Because, honey, I thought silently, there are plenty of desert islands in every marriage -- long periods when you're hopelessly stranded, together.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

Because the islands cannot produce enough goods to support the population, about 90 % of their food and consumer goods must be imported.

Because of the absence of scheduled sea transport between the islands, nearly all interisland passenger traffic is by air.

Because of its voracious appetite, the cane toad has been introduced to many regions of the Pacific and the Caribbean islands as a method of agricultural pest control.

Because Finland was a country with relatively small towns with a small workforce, and many industrial centers were small " islands " surrounded by large rural areas, there was social integrity between the urban and rural workers.

Because numerous small islands surround Isle Royale, ships were once guided through the area by lighthouses at Passage Island, Rock Harbor, Rock of Ages, and Isle Royale Lighthouse on Menagerie Island.

Because Kidd was said to have buried treasure in the Comoros islands, and Moroni is the name of the capital city and largest settlement in the Comoros, it has been suggested that Smith borrowed the name of the settlement and applied it to the angel who led him to buried treasure — the golden plates.

Because it was once part of South America, Trinidad has an assortment of tropical vegetation and wildlife considerably more varied than that of most West Indian islands.

Because the islands had few grapes to make wine with, barley beer was used instead, resulting in the development of whisky.

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 Dominica is mostly volcanic and has few beaches, development of tourism has been slow compared with that on neighboring islands.

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 the family is ancient and was widely distributed long time ago, modern species commonly are present in forests of various types occurring on all continents, except Antarctica, and on many associated major islands.

Because the cyclone affected the islands as a weak tropical storm, preparations were minimal.

Because of its distance from the mainland, Tangier is very isolated, its nearest neighbors being other islands such as Smith Island, Maryland.

Because of the probability of wrecks around the islands, calls arose for the establishment of emergency depots for castaways in 1868.

Because the Polynesian islands were settled relatively recently and because internal linguistic diversification only began around 2, 000 years ago, their languages retain strong commonalities.

Because seamounts are isolated from each other they form " undersea islands " creating the same biogeographical interest.

Because of the generally smaller size and isolation of the central islands, few major terrestrial mammals have colonized these, though red and arctic foxes were introduced for the sake of the fur trade in the 1880s.

Because the Meiji government could not sufficiently cope with Russians moving to south Sakhalin, Japan negotiated with Russia over control of the Kuril Islands, resulting in the Treaty of Saint Petersburg that ceded the eighteen islands north of Uruppu to Japan and all of Sakhalin to Russia.

Because of their isolation, the people of the islands however, managed to keep a lot of their traditional ways alive.

Because it is the most populous island, Cook Islanders may often be referred to as Rarotongan, but they may come from one of the other 14 islands in the group, such as Aitutaki or Mangaia.

Because of heavy migration from other islands in the Lesser Antilles and Puerto Rico throughout the 20th century, most native born Crucians are descended from enslaved Africans on other Caribbean islands.

Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.

Because God is what He is, the laws of the universe, material and spiritual, are what they are.

Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.

Because they are `` minority '' exercises and have but a limited appeal they soon find themselves in the limbo of the forgotten.

Because of this, it would appear inevitable that an increasing percentage of strategic missiles will seek self-protection in mobility -- at least until missile defenses are perfected which have an exceedingly high kill probability.

( Note: Because of light leakage from one ultraviolet source to another, the lights are switched by a commutator-like assembly rotated by a synchronous motor.

Because of their location, on the edge of the feed lot, fence-line bunks are not in the way of mechanical manure removal.

Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.

Because electrical forces ( the charge-excess ) are far more powerful than gravitation, the surface hydrogen atoms would shoot away from the sphere.

Because the levels themselves are random variables, some assumptions and the method of contrasting the treatments ( a multi-variable generalization of simple differences ) differ from the fixed-effects model.

Because constitutional claims are of great magnitude, appellate courts might be more lenient to review the claim even if it was not preserved.

Because of the ocean's great capacity to store and release heat, maritime climates are more moderate and have less extreme seasonal variations than inland climates.

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

Because CCD imagers are linear, image processing may be used to subtract away the effects of light pollution, which has increased the popularity of astrophotography in urban areas.

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 their biological significance, amino acids are important in nutrition and are commonly used in nutritional supplements, fertilizers, and food technology.

Because of their relatively large mass, + 2 electric charge and relatively low velocity, alpha particles are very likely to interact with other atoms and lose their energy, so their forward motion is effectively stopped within a few centimeters of air.

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 Ambrosius and Vortigern are shown in the Historia Brittonum as being in conflict, some historians have suspected that this preserves a historical core of the existence of two parties in opposition to one another, one headed by Ambrosius and the other by Vortigern.

Because of its elevation and distance from the coast, the Australian Capital Territory experiences four distinct seasons, unlike many other Australian cities whose climates are moderated by the sea.