Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.

Because of the ocean's great capacity to store and release heat, maritime climates are more moderate and have less extreme seasonal variations than inland climates.

Because of its extreme reactivity with oxygen and water, this element occurs naturally only in compounds with other elements, such as in the minerals strontianite and celestite.

Because of extreme ease in collection at 8 – 10 years of age before calcification and minimal to no morbidity, these will probably constitute a major source of cells for personal banking, research and current or future therapies.

Because of their history as a legitimate feudal organization and their connection to the Japanese political system through the uyoku ( extreme right-wing political groups ), yakuza are somewhat a part of the Japanese establishment, with six fan magazines reporting on their activities.

Because they have evolved for short bursts of extreme speed at the expense of their power, they cannot defend themselves against most of Africa's other predator species.

Because of the extreme stopping power of a thrusting spear, it quickly became a popular weapon of footmen in the Late Middle Ages.

Because Uranus orbits the Sun almost on its side, and its moons orbit in the planet's equatorial plane, they ( including Oberon ) are subject to an extreme seasonal cycle.

* Because the intermarriage crisis among American Jewry is an extreme situation, the Conservative movement feels it must support the decision of two Jews to marry.

Because nearly equal values are being subtracted, the noise performance requirements for the magnetometers is more extreme.

Because the conditions are extreme on the cliffs, quite a number of rare and uncommon shrubs are found there.

Because of the mild winter weather, and despite the extreme heat in the summer, the agricultural economy continues to boom in the area.

Because many of the suggested distinguishing features of humanity — extreme intelligence ; highly complex language ; etc .— are not present in marginal cases such as young or mentally disabled humans, it appears that the only distinction is a prejudice based on species alone, which animal-rights supporters call speciesism — that is, differentiating humans from other animals purely on the grounds that they are human.

Because of their extreme masses they have short lifespans of 30 million years down to a few hundred thousand years ( by the calculation M < sup >- 2. 5 </ sup > × 10 < sup > 10 </ sup > where M = mass in sols ).

Because all the aspects in a Grand Cross are considered difficult aspects, the Grand Cross is seen as a source of extreme tension whereby various aspects of the personality ( represented by the planets ) are working at cross purposes that serve to nullify each other.

Because of the extreme nature of the planetoid, just about any aspect it makes is going to be considered hard because it forces the native to look closely at his life, make appropriate changes, or risk losing that which is important to him.

Because of their extremely steep terrain ( often located in summer at ski resorts ), downhill courses are one of the most extreme and dangerous venues for mountain biking.

Because of this he can survive moments of extreme duress, and demonstrated this ability on numerous occasions ; once by falling 4000 feet, crashing through the concrete into a subway tunnel and subsequently being hit by an oncoming train, surviving without incident (" Evil Sits Down for a Moment ," November 4, 1995 ).

Because the ceramic is so brittle the entrance channel of a shaped charge jet is not smooth — as it would be when penetrating a metal — but ragged, causing extreme asymmetric pressures which disturb the geometry of the jet, on which its penetrative capabilities are critically dependent as its mass is relatively low.

Because of decreased demand, most extreme paper grades are now discontinued, and the few graded ranges still available include only middle contrast grades.

Because so many species within this genus are so deadly toxic, if a specimen is identified incorrectly, consumption may cause extreme sickness and possibly death.

Because of the extreme nature of many of these wounds and the grafting and debridement that accompanies such a treatment, a burn center's wound clinic, which has staff trained in such wounds, may be utilized.

Because of their extreme masses they have relatively short lifespans and are mainly observed in young cosmic structures such as open clusters, the arms of spiral galaxies, and in irregular galaxies.

Because of the extreme cost, lackluster pay, fame and prestige that surrounded the hussars, almost all of them were members of the upper level nobility ( szlachta ).

Because of the relative hardiness of Poncirus, citrus grafted onto it are usually hardier than when grown on their own roots.

Because the remit of the Convention covers millions of species of plants and animals, and tens of thousands of these taxa are potentially of economic value, in practice this negative list approach effectively forces CITES signatories to expend limited resources on just a select few, leaving many species to be traded with neither constraint nor review.

Because no species other than Homo sapiens has survived from the human line of that branching, both chimpanzee species are the closest living relatives of humans.

Because of the protections provided the species on this atoll, and the isolation of the east rim of the atoll, the species is recorded in greater densities there than anywhere else in its range ( 339 crabs / ha ).

In 1551 the Council of Trent definitively declared: " Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread 6: 51, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood.

Because the newborn fish are large compared to the fry of oviparous fish, they are easier to feed than the fry of egg-laying species such as characins and cichlids.

Because of the variable chemistry, there are over 80 species of amphibole, although variations, as in the pyroxenes, most commonly involve mixtures of Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup >, Fe < sup > 2 +</ sup > and Mg < sup > 2 +</ sup >.

Because a large portion of the active species is lost to recombination, process times may take longer.

Because well-preserved Pteranodon skull fossils are extremely rare, researchers use stratigraphy ( i. e. which rock layer of the geologic formation a fossil is found in ) to determine species identity in most cases.

Because the specimen was millions of years younger than any known Geosternbergia, he assigned it to the new species Geosternbergia maysei.

Because of the great variation in coat patterns ( no two zebras are alike ), taxonomists were left with a great number of described " species ", and no easy way to tell which of these were true species, which were subspecies, and which were simply natural variants.

Because of the confusion between different zebra species, particularly among the general public, the quagga had become extinct before it was realized that it may have been a separate species.

Because of its mild maritime climate and a variety of soils, Saaremaa has a rich flora, illustrated by the fact that 80 % of the plant species found in Estonia are represented here.

Because spliceosomal introns are not conserved in all species, there is debate concerning when spliceosomal splicing evolved.

Because of this likeness, statistical methods can be used to account for the macroscopic properties of the thermodynamic system in terms of the properties of the microscopic species.

Because tools are used extensively by both humans and wild chimpanzees, it is widely assumed that the first routine use of tools took place prior to the divergence between the two species.

Because of the population's small size, environmental hazards, such as drought, are capable of affecting the entire species.

Because the chemical composition of garnet varies, the atomic bonds in some species are stronger than in others.

Because he was dealing with confusing leaf forms, the Q. prinus and Q. rubra specimens actually included mixed foliage of more than one species.

Because of its declining range and population, it is listed as a " Near Threatened " species on the IUCN Red List.

Because of their sometimes showy flowers of white, pink, scarlet or yellow color and often attractively marked leaves, many species and innumerable hybrids and cultivars are cultivated.