Because of the remarkable coincidence of three cases of auto-immune disease in one household, the Secret Service tested the water in the White House, at Camp David, at the Vice President's residence, and at Walker's Point ( Bush's home in Maine ) for lithium and iodine, two substances " known to cause thyroid problems ".

Because of this, radiosity is a prime component of leading real-time rendering methods, and has been used from beginning-to-end to create a large number of well-known recent feature-length animated 3D-cartoon films.

Because Bergman was taller than her leading man, Bogart had blocks attached to his shoes in certain scenes.

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 of this sensitivity to infant mortality, simple life expectancy at age zero can be subject to gross misinterpretation, leading one to believe that a population with a low overall life expectancy will necessarily have a small proportion of older people.

Because of such significant deviations from the animated series, movies, and subsequent sequels the novels themselves are not considered canonical ; however, the detailed account of past events leading up to the introduction of the mobile suit and early skirmishes of the OYW are more or less accepted in the continuity.

Because of this he gained the attention of several leading Soviet officials, such as Yuri Andropov, Dmitriy Ustinov and Boris Ponomarev.

Because Zukor believed in stars, he signed and developed many of the leading early stars, including Mary Pickford, Marguerite Clark, Pauline Frederick, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and Wallace Reid.

Because it is left-handed, the rightward ( relative to the direction of travel ) horizontal component is now lagging the vertical component by one quarter of a wavelength rather than leading it.

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 it orbits with one side permanently facing the planet, astronomers expect that Triton should have fewer impacts on its trailing hemisphere, as impacts on the leading hemisphere would be more frequent and more violent.

Because he and his brother, the future Emperor Constantine VIII ( ruled 1025 – 1028 ), were too young to reign in their own right, Basil's mother Theophano married one of Romanos ' leading generals, who took the throne as the Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas several months later in 963.

Because the series ran for such a long time and featured young performers, Young Talent Time made an indelible mark on the psyche of several generations of Australian children, leading them to believe that if they tried hard enough, they too could be a ' star ' like the kids they saw on television ( Johnny Young launched talent schools in his own name in early 1980s ).

Because the ranking was arbitrarily decided by a few prominent persons, it frequently reflected the wishes of the leading families in the area rather than the merit of those being ranked.

Because the Sun, Moon, stars, and other objects orbited the planet in the cosmology of Middle-earth they were considered part of Arda, leading to Arda sometimes being called the ' Solar System ' of Middle-earth.

Because she strongly desired to campaign for the " No " forces in the weeks leading up to Quebec's 1980 referendum on separation from Canada, Sauvé initially refused the offer of running for the non-partisan position, but eventually acquiesced after Trudeau convinced her that she was the right person for the job and she received permission from the leaders of all the parties in the House of Commons to engage in the federalist campaign in Quebec.

Because of the dispute regarding the 1902 competition, the statistics regarding the leading winners are also disputed.

Because of this, many leading Catholics were opposed to the repeal of the Act, fearing it would stir up anti-Catholic sentiment for little practical return.

Because of the competitive advantages pitchers enjoyed between 1963 and 1968 ( prior to the lowering of the pitcher's mound ), Yastrzemski's. 301 mark in " The Year of the Pitcher " is the lowest average of any batting champion in major league history ; however, he was the only hitter in the American League to hit. 300 for that season against such formidable pitching, as well as leading the league in on-base percentage and walks.

Because of the county's many creeks leading to the Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean, smuggling was very common.

Because he relied so much on his fastball, he also surrendered numerous home runs, leading the American League in home runs allowed for three consecutive years between 1966 and 1968.

Clear at Zundel's Wharf Because of this, the front of the homes ( sometimes referred to as cottages ) face Mobile Bay and there is a boardwalk between the water and the homes leading to and from Zundel's Wharf.

Because of its location near important roadways, Madisonville is a leading manufacturing hub for western Kentucky.

Because of the ready availability of lumber, it was the birthplace of the Herschell-Spillman Company / Allan Herschell Co., one of the leading manufacturers of carousels in America and is now the home of the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum.

Because interest in the Peruvian Paso horse was growing in the United States and Central America at the same time, many of the finest Peruvian Paso horses were exported, leading to a period where it appeared the Peruvian Paso horse would fade in its homeland.

Because it flows through some of the richest forest districts, it has historically been Norway's leading log floating river.

Because of this growth, regional and state organizations began to assume a more prominent role in the governance of the sport.

Because of this, the role of the Central Committee was strengthened.

Because of its magnitude, scientists formerly speculated that the gases released during the formation of the Deccan Traps played a role in the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event ( also known as the K-Pg extinction ), which included the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.

Because of planning and practice, each player will know what his role in the play is to be, and how to execute it.

Because rapidly rising prices undermine the role of money as a store of value, people try to spend it on real goods or services as quickly as possible.

Because of motivation's role in influencing workplace behavior and performance, it is key for organizations to understand and to structure the work environment to encourage productive behaviors and discourage those that are unproductive.

Because of his role as the title character on The Incredible Hulk, he is often the target of Hulk jokes by Doug and his friends.

Because there were usually few British regulars garrisoned in North America, colonial militia served a vital role in local conflicts, particularly in the French and Indian Wars.

Because of the vital role that MAOs play in the inactivation of neurotransmitters, MAO dysfunction ( too much or too little MAO activity ) is thought to be responsible for a number of psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Because of the extraordinary range of properties of polymeric materials, they play an essential and ubiquitous role in everyday life.

Because of the Germans ' role in the Protestant Reformation, Hegel ( a Lutheran ) argued that his historical moment had seen the Zeitgeist settle on the German-speaking peoples.

Because volume measurements play a key role in titration, it is also known as volumetric analysis.

Because it is a predominantly Islamic country, pork plays no role in Turkish cuisine.

Because social aspects of gender can normally be presumed to be the ones of interest in sociology and closely related disciplines, gender role is often abbreviated to gender in their literature.

Because both may be specified more or less arbitrarily, the wave function cannot maintain its former role of determining the probability density of finding the electron in a given state of motion.

:" Because highly fit schemata of low defining length and low order play such an important role in the action of genetic algorithms, we have already given them a special name: building blocks.

Because of its fundamental role in carrying a single phone call, the DS0 rate forms the basis for the digital multiplex transmission hierarchy in telecommunications systems used in North America.

Because its early forms originated in England in the Middle Ages, this is particularly true in Anglo-American legal traditions and in former colonies of the British Empire, while also playing a role in some countries that have mixed systems with significant admixtures of civil law.

Because of the role played by water, metamorphic rocks generally contain many elements absent from the original rock, and lack some that originally were present.

Because he was not of Asian descent, when producer Irving Thalberg offered him the role, he stated, " I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

Because of the possible role of serotonin in sleep patterns, a new generation of 5-HT < sub > 2 </ sub > antagonists are in current development as hypnotics.

Because of this bloom-and-bust cycle, diatoms are believed to play a disproportionately important role in the export of carbon from oceanic surface waters ( see also the biological pump ).

Because DNA methylation and chromatin remodeling play such a central role in many types of epigenic inheritance, the word " epigenetics " is sometimes used as a synonym for these processes.

Because of the role played by President Theodore Roosevelt, the United States became a significant force in world diplomacy.

Because the hippocampus is thought to play a central role in memory, there has been considerable interest in the possibility that age-related declines could be caused by hippocampal deterioration.