Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.

Because of the ocean's great capacity to store and release heat, maritime climates are more moderate and have less extreme seasonal variations than inland climates.

Because of its extreme reactivity with oxygen and water, this element occurs naturally only in compounds with other elements, such as in the minerals strontianite and celestite.

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 they have evolved for short bursts of extreme speed at the expense of their power, they cannot defend themselves against most of Africa's other predator species.

Because of the extreme stopping power of a thrusting spear, it quickly became a popular weapon of footmen in the Late Middle Ages.

Because Uranus orbits the Sun almost on its side, and its moons orbit in the planet's equatorial plane, they ( including Oberon ) are subject to an extreme seasonal cycle.

* Because the intermarriage crisis among American Jewry is an extreme situation, the Conservative movement feels it must support the decision of two Jews to marry.

Because nearly equal values are being subtracted, the noise performance requirements for the magnetometers is more extreme.

Because the conditions are extreme on the cliffs, quite a number of rare and uncommon shrubs are found there.

Because of the mild winter weather, and despite the extreme heat in the summer, the agricultural economy continues to boom in the area.

Because many of the suggested distinguishing features of humanity — extreme intelligence ; highly complex language ; etc .— are not present in marginal cases such as young or mentally disabled humans, it appears that the only distinction is a prejudice based on species alone, which animal-rights supporters call speciesism — that is, differentiating humans from other animals purely on the grounds that they are human.

Because of their extreme masses they have short lifespans of 30 million years down to a few hundred thousand years ( by the calculation M < sup >- 2. 5 </ sup > × 10 < sup > 10 </ sup > where M = mass in sols ).

Because all the aspects in a Grand Cross are considered difficult aspects, the Grand Cross is seen as a source of extreme tension whereby various aspects of the personality ( represented by the planets ) are working at cross purposes that serve to nullify each other.

Because of the extreme nature of the planetoid, just about any aspect it makes is going to be considered hard because it forces the native to look closely at his life, make appropriate changes, or risk losing that which is important to him.

Because of their extremely steep terrain ( often located in summer at ski resorts ), downhill courses are one of the most extreme and dangerous venues for mountain biking.

Because of this he can survive moments of extreme duress, and demonstrated this ability on numerous occasions ; once by falling 4000 feet, crashing through the concrete into a subway tunnel and subsequently being hit by an oncoming train, surviving without incident (" Evil Sits Down for a Moment ," November 4, 1995 ).

Because the ceramic is so brittle the entrance channel of a shaped charge jet is not smooth — as it would be when penetrating a metal — but ragged, causing extreme asymmetric pressures which disturb the geometry of the jet, on which its penetrative capabilities are critically dependent as its mass is relatively low.

Because of decreased demand, most extreme paper grades are now discontinued, and the few graded ranges still available include only middle contrast grades.

Because so many species within this genus are so deadly toxic, if a specimen is identified incorrectly, consumption may cause extreme sickness and possibly death.

Because of the extreme hardiness of the species, it is sometimes the only species found in severely polluted and oxygen-deprived streams, such as the Elizabeth River in Virginia, and the Hackensack River and the Arthur Kill in New Jersey during the height of the water pollution problem in the United States.

Because of the extreme nature of many of these wounds and the grafting and debridement that accompanies such a treatment, a burn center's wound clinic, which has staff trained in such wounds, may be utilized.

Because of their extreme masses they have relatively short lifespans and are mainly observed in young cosmic structures such as open clusters, the arms of spiral galaxies, and in irregular galaxies.

Because of the extreme cost, lackluster pay, fame and prestige that surrounded the hussars, almost all of them were members of the upper level nobility ( szlachta ).

Because the beaks of giant squids have been found embedded within lumps of ambergris, scientists have theorised that the substance is produced by the whale's gastrointestinal tract to ease the passage of hard, sharp objects that the whale might have eaten.

Because of improved test accuracy, ease of specimen management, convenience in specimen management, and ease of screening sexually active men and women, the NAATs have largely replaced culture, the historic gold standard for chlamydia diagnosis, and the non-amplified probe tests.

Because Charles Moore had frequently moved from job to job over his career, an early pressure on the developing language was ease of porting to different computer architectures.

Because of this, theoretical knowledge and learning in Greece — and later in Rome — was not applied to ease physical labour or improve manufacturing.

Because of its depth and relative ease of access, the US Navy uses Seneca Lake to perform test and evaluation of equipment ranging from single element transducers to complex sonar arrays and systems.

Because of its high performance, moderate ease of manufacturing, and moderate cost, APCP finds widespread use in space rockets, military rockets, hobby and amateur rockets, whereas cheaper and less efficient ANCP finds use in amateur rocketry and gas generators.

Because of its beauty and ease of growing, the California poppy was introduced into several regions with similar Mediterranean climates.

Because of this multi-directional flow, coupled with the fact that sap cannot move with ease between adjacent sieve-tubes, it is not unusual for sap in adjacent sieve-tubes to be flowing in opposite directions.

Because of the ease of obtaining a marriage license in Tennessee, Gatlinburg is a popular destination for weddings and honeymoons, with over twenty wedding chapels in the town and surrounding areas.

Because cannabis was legal in California, Simmons was able to use medical cannabis to ease her pain and suffering during the last months of her life.

Because of its ease of use it is quite common, though in some places NNN equipment ( broadly comparable in terms of cost and performance ) is easier to come by and hence used more.

Because of its ease of connection by soldering or clamping, copper is still the most common choice for most light-gauge wires.

Because the grief knot is known to slip apart " with astonishing ease ", it is considered one of the most insecure of knots.

Because of the limits of the reading ease formulas, some research looked at ways to measure the content, organization, and coherence of text.

Because Czechoslovakia was more industrialized than the Soviet Union, it was in a position to furnish most of the equipment and fertilizer inputs needed to ease the transition to collectivized agriculture.

Because of its ease of play, many music teachers consider it to be an especially good educational instrument.

Because such uvular rhotics often do not contrast with alveolar ones, IPA transcriptions may often use ⟨ r ⟩ to represent them for ease of typesetting.

Because of the ease of construction, such walls can be made hundreds or thousands of kilometres long.

Because of their greater suitability and ease of use, solid-fuel rocket boosters were used instead of explosive charges.

Because of the educational aims, ease of use was a priority in DTSS design.

" Because she was deemed a risk to reoffend, she was denied statutory release two-thirds of the way through her sentence ," Maclean's reported in explaining what had exempted Homolka from the parole restrictions meant to ease an offender's integration into mainstream society.

Because of its durability and ease of manufacturing and installation, many utilities in recent years prefer the use of monopolar steel or concrete towers over lattice steel for new power lines and tower replacements.

Because of its ability to store statements and re-state them with ease, many IRC channel operators use an Infobot to store information such as the channel rules so they could easily give them to newcomers to the channel.