Because of the widespread availability of ADSL services, ISDN is today primarily used for voice and fax traffic, but is still very popular thanks to the pricing policy of German telecommunication providers.

Because of this attitude, Stephenson argues that Microsoft is not really a monopoly, as evidenced by the free availability of other choice OS's, but rather has simply accrued enough mindshare among the people to have them coming back.

Because of its availability in highly powerful configurations, it was also considered a replacement for the 12-inch PowerBook, ending the nearly 15-year production of PowerBook-branded computers.

Because of the low availability relative to demand, rhenium is among the most expensive of metals, with an average price of approximately US $ 4, 575 per kilogram ( US $ 142. 30 per troy ounce ) as of August 2011 ; it is also of critical strategic military importance, for its use in high performance military jet and rocket engines.

Because of the limited availability of mammalian stomachs for rennet production, cheese makers have looked for other ways to coagulate the milk since at least Roman times.

Because of the low availability and the difficulties in the preparation of metallic scandium, which was first done in 1937, it took until the 1970s before applications for scandium were developed.

Because the laws regarding the sale of alcoholic beverages vary from state to state in the United States, the availability of beer, wine, and liquor varies greatly.

) Because of this better availability of aqualungs, BSAC's policy towards rebreathers became merely " Here be dragons: keep out!

Because of the ready availability of lumber, it was the birthplace of the Herschell-Spillman Company / Allan Herschell Co., one of the leading manufacturers of carousels in America and is now the home of the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum.

Because FOSS can be modified and distributed by anyone, the availability of functionality usually cannot tie a user to one distributor.

Because of the mass availability, most Japanese people wear western style clothing in their everyday life, and kimonos are mostly worn for festivals, and special events.

Because of definitions that include reference to treatment availability, a lack of resources, and severity of the disease, some people prefer the term orphan disease and use it as a synonym for rare disease.

Because of superior building penetration and availability of service in disaster situations, pagers are often used by first responders in emergencies.

Because availability of service is important for all e-business websites, steps must be taken to prevent disruption of service by events such as power outages and damage to physical infrastructure.

Because of their small size and easy availability, Deringers sometimes had the dubious reputation of being a favored tool of assassins.

Because of its origins in the immediate post-war period, when electricity demand grew rapidly but plant and fuel availability was often unreliable, most of the industry saw its mission as to provide an adequate and secure electricity supply, or " to keep the lights on " as they put it, rather than necessarily pursuing the cheapest generation route.

Because of the availability of programmes in English, few programmes need use sub-titles or dubbing unlike much European television.

" Because of food rationing during the war, the food guides created by government agencies to direct citizens ' nutritional intake also took food availability into account.

Because of the student neighborhood and massive availability of on-campus housing, over 98 % of current UD undergraduates live on campus.

Because the bike is not required to be returned to a centralized station, ready availability of such bicycles is rare, and since unlocked bikes may be taken by another user at any time, the original rider is forced to find alternative transportation for the return trip.

Because of differing recipes and changing ingredient availability over the course of the twentieth century, it is difficult to precisely qualify what distinguishes Devil's food from the more standard chocolate cake.

Because of the availability of church-run schools and the tolerance for religious activity in state schools, private Christian schools are a relative rarity, but do exist throughout the country.

Because of their light weight and the increasing availability of low-cost tuning equipment, economy and compact cars exhibit high performance at a low cost in comparison to dedicated sports cars.

Because of the sparse availability of water away from the Galana River, human settlement in Tsavo focused on the riparian areas and in rockshelters as one moves west.

Because the Wehrmacht was lacking manpower to stop the Soviet advance, men in jobs not deemed necessary or previously deemed unfit for military service were now called under arms.

Because of very little jobs available to the teens coming out of eighth grade there was an increase in high school attendance in the 1930s.

Because standard shuffling techniques are seen as weak, and in order to avoid " inside jobs " where employees collaborate with gamblers by performing inadequate shuffles, many casinos employ automatic shuffling machines.

Because there are few jobs, a large proportion of the work force has left to seek employment overseas.

Because these couples were child-free and were not concerned with the conditions of schools and playgrounds, they elected to live in the inner-city in close proximity to their jobs.

Because of contracts with the Army, the professional, scientific and technical services sector is unusually large, but nearly half of all jobs in Sierra Vista are in the government sector.

Because our ratings were up, because of our critical attention, Joss specifically asked Jordan Levin, who was the head of The WB at the time, to give us an early pick-up because every year they wait so long to give Angel a pick-up a lot of us turn down jobs hoping that Angel will continue – he didn't want that to happen.

Because OPIC works with the private sector, it helps U. S. businesses gain footholds in emerging markets, catalyzing revenues, jobs and growth opportunities both at home and abroad.

Because the abstractions governing the user's interactions with a PC were so new, many people who had been working white-collar jobs for ten years or more eventually took such training courses, either at their own whim ( to gain computer skills and thus earn higher pay ) or at the behest of their managers.

Because of the great fire in Hakodate, he lost both jobs and left Hakodate.

Because of his parents ' illnesses, and the resulting poverty, Carlson worked to support his family from an early age ; he began working odd jobs for money when he was eight.

Because changes were concentrated in cities, which had also attracted millions of new or recent European immigrants, tensions rose as the people competed for jobs and housing.

Because both Fujimoto and Abiko were both eldest sons, they decided to take company jobs after graduating from high school in 1952.

Because priests are not allowed to take on political jobs, he was ordered by his Jesuit superiors to return to Boston and, rather than obey, he left the Society of Jesus.

Because of AC21, the H-1B employee is free to change jobs if they have an I-485 application pending for six months and an approved I-140, if the position they are moving to is substantially comparable to their current position.

Because Lu was wasteful and Xu ’ s parents refused to lend them money, Xu had to take several jobs in different cities to keep up with the lifestyle Lu desired.

Because there are fewer jobs than applicants many prospective zookeepers also volunteer at zoos prior to being employed.

Because of his incredible abilities, he's contacted by several individuals ( curiously, all of them are very similar persons named Akizuki Kaoru ) to do all sorts of strange computer-related hacking / security jobs.

Because of the economic crisis of 2008, which led to large falls in share prices, many wealthy home owners in Melbourne's prestigious suburbs were forced to sell their homes to cover share margin calls or because they had lost their jobs in the finance and banking sectors.

Because the schools taught in Dutch, the Minahasans had an early advantage in the competition for government jobs and places in the colonial army.

Because of this, the more difficult it is to completely specify and measure the variables on which reward is to be conditioned, the less likely that performance-related pay will be used: “ in essence, complex jobs will typically not be evaluated through explicit contracts .” ( Prendergast 1999, 9 ).

Because recent immigrants may have trouble finding jobs in the short term, the economic assimilation can be slow.

Because these native peoples have no jobs and make no salaries, they are often listed as unemployed.

Because of the importance of these jobs, they are typically paid a premium to market.