Because Broadway is a true north – south route that parallels the Hudson River and preceded the grid that the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway diagonally crosses Manhattan, its intersections with avenues marked by " squares " ( some merely triangular slivers of open space ) have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.

Because Disciples believe that the invitation to the table comes from Jesus Christ, communion is open to all who confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, regardless of their denominational affiliation.

Because most of the kernel and supporting packages are free and open source software, Linux distributions have taken a wide variety of forms — from fully featured desktop, server, laptop, netbook, mobile phone, and tablet operating systems as well as minimal environments ( typically for use in embedded systems or for booting from a floppy disk ).

Because they become very hot, practically all machine guns fire from an open bolt, to permit air cooling from the breech between bursts.

Because of the great width of the pontoons, Schwimmpanzer IIs were to be deployed from specially modified Type C landing barges, from which they could be launched directly into open water from a large hatch cut into the stern.

Because of their location, open clusters are occasionally referred to as galactic clusters, a term that was introduced in 1925 by the Swiss-American astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler.

Because of their high density, close encounters between stars in an open cluster are common.

Because the stars in an open cluster are all at roughly the same distance from Earth, and were born at roughly the same time from the same raw material, the differences in apparent brightness among cluster members is due only to their mass.

Because of its associations with democratic institutions, rhetoric is commonly said to flourish in open and democratic societies with rights of free speech, free assembly, and political enfranchisement for some portion of the population.

Because the Ringworld spins fast enough to provide gravity, once the police station and ship are on the underside, centrifugal force pushes them outward from the ring into open space.

Because the two ends of an open string can always meet and connect, forming a closed string, there are no string theories without closed strings.

Because the stars were all born at roughly the same time, the different properties of all the stars in a cluster are a function only of mass, and so stellar evolution theories rely on observations of open and globular clusters.

Because the Khujand – Dushanbe route is closed in winter, the Anzob Tunnel was built to bypass the mountain crossing and open a route connecting Tashkent ( Uzbekistan ) and points north with Afghanistan and Pakistan to the south, via Tajikistan.

Because of their liquidity and perceived low risk, treasuries are used to manage the money supply in the open market operations of non-US central banks.

Because of the compact nature of the long pole form, it is not necessary to practice the form in such a large open area.

Because of low vacuum at high RPM, reports of unintended acceleration are often accompanied by complaints of failed or weakened brakes, as the high-revving engine, having an open throttle, is unable to provide enough vacuum to power the brake booster.

Because the ECAHA was the top hockey league in Canada at the time, the Cup trustees agreed to open the challenges to professional teams .< ref name =" DiamondPrize-19 ">< nowiki > Diamond, Zweig, and Duplacey </ nowiki >, p. 19 </ ref > The first professional competition came one month later during the Wanderers ' two-game, total goals challenge series, which they won 17 goals to 5.

Because of a seemingly meaningless loss to the lowly Chicago Bulls in the regular season finale ( both the Sixers and the Lakers finished with identical 56 – 26 records, but Los Angeles was awarded a higher seed based on tiebreakers ), the 76ers had to open a series on the road for the first time in the 2001 playoffs.

Because the Academy grounds are generally open to the public, the Academy often became a site for protests by anti-war demonstrators.

Because of the shallow waters, the development of aquatic life in the Sea of Azov is more characteristic of a lagoon, and the plankton patterns are rather similar in the open sea and near the shores.

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 the natural hazards of the strait, where the waters of Green Bay meet the open body of Lake Michigan, they gave it the French appellation Porte des Morts Passage, which in English means the " Door to the Way to Death ," or simply, " Death's Door.

Because of their development from Atlantic seagoing vessels, the great ships were more weatherly than galleys and better suited to open waters.

Because of this, the region was protected by the New Jersey Legislature and Governor Jim McGreevey under the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act enacted in 2004 that sought to preserve water resources, to promote open space and farmland preservation, to create new recreational parks, and to regulate land use planning to achieve these goals.

Because most if not all stars form clustered, star clusters are to be viewed the fundamental building blocks of galaxies.

Because of this location along the line of our galaxy, many clusters and nebulae are found within its borders, but they are dim and there are few galaxies.

Because of their extreme masses they have relatively short lifespans and are mainly observed in young cosmic structures such as open clusters, the arms of spiral galaxies, and in irregular galaxies.

Because gravity is comparatively weak compared to other fundamental forces, gravitational collapse is usually associated with very massive bodies or collections of bodies, such as stars ( including collapsed stars such as supernovae, neutron stars and black holes ) and massive collections of stars such as globular clusters and galaxies.

Because of the physical and topographic conditions of the town, four ( 4 ) sitios where clusters of houses were built became the main district of the town namely Campo, Burgos, Basiao and Bundok-Punta.

Because of the faintness of the lowest luminosity dwarf spheroidals and the nature of the stars contained within them, some astronomers suggest that dwarf spheroidals and globular clusters may not be clearly separate and distinct types of objects.

Because of the scattershot evolution of the system, there is no easily discernible pattern to the route numbers, although there are clusters in certain neighborhoods: for example, the 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, and 49, as well as the 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, and 79 all run through the University District ( U-District ).

Because of the correlation between self-identified race and genetic clusters, medical treatments whose results are influenced by genetics often have varying rates of success between self-defined racial groups.

Because they occur independently at many places across the surface of a growing film or coating, they tend to produce an analog of a cobblestone street with the cobbles being nodules or clusters of sp < sup > 3 </ sup > bonded carbon.

Because the NVFS File System was designed to use clusters of 512 byte blocks, power users have complained that files take approximately 33 % more space than in volatile file systems.

Because and tend to zero as h tends to zero, the bracketed terms tend to zero as h tends to zero.

Because they tend to feed on people ’ s faces, triatomine bugs are also known as " kissing bugs ".

Because of the immediacy of the information, historians tend to value live chronicles, such as annals, over dead ones.

Because they rely on coercion, which is illegal except in the case of conservatorship and is generally viewed as unethical, deprogrammers ' critiques of the unethical practices of cults will tend to have less credibility with cult members than the critiques of exit counselors.

Because of Hund's rules, the first few electrons in a shell tend to have the same spin, thereby increasing the total dipole moment.

Because of their inability to serve both as hydrogen-bond donors and acceptors, ketones tend not to " self-associate " and are more volatile than alcohols and carboxylic acids of comparable molecular weights.

Because of their commitment to biblical authority, spiritual gifts, and the miraculous, Pentecostals tend to see their movement as reflecting the same kind of spiritual power and teachings that were found in the Apostolic Age of the early church.

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

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 of the need to market television to a wide audience, shows outside the loose realm of science fiction will often tend to gravitate to established tropes, such as time travel or superheroes.

Because feather shuttles fly more quickly off the racquet face they also tend to cause less shoulder impact and injury.

Because they tend to be quiet and docile, Galgos make very nice house pets.

Because of the lack of a residual gap in the magnetic path, toroidal transformers also tend to exhibit higher inrush current, compared to laminated E-I types.

Because of the viola's size, violists with short arms tend to use smaller-sized instruments for easier playing.

Because loops of current-carrying conductors tend to be forced outwards towards a circular shape by their own magnetic field, the sail could be deployed simply by unspooling the conductor and applying a current through it.

Because the purpose of these clubs is split between general social interaction and taking part in the events themselves, clubs tend to have more single members than married ones ; some clubs restrict their membership to one of the other, and some are for gays and lesbians.

Because humidity is low at such high altitudes, these clouds tend to be very thin.

Because these events constitute the majority of the population and because they tend to have the brightest afterglows, they have been studied in much greater detail than their short counterparts.

Because the diapirs are liquified and very hot, they tend to rise through the surrounding native " country " rock, pushing it aside and partially melting it.

Because the effects of dissociatives tend to add a far more sedating and sensory deprived quality to the experience, they are often not considered true psychedelics.

Because temperature variations tend to propagate through dense masonry materials ( thermal diffusion ) at a rate of approximately 1 inch per hour, daytime heat gain will be available at the interior surface of the thermal mass in the early evening when it's needed.

Because of their nocturnal habits they tend not to exhibit sexual dimorphism in their plumage.