Because the Army Distinguished Service Medal is principally awarded to general officers, a list of notable recipients would include nearly every general and admiral since 1918, many of whom received multiple awards, as well as a few civilians and sergeants major prominent for their contributions to national defense.

Because educational assessment is fundamental to most quantitative research in the field, educational psychologists have made significant contributions to the field of psychometrics.

Because Malpighi had a wide knowledge of both plants and animals, he made contributions to the scientific study of both.

Because it is easy to calculate, OPS has been used with increased frequency in recent years as a shorthand form to evaluate contributions as a batter.

Because legal persons have limited " free speech " rights, legislation meant to eliminate campaign contributions by legal persons ( notably, corporations and labor unions ) has been repeatedly struck down by various courts.

Because of his contributions to the country's development, the Congress bestowed the title of El Benemérito ( the Meritorious One ) on him.

Because of the Liang forces ' contributions to the campaign, they began to be feared and began to look down on troops from all other provinces.

Because of his offensive and defensive contributions, he finished second to McLain in the Most Valuable Player Award voting.

Because of his contributions to Cañon City, Fremont County, and the State of Colorado at large, he became widely known in state politics and was an active member of the Colorado Republican Party ; in 1902, he was the Republican candidate for Governor of Colorado.

Because of her contributions, she was honored with an image on the U. S. dollar coin.

Because of successful audience development initiatives at the core of the plan as well as other revenue progress and strong management of expenses, the structural deficit ( whose gaps are funded by additional contributions ) has declined 18 % from $ 3. 4m in 2007 to $ 2. 8m in 2011, dipping as low as $ 2. 62m in 2010.

Because the regulations dealt mostly with soft-money contributions that were used to register voters and increase attendance at the polls, not with campaign expenditures ( which are more explicitly a statement of political values and therefore deserve more protection ), the Court held that the restriction on free speech was minimal.

Because one-loop diagrams only contain one cycle, they express the next-to-classical contributions called the semiclassical contributions.

Because of his contributions to gaming, he was a charter inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979 – even though he died before poker was invented.

; Community: Because XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License ( GPL ) the growth and development of XOOPS is dependent on the contributions of a worldwide community effort.

Because ACORN was a 501 ( c ) 4 organization under the tax code, it was able to participate directly in election activities, but contributions to it were not tax exempt.

Because of his contributions to Lutheran hymnody, he is sometimes called the Icelandic Paul Gerhardt.

Because of his efforts, Mihailović and his organization, on the recommendation of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, were posthumously awarded the Legion of Merit by President Truman for their contributions to the Allied victory and the rescue of American airmen from behind enemy lines.

Because candidates may refuse government funding and continue to rely on voluntary contributions without spending caps, supporters have argued that Clean Elections measures do not run afoul of the Supreme Court's decision in Buckley v. Valeo decision, which struck down mandatory spending limits as an unconstitutional restriction on free speech but also affirmed that elections can be publicly financed.

Because of the free blacks ' contributions during the Natchez War, the French allowed them to join Louisiana's militias, which gave them more connections into the colonial society, where they achieved an independent social status between the French colonists and slaves.

Because of Quill and Dagger's contributions to the War Memorial's construction, the society was granted exclusive use of the top floors of the northern tower.

Because of the large contributions by the public, Wikipedia has one of the widest ranges of material in the world.

Because of the symmetries of the theory the contributions cancel until you have a two-loop contribution involving both groups.

Because they prepare their own meals they also keep in their pockets a good portion of that $10.50 food bill along with most of the tip money.

Because cyclists often ride near parked cars along the side of the road ( see door zone ) they are particularly vulnerable to this.

Because Galen's works were not translated into Latin in the ancient period, and because of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, the study of Galen, along with the Greek medical tradition as a whole, went into decline in Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages, when very few Latin scholars could read Greek.

Because of this function, radioisotopes of iodine are concentrated in the thyroid gland along with nonradioactive iodine.

Because of this, the independently invented Minus One sing along system machines of Roberto del Rosario were very popular in homes and in private parties.

Because of this, a group of his followers later formed the Logical Language Group to create the language Lojban along the same principles, but with the intention to make it freely available and encourage its use as a real language.

Because there is no physical polarity along the director axis, n and-n are fully equivalent.

Because of this gradient, galactic tides can deform an otherwise spherical Oort cloud, stretching the cloud in the direction of the galactic centre and compressing it along the other two axes.

Because of his death and resurrection, Osiris was associated with the flooding and retreating of the Nile and thus with the crops along the Nile valley.

Because of the lack of scientific support, along with religious and prejudicial reasons phrenology never found a wide audience in Ireland.

Because the water along the route was as shallow as, a larger ship could not have made the voyage.

Because it was illegal in many states for enslaved Africans to learn to read or write, soul food recipes and cooking techniques tended to be passed along orally, until after Emancipation.

Because of the ships ' negligible draft, the Vikings could sail in shallow waters, allowing them to invade far inland along rivers.

Because the trainyard of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen became obsolete, the area along a big part of the railway crossing the city, the Spoorzone, became an urban renewal project.

Because they needed to control the Persian Gulf trade route, the Parthians established garrisons along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf.

Because a levee is only as strong as its weakest point, the height and standards of construction have to be consistent along its length.

Because of conservation of potential vorticity caused by the poleward-moving winds on the subtropical ridge's western periphery and the increased relative vorticity of poleward moving water, transport is balanced by a narrow, accelerating poleward current, which flows along the western boundary of the ocean basin, outweighing the effects of friction with the cold western boundary current which originates from high latitudes.

Because of the Platte's brackish water, the preferred camping spots were along one of the many fresh water streams draining into the Platte or the occasional fresh water spring found along the way.

Because Spain controlled most of the Caribbean, many of the attacked cities and ships belonged to the Spanish Empire and along the East coast of America and the West coast of Africa.

Because the actual bond stress varies along the length of a bar anchored in a zone of tension, current international codes of specifications use the concept of development length rather than bond stress.

Because it is secured on both sides, lines drawn along the edge are guaranteed to be parallel.

Because by 1900 much of the prime low-lying alluvial land along rivers had been homesteaded, an update called the Enlarged Homestead Act was passed in 1909.

Because the county sits at the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay along the Susquehanna River, it plays a key role in controlling sediment and fertilizer runoff into the bay as well as fostering submerged aquatic vegetation ( SAV ) regrowth.

Because it was often assumed that married women did not need the vote since their husbands " voted for them ," some PSS members felt that the vote for single women and widows was a practical step along the path to full suffrage.