Because of this he was known as Gimpy ( but, as with Capone and his nickname of Scarface, never in his presence ).

Because this theory could account for the presence of diluvium, the word drift became the preferred term for the loose, unsorted material, today called till.

* Copying: Because of the inevitable presence of noise, making many successive copies of an analog communication is infeasible because each generation increases the noise.

Because of the presence of these substances, Datura has been used for centuries in some cultures as a poison and as a hallucinogen.

Because of many undesirable side effects caused by surfactants, their presence is disadvantageous or prohibitive in many applications.

" Because the achievements of exceptional individuals seemed to indicate the presence of a particularly powerful genius, by the time of Augustus the word began to acquire its secondary meaning of " inspiration, talent.

Because of this low specificity, new serological tests have been developed, which test for the presence of the anti-citrullinated protein antibodies ( ACPAs ) or anti-CCP.

Because the host develops the symptoms as a reaction to the mites ' presence over time, there is usually a four – to six-week incubation period after the onset of infestation.

Because the presence of moisture causes the glue to set, exposure to moisture in the air can cause a tube or bottle of glue to become unusable over time.

Because of these references, the tree of life and its fruit is sometimes understood to be symbolic of salvation and post-mortal existence in the presence of God and his love.

Because of the presence of such oxide minerals, basalt can acquire strong magnetic signatures as it cools, and paleomagnetic studies have made extensive use of basalt.

Because the rebels did not want to alert anyone to their presence as they carried out their attacks, they initially used knives, hatchets, axes, and blunt instruments instead of firearms.

Because of the presence of these two bays, Taranto is also called “ the city of the two seas ”.

Because it does not believe in the separation of church and state, the Christian right supports the presence of religious institutions within government.

Because of the presence of many sundown towns, the film obfuscates the racial reality of 1950s small-town southern Indiana.

Because of its island condition all the sea sports have also a big presence in Palma.

In the presence of the static, uniform external magnetic field, the Hamiltonian for the absorbing center takes the form Ĥ = Ĥ < sub > 0 </ sup > + Ĥ < sub > 1 </ sup > which is parallel to the direction of the propagation of the electric field k. Because the transition occur between the two eigenstates of Ĥ < sub > 0 </ sub >, a and j, the absorption and the CD intensity are determined as follows:

Because superoxide is toxic, nearly all organisms living in the presence of oxygen contain isoforms of the superoxide scavenging enzyme, superoxide dismutase, or SOD.

Because the ELISA can be performed to evaluate either the presence of antigen or the presence of antibody in a sample, it is a useful tool for determining serum antibody concentrations ( such as with the HIV test or West Nile virus ).

Because Russell was still a major box office draw, with the success of Auntie Mame a few years earlier, and Merman never having established herself as a popular screen presence, the studio agreed to Brisson's terms.

Because of Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union, the airport during the 1970s and 1980s enjoyed the presence of many Eastern Bloc airline companies, such as Aeroflot, Czecho-Slovak Airlines, Interflug and LOT Polish Airlines.

Because of the strong association between the presence of pubic lice and classic sexually transmitted infections ( STIs ), patients diagnosed with pubic lice should undergo evaluation for other STIs.

Because the majority of Buttonwillow residents predominantly spoke Spanish, their presence at the meetings had little influence.

Because any beryllium synthesized in stars is short-lived, it is a relatively rare element in both the universe and in the crust of the Earth.

Because of this, rifles with barrels of less than 406 mm ( 16 in ), or pistols with shoulder stocks, are rare.

Because of the specialized and rare circumstances required for a biological structure to fossilize, only a very small percentage of all life-forms that have ever existed can be expected to be represented in discoveries, and each discovery represents only a snapshot of the process of evolution.

Because they had to be handwritten, books were previously rare and very expensive.

Because most such alleles are rare in populations, it is unlikely that two unrelated marriage partners will both be heterozygous carriers.

Because of their low-rise construction ( most were simple one-story buildings, anything more than two floors with outside corridors being rare ) with large car parks, the number of rooms which would fit on any given amount of land was low compared to the high-rise urban hotels which had grown around railway stations.

Because the condition is so rare, it can often be years before a correct diagnosis is made.

Because the act of folding a losing hand rather than showing it down is so common, some players can take advantage of others who do this with a rare play called a call-bluff.

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 tungsten is rare and its compounds are generally inert, the effects of tungsten on the environment are limited.

Because speed and range were severely limited underwater while running on battery power, U-boats were required to spend most of their time surfaced running on diesel engines, diving only when attacked or for rare daytime torpedo strikes.

Because of their ability to harness the power of what is essentially a continuous nuclear fission explosion, NSWRs would have both very high thrust and very high exhaust velocity, a rare combination of traits in the rocket world, meaning that the rocket would be able to accelerate quickly as well as be extremely efficient in terms of propellant usage.

Because some people have both Bacon and Erdős numbers due to acting and publications, there are a rare few who have an Erdős – Bacon number, which is defined as the sum of a person's independent Erdős and Bacon numbers.

Because there is an economic incentive to seize property and rework statues anyway, historians and archaeologists have had difficulty determining when official damnatio memoriae actually took place, although it seems to have been quite rare.

DNA methylation frequently occurs in repeated sequences, and helps to suppress the expression and mobility of ' transposable elements ': Because 5-methylcytosine can be spontaneously deaminated ( replacing nitrogen by oxygen ) to thymidine, CpG sites are frequently mutated and become rare in the genome, except at CpG islands where they remain unmethylated.

Because of the proximity to the sea, freezing temperatures are rare ; an average of 2. 9 days a year, and lasting frosts ( when the maximum temperature remains less or equal to zero ) are non-existent.

Because the minor league team that last held Jim Thorpe's contract had disbanded in 1910, he found himself in the rare position of being a sought after free agent at the major league level during the era of the reserve clause, and thus had a choice of baseball teams for which to play.

Because the natural form of cubic zirconia is so rare, all cubic zirconia used in jewelry has been synthesized, or created by humans.

Because black boxers with the exception of Johnson had been barred from fighting for the heavyweight championship because of racism, Johnson ’ s refusal to fight African-Americans offended the African-American community, since the opportunity to fight top white boxers was rare.

Because the production featured several scenes with levels of violence and nudity rare for even the most experimental of theater pieces, it was widely discussed in print, and even videotaped for the Lincoln Center's Billy Rose Theatre Collection in NYC.

Because the desired type of DNA recombination is a rare event in the case of most cells and most constructs, the foreign sequence chosen for insertion usually includes a reporter.

Because music videos are mainly intended to promote the artist, such videos are comparatively rare ; three early 1980s examples are Bruce Springsteen's " Atlantic City ", directed by Arnold Levine, David Mallet's video for David Bowie and Queen's " Under Pressure ", and Ian Emes ' video for Duran Duran's " The Chauffeur ".

Because Direct3D 10 hardware was comparatively rare after the initial release of Windows Vista and because of the massive installed base of non-Direct3D 10 compatible graphics cards, the first Direct3D 10-compatible games still provide Direct3D 9 render paths.

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