Because the government refused to consider opposition demands for an independent election commission, the three major opposition parties boycotted the October 1997 presidential election, which Biya easily won.

Because the methods are independent, when one of several methods is in error, it is very unlikely to be in error in the same way as any of the other methods, and a difference between the measurements will be observed.

Because of consilience, the strength of evidence for any particular conclusion is related to how many independent methods are supporting the conclusion, as well as how different these methods are.

Because of this dissatisfaction with reliance on the Jewish calendar, some Christians began to experiment with independent computations.

Because the diffeomorphism invariance of the theory does not allow any particular space-time background to be singled out as the " true " space-time background, general relativity is said to be background independent.

Because journalism's first loyalty is to the citizenry, journalists are obliged to tell the truth and must serve as an independent monitor of powerful individuals and institutions within society.

Because of its applicability in diverse fields of mathematics, mathematicians including Saunders Mac Lane have proposed category theory as a foundational system for mathematics, independent of set theory.

Because most candidates are predicted to achieve top grades at A level, interviews are usually used to check whether the course is well suited to the applicant's interests and aptitudes, and to look for evidence of self-motivation, independent thinking, academic potential and ability to learn through the tutorial system.

Because the Serbs were dispersed among several regions, and the fact that they had special ties to the independent nation state of Serbia, they were among the strongest supporters of independence of South-Slavs from Austria-Hungary and uniting into a common state under Serbian monarchy.

Because it can perform the tasks of both DNA and enzymes, RNA is believed to have once been capable of supporting independent life forms.

Because of the broad range of expressions of romantic nationalism, it is listed as a contributing factor from everything from the creation of independent states in Europe, to the rise of Nazi Germany.

Because North had been granted limited immunity for his Congressional testimony, the law prohibited the independent counsel ( or any prosecutor ) from using that testimony as part of a criminal case against him.

Because these events are independent, we obtain the approximation:

Because they express a relationship between vectors, tensors themselves must be independent of a particular choice of coordinate system.

Because of Lebanon's weak central government, the PLO was able to operate virtually as an independent state.

Because of the nature of the hero that it represented, it soon came to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family.

Because this has some fixed nonzero probability p of occurring, the E < sub > k </ sub > are independent, and the below sum diverges,

Because some people have both Bacon and Erdős numbers due to acting and publications, there are a rare few who have an Erdős – Bacon number, which is defined as the sum of a person's independent Erdős and Bacon numbers.

Because many ABC stations in major Eastern Time markets carried local news at 12: 00 Noon, the show was mostly seen in smaller markets and on independent stations in some larger markets without network clearances, and was canceled after one season.

) Because of their " distinctive histories and traditions ," black schools can function as the center and symbol of black communities, and provide examples of independent black leadership, success, and achievement.

Because the allocation of electoral votes is independent of each state's turnout, the Electoral College neutralizes the effect of all such turnout disparities between states.

Because independent variables are assumed, only the variances of the variables for each class need to be determined and not the entire covariance matrix.

Because Humboldt, Iola, and La Harpe are cities of the second class, they are governmentally independent from the townships and are excluded from the census figures for the townships.

Because of parking challenges in the downtown area, many thriving independent businesses can be found in convenient areas throughout the city where access for their customers is more centralized and parking is more abundant.

Because the observations are independent, this can be written as

Because hedge funds do not have publicly traded securities, they are not subject to all of the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Because of their reporting, journalists are on occasion subjected to harassment, intimidation, and violence -- primarily from drug trafficking gangs and criminal syndicates based in departments bordering Brazil but also from politicians.

Because the AP was a cooperative essentially owned by the newspapers, those in the South influenced its coverage of the racial unrest and protests, often ignoring, minimizing, or slanting the reporting.

Because of their history as a legitimate feudal organization and their connection to the Japanese political system through the uyoku ( extreme right-wing political groups ), yakuza are somewhat a part of the Japanese establishment, with six fan magazines reporting on their activities.

Because of " non-disclosure clauses " which may have been included in the fraudulent contract, reporting of the scam may be delayed until the victim becomes certain he has been cheated.

Because of the structure of the SYNOP code, a maximum of three cloud symbols can be plotted for each reporting station that appears on the weather map ; one symbol each for a low ( or upward growing vertical ) cloud type, a middle ( or downward growing vertical ) type, and one for a high cloud type.

Because it was outside his field and he was aware of the controversy it would cause, Hardy delayed reporting his hypothesis.

Because of the requirements put into place by the DSHEA, the FDA must demonstrate that individual supplements are unsafe using their adverse events reporting system, which is estimated to capture only 1 to 10 percent of all adverse events linked to supplements.

Because of a similar agreement applied to sound bites ( O-Töne, in German ) a German press organization suggested that the press refrain from reporting about the exhibition in Munich in 2003.

Because such reporting has the potential to severely degrade the performance of a live system, it is usually provided over a data warehouse.

Because detecting and reporting of FMD have enormously improved and sped up, almost all poor countries could now safely create FMD-free export zones.

Because of the improper algebraic results of assigning any value to division by zero, many computer programming languages ( including those used by calculators ) explicitly forbid the execution of the operation and may prematurely halt a program that attempts it, sometimes reporting a " Divide by zero " error.

Because measurement and reporting varies, it is difficult to compare rates of MRSA in different countries.

Because business performance management activities in large organizations often involve the collation and reporting of large volumes of data, many software vendors, particularly those offering business intelligence tools, market products intended to assist in this process.

Because these nationwide specialty consumer reporting agencies sell consumer credit report files, they are required to provide annual disclosures of their report files to any consumers who request disclosure.

" Because of her coverage of Johnny, Dana was able to move on up to reporting for a Boston television station, choosing her career ambitions above her increasingly complex relationship with Johnny.

Because the merger did not occur until December, locomotives after October 1982 were to receive the Seaboard System paint scheme with the existing railroad's reporting marks applied.

Because of these efforts, Odwalla was again profitable by the end of 1997, reporting a profit of $ 140, 000 for the third quarter.

The Iranian press is highly regulated, especially under the Press Law, which according to the UNHCR, “ forbids the publication of ideas that are contrary to Islamic principles or detrimental to public rights .” This includes imprisonment for “ propaganda ,” which remains undefined, and for offenses that are “ an insult to religion .” Because as many as 100 publications were shut down in the early 2000s, many sought alternative outlets for reporting and freedom of expression.

Because of its size, this list has been split into subpages based on the first letter of the reporting mark.

Because of his role at the paper during the Watergate reporting, Aarons was hired as an accuracy consultant for the Post-centered film about the scandal, All the President's Men ( film ).

Because of the large number of organizations under its control, Air Force Reserve became the largest of the separate operating agencies and was the largest of the direct reporting units before returning to SOA status.

Because the newspaper did not normally publish a Tuesday edition, a special edition reporting on assassination attempt of U. S. President Ronald Reagan was printed on March 31, 1981.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.