Because of a wine glut ( wine lake ) in the generic production, the price squeeze induced by an increasingly strong international competition, and vine pull schemes, the number of growers has recently dropped from 14, 000 and the area under vine has also decreased significantly.

Because of this it could not raise a strong resistance against invaders, and were easily defeated and subjugated by the Shyris, ancient indigenous people who joined the Kingdom of Quito.

Because of the strong empirical support for special relativity, any modifications to it must necessarily be quite subtle and difficult to measure.

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 their text-only nature sidestepped the problem of writing for the widely divergent graphics architectures of the day, interactive fiction games were easily ported across all the popular platforms, even those such as CP / M not known for gaming or strong graphics capabilities.

) Because the yarn holding rows together is all on the front, and the yarn holding side-by-side stitches together is all on the back, stockinette fabric has a strong tendency to curl toward the front on the top and bottom, and toward the back on the left and right side.

Because of strong cultural, religious, linguistic, and economic ties, Nepal's association with India traditionally has been close.

Because of this, some accused Menzies of being pro-Nazi, whilst others saw it as an early example of his strong opposition to communism.

Because of the tectonic activity and strong currents, these archeologists claim that there is not sufficient stratification to be sure the recovered artifacts can be associated with the site.

Because they tend to have strong flavors and are used in small quantities, spices tend to add few calories to food, even though many spices, especially those made from seeds, contain high portions of fat, protein, and carbohydrate by weight.

Because bones come in a variety of shapes and have a complex internal and external structure they are lightweight, yet strong and hard, in addition to fulfilling their many other functions.

Because of this, the oligarchy that came into power after the " Meiji Restoration " of 1868 had a strong representation from the Satsuma province, with leaders such as Ōkubo Toshimichi and Saigō Takamori taking up key government positions.

* Because of aggressive lobbying and the United States ' strong libertarian traditions, the Internet service provider industry remains relatively unregulated in comparison to other communications industries.

Because strong, healthy blacks in their prime working and reproductive years were seen and treated as highly valuable commodities, it was not unusual for free blacks — both freedmen ( former slaves ) and those who had never been slaves — to be kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Because most WorldForge servers are run by volunteers without strong bandwidth and hardware capacities this direction also has practical reasons.

Because they do not interact with electromagnetism they cannot be seen directly, and because they do not interact with the strong nuclear force they do not react strongly with atomic nuclei.

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 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 helium-4 is very stable, there is a strong tendency on the part of two deuterium nuclei to combine to form helium-4.

Because of this, the hydrogen ion concentration increases by less than the amount expected for the quantity of strong acid added.

Because the Navy had failed to achieve what Tirpitz had promised, there was a very strong anti-navalist mood in Germany after 1918.

Because of his homely ways and strong Norfolk roots, he was often known to both friends and detractors as the " fat old Squire of Norfolk.

Because of the strong provincial loyalties held by these immigrants, the Qing government felt Taiwan was somewhat difficult to govern.

Because of their ability to set legal precedent in regions that cover millions of people, the United States Courts of Appeals have strong policy influence on U. S. law ; however, this political recognition is controversial.

Because of the recent invention of the cast plate glass method in 1848, which allowed for large sheets of cheap but strong glass, it was at the time the largest amount of glass ever seen in a building and astonished visitors with its clear walls and ceilings that did not require interior lights, thus a " Crystal Palace ".

Because of economic and security concerns, financial institutions, and particularly microfinance institutions ( MFIs ), have consolidated their business in the capital, Bangui, over the past few years.

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 these schools operated on very small budgets and attempted to serve as many needy children as possible, economic factors were prominent in their design.

Because of economic recessions, the number of movie theaters in Japan had been steadily decreasing since the 1960s.

Because some banks refused to clear checks from certain others during times of economic uncertainty, a check-clearing system was created in the Federal Reserve system.

Because of the Ethiopian refusal to abide by the Italian version of the treaty and despite economic handicaps at home, the Italian government decided on a military solution to force Ethiopia to abide by the Italian version of the treaty.

Because of political decisions on local, prefectural, and nation levels, Japan decided not to exploit its forest resources for economic gain.

Because policies were designed to benefit white settlers and the Portuguese homeland, little attention was paid to the integration of Mozambique's indigenous population, its economic infrastructure, or the skills of its indigenous rural population.

Because of this the port and related companies form an important economic driver for the city.

Because of the huge economic profits that could be had from these fisheries, the local authorities offered incentives to the Sami – faced with their own population pressures – to settle on the newly vacant farms.

Because tourism accounts for more than 50 % of the economic sector, the government relies not only on taxes and customs for revenue, but also the sale of coins and postage stamps to collectors throughout the world.

Because of that, the country was under economic and political sanctions, which resulted in economic disaster that forced thousands of its young citizens to emigrate from the country.

Because of economic contraction ( the economy declined by about 2 % in 2004 and 2005 and lost another 1. 4 % in 2006 according to the International Monetary Fund ) the country was moving downwards in terms of per capita income.

Because of the country's small size and high labor specialisation, industry and trade are the keys to Switzerland's economic livelihood.

Because of the increasing economic deprivation of Europe, Prokofiev returned to Russia in 1936.

Because of the way these activities structure the economic framework, Habermas felt that the state cannot be looked at as passively responding to economic class interests.

Because of its enormous economic importance, CAD has been a major driving force for research in computational geometry, computer graphics ( both hardware and software ), and discrete differential geometry.

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 the economic situation during the mid-period and the predominance of the merchant class, developing yakuza groups were composed of misfits and delinquents that had joined or formed yakuza groups to extort customers in local markets by selling fake or shoddy goods.

Because these regimes influence and are influenced by the organization of both social and economic capital, the analysis of dimensions lacking a standard economic value ( e. g., the political economy of language, of gender, of religion ) often draw on the concepts used in Marxian critiques of capital.

Because of the economic decline from the 17th to the early 20th century, much of the 16th and 17th century town centre is still intact.