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Because the Dutch never imposed their language on their Caribbean colonies to the extent of Great Britain and other colonial powers, English is predominant and is an official language ( along with Dutch ) in St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius.
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Because of Sumbawa's natural resources it was regularly invaded by outside forces – Japanese, Dutch, Makassarese.
Because of the high value that spices had in Europe and the large profits rendered, combined with Portugal's growing internal problems, the Dutch and British joined in the conflicts around 1600, to try to gain a monopoly over the trade and expel Portugal.
Because of a perceived violation of an agreement, the Dutch seized the principal Pequot sachem Tatobem.
Because of intermingling with Siraya people as well as Dutch colonial rule, the Hokkien dialects started to deviate from the original Hokkien spoken in mainland China.
Because of the First World War, the family name was changed in 1920 from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to van België, de Belgique or von Belgien (" of Belgium "), depending upon which of the country's three official languages ( Dutch, French and German ) is in use.
Because of the changes the 1960s and 1970s had brought to Dutch society and culture, the strongly conservative Luns decided not to return to his home country but settled in Brussels to spend his remaining years in retirement.
Because of the crusading appeal made by Pope Eugene III and his representative Nicholas Brakespear ( the future Pope Hadrian IV ), the siege received the aid of crusaders from multiple nationalities ( Genovese, Anglo-Normans, Normans, Southern-French, Germans, Flemish and Dutch ), who were on their way to the Holy Land.
Because of the Dutch multi-party system, no political party ( in the modern sense ) has ever obtained a majority by itself.
Because the Cape Dutch Reformed Church was seen by the trekkers as being an agent of the Cape government, they also did not trust its ministers and emissaries, seeing them as attempts by the Cape government to regain political control.
Because of the still-important role of the Dutch in the European carrying trade this opened up a large loophole in the British embargo.
Because Venlo had both a road and a rail bridge over the river Meuse River (" Maas " in Dutch ) the city was severely damaged during several bomb raids ( 13 October – 19 November 1944 ) on those bridges at the end of the war.
Because of much better infrastructure and a generally increased amount of mobility among the Dutch after WW2, modern Groesbeek has transformed from a small village dependent on agriculture and forestry into a sprawling commuter town of nearby Nijmegen.
Because of his expertise, he played a major role in 1971 as a member of the Senate in abolishing Article 248bis of the Dutch Criminal Code, the same article on the basis of which he had been convicted in 1950.
Because the two groups were so similar it is often very hard to determine whether a text is Old Dutch or Old East Low Franconian, and so most linguists will generally use Old Dutch synonymously with Old Low Franconian and most of the time do not differentiate.
Because of this, many historical persons ( for example: Govert Flinck ) from Cleves are considered Dutch, rather than Germans.
Because of Spragge's preoccupation with duelling Tromp, the English centre had separated from the rear, clashing with the Dutch centre under De Ruyter and Lieutenant-Admiral Aert Jansse van Nes.
Because of its short lifespan, the mayfly is called one-day or one-day fly in some languages — German, Dutch, Slovenian, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, Polish, Finnish, Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian, and Greek.
Because of their deep sorrow at the state of the Dutch Reformed Church, the group called itself the Doleantie ( grieving ones ).
Because all the ground of the seminar was still property of the Dutch government, the seminar bought the complete amount of ground in 1892 for 14000 Guilder.
Because of the depillarization of Dutch society and the rising political polarization between left and right, the three major unions, the socialist NVV, the Protestant CNV and the Catholic NKV began to open talks in order to found one single federation of Dutch unions.
Because of the effects of Dutch gin English soldiers fighting in the Dutch Republic in the 17th century apparently called the drink " Dutch Courage ".
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Because of this he was known as Gimpy ( but, as with Capone and his nickname of Scarface, never in his presence ).
Because, if for no other reason, Willings would never for a moment suppose he was not bigger, tougher, than anything else that went on two legs.
Because of its high chemical reactivity barium is never found in nature as a free element.
Because of its origin, Capoeira never had unity or a general agreement.
Because the existence of individuals is grounded in the divine, they are depicted as reflections, images or even shadows of the divine, but never in any way identical with the divine.
* Because the device is never shut off completely there is no " turn on " time, little problem with charge storage, and generally better high frequency performance and feedback loop stability ( and usually fewer high-order harmonics ).
Because Allah is just, He never wrongs His creatures, for injustice is an evil deed while He is far from doing evil.
Because the capitalization was never completely consistent in actual usage, this article adopts the convention of using the all-caps FORTRAN in referring to versions of FORTRAN through FORTRAN 77 and the title-caps Fortran in referring to versions of Fortran from Fortran 90 onward.
Because of the Treaty of Tordesillas, the discovery was never officially sanctioned.
Because no one in the house paid attention to her singing she never got the feeling that any of them thought she had a good voice but after an initial rush of stage fright before her first solo, Gaynor's confidence in her singing grew.
Because of the coup attempted by Moscow hardliners against the Gorbachev government in August 1991, the Union Treaty never was signed.
Because of its high reactivity, lithium never occurs freely in nature, and instead, only appears in compounds, which are usually ionic.
Because they've exploited — we have seen the — we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike.
Because of the lack of scientific support, along with religious and prejudicial reasons phrenology never found a wide audience in Ireland.
Because of its high reactivity, it is never found as a pure element.
Because of its early loss, Challenger was the only space shuttle that never wore the NASA " meatball " logo, and also was never modified with the MEDS " glass cockpit ".
Because of development difficulties the Sega VR remained only a prototype, and was never released to the general public.
Because the bullet he absorbed in his chest during his failed assassination attempt in 1912 was never removed, his health worsened from the infection.
Because TAI is never revised once published, it is possible for errors in it to become known and remain uncorrected.
( Because his marriages had been annulled, they legally never occurred, so his children by those marriages were illegitimate.
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 the idea of EPCOT was never implemented, the Disney Corporation remained almost the sole landowner in the district allowing it to maintain control of the RCID and the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista ; Disney further cemented this control by deannexing Celebration from the RCID.
Because the contract conditions should never be violated in program execution, they can be either left in as debugging code or removed from the production version of the code altogether for performance reasons.
Because the duchy of Swabia lost its duke in 1268 and was never restored, all vassals of the duchy became immediate vassals of the Imperial Throne ( as has happened in much of Westphalia when the duchy of Saxons was divided and partially dissolved in aftermath of the defeat of Henry the Lion ).
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