Because it is impractical to poll everyone who will vote, pollsters take smaller samples that are intended to be representative, that is, a random sample of the population.

Because of independence, the decision whether to use of the axiom of choice ( or its negation ) in a proof cannot be made by appeal to other axioms of set theory.

Because of the pen's reliance on gravity to coat the ball with ink, most ballpoint pens cannot be used to write upside down.

Because arcs of circles and ellipses cannot be exactly represented by Bézier curves, they are first approximated by Bézier curves, which are in turn approximated by arcs of circles.

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

Because Njazidja is geologically a relatively new island, its soil is thin and rocky and cannot hold water.

Because Guest's children are adopted, they cannot inherit the family barony under the terms of the letters patent that created it, though a 2004 Royal Warrant addressing the style of a peer's adopted children states that they can use courtesy titles.

Because interframe compression copies data from one frame to another, if the original frame is simply cut out ( or lost in transmission ), the following frames cannot be reconstructed properly.

Because these natural phenomena cannot be controlled, they inevitably affect the outcome of the given activity or event.

Because the output pulse from a Geiger-Muller tube is always the same magnitude regardless of the energy of the incident radiation, the tube cannot differentiate between certain radiation types.

* Stoppage Because of Strikes: The fighter is overwhelmed by strikes ( blows ), and cannot intelligently defend himself.

Because meiosis is a " one-way " process, it cannot be said to engage in a cell cycle as mitosis does.

Because the chromosomes cannot be distinguished in the synaptonemal complex, the actual act of crossing over is not perceivable through the microscope, and chiasmata are not visible until the next stage.

Because of this topography, the ocean cannot be seen from much of Malden's interior.

Because MIDI is a set of commands that create sound, MIDI sequences can be manipulated in ways that prerecorded audio cannot.

Because DNA polymerase III cannot synthesize in the 3 '→ 5 ' direction, the lagging strand is synthesized in short segments known as Okazaki fragments.

Because individual PET scans are more expensive than " conventional " imaging with computed tomography ( CT ) and magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ), expansion of FDG-PET in cost-constrained health services will depend on proper health technology assessment ; this problem is a difficult one because structural and functional imaging often cannot be directly compared, as they provide different information.

Because it has no finite spatiotemporal extent, a single point of Minkowski space cannot be an occasion of experience, but is an abstraction from an infinite set of occasions of experience, as explained in Process and Reality.

Because humans are mortal and limited, a single human religious system cannot encompass all of the religious or spiritual absolute reality ...." ( p. 167 )

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 the viewfinder and the film lens cannot share the same optical path, the viewing lens is aimed to intersect with the film lens at a fixed point somewhere in front of the camera.

Because modern technology requires a supporting infrastructure, more primitive methods are employed — for example, horses instead of tractors ( because tractors cannot reproduce themselves ).

Because it cannot be applied in thick layers as oil paints can, tempera paintings rarely have the deep color saturation that oil paintings can achieve.

Because of this, confidential information cannot be the subject of theft, as it is not capable of being taken as only tangibles can be taken.

Because a tachyon always moves faster than light, we cannot see it approaching.

Because no Equal Rights Party ballot for 1872 has been preserved, this claim cannot be confirmed.

Because the rhyme comes so quickly in rhyming couplets, it tends to call attention to itself.

Because the RDOS < tt >. systm </ tt > call macro implements a < tt > jsr </ tt >, AC3 is overwritten by the return address for the < tt >. pchar </ tt > function.

Because most congregations call themselves " Christian Churches ," the chalice has become a simple way to identify Disciples of Christ Churches through signage, letterhead, and other forms of publicity.

Because of their jurisdiction over the area in the past, Turkic people today still call the Caspian Sea the Khazar Sea.

Because the exponential map is surjective on some neighbourhood N of e, it is common to call elements of the Lie algebra infinitesimal generators of the group G. The subgroup of G generated by N is the identity component of G.

Because these sets are not larger than the natural numbers in the sense of cardinality, some may not want to call them uncountable.

Because of its fundamental role in carrying a single phone call, the DS0 rate forms the basis for the digital multiplex transmission hierarchy in telecommunications systems used in North America.

Because stock is akin to a call option on a firm's assets, this lost volatility will hurt the stock price of distressed banks.

Because most Yorkist-aligned warlords refused to rally to Warwick's call, the earl was pressured to release the king.

Because a compiled program cannot know the memory location of the libraries it depends upon, an indirect jump is required whenever an API call is made.

Because Elkhorn is not incorporated, not all residents call the place they live Elkhorn.

Because Southern men were absent at war, many elite women had to call on their class-based femininity and their sexuality to deal with the Yankees.

Because of the rivalry between Gullspång and Hova the municipality prefers to call them the " two main localities " (" huvudtätorter ").

Because the phone lines ( as well the electricity ) were out, the town's residents were unable to call neighbors, family, or friends to verify that their fears were legitimate.

Because of the party situation there have been constitutional conflicts between the Legislative Yuan and the executive branch over the process of appointment for the premier and whether the president has the power to call a special session.

Because the state of Czechoslovakia was not invited to the conference, it felt betrayed by United Kingdom and France, so Czechs and Slovaks call the Munich Agreement the Munich Dictate (; ).

Because the southeast quarter of the lake is separate from the main body ( connected only by the Strait of Tiquina ), the Bolivians call it Lago Huiñaymarca () and the larger part Lago Chucuito.

Because it is blocking, the guarded suspension pattern is generally only used when the developer knows that a method call will be suspended for a finite and reasonable period of time.

Because many of the suggested distinguishing features of humanity — extreme intelligence ; highly complex language ; etc .— are not present in marginal cases such as young or mentally disabled humans, it appears that the only distinction is a prejudice based on species alone, which animal-rights supporters call speciesism — that is, differentiating humans from other animals purely on the grounds that they are human.

Because of this, some care is needed when using it for older recipes that call for fresh suet as the proportions of flour to fat can alter.

" Because they had suffered persecution, the word gentile was " a call to circle the wagons socially and politically around the fold ".

Because of this lack of identity contemporaries were unsure what to call the kingdom and so it became regnum quondam Lotharii or Lotharii regnum (" kingdom Lothair's ") and its inhabitants Lotharii ( from Lotharius ), Lotharienses ( from Lothariensis ), or Lotharingi ( which gives the modern German Lothringen, which is the name of the province ).

Because the magnesium and iron particles are in contact, they become thousands of tiny short-circuited batteries, which quickly burn out, producing heat in a process the patent holders call " Supercorroding Galvanic Cells ".

Because of this, Jesus was able to free himself from the material powers ( what other Gnostics call Archons, the Demiurge, etc .).

Because of all the boxing action going on during that era, many observers call the period from the middle ' 70s to the middle ' 80s as the golden age of boxing in Puerto Rico.