to a finish.

Because of her beauty, other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, and so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who was not viewed as a threat.

Because virtually all extant written material on Arianism was written by its opponents, the nature of Arian teachings is difficult to define precisely today.

Because of this, Octavius was raised by his grandmother ( and Julius Caesar's sister ), Julia Caesaris.

Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

Because of his bellicose nature Albert received the cognomen Alcibiades after his death ; during his lifetime Albert was known as Bellator ( the Warlike ).

Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.