Because of your forward motion relative to the falling rain, the rain now appears to be falling not straight down from directly above you, but at a slight angle from a point in the sky somewhat in front of you.

Because he was afflicted with a limp and slight deafness due to sickness at a young age, his family ostracized him and excluded him from public office until his consulship, shared with his nephew Caligula in 37.

Because brain injuries can be life threatening, even people with apparently slight injuries, with no noticeable signs or complaints, require close observation ; They have a chance for severe symptoms later on.

Because of this, the color RGB ( 40, 40, 40 ) will have a slight purple ( magenta ) tinge when displayed in 16 bits.

Because gases are expelled but not admitted this creates a slight vacuum in the crankcase so that any weak joint or failed seal causes air to be sucked in rather than allowing oil to leak out.

Because protons are negligibly pressured by the analog of Thomson scattering, due to their larger mass, the result is to create a slight charge separation and therefore a radially directed electric field, acting to lift the positive charges, which are typically free protons under the conditions in stellar atmospheres.

Because of that, very steep low-pass filters are used on frequencies above 20 kHz ( the theoretical limit of human hearing ) that may introduce slight distortions into the audible-range signal.

Because of this, slight dust and scratches on the disc surface can result in read-errors which cause various video quality problems — glitches, streaks, bursts of static, or momentary picture interruptions.

Because of this and the nature of its usage, people using mascara have a slight risk of eye infection or conjunctivitis, but this is rare.

Because state funds were scarce and congestion on other freeways and on surrounding surface streets was tremendous, a slight majority of voters ( 56 %) voted for the tax in 1984.

Because they were young and polite, the slight suggestion by Joad that their etiquette and sportsmanship were in question was extremely off-putting, and distracted them for the rest of contest.

Because he was nearsighted and slight of stature, he was often ostracized by his peer group.

Because of her slight build and Seikon markings covering her body, Yukina felt that no man would ever love her and developed a condition that causes her to break out in hives upon contact with men.

Because of the parallel structure typical of the Psalms, psalm verses divide into two roughly equal parts ; the end of the first part is indicated by the mediant, a slight bending of notes above and below the reciting tone.

" Because of this slight similarity, the song is often interpreted as being derived or loosely inspired by " I Am the Walrus ".

Because of this, one end of the molecule has a slight, relative negative charge and the other a slight, relative positive charge.

Because he stood at a comparatively squat 5 feet 8 inches and weighed a slight 167 pounds, MacIntyre was a distant eleventh-round draft pick in the OHL.

Because of this slight, the Nepalese government sent a protest letter to Beijing and Lhasa outlining several grievances, including excessive customs duties on Nepalese trade.

Because the levels themselves are random variables, some assumptions and the method of contrasting the treatments ( a multi-variable generalization of simple differences ) differ from the fixed-effects model.

Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.

Because of these differences, corporate lawyers are often consulted in an effort to determine the most appropriate or advantageous state in which to incorporate, and a majority of public companies in the U. S. are Delaware corporations.

Because of differences in raw materials and manufacturing techniques, modern attempts to duplicate the metal have not been entirely successful.

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 of sociopolitical and cultural differences, there are various descriptions of Europe's boundary.

Because of the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural differences between Yupik and Inuit peoples there is uncertainty as to the acceptance of any term encompassing all Yupik and Inuit people.

Because of differences in molecular structure, the empirical formula remains different between hydrocarbons ; in linear, or " straight-run " alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, the amount of bonded hydrogen lessens in alkenes and alkynes due to the " self-bonding " or catenation of carbon preventing entire saturation of the hydrocarbon by the formation of double or triple bonds.

Because environmental factors affect brain activity and behavior, where differences are found, it can be difficult for researchers to assess whether or not the differences are innate.

Because the stars in an open cluster are all at roughly the same distance from Earth, and were born at roughly the same time from the same raw material, the differences in apparent brightness among cluster members is due only to their mass.

Because different vendors of Unix systems ( and in many cases, different versions of the Unix software ) implemented slightly different behavior and names for important functions, a system administrator was required to have sufficient programming expertise to edit the source code before building the program executables to account for these differences.

Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts ( with some minor differences between them ), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Because of differences in their written constitutions, the formal powers of monarchs, governors-general, and presidents vary greatly from one country to another.

Because of such differences, the rules determining biological injury differ widely according to the radioisotope, and sometimes also the nature of the chemical compound which contains the radioisotope.

Because of these differences in the theory and practice of development, there is also a wide range of quantitative measures used to describe quality of life.

Because of the differences in the European PAL and USA's NTSC systems two main versions of DOCSIS exist, DOCSIS and EuroDOCSIS.

Because of cultural and linguistic differences from other Comanche bands, they became the “( Yap ) Root-Eaters ”, in contrast to the Kʉhtsʉtʉhka (“ Buffalo-Eaters ”).

Because of performance differences across the hardware range and delays with software development, a whole family of operating systems were introduced instead of a single OS / 360.

Because the city is large with significant differences in elevation among various districts, the weather is often cooler in the hilly north than in the flat southern part of Tehran.

Because of seasonal differences, Hadlee also played provincial cricket in New Zealand, representing Canterbury.

Because of the differences in international broadcasting, these copies had been converted to the North American NTSC television standard, and so one chunk of the series remained in its native PAL format, but the majority were found in a poorly-converted ( dating long before digital conversion methods ) NTSC state.

Because of differences in anatomy, manual dexterity, and visual limitations, every person must find the technique that works best for them.

Because apomictic plants are genetically identical from one generation to the next, each lineage has some of the characters of a true species, maintaining distinctions from other congeneric apomicts, while having much smaller differences than is normal between species of most genera.

Because of the substantial differences between real mode and even the rather limited 286 protected mode, programs written for real mode cannot run in protected mode without being rewritten.