Because of your forward motion relative to the falling rain, the rain now appears to be falling not straight down from directly above you, but at a slight angle from a point in the sky somewhat in front of you.

Because this range of non-zero amplitude may be very broad or infinite, this definition is typically relaxed so that the bandwidth is defined as the range of frequencies in which the signal's spectral density is above a certain threshold relative to its maximum.

Because of statistical probability and restrictions on the relative diameters of the individual tubes, one of the shells, and thus the whole MWNT, is usually a zero-gap metal.

Because of the relative price of gin, when compared with other drinks available at the same time and in the same geographic location, gin became popular with the poor.

Because of the greater size and relative efficiency of the Salvadoran and Guatemalan industrial sectors, however, Honduras bought far more manufactured products from its neighbors than it sold to them.

Because this practice increases the supply of currency without any matching increase in demand for it, the price of the currency, that is the exchange rate, naturally falls relative to other currencies.

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 of their relative isolation, contact between these groups and lowland Lao has been mostly confined to trading.

Because the Pacific plate is the largest of all the tectonic plates on Earth, crustal material at its western edge has had a long time since formation ( up to 170 million years ) to compact and become very dense ; hence its great height-difference relative to the higher-riding Mariana Plate, at the point where the Pacific Plate crust is subducted.

Because of the relative success of economics at understanding markets, rational choice theory has also become increasingly employed in social sciences other than economics, such as sociology and political science in recent decades.

Because of the low availability relative to demand, rhenium is among the most expensive of metals, with an average price of approximately US $ 4, 575 per kilogram ( US $ 142. 30 per troy ounce ) as of August 2011 ; it is also of critical strategic military importance, for its use in high performance military jet and rocket engines.

Because toxic interactions are defined relative to the expectation under " no interaction ", a determination of synergy ( or antagonism ) depends on what is meant by " no interaction ".

Because of its depth and relative ease of access, the US Navy uses Seneca Lake to perform test and evaluation of equipment ranging from single element transducers to complex sonar arrays and systems.

Because of its conductive properties and relative chemical inertness, tungsten is also used in electrodes, and in the emitter tips in electron-beam instruments that use field emission guns, such as electron microscopes.

Because of the relative motion of rotor and stator, molecules preferably hit the lower side of the blades.

Because the Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane, sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year.

Because the Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane, sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year.

Because it is left-handed, the rightward ( relative to the direction of travel ) horizontal component is now lagging the vertical component by one quarter of a wavelength rather than leading it.

Because the electron has such a tiny charge, however, shot noise is of relative insignificance in many ( but not all ) cases of electrical conduction.

Because the Earth's orbit around the sun is elliptical, and because of the obliquity of the Earth's axis relative to the plane of the orbit ( the ecliptic ), the apparent solar day varies a few dozen seconds above or below the mean value of 24 hours.

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 ambiguity of " surface " and " vertical ", it is more commonly expressed relative to a precisely defined vertical datum which holds fixed some known point.

Because states can never be certain of other states ' future intentions, there is a lack of trust between states which requires them to be on guard against relative losses of power which could enable other states to threaten their survival.

Because he still hoped to be a candidate, Stevenson refused to give the nominating address for relative newcomer John F. Kennedy, which strained relations between the two men.

Because the de facto administration is recognized only by Turkey, it has had much difficulty arranging foreign financing, and foreign firms have hesitated to invest there.

Because of the difficulty of manipulating metal and the lack of machine tools, the use of metal was kept to a minimum.

Because of their small size and the difficulty of crystallizing integral membrane proteins for X-ray analysis, it is only very recently that scientists have been able to directly examine what channels " look like.

Because of the difficulty of travel and the hazards of wilderness survival during the winter months, it is the only major National Park Service park to close entirely for the season.

For example, as of May 2000, per DSM-IV-TR, " Because some cases of Sexual Sadism may not involve harm to a victim ( e. g., inflicting humiliation on a consenting partner ), the wording for sexual sadism involves a hybrid of the DSM-III-R and DSM-IV wording ( i. e., “ the person has acted on these urges with a non-consenting person, or the urges, sexual fantasies, or behaviors cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty ”)".

Because of the difficulty in classifying subspecies morphologically, many biologists have found the concept problematic, citing issues such as:

Because some regions have had difficulty picking up over-the-air signals ( particularly in mountainous areas ), alternative means of distribution such as direct-to-home satellite and cable television have been introduced.

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.

Because of various factors – the difficulty of crossing the Yellow River, the increased development of an alternative sea route for grain-ships, and the opening of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway and the Beijing-Hankou Railway – the canal languished and for decades the northern and southern parts remained separate.

Because of its high debt load, Posner's DWG would generate attractive but highly volatile returns and would ultimately land the company in financial difficulty.

Because of this emergency services also have difficulty getting to the scene of the accident.

Because marches were some of the first music to be written for grade school bands ( which were just becoming prominent throughout the country ), many marches are fairly modest in difficulty.

Because of the repeated military debacles from 113 BC to 109 BC and the accusations that the oligarchy was open to flagrant bribery, it became easier for the virtuous new man who had worked with difficulty up the ladder of offices to be elected as an alternative to the inept or corrupt nobility.

Because of their inefficiency and the difficulty of insulating machines that produced very high voltages, electrostatic generators had low power ratings, and were never used for generation of commercially significant quantities of electric power.

Because the vas deferens deposits seminal fluid into the prostatic urethra, and secretions from the prostate gland itself are included in semen content, prostate cancer may also cause problems with sexual function and performance, such as difficulty achieving erection or painful ejaculation.

Because his force was inferior, he chose the narrow, rocky body of water between the western shore of Lake Champlain and Valcour Island ( near modern Plattsburgh, New York ), where the British fleet would have difficulty bringing its superior firepower to bear, and where the inferior seamanship of his relatively unskilled sailors would have a minimal negative effect.

Because of the difficulty in transcribing Egyptian, it is often realized as Montu, Montju, or Menthu.

Because of this difficulty, the government decided to separate Best from Oirschot in 1819.

Because of the difficulty traversing the steep " Gardner's Mountain ", running north to south through the original Lyman grant of 1761, the settlers of the western portion had different priorities and needs than the rest of Lyman to the east.

Because of the labor and difficulty in getting water to them, they were left, in most instances, for later settlement.

Because of this, the potential for difficulty or complications due to the presence of unusual airway anatomy or other uncontrolled variables is carefully evaluated before undertaking tracheal intubation.

Because Chigusa-hime had difficulty in conceiving she made a pilgrimage to Enryaku-ji temple at Mt.

" Because his father had difficulty finding work, the family traveled often.

Because of the difficulty of solving the Hamiltonian path and cycle problems on conventional computers, they have also been studied in unconventional models of computing.