Because of the resemblance to Damascus steel, higher-end barrels were made by Belgian and British gun makers.

Because of his resemblance to Walt Disney and his frequent visits to the Disney theme parks, he was often asked to sign autographs and pose for pictures with park visitors who mistook Hench for Disney himself.

Because she bore a resemblance to the star, Jane Wyman, her father asked if she would mind also doubling for Wyman in the scenes that required " danger driving ".

Because of its resemblance to Mount Fuji, Taranaki provided the backdrop for the movie The Last Samurai.

Because of the resemblance of these lower tusks to shovels, Amebelodon is commonly referred to as a " shovel-tusked " gomphothere ( another shovel-tusked gomphothere that may or may not be closely related to Amebelodon is Platybelodon ).

Because he is tall and bore a passing resemblance to Osama bin Laden, he was often used as a decoy when Bin Laden traveled.

Because of its resemblance to both Naval officer's uniforms and those of airline pilots, the McPeak uniform was said to be unpopular with service members.

Because of the building's historical significance, its interior was kept intact while the exterior was remodelled and a Neo-Baroque clock tower was added to give it the resemblance of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

Because of this, the main characters of his works most of the time bear a resemblance to Takane Ryūji, the protagonist of Ring ni Kakero.

Because of her resemblance with Romy Schneider, Catterfeld was planned to play the title role in the Warner Bros. 2009 film Eine Frau wie Romy ( A Woman Like Romy ).

Because of his physical resemblance to both Curly and Joe Besser, and to avoid confusion with his predecessors, DeRita was renamed Curly Joe.

Because of its connectivity the behaviour of the polyelectrolyte chain bears almost no resemblance to the case of confined unconnected ions.

Because of their resemblance ( e. g. in terms of persons appearing ), modern classicists occasionally combine both Timaeus and Critias as Timaeus-Critias.

Because of its splendid eastern Moorish style and resemblance to the Alhambra, it is an important architectural monument of the second half of the 19th century in Berlin.

Because of their resemblance to the Ptychopariida in some features, the proetids are included in the subclass Librostoma.

Because of limitations of the C ++ language, the syntax of Spirit has been designed around the operator precedences of C ++, while bearing resemblance to both EBNF and regular expressions.

Because of its resemblance to nipples, under the doctrine of signatures it was once used as treatment for breast ulcers.

Because of their utilitarian appearance, enhanced by the flat, boxy " air-smoothed " casing, the class soon gained the nickname of their larger siblings, " Spam Cans ", due to the resemblance to the distinctive tin cans in which " SPAM " was sold.

Because of its structural resemblance to p53, it has also been considered a tumor suppressor.

Because of its coincidental resemblance to some native North American bows, the AFB is also known as the " semi-Indian " bow.

Because of his striking resemblance to Lee, he was chosen to play Lee in a television series titled The Legend of Bruce Lee in 2008.

Because there was no single heir to all his possessions, they were divided up once more amongst the families from which they had descended to Philip: King John II of France, grandson of Duke Robert II of Burgundy ( Philip's great-grandfather ), and also Philip's stepfather, inherited the Duchy of Burgundy as one of its most direct heirs ; Countess Margaret I of Artois, daughter of Countess Joan II of Burgundy ( Philip's great-grandmother ), and grandmother of Philip's wife, inherited the Counties of Burgundy and Artois as their direct heiress ; and John of Boulogne, son of Count Robert VII of Boulogne ( Philip's great-grandfather ), inherited Auvergne and Boulogne as their direct heir.

Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.

Because he couldn't hear them, he was more convinced they were there.

Because of the political upheaval in Germany in the 1930's, Steinberg was forced to restrict his activities to the Jewish community.

Because of the falling characteristic of the rectifier, no ballast resistor was required for stability of operation.

Because negative pressure dialysis gave better recovery of proteins, permitted detection of proteins concentrated from very dilute solutions and was a gentler procedure, it was used in all but the earliest experiments.

Because of increasing anemia, triamcinolone, 8 mg. daily, was started on Feb. 23, 1958, and was continued until July, 1958.

Because of this he was known as Gimpy ( but, as with Capone and his nickname of Scarface, never in his presence ).

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

Because Don was leaving the next day, I spent the evening with him at Asia Center.

Because, if for no other reason, Willings would never for a moment suppose he was not bigger, tougher, than anything else that went on two legs.

Because his mind had been otherwise occupied for the past couple of hours, he did not think to look and see if Jerry Burton's car was still there.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

Because he copiously shed his own tears, and yielded himself up as a living sacrifice to the impersonalized conscience of New England, he was not disturbed by the havoc he worked in other people's consciences.

Because your soul was made to be filled with God Himself, not religious functions `` about '' Him.

Because constitutional claims are of great magnitude, appellate courts might be more lenient to review the claim even if it was not preserved.

Because the series was at stake, the match was to be " timeless ", i. e., played to a finish.

Because of her beauty, other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, and so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who was not viewed as a threat.

Because virtually all extant written material on Arianism was written by its opponents, the nature of Arian teachings is difficult to define precisely today.

Because of this, Octavius was raised by his grandmother ( and Julius Caesar's sister ), Julia Caesaris.

Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

Because of his bellicose nature Albert received the cognomen Alcibiades after his death ; during his lifetime Albert was known as Bellator ( the Warlike ).

Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.