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 of the unusual length of the play ( over three hours ), prior to the opening a matinee company was also hired that performed twice a week and featured Kate Reid as Martha, Shepperd Strudwick as George, Avra Petrides as Honey and Bill Berger as Nick.

Because of this combination of high mountains and Mediterreanean air, it is not unusual that the region frequently has some of the lowest winter temperatures and some of the hottest summer temperatures in France.

Because of its unusual properties, molasses has several uses beyond that of a straightforward food additive.

Because of this multi-directional flow, coupled with the fact that sap cannot move with ease between adjacent sieve-tubes, it is not unusual for sap in adjacent sieve-tubes to be flowing in opposite directions.

Because of her unusual pointed hair style, many animators consider Lisa the most difficult Simpsons character to draw.

Because of its unusual and rugged nature, the Red River Gorge features a remarkable variety of ecological zones.

Because of the manner in which the tunnel had been enlarged it was no longer round, and for clearance reasons the positive rail had to be of an unusual shape with the top contact surface higher than normal.

Because of an unusual copyright situation in which BBV was able to license K-9 but not Romana or other Doctor Who elements, the Mistress is not explicitly called Romana.

Because the vast majority of daguerreotypes are simple, straightforward studio portraits of ordinary people, normally it is some unusual feature which elevates the value to a multiple of the average.

Because of their unusual height, people with dwarfism often work as spectacles in entertainment and are often portrayed with stereotypes.

Because of this, the engine sported an unusual 90 ° angle between cylinder banks — a trait shared with the later PRV V6.

Because practices such as starvation, sleep denial and flagellation are known to induce altered states, flagellation may be used by religious ecstatics and mystics as part of ritualistic practices or ceremonies to achieve unusual states of mind.

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 the incident-light reading is independent of the subject's reflectance, it is less likely to lead to incorrect exposures for subjects with unusual average reflectance.

Because both railways were built to the unusual gauge of it was relatively easy to adapt the Corris locomotives to work on the Talyllyn.

Because of the high temperature, unusual nuclear processes may take place as the envelope of the red giant falls onto the neutron star's surface.

Because of the melange ingested by their mother, which causes unusual effects for the Atreides bloodline, the twins are " pre-born ", meaning that as fetuses in their mother's womb they had been awakened to consciousness and to their genetic memories ; they had been born as fully matured human beings in the bodies of infants.

Because Canning showed unusual intelligence and promise at an early age, family friends persuaded his uncle, London merchant Stratford Canning ( father to the diplomat Stratford Canning ), to become his nephew's guardian.

Because of the unusual size of the outbreak of witchcraft accusations, various aspects of the historical context of this episode have been considered as specific contributing factors.

Because of the gauge, unusual for the British Isles, locomotives and rolling stock to supplement the originals have had to be obtained from a cosmopolitan variety of sources including the Zillertalbahn in Austria.

Because rarer words ( low frequency ) are composed of unusual and features that may be difficult to encode, they require more attention.

Because of its unusual fragility, the pollen of Lauraceae does not keep well and has been found only in relatively recent strata.

Because the Rio Grande serves as an international boundary, the park faces unusual constraints while administering and enforcing park rules, regulations, and policies.

Because of the unique design by the architect Egils Hermanovski, you can build most of it in your own home workshop in your spare time.

Because of Athlon's very large L1 cache and the exclusive design which turns the L2 cache into basically a " victim cache ", the need for high L2 performance and size was lessened.

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 the compact size of the pistons and mechanical simplicity of design, these models are typically not as large or as expensive as the others types.

Because its main purpose was the presentation of live music, the hall needed a design focused not only on public access and exterior aesthetics, but also acoustics.

Because his task was to construct the wilful choices of his Punch editors, who probably took their cue from The Times and would have felt the suggestions of political tensions from Parliament as well, Tenniel ’ s work, as was its design, could be scathing in effect.

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

Because its input can be described with a formal grammar, it can be used in parser design.

Because of this, many modern large caliber hunting revolvers tend to be based on the fixed cylinder design.

Because the car lacked a fuel pump, the fuel tank was placed high up in the engine compartment so that fuel could be fed to the carburetor by gravity ; a trade-off of this design is an increased fire risk in front-end accidents.

Because Volta believed that the electromotive force occurred at the contact between the two metals, Volta's piles had a different design than the modern design illustrated on this page.

Because of the poor reflectivity of the speculum mirrors of that day, Herschel eliminated the small diagonal mirror of a standard newtonian reflector from his design and tilted his primary mirror so he could view the formed image directly.

Because of inadequate design, roughly 25 – 40 % of the incoming fish get blocked by the dam each year.

Because lens design only allowed rather small aperture lenses, the image on the ground glass screen was faint and most photographers had a dark cloth to cover their heads to allow focussing and composition to be carried out more easily.

Because of the design of analog video signals, which represent luma and color information separately, a common first step in image compression in codec design is to represent and store the image in a YCbCr color space.

Because a conceptual schema represents the semantics of an organization, and not a database design, it may exist on various levels of abstraction.

Because of the popularity of Times Roman at the time, Monotype chose to design a variant of Times Roman suited to mathematical composition, and recut many additional characters needed for mathematics, including special symbols as well as Greek and Fraktur alphabets, to accompany the system instead of designing it around the typeface that was being used, for which characters were already available.

Because " Lisa's Wedding " ( season six, 1995 ) is set fifteen years in the future, Homer's design was altered to make him older in the episode.

Because workstations are designed for high-end tasks such as weather forecasting, video rendering, and game design, it's taken for granted that these systems must be running under full-load, non-stop for several hours or even days without issue.

) Because a toric lens must have the proper orientation to correct for a person's astigmatism, a toric contact lens must have additional design characteristics to prevent the lens from rotating out of the ideal alignment.

Because of the competing interests of cross-platform compatibility and advanced functionality, numerous alternative web application design strategies have emerged.