Because of its hardness and ability to resist acids, agate is used to make mortars and pestles to crush and mix chemicals.

Because of their lack of hydrogen-bond-donating ability, esters do not self-associate.

Because EVM has the ability to combine measurements of:

Because patients are better at singing phrases than speaking them, the natural musical component of speech is used to engage the patients ' ability to voice phrases.

Because leaders are held responsible for their followers ' ability to achieve the organization's goals, their ability to motivate their followers is a critical factor of leadership effectiveness.

Because pressure was once commonly measured by its ability to displace a column of liquid in a manometer, pressures are often expressed as a depth of a particular fluid ( e. g. inches of water ).

Because of the team's slugging ability and the nickname of their manager Bamberger, the Brewers were nicknamed " Bambi's Bombers.

Because mania frequently encourages high energy and decreased perception of need or ability to sleep, within a few days of a manic cycle, sleep-deprived psychosis may appear, further complicating the ability to think clearly.

Because many Molokans were not educated in English and could not transliterate the spelling of their names, when individual families members were called to separate immigration windows and said their last name, the spelling used was based on of the immigration agent's ability to sound out the name.

Because most candidates are predicted to achieve top grades at A level, interviews are usually used to check whether the course is well suited to the applicant's interests and aptitudes, and to look for evidence of self-motivation, independent thinking, academic potential and ability to learn through the tutorial system.

Because of the ability to specify a simple interface, to be self-contained, and to be reused, procedures are a convenient vehicle for making pieces of code written by different people or different groups, including through programming libraries.

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 a gold standard requires that money be backed in the metal, then the scarcity of the metal constrains the ability of the economy to produce more capital and grow .”

Because of their ability to harness the power of what is essentially a continuous nuclear fission explosion, NSWRs would have both very high thrust and very high exhaust velocity, a rare combination of traits in the rocket world, meaning that the rocket would be able to accelerate quickly as well as be extremely efficient in terms of propellant usage.

Because of the ability of some substances to supercool, the freezing point is not considered as a characteristic property of a substance.

Because of their ability to modify the behavior of even the most disturbed patients, the antipsychotic, antianxiety, and antidepressant agents have greatly affected the management of the hospitalized mentally ill, enabling hospital staff to devote more of their attention to therapeutic efforts and enabling many patients to lead relatively normal lives outside of the hospital.

Because of her long range and ability to move in multiple directions, the queen is well-equipped to execute forks.

Because of the existing computer equipment requirements, and the ability of light to analyze very small amounts of substance, it is often beneficial to automate many aspects of the sample preparation.

Because of his ability to motivate nationalistic passions, " men, women and children wept and wailed in the streets " after hearing of his death.

Because of the wider track and track pitch, DVCAM has the ability to do a frame accurate insert tape edit, while DV may vary by a few frames on each edit compared to the preview.

Because these areas have tribal sovereignty, states have limited ability to forbid gambling there, as codified by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988.

Because a Trusted Computing equipped computer is able to uniquely attest to its own identity, it will be possible for vendors and others who possess the ability to use the attestation feature to zero in on the identity of the user of TC-enabled software with a high degree of certainty.

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 betrayal is always more beneficial than cooperation, all purely rational prisoners would seemingly betray the other.

Because of their seemingly taller stature, more " honorable and eloquent " personalities, and their willingness to convert to Roman Catholicism, the colonist, including powerful Roman Catholic officials, favored the Tutsis.

Because of a seemingly meaningless loss to the lowly Chicago Bulls in the regular season finale ( both the Sixers and the Lakers finished with identical 56 – 26 records, but Los Angeles was awarded a higher seed based on tiebreakers ), the 76ers had to open a series on the road for the first time in the 2001 playoffs.

) Because of this overvaluation of German currency, the occupiers were able to make seemingly fair and honest requisitions and purchases while, in effect, operating a system of organized plunder.

Because no other military decoration was authorized during the Civil War, some seemingly less exceptional and notable actions were recognized by a Medal of Honor during that conflict.

Because language critics deride such substitution, some German speakers use the genitive even with prepositions that actually demand the dative ( e. g., entgegen, gegenüber ), seemingly under the false impression that the genitive is always right and the dative is always wrong, or at least that the genitive is a better form than the dative.

Because the Puppeteers seemingly have no experience of tides, they were unable to anticipate the deadly tidal forces.

Because it was a seemingly random murder, there were no leads until Knowles later confessed to the crime, though he did use their credit cards for a short period to pay his expenses.

Because of their seemingly early break from the rest of the mouse-like rodents, mouse-like hamsters have been placed in a family of their own, Calomyscidae, and have been referred to as living fossils.

Because of their seemingly friendly nature, the UN is disbanded and the Space Nations, an alliance to unite the universe, is organized.

Because of the complex ways in which mitochondrial and nuclear DNA " communicate " and interact, even seemingly simple inheritance is hard to diagnose.

Because of its liberal policies regarding adult content and continual reinforcement of being free-to-air while broadcasting blockbuster movies, e. tv has seemingly won the ratings war against the SABC stations, especially over the weekends.

Because of the seemingly instability of the structure, the viewer cannot discern whether the roof is supported by the columns or the walls.

Because the show was cast and filmed after the first version of the series aired, a new twist was incorporated: each woman was initially presented a seemingly blank check that she would have the option of ultimately choosing over Preston.

However, the nearest historical source available regarding the death of Valentinian II, Rufinus of Aquileia, states in his ecclesiastical history that nobody was really sure what exactly happened to Valentinian II Because this is the case, any opinions about the event are most likely to have been fabricated by those telling the story, with new evidence seemingly unattainable.

Because the vibrations resonate in the shell of the drum, the shell can be used to increase the volume and to manipulate the type of sound produced.

* Because garbage-collection is only done on built-in types, reference counting can be efficiently integrated into the library routines used to manipulate each datatype, keeping the overhead needed for updating of reference counts low.

Because most 32-bit Unix-like systems store and manipulate time in this format, it is usually called Unix time, and so the year 2038 problem is often referred to as the Unix Millennium Bug.

Because it could manipulate its valvetrain, the 2ZZ was capable of reaching 8500 rpm.

Because the environments that policies seek to influence or manipulate are typically complex adaptive systems ( e. g. governments, societies, large companies ), making a policy change can have counterintuitive results.

Because of differences in the quantity and quality of information available about the performance of individual employees, the ability of employees to bear risk, and the ability of employees to manipulate evaluation methods, the structural details of individual contracts vary widely, including such mechanisms as “ piece rates, options, discretionary bonuses, promotions, profit sharing, efficiency wages, deferred compensation, and so on .” Typically, these mechanisms are used in the context of different types of employment: salespeople often receive some or all of their remuneration as commission, production workers are usually paid an hourly wage, while office workers are typically paid monthly or semimonthly ( and if paid overtime, typically at a higher rate than the hourly rate implied by the salary ).

Because all Russian and European spacecraft dock automatically there is no need to manipulate spacecraft on the Russian segment so the European arm is smaller and less powerful than Canadarm2.

Because of her willingness to manipulate the people around her, Bette has been compared to Iago in William Shakespeare's play Othello.

Because 25 more crystals are needed to provide the necessary power matrix, Cortex devises a plot to manipulate Crash Bandicoot into retrieving the crystals for him.

Because the method of Gödel numbering was novel, and to avoid any ambiguity, Gödel presented a list of 45 explicit formal definitions of primitive recursive functions and relations used to manipulate and test Gödel numbers.

Because Mario will constantly walk left or right regardless of any oncoming hazards, the player controls the fairy Wanda, who possesses the ability to manipulate the environment in order to protect Mario.

Because it is in complex form it has as the further advantage that it is easier to manipulate in calculations than its real counterpart.

Because the emulsion is gelatin-based, and the Mylar covering does not allow water vapor to readily pass, the emulsion stays soft for several days, allowing artists to press and manipulate the emulsion to produce effects somewhat like impressionist paintings.

Because loading and unloading the caster is performed by hand, it is easiest and less fatiguing to manipulate the mold at waist level in one fluid motion as allowed by a front-loading spin caster.