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Because of the boycott, and the quirk of participating in the Winter Olympics, he was the only U. S. track and field athlete to participate in the 1980 Olympics.
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Because she was still legally married to second husband Orson Welles, Hayworth also received some negative backlash for her courtship with the prince, causing some American fans to boycott her pictures.
Because it was official practice for the postwar national broadcasting monopoly to boycott people seen as Nazi sympathisers, Sinding's reputation in Norway is now relatively obscure.
Because of the West German boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, she did not compete there.
Because of their alleged involvement in Abu Ghraib, some members of the Irish public have decided to boycott Census 2011.
Because of the East Bloc boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics, Nunn was one of the medal candidates for the Olympic title, too.
Because of the boycott only 28 countries took part in the games with the Maldives and Norfolk Island making their first appearance in the games.
Because this game was scheduled at the last minute as a makeup due to the Game 2 tie, as well as the game-fixing rumors and the boycott by the Royal Rooters, the riveting finale of the 1912 World Series was played to a half-capacity crowd at Fenway.
ONR openly encouraged anti-Jewish pogroms, and became main force in the organization of anti-Jewish violence Because of its involvement in boycott of Jewish-owned stores, as well as numerous attacks on left-wing worker demonstrations, the ONR was delegalised after three months of existence, in July 1934.
Because of the boycott the cost of construction was huge.
Because of the boycott by the United States and other countries, only one team was available to compete in the Women's Field Hockey competition, the USSR team.
Because and quirk
Because of a quirk in the election cycle, 2005 marks the first Council races since post-2000-Census redistricting.
Because of this, it will hit milestones of time before ( almost ) any other part of the continent, a quirk that draws attention to Newfoundland.
Because and participating
Because of these accidents, the various aviation authorities around the world have created set rules and guidance for those running and participating in air displays.
Because lawyers could be disbarred for participating in the abuse, vexatious litigants are often unable to retain legal counsel, and such litigants therefore represent themselves in court.
Because all researchers obtain data from all of the participating societies, they are also able to compare the values and beliefs of the people of their own society with those from scores of other societies and to test alternative hypotheses.
Because of the non-physical motivations ascribed to female intimacy, dancers select women to approach who are smiling and sitting comfortably with open body language such as uncrossed arms, actively participating with the crowd, laughing and engaging with fellow customers, and applauding for dancers at the main stage also increase the likelihood they will be approached.
Because one API can retrieve data from any participating telematics provider, as opposed to the unique API for each provider that was required previously, integration development costs are greatly reduced.
Because of subscribing Twenty-One Demands supporting Japanese interests, along with Zhang Zongxiang and Cao Rulin, he was blamed as Hanjian (, " Chinese traitor ") by students participating May Fourth Movement after Chinese diplomatic failure in Paris Peace Conference.
Because of the rising popularity of the Mathematical Kangaroo in many participating countries, it is currently the most participated scholar math competition: over 5, 000, 000 students from 47 countries took part in 2009.
Because all these four except Cavalcanti did aim to make the journey to Rome, Pius XI was to change the rules so that cardinals from distant locations had a better chance of participating in the conclave by extending the time between the death of a Pope and the election of his successor.
Because the Olympics were in the United States, where the majority of NHL teams are located, teams participating in the preliminary tournament were allowed to use NHL players who were not obligated to play with their NHL club.
Because of World War II, local qualifying leagues were organized in the 1946 / 1947 season in order to determine the teams participating in Norgesserien 1947 / 48.
Because of a presidential decree designed to give President Lon Nol's Social Republican Party an advantage, the other parties withdrew from participating.
Because the state of ritual purity obtained through the ashes of a Red Heifer is a necessary prerequisite for participating in Temple service, efforts have been made in modern times by Jews wishing for biblical ritual purity ( see tumah and taharah ) and in anticipation of the building of The Third Temple to locate a red heifer and recreate the ritual.
Because Italy, Germany and Spain did not send teams, the Tour organisation were short on participating cyclists.
Because and Winter
Because it blossoms in the cold winter, the plum blossom is regarded as one of the " Three Friends of Winter ", along with pine, and bamboo.
Because of its cold climate, the planet is sometimes called " Winter ".
Because of this incident, Offerman has been suspended for life from the Dominican Republic Winter League.
Because certain parts of the village are close to the River Teifi, floods happen fairly regularly during Winter months.
Because and Olympics
Because the 2008 Summer Olympics were a major source of national pride, anti-Olympics sentiments are often seen as anti-Chinese sentiments inside China.
Because of the cancellation, London went on to host the 1948 Summer Olympics, awarded without election.
Because the coat of arms is only used for national and military flags, whereas the civil flag consists solely of the two unaugmented horizontal bands, it was found at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics that Haiti and Liechtenstein were using the same flag.
Because of the boycotts of the 1980 and 1984 summer games, only in 1972, 1976, and 1988 did two different German teams with different symbols compete against each other at Summer Olympics ( not counting the Saar team of 1952 ).
Because of its being held after all other summer Olympics events in 1908, 32 of the 42 entrants were from Great Britain, including all of the featherweght medalists.
Because his career spanned the nascent years of international football, he never got a chance to play in the World Cup ; his only appearance at the world stage came in the 1924 Summer Olympics, when Sweden won a bronze medal.
Because his career spanned the nascent years of international football, he never got a chance to play in the World Cup ; his only appearance on the world stage was the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Because of non-pre-emptable coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics on WTMJ, WVTV aired two Green Bay Packers preseason games against the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos on August 16 & 22, respectively, a role previously taken by Ion Television station WPXE ( channel 55 ) in the 2004 pre-season.
Because of this victory, the Philippines earned the right to represent Asia in the 1968 Olympics held in Mexico.
Because suburban trains terminating on the main lines caused congestion to through trains, a side turnback platform at the station was added in time for the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Because and was
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.
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