Because it is impossible to be certain of shooting down every ballistic missile, it is preferable to ensure that the weapons cannot be manufactured in the first place.

Because of EST's claimed lack of need for an external stabilizing magnetic field, EPS hope to be able to create small efficient fusion reactors by colliding magnetically-accelerated ESTs together at speeds high enough to induce ballistic nuclear fusion.

Because the handle is attached to the resistance source by rope or similarly flexible media, the trajectory of the hands in the vertical plane is free making it possible for the rower to emulate the hand height difference between the stroke and the return.

Because this integral depends on the trajectory of the point of application of the force and torque, this calculation of work is said to be " path dependent.

Because they deliver the same energy on each shot, their trajectory is consistent.

Because the location of a single scattering center is not usually well known relative to the path of the radiation, the outcome, which tends to depend strongly on the exact incoming trajectory, appears random to an observer.

Because of the free return trajectory on this mission, it is likely that Lovell, Swigert, and Haise hold the record for the greatest distance that human beings have traveled from Earth.

Because the frequencies in the quantum motion are not multiples of a common frequency, the matrix elements cannot be interpreted as the Fourier coefficients of a sharp classical trajectory.

Because of the deviation from the straight trajectory, the two-seam fastball is sometimes called a moving fastball.

Because they throw almost underhand with their knuckles near the dirt, the batter perceives the sensation of the ball going upward because of its low starting point and flight trajectory.

Because the final state of the system depends on the intermediate values of its trajectory through parameter space, the system can not be represented by a conservative potential function as can, for example, the inverse square law of the gravitational force.

Because of the axial tilt of the Earth ( often known as the obliquity of the ecliptic ), the inclination of the Sun's trajectory in the sky ( as seen by an observer on Earth's surface ) varies over the course of the year.

Because of variations in the trajectory of ammunition, as well as other factors, the bore-sighted rifle will probably not shoot to the exact spot that the crosshairs indicate, and live ammunition will need to be fired to fine-tune the sighting process.

Because of the high drag associated with the transonic drag region and the low thrust of early jet aircraft, trajectory optimization was the key to maximizing climb to altitude performance.

Because the length of the diagonal lines is related on the time how long segments of the phase space trajectory run parallel, i. e. on the divergence behaviour of the trajectories, it was sometimes stated that the reciprocal of the maximal length of the diagonal lines ( without LOI ) would be an estimator for the positive maximal Lyapunov exponent of the dynamical system.

Because of the relatively high velocity and flat trajectory of the 6mm Lee cartridge, authorities calibrated the sights at their lowest setting with a point-blank or dead aim range of 725 yards ( 663 m ).

Because of their location, on the edge of the feed lot, fence-line bunks are not in the way of mechanical manure removal.

Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.

Because of its ( relatively ) economically isolated location, Alberta relies heavily on transportation links with the rest of the world.

Because of the seemingly highly symbolic and even cryptic language of this one New Testament passage, some Christian scholars conclude that Mount Armageddon must be an idealized location.

Because times of sunset and sunrise, unlike the phenomenon described in preceding paragraphs, vary with an observer's geographic location ( longitude and latitude ), these dates likewise depend on location and do not exist for locations sufficiently close to the Equator.

Because of Finland's northern location, winter is the longest season.

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 of its strategic location it is in both the Russian and American spheres of influence.

Because of the relative price of gin, when compared with other drinks available at the same time and in the same geographic location, gin became popular with the poor.

Because of its natural beauty and historical significance, it has become a popular tourist location.

Because of its central location, it was made the district capital of Hulu Langat.

Because of its eccentric location in the Netherlands, and its geographical and cultural proximity to Belgium, integration of Maastricht and Limburg into the Netherlands did not come about easily.

Because of the many threats against Maria and Alexander III, the head of the security police, General Cherevin, shortly after the coronation urged the Tsar and his family to relocate to Gatchina Palace, a more secure location 50 kilometres outside St. Petersburg.

Because of the location of the shoreline — at the point where the Atlantic's cold water reach Africa — there is often extremely dense fog.

Because of its location, it became the site of military facilities used first by the British and then by the United States, following an access agreement signed in 1980 by the United States and Oman.

Because of their location, open clusters are occasionally referred to as galactic clusters, a term that was introduced in 1925 by the Swiss-American astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler.

Because fossils identifiable as P. sternbergi are found exclusively in the lower layers of the Niobrara Formation, and P. longiceps fossils exclusively in the upper layers, a fossil lacking the skull can be identified based on its position in the geologic column ( though for many early fossil finds, precise data about its location was not recorded, rendering many fossils unidentifiable ).

Because of its southern and seagirt location, Jeju Island has warmer and milder weather than other parts of South Korea.

Because events are spacetime points, an example of an event in classical relativistic physics is, the location of an elementary ( point-like ) particle at a particular time.

Because of its even mix of people, its location, and the attraction of dancing, the Stonewall Inn was known by many as " the gay bar in the city ".

) Because of their location, the sages of these Academies devoted considerable attention to analysis of the agricultural laws of the Land of Israel.

Because of the island's sub-tropical location, Taiwan has an abundant supply of various fruit, such as papayas, starfruit, melons, and citrus fruit.

Because the territorial boundary line between the U. S. and Canada ran through the middle of Lake Erie and then up the Detroit River, combined with the prevailing belief regarding the location of the southern tip of Lake Michigan, the framers of the 1802 Ohio Constitution believed it was the intent of Congress that Ohio's northern boundary should certainly be north of the mouth of the Maumee River, and possibly even of the Detroit River.

Because u < sub > ρ </ sub > is a unit vector, its magnitude is fixed, and it can change only in direction, that is, its change du < sub > ρ </ sub > has a component only perpendicular to u < sub > ρ </ sub >.

Because these paired books had to fit a fixed total page length, one or both were usually abridged to fit, and Wollheim often made other editorial alterations — as witness the differences between Poul Anderson's Ace novel War of the Wing-Men and its definitive revised edition, The Man Who Counts.

Because this Victorian cycle differed from the Alexandrian cycle in the dates of some of the Paschal Full Moons, and because it tried to respect the Roman custom of fixing Easter to the Sunday in the week of the 16th to the 22nd of the lunar month ( rather than the 15th to the 21st as at Alexandria ), by providing alternative " Latin " and " Greek " dates in some years, occasional disagreements from the date of Easter as fixed by Alexandrian rules continued.

Because the output pulses have a fixed amplitude, the switching elements ( usually MOSFETs, but valves ( vacuum tubes ) and bipolar transistors were once used ) are switched either completely on or completely off, rather than operated in linear mode.

Because G is triangular, the degree of each vertex in a configuration is known, and all edges internal to the configuration are known, the number of vertices in G adjacent to a given configuration is fixed, and they are joined in a cycle.

Because a nation's exchange rate has a big impact on its ' balance of trade ' and its ' balance of payments ' many economists favour freely floating exchange rates over the older, fixed ( or pegged ) rates of foreign currency exchange.

Because observations are subject to uncertainty and weather conditions, and astronomical methods are highly complex, there have been attempts to create fixed arithmetical rules.

Because fixed cost must be paid regardless of whether a firm operates they should not be considered in deciding whether to produce or shutdown.

Because planned actions can typically only be submitted at a fixed maximum frequency ( e. g., once every few days or every few weeks ), the number of discrete actions is limited compared to real-time games.

Because of this, many modern large caliber hunting revolvers tend to be based on the fixed cylinder design.

Because the viewfinder and the film lens cannot share the same optical path, the viewing lens is aimed to intersect with the film lens at a fixed point somewhere in front of the camera.

Because the low pressure stages are limiting the flow, the high pressure stages can be fixed to zero flow.

Because the check value has a fixed length, the function that generates it is occasionally used as a hash function.

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

Because of the ambiguity of " surface " and " vertical ", it is more commonly expressed relative to a precisely defined vertical datum which holds fixed some known point.

Because of the zero-point energy, the position and momentum of the oscillator in the ground state are not fixed ( as they would be in a classical oscillator ), but have a small range of variance, in accordance with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

Because the sacrifice of Jesus through his crucifixion is commemorated on this day, the Divine Liturgy ( the sacrifice of bread and wine ) is never celebrated on Great Friday, except when this day coincides with the Great Feast of the Annunciation, which falls on the fixed date of March 25 ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian Calendar, March 25 currently falls on April 7 of the modern Gregorian Calendar ).

Because analog channels took up an entire transponder on the satellite, and each satellite had a fixed number of transponders, dishes were usually equipped with a polar mount and actuator to sweep the dish across the horizon to receive channels from multiple satellites.

Because of the Earth's annual revolution around the Sun in an orbit that is elliptical and tilted relative to the plane of the equator, an observer at a fixed point on the Earth sees the Sun appear to move in an analemma around a mean position, taking a year to do so.

Because the ratchet engages in only a fixed set of positions, the timpanist must fine tune the drum by means of a fine tuning handle.

Because our independent transcendentals act as indeterminates over, every permutation in the symmetric group on 5 letters induces an automorphism on that leaves fixed and permutes the elements.

Because of the very heavy steam demands, the engine had to be periodically stopped and restarted, but even this process was automated by means of a buoy rising and falling in a vertical stand pipe fixed to the boiler ( the first pressure gauge ?).

Because of the proper and improper motions of the sun, one solar day ( the time between two upper culminations of the sun ) is longer than one sidereal day ( the time between two like culminations of any fixed star ).

Because mental health treatment does not lend itself to fixed price costing, other exceptions are made by insurance companies for payment in the case of longer term casemix averages.