Because of these roots and their lower budgets, Hong Kong action films typically center on physical acrobatics, martial arts fight scenes, stylized gun-play, and dangerous stunt work performed by leading stunt actors, while American action films typically feature big explosions, car chases, stunt doubles and CGI special effects technology.

Because the Academy had previously accepted films from other political entities such as Hong Kong, the rejection of Divine Intervention triggered accusations of double standard from pro-Palestinian activists.

Because of high labor costs and the lack of enough skilled workers in Hong Kong and Macau, the Universal decided to outsource its die casting in mainland China.

Because of their historic significance, many Tin Hau Temples in Hong Kong were graded historic buildings.

Because the redesign was highly sensitive with regard to political and economic reasons, the designing process of the new coins could not be entrusted to an artist but was undertaken by Joseph Yam, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, himself who found in the bauhinia the requested " politically neutral design " and did a secret scissors and paste job.

Because of his fondness for martial arts, Patrick starred in two martial arts films titled Double Dragon and Hong Kong 97, both released in 1994.

Because of this, wuxia came to flourish in British Hong Kong, and the genre of kung fu movie in Hong Kong action cinema became wildly popular, coming to international attention from the 1970s.

Because the Katong people loved his laksa, it has come to be known as the Katong laksa throughout the world in Hong Kong and New York.

Because Premier Manager 2005 regarded places such as Tibet and Hong Kong as separate states, the game was banned in China by the Ministry of Culture.

Because political issues in China, many Chinese villagers left mainland and fled to Hong Kong.

Because of this talk show, Cheng was also rated as one of the 25 most influential Hong Kongers by Time magazine in 1997.

Because of this relationship, it was often said while Tung was the Chief Executive of Hong Kong that Fok ' intervened / advised ' if times, or rather Beijing, called for it.

Because New Kowloon technically remains part of the New Territories in law, privately owned land in New Kowloon is held by way of a land lease from the Hong Kong government, subject to rent payments.

Because of Hong Kong's cultural influence, the adoption of Mandarin even as a second language has been slow in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Because of her success, Lee Young-Ae has been invited to visit Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, China and Japan.

Because of his enormous U. S. popularity, these films are usually released in the U. S., a rarity for Hong Kong films, and generally attract respectable audience numbers.

Because Hong Kong was a British colony for nearly all of the 20th century, it was spared the harsh censorship that the People's Republic of China and Taiwan endured at the hands of their political leaders.

Because of his beliefs, Hong is sometimes noted as the first modern Chinese nationalist, and he was mentioned in early writings by both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China.

Because of that heritage, the Tiandihui is sometimes controversial and is illegal in Hong Kong.

Because the price of imported water increased from $ 1 to $ 3 per cubic meter, the Hong Kong authorities announced in 2011 that thez would build a 50, 000 cubic meter per day seawater desalination plant.

Because Fan Chun Yip was professionally trained by the Hong Kong Sports Institute, he eventually was selected to represent the Hong Kong youth team.

Because the announcement was in a foreign language, it drew the attention of a lot of the audience in Hong Kong.

Because David O Selznick thought that audiences would think that the film, with the one word title of Kong, would be mistaken as a docudrama like Grass and Chang, which were one-word titled films that Cooper had earlier produced, he added the " King " to Kong's name to differentiate.

Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.

Because, honey, I thought silently, there are plenty of desert islands in every marriage -- long periods when you're hopelessly stranded, together.

Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.

Because of the split in the Conservative Party and because of Disraeli's unpopularity, arising from the budget fight of 1852, which is outlined above, no Conservative reconciliation remained possible so long as Disraeli remained leader in the House of Commons.

Because the P-array is 576 bits long, and the key bytes are XORed through all these 576 bits during the initialization, many implementations support key sizes up to 576 bits.

Because it was a minority church of widely differing traditions in a non-Christian culture ( except in Kerala, where Christianity has a long history ), practice varied wildly.

Because of the country's geography and long distances between major cities, aviation is also important.

Because of the long timescales involved, the cold CNO cycles convert hydrogen to helium slowly, allowing them to power stars in quiescent equilibrium for many years.

Because of that the vehicle with the bridge on board is only 11. 6 m long, but the over all span length is 20 m. This is an increase of about 62 % over that of the older MTU-1.

Because the Earth completes only one rotation per day, the Coriolis force is quite small, and its effects generally become noticeable only for motions occurring over large distances and long periods of time, such as large-scale movement of air in the atmosphere or water in the ocean.

Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring long.

Because the extermination camps were physically small ( only several hundred metres long and wide ) and equipped with minimal housing and support installations, the Nazis deceived the prisoners upon their arrival, telling them that they were at a temporary transit stop, and soon would continue to an Arbeitslager ( work camp ) farther east.

Because lunar months have a whole number of days, lunar months may be either 29 or 30 days long.

Because of its long seacoast, Italy also has a large number of harbors for the transportation of both goods and passengers.

Because these spells have ( very ) long casting times ( up to several days ), highly specific and exacting verbal, material and somatic requirements, and can only be cast inside the sorcerer's consecrated temple, these spells are actually more like quasi-religious rituals.

Because speed is such an important factor of the approach, it is not surprising that many long jumpers also compete successfully in sprints.

Because the Pacific plate is the largest of all the tectonic plates on Earth, crustal material at its western edge has had a long time since formation ( up to 170 million years ) to compact and become very dense ; hence its great height-difference relative to the higher-riding Mariana Plate, at the point where the Pacific Plate crust is subducted.

Because mandrake contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine, apoatropine, hyoscyamine and the roots sometimes contain bifurcations causing them to resemble human figures, their roots have long been used in magic rituals, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism religions such as Odinism.

Because < sup > 60 </ sup > Fe has such a long half-life, its persistence in materials in the solar system at high enough concentrations may have generated observable variations in the isotopic composition of < sup > 60 </ sup > Ni.

Because polymer chains are so long, these interchain forces are amplified far beyond the attractions between conventional molecules.

Because potassium and sodium are chemically very similar, it took a long time before their salts were differentiated.

Because of the enormous military successes of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the legion has long been regarded as the prime ancient model for military efficiency and ability.

Because of his health problems, Jordan did not work at full force on the final installment A Memory of Light ( later split into three volumes beginning with The Gathering Storm ), but blog entries confirmed that he continued work on it until his death, and he shared all of the significant plot details with his family not long before he died.

Because of a long history of neutrality, the army does not take part in armed conflicts in other countries, but takes part in peacekeeping missions around the world.

Because of its efficiency as a working breed, most huskies are bred to be able to withstand long work days on little amounts of food.