Because of their fierce battles with the Crusaders, the Druzes earned the respect of the Sunni Muslim Caliphs and thus gained important political powers.

Because of these positive feedback effects, competition among scientists to publish in high-level journals like Nature and its closest competitor, Science, can be very fierce.

18 Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.

Because of keen interest by tribes to gain control of the lower Ottawa River, the Kitcisìpiriniwak and the Wàwàckeciriniwak came under fierce opposition.

Because the goanna regularly eats snakes ( often involving a fierce struggle between the two ), they are often said to be immune to snake venom.

) Because of it she developed a tough personality that many found off-putting, and a fierce determination to prove herself through her work.

Because of their feud with the Comyns over Rait and Meickle Geddes, Clan Chattan backed the Earl of Carrick, Robert the Bruce in his fierce dynastic struggles with the Red Comyn.

Because of the proximity of Southampton and Portsmouth, they are fierce rivals, but also have to share various resources, including local radio stations ( BBC Radio Solent, also a local digital radio multiplex ), and a telephone area code ( 023, although this is not contiguous as Fareham retains a separate number, and calls made between the cities are not charged at local rate ).

Because of fierce competition from copycat products, the company has always responded by being proactive in their patenting and has over 600 United States granted design patents to their name.

Because Ambrosius and Vortigern are shown in the Historia Brittonum as being in conflict, some historians have suspected that this preserves a historical core of the existence of two parties in opposition to one another, one headed by Ambrosius and the other by Vortigern.

Because the Belarus government severely limits free expression, several opposition media outlets are broadcast from nearby countries to help provide Belarusians alternative points of view.

Because of opposition, however, it did not become widely used until after World War II.

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 of Japanese opposition to participation in an anti-British alliance, Ribbentrop decided to settle for a bilateral German-Italian anti-British treaty.

Because of Plekhanov's opposition, Trotsky did not become a full member of the board.

Because of this, Postmodern music is mostly defined in opposition to modernist music, and a work can either be modernist, or postmodern, but not both.

Because of this, some accused Menzies of being pro-Nazi, whilst others saw it as an early example of his strong opposition to communism.

Because a state can only be admitted to the UN by the approval of the Security Council and the General Assembly, a number of states that may be considered sovereign states according to the Montevideo Convention criteria are not members because the UN does not consider them to possess sovereignty, mainly due to the lack of international recognition or opposition from certain members.

Because of opposition from William Coddington on " Rhode Island ", it took Williams until 1647 to get the four towns around Narragansett Bay to unite under a single government, and liberty of conscience was again proclaimed.

Because of this prejudice, the word " creole " was generally used by linguists in opposition to " language ", rather than as a qualifier for it.

Because the opposition vote in the rest of Canada was split between the Reform Party, the Progressive Conservative Party, and the New Democratic Party, the Bloc narrowly won the second largest number of seats in the House of Commons, and therefore became the official opposition.

Because of his opposition to FDR's plan to inflate the dollar by controlling gold prices, he was forced to resign in November 1933 and resumed his law practice.

Because of his age and strength of opposition in his own country, opinion on him in Europe wasn't the same as it was in America.

Because of Chen's opposition to Mao's interpretation of Communism, Mao believed that Chen was incapable of providing a robust historical materialist analysis of China.

Because of Randolph's opposition to U. S. entry into the War of 1812, the General Assembly changed the name of Randolph County to Jasper County on December 10, 1812 to honor Sergeant William Jasper, an American Revolutionary War hero.

Because of North Korea's submission to Soviet pressures, and because of mass opposition to the lenient U. S. occupation of the mortal enemy Japan, North Koreans in this period denounced the United States and began to form a negative view of the U. S. However, several American ministers and missionaries remained active in this period, reminding Koreans, before they were uprooted by the communist regime, that American individuals could be very helpful to the cause of Korean independence.

Because President Barack Obama is the incumbent and defacto Democratic Party leader, it is typical for him not to have serious opposition from within his party.

Because of his systematic intellectual orientation, the Maggid appointed him to disseminate Hasidus in White Russia, closer to the Rabbinic centre of opposition ( Mitnagedim ) in Lithuania.

Because of Whig opposition, as well as calmer conditions in Europe, the Six Acts were eventually dropped.

Because of the opposition, the merger of the three municipalities was delayed until 1929, when it was carried out by order of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior.

Because of opposition by landowners along the route, in places some railway lines were built so that they avoided large estates and rural towns, and to reduce construction costs the railways followed natural contours, resulting in many curves and bends.

Because of devastating warring, a growing opposition against Charles emerged among the nobility in Sweden.

Because the responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the President, rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties simple goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problems under political pressure.

Because of legal issues related to holding a military rank while in a civilian office, Eisenhower had resigned his permanent commission as General of the Army before entering the office of President of the United States.

Because it was passed under the administration of President Abraham Lincoln, the False Claims Act is often referred to as the " Lincoln Law.

Because he did not clear his survey and proposed to pay for answers with the university committee at UWO, the administration reprimanded Rushton, calling his transgression " a serious breach of scholarly procedure ," said University President, George Pederson.

Because rising tensions with the British resulted in President Jefferson's embargo of British trade, Audubon's business was not thriving.

Because Hanson was the first president elected under the Articles of Confederation, one of his grandsons later promoted him as the first President of the United States.

Because the western boundary was contested at the time of the Purchase, President Jefferson immediately began to organize three missions to explore and map the new territory.

Because of its popularity and recognition, the campus was visited by President Barack Obama on February 10, 2011, where he praised the development in wireless technology and promoted a National Wireless Initiative to bring high-speed Internet to 98 % of the U. S. by 2016.

Because fifteen days can separate the first and second rounds of a presidential election, this means that the President of the Senate can only act as President of the Republic for a maximum period of fifty days.

Because of the Alawite composition of the Syrian armed forces, its interests are closely aligned with those of President Bashar al-Assad and the Assad family.

Because the House could only consider the top three candidates, Clay could not become President.

Because of this amendment, if the Electoral College fails to resolve who will be the President or Vice President, the incoming Congress, as opposed to the outgoing one, would choose who would occupy the unresolved office or offices.

Because of the long-standing usage of the term " unobtainium " within the space elevator research community to describe a material with the necessary characteristics, LiftPort Group President Michael Laine has advocated assigning the term as the generic name for cables woven of carbon nanotube fibers, which seem to satisfy the requirements for this application.

Because of crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had all work offices relocated to the newly constructed West Wing in 1901.

Because of the huge debt taken on by the U. S. Federal Government to finance the Revolutionary War, silver coins struck by the government left circulation, and in 1806 President Jefferson suspended the minting of silver coins.

Because President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection, the purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party ’ s candidate for the office.

Because the Office of Secretary of Defense is vested with legal powers which exceeds those of any commissioned officer, and is second only to the Office of President in the military hierarchy, it has sometimes unofficially been referred to as a de facto " deputy commander-in-chief ".

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

Because Hitler had appointed Dönitz his successor in his last will and testament, well into the 1950s the Nationalist Socialist fanatic Dönitz continued to insist that he was still President of Germany, and that the N. S. D. A. P should still be the only legal party in Germany.

Because he had expressed nullification beliefs during the crisis, his chances of becoming President were very low.

Because he had stated repeatedly that he would serve only four years ( only Charles E. Wilson and Robert McNamara among his predecessors served longer ), it came as no surprise when President Nixon on 28 November 1972 nominated Elliot L. Richardson to succeed him.

Because Huntington was the President of the Continental Congress when the Articles of Confederation were ratified, some amateur historians and civic groups in Connecticut have claimed that Huntington was actually the first President of the United States.