Because the province is landlocked, its fish production is limited to fishponds but it has vast river systems and irrigation which is more than enough to compensate for the need of water.

Because of the nature of the partition of Jin, the Han state was landlocked on all sides by other powerful states like Chu to the south, Qi to the east, Qin to the west, and Wei to the north.

Because of Chad's landlocked borders, it's economy struggles from a lack of resources and instability between rebel groups.

Because of Donegal's hilly and mountain landscape, Mountain Biking has become a significant and growing interest.

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 its hilly topography and surrounding parklands, there are few roads into or out of town ; only the Coast Highway connecting to Newport Beach to the northwest and to Dana Point to the south, and State Route 133 crossing the hills in a northeastern direction through Laguna Canyon.

Because river valleys in the hilly areas were subject to cold air pockets and late frosts — especially during the Little Ice Age that persisted until the late 19th century — most early settlement was in uplands in and near South Quarter.

Because of their abrupt, hilly topography, pedestrian navigation, particularly in Upper Manhattan and the West Bronx, is facilitated by many step streets.

Because of its hilly location, and a request from the Trustees of Boston College that the building not block the view of Gasson Hall, only the top two stories were visible from the front of the building and the Gasson quadrangle, making it look small amongst the taller adjacent buildings.

Because of the hilly topography, these natural drainage channels are narrow and have steep sides and gradients.

Because of the hilly terrain on the east side of the road, with right timing and clear weather, a traveler on loop 360 in early morning can enjoy multiple sunrise scenes, the most spectacular one can be seen from the Pennybacker Bridge over Lake Austin.

Because of this last condition, snow rollers are more common in hilly areas.

Because this hilly area is also referred to as " the highlands ", the school team was named " The Scots ", and the mascot is a kilted Scottish highland warrior.

Because of the tortuous terrain in places, villages and towns in the mountains — to which travel via motorized vehicles are of little use — are still located in the high Andes of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador.

Because the rugged terrain has made the land difficult to traverse and equally difficult to cultivate, this area has not been highly developed.

Because armies and terrain can be combined in all possible ways, miniatures wargaming is generally more varied and flexible than other forms of wargaming.

Because of the terrain surrounding the road, it was also closed due to bush-fires in 1962 and 1964 ; particularly in areas with nearby camp-sites.

Because off the territory's small land mass and flatter terrain, these methods make more sense on Anguilla than on many other Caribbean islands.

Because of the obvious advantages a buggy can afford on some terrain, they are also used by the military.

Because each race is very long, trails of natural terrain are generally used.

Because of the mountainous terrain, the existing network consisted of narrow gauge lines, which generally took indirect routes and could not be adapted to higher speeds.

Because New Preston's steep, rocky terrain presents significant constraints to development, most viable development sites were utilized prior to 1900, making contemporary construction of new homes and businesses rare.

Because the ankle bone is placed over the heel bone, these rays are adjacent near the toes but overriding near the heel, and together they form the arches of the foot that are optimized to distributed compressive forces across an uneven terrain.

Because of the inaccessibility of the terrain there was really no other way to haul the wind blown tree trunks from the affected areas.

Because of the steep rise in elevation and fjords cutting through the terrain, the amount of precipitation is very high.

Because the terrain was extremely rugged and lacked any major sources of wealth such as mineral riches, the area that is now Montenegro became a haven for residual groups of earlier settlers, including some tribes who had escaped Romanisation.

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 the hobbyist must claim more ownership for adapting a complex system to the ever changing needs of the technical terrain, zeal and enthusiasm is common amongst the many different groups attracted to operating system development.

Because of the lack of roads and difficult terrain, many of these are inaccessible by land.

Because the terrain and vegetation were uniform in each of the natural zones, the Soviet Union, as a whole, presented an illusion of uniformity.

Because of the rough and uneven terrain, the Spanish forces could not easily be outflanked.

Because of limited level terrain, rather than leveling large stretches of sloping agricultural land, the airport is built primarily on reclaimed land on the coral reef just off-shore.

Because of the line of sight propagation of UHF signals, experienced users consider such ratings to be wildly exaggerated, and some manufacturers have begun printing range ratings on the package based on terrain as opposed to simple power output.

Because of intense PAVN sniper and mortar fire ( and the terrain ) it took until nightfall for the relief force to reach the beleaguered battalion.

Because of the rugged terrain, few roads and little police protection, these settlements are isolated.

Because of this rapid growth, and the ruggedness of the terrain, it was impossible to lay out an orderly set of streets.

Because the ridge generates such varied terrain, it is the home of several plant and animal species that are state-listed or globally rare.

Because of its simplicity, star hopping is a very common method for finding objects that are close to naked-eye stars.

Because all clades are represented in the southern hemisphere but many not in the northern hemisphere, it is natural to conjecture that there is a common southern origin to them.

Because of the mountain slopes, terracing has been a common practice.

Because of its low density and atomic mass, beryllium is relatively transparent to X-rays and other forms of ionizing radiation ; therefore, it is the most common window material for X-ray equipment and in particle physics experiments.

Because of its persistent image as a " women's " bicycle, step-through frames are not common for larger frames.

Because of its history as the nation's commercial center, New York common law has a depth and predictability not ( yet ) available in any other jurisdiction.

Because most common ceramics are crystalline, the definition of ceramic is often restricted to inorganic crystalline materials, as opposed to the noncrystalline glasses.

Because field hockey teams have one goalkeeper plus ten outfield players as does association football ( soccer ), there are many common formations between the two sports.

Because contracts of insurance have many features in common with wagers, insurance contracts are often distinguished under law as agreements in which either party has an interest in the " bet-upon " outcome beyond the specific financial terms.

Because the muskoxen's natural range favors the protected Northeast Greenland National Park, it is a less common object of hunting than in the past.

Because these large planets are inferred to share more in common with Jupiter than with the other gas giant planets, some have claimed that " jovian planet " is a more accurate term for them.

Because of its mission statement, Harvey Mudd College places an unusually strong emphasis on general science education, requiring a full one-third of math, science, and engineering courses, known as the " common core ," outside of one's major.

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples ( known as toffee apples outside North America ), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

Because entropy can be conditioned on a random variable or on that random variable being a certain value, care should be taken not to confuse these two definitions of conditional entropy, the former of which is in more common use.

Because the existence of these points of space as such, that is, as truly indivisible unities, has its basis in the fact that the points are one with the bodies that fill them ; because, therefore, all possible space is coincident with the physical world ( as in Wycliffe's system, in general, reality and possibility correspond ), there can as little be a vacuum as bounding surfaces that are common to different bodies.

Because American bladesmiths use this design extensively it is a common misconception that the design originated in America.

Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's " Love conquers all " to The Beatles ' " All You Need Is Love ".

Because of its relative nuclear instability, lithium is less common in the solar system than 25 of the first 32 chemical elements even though the nuclei are very light in atomic weight.

Because the exponential map is surjective on some neighbourhood N of e, it is common to call elements of the Lie algebra infinitesimal generators of the group G. The subgroup of G generated by N is the identity component of G.

Because 10 is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both 5 and 2, it is the least common multiple of 5 and 2.

: Because children below the age of reason did not commit actual sin, theologians came to the common view that these unbaptized children feel no pain at all or even that they enjoy a full, though only natural, happiness through their mediated union with God in all natural goods ( Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus ).

Because the language did not have type-safe checks to verify proper signal handling, uncaught exceptions were a common cause of bugs in released software.

A remark on the notation: Because it is common to consider several congruence relations for different moduli at the same time, the modulus is incorporated in the notation.

Because the machete is common in many tropical countries, it is often the weapon of choice for uprisings.

Because of this consistency, it is common for neuroscientists to simplify the terminology by referring to cells that release glutamate as " excitatory neurons ," and cells that release GABA as " inhibitory neurons.