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

Because the rake angle Af at the tip of the knife is very much smaller ( or even negative ) when compared to the value of **yc for the major portion of the knife, a very rapid increase in cutting force with thickness will result.

Because of its bright green color when polished, amazonite is sometimes cut and used as a gemstone, although it is easily fractured.

Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.

Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.

Because Chaplin was not a trained musician, he could not read notes and needed the help of professional composers, such as David Raksin, Raymond Rasch and Eric James, when creating his scores.

Because SWNTs are p-FETs when exposed to oxygen and n-FETs otherwise, it is possible to protect half of an SWNT from oxygen exposure, while exposing the other half to oxygen.

Because of the Jews ' rejection of Jesus, Jewish sovereignty over the promised earthly kingdom of Jerusalem and Palestine was postponed from the time of Christ's first coming until prior to or just after his Second Coming when most or all Jews will embrace him.

Because Ω depends on the program encoding used, it is sometimes called Chaitin's construction instead of Chaitin's constant when not referring to any specific encoding.

Because uniformed volunteer disaster responders are accorded a higher level of trust than unaffiliated volunteers when responding in a disaster, many sponsoring agencies require a criminal background-check of all trainees before allowing them to participate on a CERT.

Because the strength of the force falls off rapidly with distance, it is only measurable when the distance between the objects is extremely small.

Because the methods are independent, when one of several methods is in error, it is very unlikely to be in error in the same way as any of the other methods, and a difference between the measurements will be observed.

Because of this many beaches and pools prohibit diving in shallow waters or when a lifeguard is not on duty.

Because of this and many other factors, Dar es Salaam has become an exceptional city when it comes to safety, whether it be fear or simply a culture of peace.

Because Titus effectively acted as co-emperor with his father, no abrupt change in Flavian policy occurred when Vespasian died on 23 June 79.

Because of the high reactivity, samples of solid europium rarely have the shiny appearance of the fresh metal, even when coated with a protective layer of mineral oil.

Because the orbital plane of the Moon is tilted with respect to the orbital plane of the Earth ( the ecliptic ), eclipses can occur only when the Moon is close to the intersection of these two planes ( the nodes ).

Because of this, when the first 386-based system ( the Compaq Deskpro 386 ) hit the market in 1986, it still supported 16-bit slots.

Because of this, some medical professionals advise the use of condoms when performing or receiving fellatio with a partner whose STD status is unknown.

Because of his early fame as a director, his name was listed " above the title " of his films when they were publicized.

Because Galen's works were not translated into Latin in the ancient period, and because of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, the study of Galen, along with the Greek medical tradition as a whole, went into decline in Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages, when very few Latin scholars could read Greek.

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 he had earned a master's in a scientific field from a " white " institution, some faculty perceived him as arrogant when a young man.

Because hemoglobin is a darker red when it is not bound to oxygen ( deoxyhemoglobin ), as opposed to the rich red color that it has when bound to oxygen ( oxyhemoglobin ), when seen through the skin it has an increased tendency to reflect blue light back to the eye.

Because of its " smeared on " root, the word is also used for the unique practice by hedgehogs of coating their quills with a froth when encountering new smells or tastes in their environment.

Because of its slim Davis wing, it also had a tendency to spin out of control when encountering even mild icing conditions over the mountains.

Because derivation is a slower and less productive word formation process than the more overtly syntactical morphological methods, there are fewer collectives formed this way.

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, " cartoon " came to refer to animation, and the word " cartoon " is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons.

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.

Because of vowel harmony, all vowels in a word are affected, so the scope of the diacritic is the entire word.

Because of Latin's gender based declension, this word may be restricted by some English speakers to describing a male.

" 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 he had sealed under duress, however, John received approval from the Pope to break his word as soon as hostilities had ceased, provoking the First Barons ' War and an invited French invasion by Prince Louis of France ( whom the majority of the English barons had invited to replace John on the throne and had him proclaimed king in London in May 1216 ).

Because a compound word is composed of established lexeme they are usually easier to acquire than loan words or neologisms.

Because the whole meaning of that phrase is much different from the meaning of words included alone, phraseology examines how and why such meanings come in everyday use, and what possibly are the laws governing these word combinations.

Because the folkloristic meaning of " myth " is often confused with this more pejorative usage, the original unambiguous term " mythos " may be a better word to distinguish the positive definition from the negative.

Because the Italian for channels is canali, English translations tended to render the word as " canals ", implying artificial construction.

Because it was equipped with online and offline printers that were based on IBM electric typewriter mechanisms, it was capable of what, in 1980s terminology, would be called " letter-quality printing " and therefore inspired TJ-2, arguably the first word processor.

Because of his actions and the way they were viewed by the people, the word for King, Rex, held a negative connotation in the Latin language until the fall of the Roman Empire.

Because of its historic relationship to English heart and German Herz, this word was spelled hjerta in Swedish even though it's pronounced.

Because many legal terms are derived from a Latin root word, the Dictionary gives a pronunciation guide for such terms.

Because BCPL has no data types other than the machine word, nothing in the language itself helps a programmer remember variables ' types.

Because DNA methylation and chromatin remodeling play such a central role in many types of epigenic inheritance, the word " epigenetics " is sometimes used as a synonym for these processes.

Because of this, identifier / reserved word collisions can occur when code implemented in one language tries to execute code written in another language.

Because of this prejudice, the word " creole " was generally used by linguists in opposition to " language ", rather than as a qualifier for it.

Because corsairs gained a swashbuckling reputation, the word " corsair " is also used generically as a more romantic or flamboyant way of referring to privateers, or even to pirates.

Because VLIWs typically represent instructions scheduled in parallel with a longer instruction word that incorporates the individual instructions, this results in a much longer opcode ( thus the term " very long ") to specify what executes on a given cycle.

Because the picker selected the word and knows the definition, the picker does not vote.

Because of its prolific use during this period, the American Dialect Society voted " weapons of mass destruction " ( and its abbreviation, " WMD ") the word of the year in 2002, and in 2003 Lake Superior State University added WMD to its list of terms banished for " Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness ".